Building knowledge to improve fire safety engineering worldwide EU project establishes innovative course in Fire Safety Engineering that tackles modern building fire safety issues and explores the different fire safety legislation across the globe The two-year International Master of Science in Fire Safety Engi- neering trains students for a professional career as fire safety engineers. Photo: © Fire safety engineering is highly complex since every country has its own regulations for fire safety in buildings and because these rules do not cover everything, for example novel materials and Key facts and figures new architectural designs. Erasmus+ Participants: Countries: Eager to tackle this difficulty, Ghent University in , Field: Higher Education 150 6 in and The University of Edinburgh in Action: Erasmus Mundus EU grant: Project duration: the UK jointly created a new master’s programme in modern Joint Master Degrees € 3,846,800 2010-on-going and international fire safety. It has produced highly educated (2010-2016)* fire safety engineers with knowledge that can be used in many different countries across the globe. A graduate said: Project title Taking this master’s degree was the best The International Master of Science in Fire Safety Engineering professional decision of my career. It is a " high-quality programme that is very well regarded in the industry and its influence is continuously growing.”

Around 150 students from 60 different countries have been awarded EU-funded scholarships to take part in the programme. Today, the course has become an international reference in fire safety engineering worldwide.

Graduates are now working in world leading fire safety companies and research groups, and many students are even hired before graduating.

The wide-ranging fire safety knowledge taught on this course was made possible by the collaboration between the three . Ghent University specialises in the behaviour and modelling of fire and explosions, Lund Uni- versity focusses on human behaviour in fires, fire model- ling and risk analysis, while the University of Edinburgh is the developer of the first programme in structural fire safety engineering, focussing on infrastructure. Lead organisation Name: Ghent University Location: Ghent, Belgium Website: www.ugent.be More information Project website: Partners University of Queensland, Australia; Lund University, Sweden; www.imfse.ugent.be ETH Zürich, ; University of Edinburgh, UK; University of Maryland, USA The Erasmus+ Project Results Platform: http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/ projects

Erasmus+ *Project funding refers to the total assigned to the project at selection, and represents the cumulative total of periods for which the project has been funded.