Applying in droves: Young people want to become climate professionals

11 April 2019, by Stephanie Janssen

Photo: UHH/CEN/K.Grannis

28 countries, five continents: Applications in 2019

Great news from the CEN’s SICSS Graduate School: compared to the previous year, the number of applications for the Master’s degree program “Integrated Climate System Sciences” has risen by 25 percent. The program is internationally advertised, and all courses are held in English, two aspects that have paid off: “We currently have applicants from 28 countries and five continents,” says Katja Grannis, who coordinates the program. As the Head of the SICSS Graduate School, Professor Annette Eschenbach, adds: “We’re very happy to see that the program is steadily attracting more international attention, as these solid numbers show.”

For over ten years now, the Master’s degree program has been preparing tomorrow’s climate professionals. And from the outset, it has combined disciplines like meteorology, oceanography, biogeochemistry and soil science with economic or social-sciences-based climate research. The Graduate School’s goal: to equip young researchers to more accurately predict climate change and devise sensible mitigation and adaptation strategies.

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