Master's degree Emergency and Relief Management
Trindade, Portugal
Master degree
DURATION
LANGUAGES
Portuguese
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Higher Institute of Information and Administration Sciences (ISCIA), established in 1989, offers a Masters degree in Emergency and Relief Management. Civil protection is multidisciplinary; the programme fills a gap by integrating stakeholders and disciplines. It trains professionals in emergency and rescue management to act across the risk management cycle — planning, preparedness, response and recovery — emphasizing practical application and coordinated intervention, resilience, disaster management, contingency planning and response coordination.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue roles such as emergency manager, civil protection officer, disaster relief coordinator, risk analyst, operations leader or consultant in humanitarian response and crisis management.
Civil protection is a multidisciplinary area, where one of the main gaps is observed in terms of the articulation of all stakeholders and all areas of knowledge, which is essential for effective and efficient assistance.
The master's degree aims to fill this gap by forming staff in the area of emergency and rescue management that contribute to more efficient and effective management of civil protection operations, with the knowledge to intervene, in an integrated manner, in all phases of the management cycle. risk and that sustain their activity from the domains of knowledge, planning, preparation, response to the recovery of pre-event conditions.
It is assumed, therefore, as a priority objective to integrate with a single training all areas of knowledge that contribute to the management of emergency and relief, in a perspective of acquisition and practical application of knowledge, in order to form staff capable of managing the emergency and help in an integrated and articulated way.
