Global Environment and Development 24 months Postgraduate Programme By University of Milan |TopUniversities
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Programme Duration

24 monthsProgramme duration

Main Subject Area

Environmental SciencesMain Subject Area

Programme overview

Main Subject

Environmental Sciences

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

Global Environment and Development (MERGED) is an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master (https://merged.info/).


The course aims to create globally competitive graduates that can identify critical aspects of sustainable natural resource management for economic, environmental, institutional, and societal development in both the global south and the global north and develop sustainable, appropriate, and feasible solutions. The programme will educate high-quality digitally- competent graduates to become professionals in private and public companies, I/NGOs, government bodies, and research institutions. Through interdisciplinary and disciplinary, multicultural real-life experiences and laboratory experiments, students will learn to identify, analyse, understand, and forecast complex systems. MERGES provides two curricula: in Agricultural Development (at the university of Milano) or in Sustainable Environmental Development (at the university of Warsaw).


The MERGED graduate with a specialization in Agricultural Development is an innovative professional figure, equipped with a solid technical-scientific culture, a broad multidisciplinary vision of the environmental and agricultural system and a high operational preparation to manage economic and productive activities related to agriculture and natural resources in a global framework and long-term sustainability. The figure can operate in international contexts, both in the North and in the South of the world.

The MERGED professional figure in Sustainable Environmental Development is equipped with the ability to interpret the principles and processes that inform sustainable development on a global level from an economic, sociological, and legal point of view.


During the first year at the University of Copenhagen the student acquires skills also through practical and interdisciplinary courses, which include training visits in other continents. During the second year at the university of Milano the subjects offered are dealing with interdisciplinary disciplines of natural, environmental, and territorial resource management; disciplines of animal production; engineering disciplines and biosystem design; disciplines of the sustainability of crop production. The student refines his/her knowledge in the field of sustainability for agricultural systems, in particular by acquiring: a) knowledge with a strong applicative nature, based on case studies in real scenarios, on a global scale; b) skills with a technical and quantitative slant, based on scientific knowledge and acquisitions and on the applications of technological innovations. During the second year at the university of Warsaw, the students acquire a socio-economic and legal perspective on environmental issues from a global perspective. The aim is to allow the student to master the tools to be used in the analysis of the sustainability of the global environmental development.


As a consequence of the knowledge and skills acquired, the graduates in Global Environment and development:


- have a solid technical and cultural preparation, a multidisciplinary and global vision, and a good command of the scientific methods of the sciences of environmental and agricultural sustainability

- have in-depth knowledge of the qualitative criteria and quantitative methods necessary to plan, evaluate, and manage agricultural production systems and processes in a sustainable way, integrating the technical, economic, regulatory and environmental aspects, in a global context

- know how to formulate and apply quantitative assessments using conceptual models and IT tools, to animal and plant production and to choose the most suitable and sustainable technologies

- know how to manage the global climate change challenges to the management of water resources

- know how to manage the technical and economic quality of products and processed products in the plant and animal production chains, to be able to operate in support of regulatory policies with governmental and non-governmental bodies, and private companies.

Programme overview

Main Subject

Environmental Sciences

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

Global Environment and Development (MERGED) is an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master (https://merged.info/).


The course aims to create globally competitive graduates that can identify critical aspects of sustainable natural resource management for economic, environmental, institutional, and societal development in both the global south and the global north and develop sustainable, appropriate, and feasible solutions. The programme will educate high-quality digitally- competent graduates to become professionals in private and public companies, I/NGOs, government bodies, and research institutions. Through interdisciplinary and disciplinary, multicultural real-life experiences and laboratory experiments, students will learn to identify, analyse, understand, and forecast complex systems. MERGES provides two curricula: in Agricultural Development (at the university of Milano) or in Sustainable Environmental Development (at the university of Warsaw).


The MERGED graduate with a specialization in Agricultural Development is an innovative professional figure, equipped with a solid technical-scientific culture, a broad multidisciplinary vision of the environmental and agricultural system and a high operational preparation to manage economic and productive activities related to agriculture and natural resources in a global framework and long-term sustainability. The figure can operate in international contexts, both in the North and in the South of the world.

The MERGED professional figure in Sustainable Environmental Development is equipped with the ability to interpret the principles and processes that inform sustainable development on a global level from an economic, sociological, and legal point of view.


During the first year at the University of Copenhagen the student acquires skills also through practical and interdisciplinary courses, which include training visits in other continents. During the second year at the university of Milano the subjects offered are dealing with interdisciplinary disciplines of natural, environmental, and territorial resource management; disciplines of animal production; engineering disciplines and biosystem design; disciplines of the sustainability of crop production. The student refines his/her knowledge in the field of sustainability for agricultural systems, in particular by acquiring: a) knowledge with a strong applicative nature, based on case studies in real scenarios, on a global scale; b) skills with a technical and quantitative slant, based on scientific knowledge and acquisitions and on the applications of technological innovations. During the second year at the university of Warsaw, the students acquire a socio-economic and legal perspective on environmental issues from a global perspective. The aim is to allow the student to master the tools to be used in the analysis of the sustainability of the global environmental development.


As a consequence of the knowledge and skills acquired, the graduates in Global Environment and development:


- have a solid technical and cultural preparation, a multidisciplinary and global vision, and a good command of the scientific methods of the sciences of environmental and agricultural sustainability

- have in-depth knowledge of the qualitative criteria and quantitative methods necessary to plan, evaluate, and manage agricultural production systems and processes in a sustainable way, integrating the technical, economic, regulatory and environmental aspects, in a global context

- know how to formulate and apply quantitative assessments using conceptual models and IT tools, to animal and plant production and to choose the most suitable and sustainable technologies

- know how to manage the global climate change challenges to the management of water resources

- know how to manage the technical and economic quality of products and processed products in the plant and animal production chains, to be able to operate in support of regulatory policies with governmental and non-governmental bodies, and private companies.

Admission Requirements

6.5+
83+

Admission to MERGED requires possession of a three-year degree, or other educational qualification recognized as equivalent, after verification by the MERGED Commission of the curricular requirements, based on the documentation produced by the candidate.

English is the official language of MERGED. Level C1 is required by UCPH where the student enrolls. English knowledge should be documented as follows:

- holding a full degree (minimum 2 years of fulltime studies) in English (i.e. a secondary school diploma, Bachelor's degree or Master's degree from USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK or Ireland) exempts the candidate from the language requirement

- if not exempted, the candidate should provide an English language test:

Cambridge Advanced English or Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) passed at level C1 or C2.

For students coming from foreign universities, the following disciplinary areas are considered eligible: Agriculture, Agronomy, Agrobiology, Agricultural Economics, Forestry, Animal Science, Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Food and Nutrition, Food Science, Geography, Geology, Geoinformatics, Landscape Architecture, Natural Resources, Anthropology, Psychology, Sociology, Development Studies, Rural Development, Economics, Interdisciplinary Economic- managerial studies, Environmental Science, Natural Science.

For graduates from Italian universities, the following degree classes are considered eligible: L-2 (Biotechnology), L-13 (Biological Sciences), L-18 (Economics and Business Management), L- 21 (Sciences of territorial, urban, landscape and environmental planning), L-25 (Agricultural and forestry sciences and technologies), L-26 (Agri-food sciences and technologies), L-32 (Sciences and technologies for the environment and nature), L-36 (Political sciences and international relations), L-37 (Social sciences for cooperation, development and peace), L-38 (Zootechnical sciences and animal production technologies). Students from different Italian degrees can access if they have acquired at least 60 credits in the following disciplinary scientific sector, grouped by affinity:

Disciplines of engineering applied to agriculture and the environment (at least 14 credits)

  • AGR/08 Idraulica agraria
  • AGR/09 Meccanica agraria
  • AGR/10 Costruzioni rurali
  • ING-IND/11 Fisica tecnica ambientale
  • ING-IND/06 Fluidodinamica
  • Disciplines of agricultural production (at least 14 credits)
  • AGR/02 Agronomia e coltivazioni erbacee
  • AGR/03 Arboricoltura generale e coltivazioni arboree
  • AGR/04 Orticoltura e floricoltura
  • AGR/05 Assestamento forestale e selvicoltura
  • AGR/12 Patologia vegetale
  • AGR/19 Zootecnica speciale
  • AGR/20 Zoocolture
  • Disciplines of fertility, conservation and soil study (at least 10 ECTS)
  • AGR/13 Chimica agraria
  • AGR/14 Pedologia
  • BIO/04 Fisiologia vegetale
  • GEO/05 Geologia applicata
  • Economics-management and data analysis disciplines (at least 10 credits)
  • AGR/01 Economia ed estimo rurale
  • SECS-S/01 Statistica
  • SECS-S/02 Statistica per la ricerca sperimentale
  • SECS-S/03 Statistica economica
  • SECS-S/05 Statistica sociale
  • SPS/10 Sociologia dell'ambiente e del territorio
  • Biological, chemical and physical disciplines (at least 6 ECTS)
  • BIO/01 Biologia molecolare
  • BIO/07 Ecologia
  • BIO/08 Antropologia
  • BIO/13 Biologia applicata
  • FIS/07 Fisica applicata
  • CHIM/12 Chimica dell'ambiente e dei beni culturali
  • Disciplines of genetic improvement (at least 6 credits)
  • AGR/07 Genetica agraria
  • AGR/17 Zootecnica generale e miglioramento genetico

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