Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Engineering

The world of earth sciences seeks answers and offers solutions to the biggest environmental, economic and social problems and challenges of the 21st century. The exploration, long-term utilization, protection and management of natural resources, raw materials, and energy carriers require high-level engineering skills.

The Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Engineering of the University of Miskolc covers the widest spectrum of training in the field of earth and environmental sciences in Hungary, from mining, waste management, environmental protection, oil and gas geosciences, and geography to geology, geophysics and hydrogeology.

Discover more about our Earth, on which we live and from which we live!

The training palette of the Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Engineering combines earth and environmental sciences with engineering solutions, which is unique in Hungary. Through its training and research activities, it makes a broad contribution to sustainable resource management.

Sustainable raw material management involves the application of methods and principles that ensure the efficient and sustainable use of natural resources (extraction of strategic raw materials from the secondary material flow, preparation of raw materials in accordance with the guidelines of the circular economy).

The aim of research activities in the field of renewable and sustainable energy management is to make energy production more sustainable and to promote energy security and diversification (extraction of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons, underground storage and utilization of CO2; geothermal energy utilization).

The goal of sustainable water management and land use is the efficient and sustainable management of water resources and soil resources (innovative soil mapping procedures supporting precision agriculture; innovative utilization of domestic mineral waters, and thermal waters; water supply, complex treatment of municipal and industrial wastewater).

Supporting exploration for raw materials, the development of methods for the efficient processing and interpretation of geoinformation (AI based data science, geostatistics, geophysical inversion methods, development of numerical geological models, development of mineralogical and petrological methods, economic aspects of geoinformation).

The Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Engineering is highly successful in taking part in the strategic objective of the European Union, which focuses on ensuring the supply of raw materials. This commitment is evident not only at the domestic level, but also at the international level, as evidenced by the research and educational development initiatives that have proliferated in recent years.

The faculty currently has research and training cooperation with 27 universities and 7 research institutes. In terms of international research projects, it has successfully participated in H2020 applications over the past 10 years: in addition to 39 submitted applications, 7 applications gained financial support, and participated in the implementation of two of them as a coordinator.