Training Objectives
This Master’s course aims to contribute to aquaculture students' high-level scientific training and improve their understanding of living aquatic resources management.
The course trains specialised Master’s graduates. Upon completing the course, graduates will possess a broad foundation of multidisciplinary scientific knowledge that will allow them to understand the complexity and the environmental dynamics at play in aquatic systems. It focuses their attention on the issues involved in the integrated, sustainable management of such systems. Overall, the Master’s degree aims to be both practical and interdisciplinary to facilitate the integration into later professional life.
Content of the training course:
The training program covers the marine environment, marine resources and ecology, the sustainable exploitation of aquatic environments, the integrated management of coastal areas, fishing and sustainable aquaculture, aquaculture engineering and governance, the sale, marketing and quality of seafood products, environmental management and the project management.
The program also includes numerous visits to various centres of marine industry at a regional and national level as well as internships that develop practical understanding and skills in research and development.
Over the course of this training, the emphasis is placed on those species commonly exploited in aquaculture, both at the national level and in the wider Mediterranean basin with a look at ecosystems and the relevant farming technologies used around the world.
Four essential professional features characterise this training:
- “Aquatic Ecosystems and Resources,” for the acquisition of scientific knowledge on the life cycles and dynamics of living aquatic resources in conjunction with how they are affected by human activity;
- “Management of Coastal Ecosystems,” including the management of aquaculture;
- “Production and Valuing of Fisheries” which integrates both upstream aspects such as the resources management and the aquaculture production modes as well as downstream aspects such as valuing seafood products;
- “Aquaculture” which emphasises the development, management, innovation and research on farming fish, crustaceans and molluscs produced in the marine environment.
