On May 14th students received training in the Essentials of Humanitarian Practice by RedR UK who provide expert support to solve humanitarian crises. In the session on ‘Individual Responsibility’, they considered some of the challenging situations that aid workers can face and the responsibility of the individual to act in an appropriate manner. Responding appropriately to a particular situation requires certain personal skills and by using role plays the students were able to practise these skills and identify potential coping strategies.

Yagmur Masmas, student of the MSc Humanitarian Engineering with Sustainability , gave a talk about the challenges and rewards of opening her own business (Greenstory) on 30 April 2019 at the European Parliament, as part of the EU Youth Week. Yagmur shared her experience from the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme. The programme is an EU funded exchange programme in which young entrepreneurs receive guidance from established entrepreneurs living and working in a different EU country. Her talk aimed at motivating young entrepreneurs to start their own sustainable business and shared her experience of the challenges and rewards she faced when establishing Greenstory for creating positive impact.

Yagmur's interest is in sustainable innovation. She co-founded the company Greenstory , which markets erasable notebooks and planners, vegan leather and zero waste products. Greenstory aims to positively impact the world by allowing customers to live greener and by integrating sustainability throughout the company’s value chain.

Yagmur Masmas, MSc Humanitarian Engineering with Sustainability at the University of Warwick (Left); Marco Lacuitto, Session Moderator and Deputy Secretary General and EU Project Manager at the Belgio-Italian Chamber of Commerce, Katerina Nejdlova, Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs Project Manager European Commission, Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (right)

Congratulations to Dr Georgia Kremmyda on her promotion to Professor and for being awarded the 2019 Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence (WATE)!

Amongst many impressive achievements, Professor Kremmyda has led on the development of the interdisciplinary MSc programme and convenes our modules on Humanitarian Engineering: Ethics, Theory and Practices; Sustainable Cities and Infrastructures for Emergencies and One Humanity; Shared Responsibility.

Today Dr Elena Riva who leads our Water and Environmental Management module will collect her Butterworth Memorial Teaching Award

Elena has also been awarded the Warwick Award for Teaching and Learning (WATE) award, which recognises staff who have made a difference in learning and teaching and reward outstanding, inspirational teachers.

We think encouraging an early interest in our global community and the roles we can play is vitally important. Last week we had the great pleasure of hosting 60 girls in years 10 and 11 to come and complete the Smallpeice Trust Humanitarian Engineering Residential.

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New Postgraduates

APPLY NOW: https://warwick.ac.uk/services/accommodation/studentaccommodation/apply/18/new/pg

To make an application for postgraduate accommodation you will need a full time, full year firm or conditional offer of study at Warwick. To make your application you will need:

• Your Warwick University number (this can be found in your offer email)
• To have fully read and understood our allocation policy and accommodation options for new postgraduate students for the 2018/19 academic year
• Applied through the appropriate process if you have any specific accommodation requirements, including health and disability needs

The deadline for priority applications is 31 July 2018 so please make sure you have submitted your application by this date.

Hear why our applicants have chosen to study with us for the exciting new MSc Humanitarian Engineering.

Are you ready to see differently, think differently and DO DIFFERENTLY?

Send us an email hum.eng@warwick.ac.uk to explore the unique opportunity to study differently.

You could receive £5000 towards the cost of studying with us, with one of 20 scholarships!

Application deadline is the 29th June, so you will need to apply soon.

You can find more information here.

Humanitarian Engineering- Promotional Filming

This week we are excited to be partnering with a creative company in producing some short promotional videos for our Humanitarian Engineering course.

We hope that these videos will give our audience a greater understanding of our vision and what we expect our students will achieve. We look forward to presenting them in the coming weeks- watch this space!

You can now follow our Academic Projects Manager Hannah @HHCoping on Twitter to hear more about #humanitarianengineering and join the conversation.

Use the hashtag #IATLhumans to spread the word one tweet at a time!

Will you be part of the diversity? Our latest application brings our total number of nationalities represented to 15! With their varied academic & work experiences, it looks a very diverse cohort!

We are still accepting applications, join us to become confident when conversing and interacting through multiple perspectives and develop your capacity to think critically and intelligently when approaching complex global issues.

Tesco launches "unforgettable bag" in Kuala Lumpur in an effort to shift away from single-use plastic bags and reduce pollution.

We follow this idea of what our global responsibility is to respond to the humanitarian challenges we face.

Mike Penrose, Executive Director for Unicef UK recently wrote a blog entry for the Huffington Post Entitled “In Yemen, Another Generation Is Being Lost To Conflict”. Shockingly it highlights almost half a million children in Yemen are facing the harsh reality of being stripped of their chance for education due to the conflict.

This topic is explored more in our Humanitarian Law module taught by Professor Andrew Williams, School of Law.

Image Provided by Felton Davis E339 Child in Ruins via CC BY 2.0

A child walking in the rubble of a building hit in an airstrike in Taiz, Yemen. Photo by Ahmad Al-Basha/Agence France-Presse

Our Warwick Retail Group have pledged to reduce single-use plastic, starting with teaming up with students to give away free reusable water bottles, and removing disposable cups from water dispensers.

What would you like to see the University of Warwick do next to help make a more sustainable campus? What would you do as a student?

Our core Global Health module, specifically exploring research by Chanuki Seresinhe (WBS) on the impact of scenic environments on our health and happiness, and the importance of how including beautiful natural elements, such as trees, within a city plan can improve mental health and wellbeing, reducing the stress and anxiety and make a big impact on the health of those leading an urban life.

Only a month ago the world was gearing up ready to see a world first; Day Zero the day a large western city run out of water. Cape Town was all over the news and Dr Ola Uthman from our Global Health module summaries the health issues facing the city.

Energy Ideas Café
Wednesday 21 March
Round table discussion about the latest energy research at Warwick, including renewable energy generation and what developments such as more affordable battery technology and more efficient homes could mean for us as citizens.

We know it’s not just about what we offer on the course that makes students choose to study at Warwick. It is also the fact that Warwick offers a great chance to get involved in all sorts of projects, societies and research while you complete your studies. The level of flexibility offered with the Humanitarian Engineering programme lends itself well to giving you the opportunity to get stuck in!

One of the unique aspects of the Humanitarian Engineering programmes is that all students will get an opportunity to design and decide on their own way of being assessed.

Read more to find out whys student have chosen to be assessed in the past and read what they thought about the experience.

We are excited to see our first cohort taking shape through the applications we are receiving.

Don’t miss out on being part of this diverse group exploring how studying with us can help you play a pivotal a role in the solution of global humanitarian challenges.

Find out about entry requirements and deadlines HERE.