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Transition, Innovation and Sustainability Environments

2025/2026, Second-cycle programme, Full-time

Basic information:

 

  • studies in the field of: International Economics
  • name of the programme: Transition, Innovation and Sustainability Environments
  • studies: full-time second-cycle programme, track: general academic
  • leading discipline: economics and finance
  • studies conducted in English
  • programme conducted jointly by four universities: Donau-Universität Krems (Austria), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), University College Dublin (Ireland) and Poznań University of Economics and Business (Poland)

 

Enrolment for the programme is conducted by Donau-Universität Krems (Austria).

 

Transition, Innovation and Sustainability Environments (TISE) is a unique, multidisciplinary and innovative programme focused on social systems in transformation. Its completion enables students to obtain a diploma from the following four universities that are jointly conducting the programme: Donau-Universität Krems (Austria), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), University College Dublin (Ireland) and the Poznań University of Economics and Business (Poland). Students learn the working and transformation of social systems, their dynamics and interactions in science, technology, ethics and economics. The programme uses innovative teaching methods and a wide range of instruments that help to analyse complex socio-economic problems, and to develop multidimensional strategies for a sustainable development of the global economy.

 

Main features of the programme: 

  • studies in English at four European universities in four countries, one semester in each, ending with a joint diploma,
  • holistic and multidisciplinary approach to the analysis of social and economic problems,
  • strong emphasis on applying the acquired knowledge,
  • cooperation with business practice; innovative educational methods; interesting courses.

 

Job profile:

  • Company owner
  • CEO/ Managing director (in different departments of an organization)
  • Organizational-development specialist
  • Market analyst
  • Social work specialist
  • Consultant
  • Teacher
  • Researcher
List of courses - Autumn semester, 2025/2026
Subject Number of hours ECTS points Form of verification Code Block
Participation in lectures: 48 h
ECTS points: 10
Form of verification: Assessment
Mandatory: Obligatory
Block: Block B
 Lectures: 48
10 Assessment 1 B
Participation in lectures: 48 h
ECTS points: 10
Form of verification: Assessment
Mandatory: Obligatory
Block: Block B
 Lectures: 48
10 Assessment 1 B
ECTS points: 10
Form of verification: Assessment
Mandatory: Obowiązkowa grupa
Block: Block B
 Lectures: 48
10 Assessment 5 B
Sum
Number of hours: 144
ECTS points: 30
144 30
Sum (Lectures)
Number of hours: 144
144
List of courses - Spring semester, 2025/2026
Subject Number of hours ECTS points Form of verification Code Block
Participation in lectures: 24 h
ECTS points: 5
Form of verification: Assessment
Mandatory: Obligatory
Block: Block B
 Lectures: 24
5 Assessment 1 B
Participation in lectures: 24 h
ECTS points: 5
Form of verification: Assessment
Mandatory: Obligatory
Block: Block B
 Lectures: 24
5 Assessment 1 B
Participation in lectures: 24 h
ECTS points: 10
Form of verification: Assessment
Mandatory: Obligatory
Block: Block B
 Lectures: 24
10 Assessment 1 B
Internship: 120 h
ECTS points: 5
Form of verification: Assessment
Mandatory: Obligatory
Block: Block B
 Internship: 120
5 Assessment 1 B
ECTS points: 5
Form of verification: Assessment
Mandatory: Obowiązkowa grupa
Block: Block B
 Lectures: 24
5 Assessment 5 B
Sum
Number of hours: 216
ECTS points: 30
216 30
Sum (Lectures)
Number of hours: 96
96
Sum (Internship)
Number of hours: 120
120
List of courses - Autumn semester, 2026/2027
Subject Number of hours ECTS points Form of verification Code Block
Participation in lectures: 30 h
ECTS points: 4
Form of verification: Assessment
Mandatory: Obligatory
Block: Block B
 Lectures: 30
4 Assessment 1 B
Participation in lectures: 30 h
ECTS points: 4
Form of verification: Assessment
Mandatory: Obligatory
Block: Block B
 Lectures: 30
4 Assessment 1 B
Participation in lectures: 30 h
Participation in classes: 15 h
ECTS points: 5
Form of verification: Exam
Mandatory: Obligatory
Block: Block B
 Lectures: 30
Classes: 15
5 Exam 1 B
Participation in lectures: 30 h
Participation in classes: 15 h
ECTS points: 5
Form of verification: Exam
Mandatory: Obligatory
Block: Block B
 Lectures: 30
Classes: 15
5 Exam 1 B
Participation in lectures: 30 h
ECTS points: 4
Form of verification: Assessment
Mandatory: Obligatory
Block: Block B
 Lectures: 30
4 Assessment 1 B
ECTS points: 8
Form of verification: Assessment
Mandatory: Obowiązkowa grupa
Block: Block B
 Lectures: 60
8 Assessment 5 B
Sum
Number of hours: 240
ECTS points: 30
240 30
Sum (Lectures)
Number of hours: 210
210
Sum (Classes)
Number of hours: 30
30
List of courses - Spring semester, 2026/2027
Subject Number of hours ECTS points Form of verification Code Block
Participation in lectures: 40 h
ECTS points: 5
Form of verification: Exam
Mandatory: Obligatory
Block: Block B
 Lectures: 40
5 Exam 1 B
Participation in lectures: 50 h
ECTS points: 5
Form of verification: Exam
Mandatory: Obligatory
Block: Block B
 Lectures: 50
5 Exam 1 B
Participation in lectures: 20 h
ECTS points: 5
Form of verification: Assessment
Mandatory: Obligatory
Block: Block B
 Lectures: 20
5 Assessment 1 B
Participation in seminars: 20 h , including sub-activities: Synchronous seminar: 20 h
ECTS points: 15
Form of verification: Assessment
Mandatory: Obligatory
Block: Block B
 Seminars: 20, including sub-activities:
  • Synchronous seminar: 20
 15 Assessment 1 B
Sum
Number of hours: 130
ECTS points: 30
130 30
Sum (Lectures)
Number of hours: 110
110
Sum (Seminars)
Number of hours: 20
20