Cross-border environmental cooperation

heohrafichnyi fakultet

Name
Cross-border environmental cooperation
Program code
58989
Qualification awarded
master's degree in geography at the ONP "Transborder
Length of programme
2 years
Number of credits
120
level of qualification according to the National Qualification Framework and the European Qualifications Framework
7
Qualification level
Second (Master)
Discipline
Natural sciences
Speciality
KnowledgeField EN
Specific admission requirements
Degree of education: bachelor
Specific arrangements for recognition of prior learning
Basic higher education. Having a bachelor's degree
Qualification requirements and regulations, including graduation requirements
Programme learning outcomes
PR01. Apply acquired theoretical and practical knowledge skills for the study of natural and socio-territorial systems at different spatial levels organizations, in particular at the cross-border level. PR02. Evaluate the results of one's own work, demonstrate the ability to work in a team, in particular, on issues cross-border environmental cooperation. PR03. Communicate freely on professional and scientific issues in a foreign language. PR04. Conduct research or innovate activity for the purpose of obtaining new knowledge, development new methods and procedures in geography and interdisciplinary contexts, in particular, on issues of nature protection and restoration and protection of landscapes and biodiversity. PR05. To be able to identify, pose and solve scientific and applied problems, carry out a critical assessment of accepted ones decisions, in particular, in terms of the cross-border level nature protection PR06. Apply modern models and information technologies for conducting research and development in the field geography, nature management, transboundary environmental cooperation, urban and regional development. PR07. Participate in the development of programs and strategies transboundary nature protection, urban and regional development, planning of territories of different hierarchical levels. PR08. To carry out research on natural and socio-geographic manifestations of the development of geosystems in complex and unpredictable conditions, predict their development, analyze alternatives, assess risks and probabilities consequences PR09. Conduct professional evaluation of programs, strategies and plans development of territories (Euroregions), to implement them geoecological and socio-economic examination and monitoring. PR10. Apply geoinformation technologies, create and explore natural- and social-geographical models manifestations of the development of geosystems, to determine their possibilities and limits application. PR11. Assess possible risks, socio-economic and geoecological consequences of the implementation of management decisions in in the field of nature use, nature protection, urban and of regional development, recreation and tourism. PR12. To plan and perform theoretical and applied research, draw reasonable conclusions, analyze and to present research results, in particular, regarding cross-border environmental cooperation. PR13. To carry out scientific and pedagogical activities in institutions of higher education, to develop the necessary teaching-methodical and information support for this. PR14. Formulate scientific hypotheses, determine relevant ones aspects in fundamental and applied directions research, develop and manage projects in the field geography, nature use, nature protection, urban, regional, cross-border development. PR15. Independently evaluate key development trends natural and socio-geographical processes for formation new areas of scientific research, in particular, and nature protection PR16. Carry out a geoecological analysis of the state of the environment for transformation and restoration of the environment, landscapes, biodiversity. PR17. Conduct geoecological research of green infrastructure of territories for the organization of protection systems and preservation of landscapes, habitats and biodiversity.
Form of study
Full-time form
Examination regulations and grading scale
Written and oral exams, tests, differentiated tests, current control (presentations, test tasks, modular control works), protection of practice reports, public defense of the master's thesis
Оbligatory or optional mobility windows (if applicable)
Work placement
Conducting part of professionally oriented classes disciplines and production practices are provided at the base organizations and institutions dealing with problems international, including cross-border environmental cooperation, impact assessment military actions on landscapes and biodiversity, protection and restoration of landscapes and biodiversity, strategic environmental assessment (EIA), environmental impact assessment (EIA), spatial geoinformation analysis and forecast, marketing of ecosystem services.
Work-based learning
Student-centered problem-oriented learning that conducted in the form of lectures, seminars, practical, etc laboratory classes, performance of independent works on the basis educational aids, textbooks and notes, consultations with teachers, performance of qualification master's thesis in the last year of study.
Director of the course
Lyudmila Fedorivna Belous
Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology
heohrafichnyi fakultet
Occupational profiles of graduates
Jobs in educational institutions, in design and research and research organizations; industrial and scientific institutions in the field of nature management, international ecological cooperation and nature protection (Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine, Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and of Agriculture of Ukraine, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Ministry of Community and Territorial Development of Ukraine, State Emergency Services of Ukraine, State Agency of Forest Resources of Ukraine, State Environmental Inspection of Ukraine, State Space Agency of Ukraine, Earth Aerospace Research Center, etc.; UNEP, UNIDO, UNESCO, OSCE, EBRD, European environmental agency, Global Environmental Fund, etc.); enterprises in the field of business, consulting, analytical and outsourcing companies (methodologist, researcher, analyst, expert)
Access to further studies
The possibility of studying in educational and scientific programs the third level of higher education, as well as professional development and obtaining additional postgraduate education.