Tisemaster

The Master of Science in “Transition, Innovation and Sustainability Environments” (TISE) is a two-year joint master program with the focus on sustainable and resilient societal, business and industry processes and structures. The TISE program has a clear and simple, yet effective mobility scheme: first semester at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, UNL (Portugal), second semester at University College Dublin, UCD (Ireland), third semester at Poznan University of Economics and Business, PUEB (Poland), and the fourth semester at Danube University Krems, DUK (Austria). Through its strong transdisciplinary approach (i.e. a method guided by mutual learning processes between science and practice), students will gain a comprehensive understanding of relevant coupled human-nature-technology systems, positive and negative mechanisms and effects of transitional processes (including underlying obvious and hidden rebound effects), innovation patterns with relevant interventions potential. Using a hierarchical system perspective, the program encompasses the individual agents, teams, organizations, networks, and clusters, within regional, national and supranational systems, and ultimately global implications. Building on a Complexity Science fundament the program presents an inter and cross-disciplinary view of Socio Cultural Studies, Social Sciences, Economics, Technology and Design, but also integrating communities of practice and the tacit knowledge of practitioners in order to address “real-world” complex problems. The program promotes Transdiciplinarity as an innovative approach towards the challenges encountered by social systems today.