Sustainability Science
The goal of this Doctoral Degree is to promote excellent and internationally competitive advanced training, transversely integrating solid and up-to-date knowledge for sustainable development.
The Study Cycle is oriented to provide human resources with tools to understand and respond to current and future challenges that are posed to sustainability and result from understanding the interactions between global, natural and social systems to create new solutions and innovative policies.
This PhD aims at providing future professionals with Sustainability Science core skills and complementing active professionals with integrative knowledge. As a consequence of its multidisciplinary nature, it is addressed to professionals from various sectors, entrepreneurs, academics, consultants and decision makers from the public sector, the private sector and the civil society, namely: i) researchers, innovators in production, processing and marketing of agroforestry products; ii) managers, economists, consultants, food marketers, entrepreneurs, policy makers and decision-makers of the agroforestry, food and nutrition sectors; and iii) professionals working in food security, public health, diets and consumer behaviour, risk management, or value chains that preserve natural resources and the environment.
Access and ingress
a) MSci holders or legal equivalent, in any area of knowledge;b) BSci Degree holders or legal equivalent, holders of a significant academic or scientific curriculum recognized by the Scientific Committee as attesting the capacity to accomplish the Study Cycle objectives;c) holders of an academic, scientific or professional curriculum recognized by the Scientific Committee as attesting the capacity to accomplish the Study Cycle objectives.
Classes headquartered at Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (Insituto para a Investigação Interdisciplinar).Faculty includes professors from 17 ULisboa's Schools to assure the interdisciplinarity mandatory to Sustainability Science. Immersive PhD course. Theses in accordance with alternative models: academic thesis in university environment, thesis in business environment or thesis in a professional work environment.