The double-degree MSc Programme in Environmental Meteorology jointly offered by the University of Trento (Italy) and the University of Innsbruck (Austria)

The presentation outlines the main features of the double-degree MSc programme in Environmental Meteorology jointly offered by the University of Trento (Italy) and the University of Innsbruck (Austria) since the academic year 2018/19,  and results achieved so far.

The programme welcomes candidates with a solid background in mathematics, theoretical and applied physics, and chemistry.
All lectures are taught in English. The regular duration of the programme is two tears arranged in four terms, scheduled alternately at the two Universities, so as students can get the most out of the specific expertise available on each side.

The curriculum aims at preparing graduates not only with a sound basis in meteorology (including weather analysis and forecasting, atmospheric boundary layer processes,  numerical prediction models), but also interdisciplinary contents connected to a number of environmental applications, such as hydrology, glaciology, agricultural and forest meteorology, renewable energy resources, environmental chemistry, air pollution monitoring, modelling and management.

Students are also stimulated to become familiar with different complementary approaches, including theoretical analysis, numerical modelling, and experimental techniques, specifically oriented to environmental measurements.

Besides class lectures and laboratory exercises, students are offered weekly seminars from visiting speakers, visits to weather stations, meteorological offices, and environmental agencies, as well as opportunities to attend major events related to meteorology.

Special emphasis is devoted to the master thesis project. Students concentrate on their thesis especially in the final semester, and they can work on that at either Univesity, or, upon specific projects and agreements, at partner institutions, such as universities, research bodies or meterological offices, anviroenmental agenices, and so on.  

The preparation offered through this program is meant to prepare professionals enabled not only to work on typical jobs connected to meteorology and climatology, but also to support a variety of environmental applications, such as the assessment of available energy form renewable resources, air quality management, water resource management, applied climatology, agricultural and forest meteorology.