Master in Forest Fires. Science and Integral Management (interuniversity)
León, Spain
DURATION
3 Semesters
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
EUR 4,830 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Introduction
About
We train highly qualified personnel to meet the social demand for forest fire emergency management
If you are interested in learning to
- Predict the behavior of fire and its spread, and interpret the meaning of fire in the forest ecosystem, recognizing its effects on the different elements of it.
- Design prevention and extinction strategies specific to the reality of each geoecological system and model the integral fire risk using ICT, based on information sources of alphanumeric and spatial nature.
- Conduct differential diagnostic studies of conflict in the problem of forest fires and determine the defensive priorities of the territory subject to economic, social, ecological, environmental and safety factors in control and extinction activities.
- Define, organize and direct the human and material resources involved in an emergency taking into account the different roles and roles of firefighting operations and other emergency bodies.
- Interpret the effects of fire on the forest ecosystem, identifying the factors that require technical actions.
What we offer you
- Taught at the Universities of León, Lleida and Córdoba.
- Modern online teaching support platform for the non-face-to-face part.
- Active participation of the best professionals and scientists worldwide in the world of forest fires.
- Training adapted to current basic forest legislation.
- Multiple external practice agreements with public administrations and national and international agencies.
- Master's degree positively evaluated with the highest recognition by the Agència per a Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya (AQU).
Scholarships and Funding
TalentUnileon Scholarships
TalentUnileon scholarships are scholarships of excellence aimed at international students who wish to pursue their undergraduate, master's or doctoral studies at the University of León.
International students who have obtained an average grade of at least 8 points out of 10 in their studies prior to their bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree, respectively, will be eligible to benefit from this programme.
Within this call and within the framework of the Collaboration Agreement between the University of León and Santander Universities Spain of Banco Santander SA, this program includes scholarships in each modality that will have additional funding provided by Santander Universities and will be considered TalentUnileon-Santander Universities scholarships.
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