FHNW launches three new degree programmes on sustainability
Windisch AG - Die Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW) bietet drei neue Studienrichtungen an: Nachhaltige Gebäude und Städte, Kreislaufwirtschaft und Ressourcenmanagement sowie Erneuerbare Energien und Energiesysteme.
From this autumn, the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland will be offering three new courses in the Bachelor’s degree programme in Energy and Environmental Technology. According to a press release, the aim is to equip students with the skills they need to develop solutions to current sustainability challenges. The programme is available as a full-time, part-time, part-time or practice-integrated Bachelor’s degree course. Practical relevance is taught in projects with companies from industry and business.
The three new degree programmes offered at the Brugg-Windisch campus and in Muttenz BL are: Sustainable Buildings and Cities, Circular Economy and Resource Management and Renewable Energies and Energy Systems.
According to the Sustainable Buildings and Cities degree programme, buildings are responsible for around 40 percent of Switzerland’s energy consumption and bind enormous quantities of raw materials that are not yet sufficiently recovered and recycled in a closed-loop process. At the same time, the hot summers show how important intelligently planned and optimised cities are to counteract high temperatures.
Intelligent cycles that are as closed as possible and the ecologically and socially sustainable use of resources are the focus of the Circular Economy and Resource Management degree programme. A sustainable economy must be based on circular thinking.
The Renewable Energies and Energy Systems degree programme focuses on the future of energy. Students are given the tools they need to design innovative technical solutions such as photovoltaics, wind and water, as well as the entire energy system from control and regulation to transmission, storage and conversion, such as power-to-gas.