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What can we learn from blood vessel systems in relation to crowd control and solutions for traffic jams? How do the compound eyes of insects reduce light pollution? How can we create a building functioning like a living organism or ecosystem? How to make the world more circular and sustainable by learning from nature? 

🔥 Burning Questions: Bio Inspired Innovation

Learning from Nature: where science meets sustainability

This Master's programme is aimed at students with a Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences, who have a keen interest in combining design, research and systems-thinking. It will equip you with the research, design and collaborative skills that make you a bio inspired expert. The first year of the programme is research-based, while the second year focuses on the application of knowledge in innovation. You will contribute by using your biological perspective to innovate in the key sectors on nature's principles. As a Bioscience professional, you will advise and inform designers,policy and industry professionals. 

The themes and way of thinking of the programme are very new and unique. It covers a broad range of philosophies about sustainability and the way science is being conducted.

Why in Utrecht

• Follow a unique programme, combining science and inspiration from nature with design and innovation to come up with sustainable and circular products and processes.
• Freedom to design your own programme, research project and electives that best fit your interests. Select one of 8 thematic profiles which are designed to equip you with skills for your future career in a direction that appeals to you most.
• At , you can turn your ideas into working prototypes—whether through 3D printing, woodworking, or soldering. Have a research concept you would like to explore hands-on? Bring your idea, and they’ll help you make it yourself.

Introducing the Graduate School of Life Sciences

Life Sciences is one of the four of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ and is mainly organised in the Graduate School of Life Sciences (GSLS). The GSLS brings together the research expertise and facilities of the faculties of Science, Medical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, in cooperation with UMC Utrecht, Utrecht’s academic hospital. Research at the GSLS is highly interdisciplinary, because scientific breakthroughs take place where physics, medicine, computer science, chemistry and biology interact. The graduate school offers 15 Master’s programmes with each a different focus. As a school we also offer one course for all students. During your first week the GSLS will offer you a (mandatory) one week introduction for all students: Introducing Life Sciences (part of the course Life Sciences Academy)