The Blue Resource programme is an 8-month journey in which you will obtain 8 key competences that are highly useful within the Blue Economy sector:
- Practical experience and soft skills important for a career in the blue economy;
- Insights into business development and the commercial realities faced by the industry;
- Key employability skills acquired during a workplace-based internship;
- Application of appropriate scientific theoretical and practical concepts in a professional context;
- Ability to easily integrate within, or even lead, multidisciplinary teams;
- Strong communication skills with peers, various stakeholders in the blue economy field, and the general public, concerning scientific concepts and research;
- Acquisition of advanced scientific problem-solving capacity and the ability to formulate and test hypotheses, design multidisciplinary approaches and collect, analyze and interpret data; and
- Development of a network in an international and multidisciplinary context and, in turn, using it in an integrated problem-solving nature.
Structurele componenten
Internship/Workplace experience
Application procedure
You can apply via following link. Please make sure to include following documents in your application; (1) Legal copies of your Bachelor and Master diplomas with diploma supplements stating courses followed and scores obtained per course (translated in English if documents are not in English) (2) Curriculum Vitae, (3) Motivational letter, and (4) Certificate of your English-language proficiency. Following certificates and corresponding scores are eligible:
- a recent TOEFL Certificate: minimum score: 87 points (internet based)
- a recent IELTS Certificate: minimum score: 6.5
- a recent Certificate of a University Language Centre testifying that the student masters the necessary knowledge of English to function academically (specify CEF-level / minimum CEF-level B2)
- a recent Cambridge English certificate: Cambridge English First (FCE) - grade A or B
- a certificate proving that the student has followed at least 1 year of higher education in English
ISCED Categories
Persoonlijke vaardigheden en communicatie
Maritieme economie
Offshore en hernieuwbare energie