Sustainable regional development: education - management - nature conservation

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To apply for the Master’s programme in Sustainable Regional Development, you must meet the following requirements:

1. You must hold a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent qualification) in a landscape-related discipline with a minimum of 180 ECTS credits, such as:

• Landscape management and planning, landscape architecture, landscape ecology
• Environmental and spatial planning
• Nature conservation, environmental sciences
• Ecology, biology, geoecology
• Geography
• Agricultural and forestry sciences, horticulture, water management
• Teacher training (if both subjects are from the fields listed above)

and 2. You must provide evidence of relevant knowledge and skills amounting to 30 ECTS credits (see Annex 2: “Module overview – acquired landscape and ecological knowledge” of the examination regulations) in the following areas:

• Landscape studies and landscape planning
• Ecology, including species knowledge and field methods, particularly habitat mapping
• Sustainable use and protection of cultural landscapes
• Resource protection, including nature conservation

For further questions, please contact the student counselling: Prof. Dr. Heike Molitor (hmolitor(at)hnee.de)

• Certificate and diploma of your university degree
  (alternatively: transcript with at least 150 ECTS credits and provisional average grade)
• Educational and professional background (curriculum vitae in tabular form)
• If available: certificates, references, employment records or proof of professional activity
• Overview of modules in accordance with Annex 2 of the Study and Examination Regulations, confirming 30 ECTS credits in the following areas:
  • Landscape studies and landscape planning
  • Ecology, including species knowledge and field methods, especially habitat mapping
  • Sustainable use and protection of cultural landscapes
  • Resource protection, including nature conservationon

If you obtained your degree outside Germany, you must not apply directly to our university, regardless of your citizenship. Instead, please apply via the uni-assist e.V. application portal. Uni-assist is a central service provider that conducts a preliminary review of international applications on behalf of many German universities. Detailed information about the application process can be found on the uni-assist website, including country-specific guidance.

If your application is complete and meets the formal admission requirements, uni-assist will forward it to our university. Once your application has been imported into the HNEE application system, you will receive an email with login details for the HNEE application portal, allowing you to track the status of your application.

Proof of a first university degree qualifying for a profession (Bachelor, Diplom, Magister, Master, Staatsexamen) with at least 180 ECTS credits, provided that the degree includes in-depth knowledge and methodological-practical skills in the fields of landscape science and ecology, knowledge of sustainable use, planning and protection of cultural landscapes and their resources, as well as nature conservation. This includes, in particular, degrees in the following subject areas:

• Landscape management and planning, landscape architecture, landscape ecology
• Environmental and spatial planning
• Nature conservation, environmental sciences (excluding environmental engineering)
• Ecology, biology, geoecology
• Geography
• Agricultural and forestry sciences, horticulture, water management
• Teacher training in one of the above-mentioned fields, provided both teaching subjects were in these fields

In addition, applicants with an international educational background must provide proof of German language proficiency at level C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

You can check whether you meet the formal requirements on the uni-assist website. 

The following application documents must be uploaded exclusively via the uni-assist online portal. Please note that this list is not exhaustive and additional documents may be requested.

• Copy of your university degree certificate including final grade and transcript of records (see country-specific guidance on the uni-assist website)
• Copy of your university entrance qualification
• Other certificates relevant for admission to a Master's programme (e.g. APS certificate for applicants from China, India, Mongolia or Vietnam, proof of having passed a university entrance examination)
• If available: certificates, diplomas, employment references or records of professional experience
• Module overview (according to Annex 2 of the Examination Regulations) documenting 30 ECTS credits earned in the following areas:
  • Landscape science and landscape planning
  • Ecology, including species knowledge, field methods, especially habitat mapping
  • Sustainable use and protection of cultural landscapes
  • Resource protection including nature conservation
• For applicants with an international educational background: German language certificate at level C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)

Foreign certificates must be translated into German or English by a sworn translator.

Students who are already enrolled at another university as main (degree-seeking) students may be admitted to Hochschule für nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde (HNEE) as secondary auditors (Nebenhörer*innen), subject to available capacity. Admission requires that simultaneous enrolment at both institutions (parallel studies) is feasible and that the selected module constitutes a meaningful supplement to the student’s primary programme of study.

Secondary auditors are not members of HNEE. They may participate in examinations with the approval of the respective examiners and in accordance with the applicable examination regulations. The scope of examinations taken may not lead to the award of a degree. There is no legal entitlement to participate in examinations. Further provisions are set out in the current matriculation regulations of HNEE.

Formal applications must be submitted during the application period by post or e-mail to the Student Service Centre.

There is a fee for secondary auditoring. The amount of the fee is determined by the current fee schedules of HNEE, the AStA, and the Studierendenwerk Ost:Brandenburg.

As a rule, applications for guest auditor status must be submitted to the Student Service Centre prior to the start of the courses (Guest auditor application).

Persons who are not enrolled as guest auditors may be admitted to courses of up to 8 semester weeks within the scope of available training capacity, even without proof of a university entrance qualification.

Guest auditor status is generally subject to a fee. No fees are charged to enrolled students. Guest auditor status is free of charge for interested persons with a refugee background.

Participation in courses within the relevant teaching areas will be confirmed in writing. Participation in examinations is excluded.

Formal applications are to be submitted during the application period by post or e-mail to the Student Service Centre during the application period.