After successful completion of this MSc programme graduates are expected to be able to:

- understand basic concepts in biobased disciplines;

- apply advanced knowledge of one of the biobased disciplines: biomass production and carbon capture, biorefinery and conversion, or biobased and circular economy;

- design a new biobased concept, research, product, or process within an international or global context that meets the objectives and demands of an interested party, and judge to what extent a petrochemical application can be replaced by biobased technology;

- cooperate in an interdisciplinary team;;

- assess technological, ethical, societal, and economic consequences of changes in the design of a biobased concept, product, or production process;

- create additional value by combining biobased disciplines;

- demonstrate an academic attitude;

- communicate verbally and in writing about the results of learning, experiments, and project work;

- reflect upon personal knowledge, skills, attitudes, and functioning;

- develop a research plan, in which research question, hypothesis, (experimental) set-up and data analysis are described in relation to relevant literature;