University of Helsinki

If you have an interest in regional scale processes, and changes that take place in the atmosphere, the University of Helsinki offers excellent courses. After your first semester at the University of Helsinki you will spend one semester in Iceland (AUI) and participate in Arctic field work. In the second year, you can come back to Helsinki, stay in Iceland or go to any of the EnCHiL associated partners.

If University of Helsinki is your entry point you will obtain a diploma from UH and AUI.

Overview of EnCHiL programme structure with UH as the entry point

Below you can find a list of courses that you will study in the first year of the EnCHiL programme if your entry point is University of Helsinki. Courses in blue are common to the EnCHiL programme. Number of ECTS (study credits) for each course is indicated in brackets.

During the first year, students at the University of Helsinki have both obligatory courses and courses that are recommended. You can also choose other courses in consultation with the local academic coordinator.

During the second year, you will choose courses in consultation with the local academic coordinator and work with your thesis.

First year studies: (subject to change)

Autumn 1 *

EnCHil program I: e- welcome (0)

ATM301 Atmospheric and Earth Sciences today (5) [contact teaching]

ATM308 Statistical tools for climate and atmospheric science (5) [time-bound distance teaching]

You will select two of the following three courses:

ATM389 Living with changing climate (5) [distance learning]

ATM302 Climate Now (5) [distance learning]

05.95.03 IN&E issues at the Arctic edge – Environmental Issue in Iceland (5) [distance learning]

Other advanced level courses (10 credits in total) to be accepted by local Academic Coordinator

Examples of suitable courses offered during autumn semester:

FOR228 Forest ecosystem biogeochemistry (5) [contact teaching]
ATM357 Atmospheric Radiation (5) [contact teaching]
FOR218 Basics of biometeorology (3-5) [contact teaching]
ATM334 Measurement Methods in Hydrospheric Geophysics (5) [contact teaching]
ATM348 Dynamics of Atmospheric Flow Structures I (5) [contact teaching]
ATM378 Sustainable.now (5) [time-bound distance teaching]
ATM342 Frozen ground (offered every second year) (5) [contact teaching]
ATM306 Basics of Atmospheric Chemistry (5) [contact teaching]

Spring 1 *

08.31.03 Arctic forum (5)

08.32.01 EnCHiL forum (1)

08.34.03 Subarctic Soil Biology and Lateral Transport (6)

08.52.02 Tools in Environmental Science (4)

* These are the most frequently courses thaught in the Iceland Spring, but there is some flexibility in the curriculum each year.

08.44.02 Governance and Sustainable Resource Management (6)

08.33.01 Arctic Planning and Environmental Changes (2)

07.12.01 Graduate Student Seminar (1)

08.35.02 Air-Sea Exchange of Greenhouse gases (5)

EnCHiL Nordic Master Programme

At the core of EnCHiL are universities and research institutions that have been successfully collaborating by offering individual online and field-based MSc and PhD courses in Iceland and Greenland over the past decade. The partners of the EnCHiL consortium have a long experience in process-based research and teaching.