Chemical Innovation and Regulation
Chemical Innovation and Regulation
Chemical Innovation and Regulation
ChIR
Erasmus Mundus MSc in Chemical Innovation and Regulation
Student applications are OPEN.
1st call deadline: February 15, 2025.
2nd call: April 15 - July 15, 2025.
Important notice for student candidates:
For the 2025-2027 application period, no Erasmus Mundus studentships will be available. Instead, the ChIR Consortium will fund a limited number of scholarships offered to help cover programme fees.
The Erasmus Mundus MSc in Chemical Innovation and Regulation is a complete and flexible programme preparing professionals qualified to deal with all aspects of chemical safety
Chemicals play an irreplaceable role in everyday life. However, their use involves a risk: some may be highly toxic to humans and to the environment, or they may cause physical and chemical hazards.
To ensure a toxic-free environment, modern society demands chemicals strategies for sustainability. International chemical regulations such as the European REACH are an essential step in the right direction, promoting innovation to design safer chemicals and search for innovative chemical applications.
ChIR prepares professionals with the scientific, regulatory and economic knowledge necessary to manage the risks of chemicals and to meet responsibilities over chemical legislation worldwide. Its multicultural environment fosters innovation while exploring the most recent trends on chemical circular economy and sustainability.
The master duration is 2 years: 1 year of taught modules and 1 year of internship, research project and thesis.
By the end of the programme each student will:
- have a thorough understanding of international regulations on the use of chemical substances;
- be able to design new safe chemical products;
- be able to project a business plan for the commercialization of new chemical products;
- understand the industrial implementation of new processes;
- understand circular economy and its implications in chemical safety;
- evaluate environmental, toxicological, physical and reactivity risks of chemical substances.
Teaching takes place in one of the Universities of the consortium. Lecturers are specialists from all the partner institutions. The Host University rotates every year.
In the 2nd year each student moves to a second country of the consortium to complete the internship, research project and thesis. Part of the research project can be done in collaboration with one of the associated partner institutions of the Consortium either in Europe, in Brazil, China, Japan, India, Argentina or Uruguay.
The final Qualification obtained is a Join Master Degree in Chemical Innovation and Regulation awarded by the three Universities of the ChIR Consortium.
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A prestigious Programme
Selected by the European Commission as an Erasmus Mundus Programme, an example of excelence in European Higher Education
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1 year of Classses + 1 year Internship and Research
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Become familiar with all the fields required for the management of the safety of chemicals
Design of New chemicals / Green Industrial Processes / Marketing / Environmental Assessment / Toxicological Assessment / International Regulations / Circular Chemistry
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Build your own personalized plan from a large offer of courses
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Study in a truly multicultural environment
Learn from international experts. Work with colleagues from all over the world.
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Travel while learning
Visit at least two different EU Countries as part of your studies. With the possibility of visiting other EU countries, UK, USA, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, China, Japan, India as part of your research or internship.
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Gain a European Joint Master Diploma
Classes in English
Improve your English and learn new languages!
The language used for EMMC-ChIR teaching and assignments is English.
Nevertheless, language is an essential part of European culture. Because learning the local language makes adaptation to the host country much easier, students take an intensive "survival" course in the local language. The language course is offered to ChIR students at no additional cost.
Research
As an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree, ChIR promotes joint scientific research in the fields of chemical safety to support chemical regulations and propose safe alternative chemicals and processes.
Employability
80% of ChIR graduates are employed within the first year following graduation. ChIR graduates gain an in-depth knowledge in chemical design, industrial processes, marketing, risk assessment and chemicals regulations. The ChIR programme is designed to attend the needs of chemical companies, research centers and regulation bodies. It opens student’s perspectives for bright professional careers as risk assessment experts, regulatory affairs specialists, regulatory scientists, regulatory professionals.
The ChIR programme is a second cycle degree that grants access to third cycle degrees in the fields covered by the course. In particular, it is an excellent step towards a doctorate degree.
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