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Universities around the world offer many courses dealing with mountain issues, but with so much information available on the web, it can be hard to find and choose the most suitable one.
The mountain education database allows users to compare vastly different course offerings from around the world across fields including geography, geology, engineering and the social sciences, among others. Tailored to the needs of mountain communities, experts, scientists, researchers and entrepreneurs, this database is a capacity development portal that offers a wide range of learning opportunities, from free online courses to bachelor's and master's degrees.
Some of the courses listed are from Mountain Partnership member institutions located in mountainous regions, while others are from major universities that offer relevant courses as part of a broader selection.
The mountain education database is constantly updated, but please do not hesitate to contact the Mountain Partnership Secretariat at [email protected] in order to suggest new courses or add information about courses that are already present in the database.
Appalachian’s Graduate Certificate (non-degree) program in Appalachian Studies is designed for students, scholars, professionals and newcomers to the area interested in gaining sophisticated knowledge of the region and of the analyses and interpretations of the region by scholars and writers.<...
The 7th International Plant Functional Traits Course (PFTC) will be held on 1-19 December 2023, at the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa. PFTCs offer hands-on training in applications of plant functional trait ecology within a real-life field research project setting. During this course, s...
The Mountain Partnership Secretariat, in collaboration with the Sapienza University of Rome and Bioversity International has launched the Summer School titled “GROW - Agrobiodiversity in a Changing Climate: Sustainable production, fragile ecosystems, and resilience to global changes". The summ...
Urban forests and green spaces are key to sustainable and resilient urban development, providing a wide range of ecosystem goods and services. They play an important role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular SDG11, which focuses on making cities safe, resilient and sus...
Will modern man turn with a veneration to what has been saved, to the valuable natural and cultural heritage of the mountainous areas or will come to consume, to ruin what has been left, to walk away, once again, for good? The same dilemma also begets a question for the mountainous societies t...
The University of Birmingham as part of Midlands Graduate School is now inviting applications for an ESRC Doctoral Studentship in association with our collaborative partner, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development based in Nepal, to commence in October 2023.
This Ph...
This is a dual MSc resulting from a collaboration between the University of Bozen-Bolzano and the University of Innsbruck. The programme takes advantage of the particular location of the partner universities in the Central Alps and includes both student and teacher mobility between the two cou...
The main purpose of the two-year Master of Science programme is to provide postgraduate students with detailed knowledge, critical understanding, strategies and the tools required to take an interdisciplinary approach towards environmental risks and human security. The Master’s programme addre...
The Master's Degree course "Digital Management of Agriculture and Mountain Territory" (GEDAM) is aimed at training agronomists or forestry professionals, with particular specific skills in the management of digital data, sensors applied to agriculture and forests, precision agriculture techniq...
The specific educational objectives of the CdLM are to prepare graduates with in-depth knowledge of the scientific aspects concerning genetic information and the regulation of the development of organisms, the applied biology that determines plant and animal production, advanced technologies t...
The Degree Course in Sciences and Forests and Nature (SFN) offered by the University of Tuscia, addresses the issues of management and conservation of forest and natural systems in their complexity and entirety and responds to the challenges that come from contemporary society by training a gr...
This three-year degree course in Mountain Sciences (L-25) hosted by the University of Tuscia aims at providing graduates all the necessary competences for the analysis, design and management of mountain regions and their resources, with particular reference to Apennine &...
The course is structured in two curricula, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and Agricultural Biotechnology, with five specific courses. The student's work is measured in CFU (University Training Credit): one CFU corresponds to 25 hours of total student work, of which 8 hours reserved fo...
This course is run by the University of Tuscia and is a dual approach incorporating the bio-ecological and geological-engineering aspects of forestry, with a particular focus on project planning and design. The course is aimed at those who want to acquire specialized knowledge to operate in th...
The MEDfOR programme offers a MSc degree that is fully recognised in all the participating countries. It requires the completion of studies encompassing 120 credits (ECTS) for two years in the MEDfOR Consortium universities. This corresponds to 3 semesters of coursework plus a Winter School an...
This course's main objective is to form an engineer who has developed a highly interdisciplinary analytical and design approach. The graduate student should be able to tackle environmental sustainability problems by combining civil engineering with industrial engineering and knowing how to dea...
Appalachian’s Master of Arts program in Appalachian Studies is an interdisciplinary program offering cross-cultural learning and applied career training through engaged research, internships, outreach and classroom-based programming. It is housed in the Center for Appalachian Studies, a region...
As one of the UNESCO Chair’s main activities, the Master’s Degree programme in Socio and Environmental Sustainability of Agri-food Networks is based at the University of Turin and co-organized by the Department of Culture, Politics and Society and the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fo...
This unique course prepares you for a research career in cold-regions science, notably within the disciplines of glaciology, glacial geomorphology, polar climatology/oceanography, environmental science, polar biogeochemical processes, or their intersections. We train graduates from a range of ...
The University of Ghent in association with Uppsala University (Sweden) and the University of Freiburg (Germany) are offering a joint Masters programme in Sustainable and Innovative Natural Resource Management. This is a two-year programme and students will be expected to attend lectures in al...
