Universitatea De Vest Din Timisoara
Master in Sustainable Futures and Urban Change
Timișoara, Romania
Master degree
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2026
TUITION FEES
EUR 1,980 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for Non-EU students
Key Summary
About: The Master in Sustainable Futures and Urban Change at West University of Timisoara (UVT) examines development–environment nexus in urban contexts. It covers reproduction of poverty and inequality, environmental degradation and climate change impacts, and politics of sustainability and urban change. The programme uses applied methods, urban policy, planning and research; students can take optional UVT and UNITA courses, fieldwork, internships and volunteering.
Career Outcomes: Graduates enter roles such as Community Development Agent (ESCO 2422.2), Regional Development Policy Coordinator (ESCO 2422.12.14) and Sustainable Development Expert (COR 242232), working in urban planning, environmental policy, climate resilience, NGOs, research, public-sector and consultancy.
Sustainable Futures and Urban Change explores new academic and professional opportunities. We propose new ways of examining critical components in the current politics of international development, with a focus on the reproduction of poverty and inequality. In close connection, we explore the ways in which environmental degradation, especially climate change, affects local communities. The urban environment is a space that encapsulates most of the global problems we face today, from ecological problems, migration and economic inequality, to security and geopolitics. By placing the development-environment nexus in the urban context, this program explores recent developments in the politics of sustainability and urban change.
- Visualising development
- The political ecology of development
- Education for sustainable development
- Gender and global transformations
- Fieldwork 1: exploring the politics of urban change
- Diplomacy and global affairs
- The European Green Deal
- Innovation for sustainable development
- UNITA Virtual mobility course 1
- Optional course from WUT 1
- Research ethics
- Participatory urban development
- Food politics, culture and sustainability
- Resilience and community development
- Optional course from WUT 2
- UNITA Virtual mobility course 2
- Green economics
- Fieldwork 2: Green transitions
- Methodology of dissertation writing
- Internship
- Community Development Agent - ESCO code 2422.2
- Regional Development Policy Coordinator - ESCO code 2422.12.14
- Sustainable Development Expert - COR code 242232
The Masters Sustainable futures and urban change offers new and interesting professional perspectives. As all courses in the curriculum have an applied perspective, we also maximize employment opportunities through Fieldwork, Internship and Volunteering. At the same time, we encourage students to explore their own academic and professional interests through optional courses and international mobilities. Thus, we provide new optional courses both in other faculties in the UVT and also in the European alliance of universities UNITA. This MA program equips students with advanced expertise to meet the expanding employment and professional opportunities in sustainability and urban development.