Coastal Hazards – Risks, Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation

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The Coastal Hazards – Risks, Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation (COASTHazar) is an EMJM Programme that aims at providing master’s students with state-of-the-art knowledge, skills and competences to meet challenges that coastal hazards and associated risks may pose, to assess and tackle the impacts of increasing human activities and climate change in coastal areas, and to design adaptation measures to minimize those impacts. The COASTHazar EMJM programme will increase the number of professionals with holistic and multi-disciplinary knowledge across the world, who can contribute to safeguard society against coastal hazards and global change at the coast line, and associated risks. The COASTHazar EMJM programme is intended to address the objectives of Key Action 2 (Erasmus Mundus actions), aiming at fostering excellence and worldwide internationalisation of higher education institutions via study programmes, jointly delivered and recognised by higher education institutions. The COASTHazar EMJM programme is an integrated and multi-disciplinary master’s programme, offered by three eminent higher education institutions: IHE Delft (coordinator), from the Netherlands, University of Algarve, from Portugal, and University of Cantabria, from Spain, together with a group of 34 Associated Partners, public and private (academic and non-academic). The proposed COASTHazar EMJM programme (120 ECTS, 2 years long) is based on the shared vision and complementary expertise of the three partner institutions. A vision that coastal areas and coastal settlements face increasing hazards and risks, due to climate change, population and economic growth and increased urbanization, that need specific and dedicated holistic and multi-disciplinary knowledge and competences to deal with proper adaptation and management measures. This vision is shared by the consortium associated, that have stated the current need of these professionals in the labour market.