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mountain-able: planning and projects for sustainable mountain development - ed.2

1st Level Specializing Master

Application deadline 2025-02-18
Start 2025-03-28
End 2026-03-31
Duration 13 months

Department

DIPARTIMENTO DI ARCHITETTURA E STUDI URBANI

http://www.poliedra.polimi.it/formazione/

Description

The Master offers an advanced training course on the issues of sustainable development of Italian mountain areas within the strategic perspective dictated by the new Green Deal and the New European Bauhaus promoted by the European Union through the programming of the PNRR and SNAI and SNAMI. The Master aims to train technicians and officials active within the sectors of Public Administration, companies and professions. They will be able to operate effectively and successfully in the processes of territorial, architectural, landscape, environmental, cultural, social, and economic transformation, which will invest the Italian mountain areas in the coming decades, but also in a transnational and global context characterized by the consequences of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. The Master aims to train professionals who can practice innovation in a European cultural and operational context. The Master offers: a training course for applicants who intend to acquire professionalism aimed at planning, designing, and managing the spatial, cultural, and social transformations of mountain territories, combining the planning and financing actions envisaged by the PNRR, Green Deal and NEB, and also who intend to operate in all areas that work both on a national, local and international scale at the service of public, private or third sector actors according to goals and objectives that pursue quality, sustainability and safety. The training course for the Master is divided into 14 months. It is stru ctured in teaching modules (lessons and exercises), internships in Public Administration, or Companies located in the territories concerned by the topics of the Master.

Educational project

The "MOUNTAIN-ABLE Master: Planning and Design for Sustainable Mountain Development" is an advanced post-graduate course addressed to applicants with a Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification earned abroad. The Master?s program is based on the belief that the Italian mountain areas from the Alps to the Apennines will play a fundamental role in the construction of the new socio-economic, settlement, and environmental dynamics in the Italy of the future, in line with European processes for territorial development. New professional and technical profiles will be needed to plan, design, and manage this transition while guaranteeing quality and sustainability. Profiles equipped with multidisciplinary skills and managerial attitudes to define strategic planning processes and design, empower, or evaluate local-specific projects. Pursuing a complementarity of intents concerning the values of beauty, sustainability, and inclusiveness is necessary for a safe and sustainable living dimension. Thanks to the dynamics triggered by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), the SNAI Strategy, and the National Strategy for the Italian Mountain (SNAMI), and in light of the New European Bauhaus (NEB) principles The Master is designed to respond to these needs, with the conviction that the sustainability and quality of the project must be essential elements for a regeneration and revitalization process of the mountain areas whose environmental quality has often been compromised by inadequate programming, planning, and design practices. The Master is configured with Executive character, and it is mainly addressed to applicants that have already entered a professional career, with particular reference: technicians and officials active in the public sector Administration, consortia, cooperatives, third sector entities, national and international agencies, or similar profiles working for private companies, or practitioners.

Requirements

The Master is reserved for candidates holding a Bachelor or a Master of Science degree in - the technical-scientific fields of architecture, planning, restoration, and engineering and the prevention of seismic and hydrogeological risks; - the Social and humanistic areas in Anthropology, and the protection of Cultural Heritage; - Economic and Environmental fields concerning agricultural and livestock mountain production processes with particular reference to climate change and economic management; - Communication and Marketing fields about the promotion and valorization of existing resources. Graduates in disciplines related to the regeneration of mountain areas and graduates with professional experience gained in the same subjects will also be able to apply and access. Equivalent foreign qualifications in their respective University System will be considered valid.

Location

Milan

DIPARTIMENTO DI ARCHITETTURA E STUDI URBANI

Faculty and staff

Director: EMILIA CORRADI

Co-Director: ANNUNZIATA MARIA OTERI

Department/School/Institution

POLIEDRA

VIA G. COLOMBO, 40

20133

MILANO

Contact person

Prof.ssa ILARIA ROSARIA SEBASTIANELLI

0223992925

0223992901

formazione-poliedra@polimi.it

Compulsory Documentation

Application documents