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
                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.
        
    Subjects
As part of the curriculum, students study the following disciplines
                        Geography of cross-border environmental cooperation
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 01,
                        
                    
                
                        International and national geospatial data infrastructures
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 02,
                        
                    
                
                        Transboundary environmental monitoring
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 06,
                        
                    
                
                        Green infrastructure and geography of nature protection in Europe and Ukraine
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 12,
                        
                    
                
                        Management of international environmental projects
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 13,
                        
                    
                
                        Marketing of ecosystem services
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 15,
                        
                    
                
                        Basics of international environmental law
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 16,
                        
                    
                
                        Professional and corporate ethics
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 03,
                        
                    
                
                        Methodology and organization of scientific research with the basics of intellectual property
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 04,
                        
                    
                
                        Geoecological principles of sustainable development and management of natural resources
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 05,
                        
                    
                
                        Production practice
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 07,
                        
                    
                
                        International environmental organizations and programs
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 10,
                        
                    
                
                        Dangerous natural and anthropogenic processes and environmental engineering
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 14,