The European joint Masters in Management and Engineering of Environment and Energy (ME3) is an interdisciplinary programme which brings together: (1) Management and Engineering; (2) Energy and Environment, and (3) European and outside Europe collaboration. All these aspects make the ME3 Masters course a unique programme in European higher education.

The objective of the course is to prepare students to work in industrial or academic sectors, in internationally oriented working environments, where a solid background in state-of-the art process technology is required, together with the ability to deal with multi-cultural management and working practices. At the end of the course, graduates will have acquired the professional skills required to pilot complex engineering projects in industry and solve environmental and energy issues through an integrated approach, taking into account human, social and economic challenges.

Nowadays, environmental protection and sustainability within the chemical processing and energy industries are major issues. In the near future, experts predict that the energy demand will drastically Increase, especially because of the spectacular industrial and economic growth of emerging countries. In such a context, meeting the energy needs of society without serious adverse impacts on humanity and on the environment is a world challenge.

Whilst generating energy with minimal environmental impact falls within the broad scope of engineering, managing the demand for energy is in the realm of economics and social sciences. In most cases, these issues are interrelated and global solutions and strategies have to be found.

The original feature of the ME3 Masters course is to combine Energy and Environmental Process Engineering with Management and Social Sciences. It offers a well-balanced education to future engineers and managers by providing the skills necessary to solve environmental and energy issues through an integrated approach, combining technological development and innovations together with the consideration of human, social and economic constraints. The ME3 Masters thus aims to form engineers and managers, who will work in Europe or other regions of the world, and are able to pilot complex socio-technical projects related to the Environment and Energy.

According to their professional orientation, students can choose to carry out a research project within one of the consortium’s universities or a project in industry. Industrial projects are geared towards solving companies environmental and/or energy problems and involve advanced engineering and/or management tasks. The project work leads to a Masters thesis.

The internships made by the students are paid about Euros 800 month, but it depends on the company.

The programme lasts 2 years, the first 18 months of which are mainly devoted to academic learning, acquisition and consolidation of knowledge and skills. During the last 6 months, students perform a professional internship leading to a Master’s thesis. The internships made by the students are paid about Euros 800 per month, but it depends on the company.

During the first year of study student will experience the ways of life in Spain (Madrid) France (Nantes).

During the second year its is possible to get the programme in another European country Sweden (Stockholm), UK (Belfast), Hungary (Budapest).