Spend half a year on Terschelling and dive into sustainability in a maritime context! 

In this minor, you’ll discover how to create your own positive ripple and tackle current sustainability challenges related to the sea and shipping. You’ll join lectures, workshops, and excursions covering these themes: Sustainable Development, Ecology & Ecosystem Services, and Future Seas & Shipping. Together with students from different programs, you’ll explore sustainability dilemmas through the lens of the Sustainable Development Goals. 

Minor content 

This minor is a collaboration between the Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz and Van Hall Larenstein’s Coastal & Maritime Management program. Lessons are led by lecturers from both institutes, alongside guest experts and professionals from the field. You’ll work with students from a variety of backgrounds — maritime, engineering, nature, society, and management — and gain new perspectives from each other. Guest lectures, excursions, and hands-on projects give you practical knowledge and skills you can immediately apply to make an impact and create positive change in the (maritime) world 

Structure of the minor

Summer School / Kick-off Weeks 

• Meet your fellow students
• Get inspired
• Guest lectures
• Workshops
• Excursions 

Future Seas and Shipping 

• Wind-assisted sailing
• Future fuels 

Ecology & Ecosystem Services 

• Ecosystem services
• Environmental impact
• Biology & ecology 

Sustainable Development 

• Sustainable Development Goals
• Planetary boundaries
• Systems thinking 

Sustainability Case 

• Explore and solve a sustainability dilemma (open assignment) 

Applied Research Project 

• Work on a real issue from the maritime field 

This minor focuses on sustainability in a maritime context but requires no specific prior knowledge. If you want to make an impact, are excited by the content, and can imagine spending half a year on Terschelling, this minor is for you! 

• Assignments
• Presentations
• Flexible format