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• Applied & Environmental Geoscience" (AEG) is an international research-oriented study program focusing on the evaluation and solution of environmental problems.
• Special emphasis is given to environmental problems in the subsurface such as the pollution of drinking water supplies from groundwater resources, the non-sustainable use of natural resources, the impact of short and long term waste disposal, the impact of climate and land-use change on soil and water quality.
• The program aims for a comprehensive understanding of the physical, chemical, and biological process mechanisms in the geo- and hydrosphere.
• Students from various science backgrounds learn to qualitatively and quantitatively address complex processes in soils, water and air and to evaluate environmental risks based on multi-disciplinary approaches.

By choosing the appropriate modules students can specialize in

• Hydrogeology
• Environmental Chemistry and Environmental Microbiology
• Environmental Physics

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• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Geosciences, Geoecology, Environmental Science, Geophysics, Mineralogy, Physical Geography, Soil Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Computer Sciences, Civil Engineering or a field related to environmental sciences with an overall grade (CGPA) equivalent to or better than 2,5 German grading system

• good background in mathematics, chemistry, physics and geosciences

• English language proficiency equivalent to CEFR level B2 (e.g. TOEFL 79 iBT, IELTS 6.5)

• Since the degree is completely in English, you will need very good written and spoken English (CEFR level B2, e.g. TOEFL 79 iBT, IELTS 6.5).
• No formal certificate is required, if you are a native speaker,
• if your previous degree was taught in English or if your German school-leaving exam gives evidence of a sufficient level of English.

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Application deadline for Germans and EU citizens  
Winter semester: 15.07

Application deadline for non-EU citizens
Winter semester: 31.03

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• The University of Tübingen is boosting research and development into science communication by establishing a specialist research center.
• “Over recent years, the dialog in scientific policy has focused on the issue of how universities and research institutes can not only produce excellent science but also convey this to society more effectively,” says president of the university, Professor Karla Pollmann. “
• It has become extremely clear that science communication is itself becoming an increasingly important field of research, and the University of Tübingen wants to play a key part in this.”
•  The research center has been founded in response to these developments.
• Olaf Kramer, Professor of Rhetoric and Knowledge Communication at the University of Tübingen’s Department of General Rhetoric is the director of the center.
• “Research often gives rise to social resistance – whether relating to artificial intelligence, vaccination or climate change,” explains Kramer, “One outcome of the corona pandemic was definitely the knowledge of how important science communication is.
• ” The new center’s cooperation partners include the university’s Institute of Media Studies (IfM) and the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology (HIB), as well as the Leibniz-Institute for Knowledge Media (IWM) as an external partner.
• “Science is communicated via an increasing number of channels,” says Kramer. “Only a center with an interdisciplinary approach can analyze and present the numerous ways and effects of science communication.”
•  While corporate communication and marketing have been researched in depth for decades, science communication is still a new field of research.
•  “Tübingen can draw on outstanding researchers in every field that is relevant here – from educational research through computer science, cognitive and media studies, to psychology and rhetoric,” stresses Kramer.
• Rhetoric at Tübingen has already launched many research and practical science communication projects in recent years, and the new research center will now build on these.
• For instance, the RHET AI project is currently researching among other things the public discourse on artificial intelligence and its presentation in the media, and has set up a national dialog to ask citizens what they think are the risks and opportunities of this technology, and their concerns and expectations.