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Higher education in environmental sciences with chemistry emphasis: bachelor and master programmes in Europe

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Acknowledgments

We thank all scholars throughout European universities who supported the survey by providing the necessary information and helped in networking, most notably Walter Giger, Sirpa Herve, Predrag Ilic, Roland Kallenborn, Antonio Marcomini, Hilmi Orhan, Akos Redey and Rodica Stanescu.

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It is likely that besides false-negatives (non-detected programmes and no response questionnaires), the collected data may contain erroneous information (misleading links, not official translations of programme names into English language and other types of incorrect information including the possibility that some programmes are outdated at the moment of publication of this article). This can affect to some point the interpretation of the results. The authors cannot be held responsible for this or for any use which can be made of information published here. The goal of the authors was to provide a snapshot of the state of the art in this field of education to the broad community of students, scholars and researchers with the aim to focus the attention of professionals to the developments in environmental chemistry.

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  1. http://www.euchems.eu/divisions/chemistry-andthe-environment.html, ᅟ

    Gerhard Lammel, Eric Jover Comas & Ivana Ivancev-Tumbas

  2. Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

    Gerhard Lammel

  3. Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Gerhard Lammel

  4. Applied Physics and Optics Department, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Eric Jover Comas

  5. Department of Chemistry, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

    Ivana Ivancev-Tumbas

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Questionnaire

  1. 1.

    Are there any bachelor or master programmes in the environmental sciences with emphasis on chemistry, biology, or toxicology at universities in your country? What is the name of the degree?

  2. 2.

    Is it a Bachelor or a Master or another programme?

  3. 3.

    Name of the university?

  4. 4.

    Faculty/Department?

  5. 5.

    Amount of European credit pointes (ECTS, as of 2011)?

  6. 6.

    Name of contact person and email address?

  7. 7.

    Webpage of the programme?

  8. 8.

    Language: To which extent is English used? (none/less than 50 %/more than 50 %/100%)

  9. 9.

    How many credit points are specifically allocated to chemistry?

  10. 10.

    How many credit points are at least to some extent related to chemistry (minimum)?

  11. 11.

    Describe the specialization of your programme

  12. 12.

    Environmental chemists and ecotoxicologists recruit mostly from traditional disciplines while curriculae designed for the training of environmental specialists are rather new. Do you feel that in your country new, multidisciplinary curriculae designed for the training of environmental specialists are significant or increasingly significant for the recruitment of environmental chemists and ecotoxicologists in academia and elsewhere and if so which programme(s)/degree(s) ?

  13. 13.

    Is there any university/curriculum in environmental chemistry and ecotoxicology in Europe which you would tend to rank among the best and most recommendable?

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    Additional comments (if any)

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Lammel, G., Comas, E.J. & Ivancev-Tumbas, I. Higher education in environmental sciences with chemistry emphasis: bachelor and master programmes in Europe. Environ Sci Pollut Res 21, 7211–7218 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-014-2737-7

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