Below is a list of master's programmes ECOSPHERE is currently involved in:


Master of biology

Master of Biology: Global Change Biology

Master of Biology: Biodiversity, Conservation and Restoration

Master in de biologie: evolutie en gedragsbiologie

  • Aquatic ecology
  • Coastal and estuarine management
  • Ecosystem based adaptation to global change
  • Ecosystem services
  • Environmental stress and ecotoxicology
  • Experimental Biology Lab
  • Freshwater ecosystem functioning
  • Field course
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Global change physiology
  • Omics in a changing environment
  • Omics techniques
  • Paleo-ecology
  • Practicum organismale biologie


Master of Marine and Lacustrine Science and Management (Oceans & Lakes)

Interuniversity program (ICP-VLIR-UOS)

  • Aquatic ecotoxicology and environmental monitoring
  • Ecosystem based adaptation to global change
  • Estuarine and coastal systems
  • Integrated marine coastal ecology field course
  • Integrated practicals
  • Monsoon school
  • Physiology of aquatic organisms


Master of applied ecohydrology

Interuniversity program (Erasmus mundus)

  • Ecosystem services
  • Global water problems and integrated water management
  • Integrated assessment of water and sediment quality
  • Integrated water management: advanced case River 21


Master of environmental science

  • ​Integrated water management: advanced case River 21
  • Ecotoxicology


Master of biomedical sciences

  • Milieudruk en gezondheidseffect
  • Laboratory Animal Science - Fish


Master of chemistry

  • Biotechnology