Organisation - UHasselt

The CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (CMK) is a multidisciplinary research centre that opts for a well-considered combination and symbiosis between high-quality fundamental environment-related research and applied research.

Research, education as well as services belong to CMK’s mission. These different aspects are closely linked.

The Centre for Environmental Sciences was founded in 1997. Because of the complexity of the environmental problems, a collaboration was started between biologists and members of the Law and Management departments and the chemists of the own Chemistry-Biology-Geology department. This collaboration led to the creation of the CMK.

At present, all the Biology research groups have joined up with the CMK, the group “Applied and Analytical Chemistry”, researchers of the Law and Management departments and also the researchers of the Medical Basic Sciences department. The Centre for Environmental Sciences has nowadays grown into an interdepartmental and interfaculty knowledge and research centre.
 

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About five core competence fields were defined in 2003. At present, the CMK research is concentrated in three core competence fields, taking the evolutions in the research of the different groups into account.

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