The interdisciplinary master's program aims to provide the skills, knowledge, professional competences and experience of researchers in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology, for industry and science. Candidates must be capable of addressing problems that require interdisciplinary skills. On completion of the master's degree, graduates will be equipped to work on creative tasks in a new scientific or technological environment and form part of interdisciplinary research groups.

The main aim of nanoscience and nanotechnology is to understand and control the fundamental structure of matter at the nanometric scale, and to use this knowledge to design and develop new products and systems that that could have a major bearing on a wide range of areas of special socioeconomic significance