The Blue Growth strategy, which is one of the pillars EU’s Marine Policy, is centred on Blue Economy (BE) concept, in which all economic activities related to marine areas should contribute to the creation of wealth and employment, and at the same time, to raise awareness of the value and economic potential of marine areas and their vulnerability to human action.
It is in this context that the Master Marine Living Resources: Science, Technology and Society arises, which aims to deliver skilled professionals with a broad multi- and interdisciplinary view of fundamental and applied areas, namely those related to the ecological, technological, political and sociocultural aspects of the primary sector of the BE.
Objectives
The Master’s program aims to train professionals with interdisciplinary competences to improve the marine livings resources sector of the blue economy, integrating ecological, technological, political and sociocultural aspects for the sustainable development. Graduates will have skills and competences to:
- Understand and assess the importance of natural capital and marine ecosystems within the blue economy;
- Plan, implement and evaluate projects and technologies for the sustainable management and exploitation of marine resources, monitor the quality of the marine environment, including aquaculture projects, control the quality of there sources and develop value-added products that promote zero waste;
- Promote entrepreneurship, innovation, active citizenship and marine environmental literacy;
- Contribute to the promotion of public policies for the sustainability of living marine resources;
- Analyze, plan and work in multidisciplinary teams.
Classes are taught in English to ensure the inclusion of international students.
Collaborations
The Masters programme take advantage of the integration of professors from different areas, from engineering to biology, biochemistry and social sciences, as well as its infrastructures, particularly the research groups working in the areas of marine and environmental sciences and sustainability ( MARE – Center for Marine and Environmental Sciences and CENSE – Center for Research in Environment and Sustainability), as well as technologies and systems, all integrated in R&D centers with excellent evaluation. This proposal also includes, with the participation of two Norwegian institutions of international renown in technologies and innovation of the sea, SINTEF Ocean and Oslo Metropolitan University and the Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere, a Portuguese public institute of the Ministry of the Sea, and with operations at the level of operational management of living marine resources.
Career opportunities
The interdisciplinary approach of training in Marine Living Resources: Science, Technology and Society opens up excellent professional opportunities in the Blue Economy area, focusing on the interaction between human and marine ecological systems with a view to sustainable development.
Specifically:
- consultancy and technological and/or management projects related to the primary sector of EA;
- development of plans and strategies for the sustainable exploitation of living marine resources at the level of companies and central, local and regional administration;
- marine literacy;
- governance;
- industry: aquaculture, fisheries and fish processing, marine biotechnology.
