Examples include not only ecological changes which affect the climate and other natural conditions and changes to infrastructure such as energy, water supply, communication and transport, but also changes in social relations and behaviour which could encourage organised crime or terrorism.
As an academic subject, resilience management calls for an approach at several organisational and institutional levels and from the perspective of different disciplines.
The master’s degree at the university (120 ECTS) is accordingly designed as a cross-disciplinary programme spanning the faculties of science and technology and of social science. About 30 students are admitted to the programme every year, of whom 15 have taken a three-year social science course and the others a three-year engineering course.
Resilience management – master’s degree programme – five-year
The five-year master’s degree in resilience management is based on the 3+2 model, whereby students admitted to the programme first take the three-year bachelor’s degree in engineering (180 ECTS) in one of the programmes offered by the faculty at this level before continuing with the two-year master’s course (120 ECTS).
During the final two years, students can choose between two specialisation subjects, either risk and reliability – which has a more technical-mathematical bias – or planning. The latter has a particular focus on ways of contributing to a safer and more resilient society through analyses and planning of social infrastructure.
