Program Overview

Introduction to the Specialist in Information Analysis and Strategic Communication: Security and Hybrid Threats

The Specialist in Information Analysis and Strategic Communication: Security and Hybrid Threats is a postgraduate program designed to provide students with the knowledge and capabilities necessary to understand, analyze, and respond to hybrid threats, disinformation, and information manipulation, as well as foreign interference from the perspective of communication, security, and intelligence studies.

Objectives

The main goal of the Specialist is to develop profiles with knowledge and skills for the multidimensional analysis of hybrid threats, the detection of hostile influence and interference campaigns, and the planning of effective responses. The specific training objectives include:

• Providing an understanding of the hybrid threat phenomenon from a holistic and process-based perspective within the context of international security.
• Familiarizing students with the different environments in which hybrid threats operate, with a special focus on cyberspace, as well as the existing response and prevention tools and policies against cyber threats.
• Providing students with specific skills and training in intelligence analysis to identify and assess these threats.
• Improving students' ability to identify and analyze foreign media manipulation and interference campaigns and assess their impact on democratic processes.
• Providing specific guidance for planning, designing, and implementing strategic communications campaigns and developing effective counter-narratives to address these threats.
• Understanding, through the use of scenarios, simulations, and war games, how hybrid threats operate and, through them, training informed decision-making.

Programme

The program consists of the following subject modules:

• International security, asymmetry, war/hybrid threats
• Cyberspace and the digital environment: cybersecurity policies, cyber diplomacy, and digital diplomacy.
• Propaganda, disinformation, manipulation of information, and foreign interference (FIMI)
• Analysis and intelligence production
• Strategic communication
• Workshops, Simulations, and Wargames
• Final degree project

Recipients

This training is aimed at students who hold a previous university degree. Students enrolled in a Bachelor's or Double Degree who have a maximum of 30 ECTS credits of an official university degree in Spain whose profile matches the functions legally provided for in the corresponding field will be able to access conditionally. Exceptionally, these professional studies may also be accessed by those without a previous official university degree that accredits work experience in this field.

Access Requirements

Students must meet the following access requirements:

• Hold a previous university degree.
• For students with foreign qualifications, the degree must be recognized as equivalent to a Spanish university degree.

Selection Criteria

In the event that the number of applications exceeds the number of places offered, a selection will be made based on the following objectively weighted criteria:

1. Curriculum (80%)
2. Personal interview (20%)

Number of Places

The maximum number of places is 50, and the minimum is 15.

Academic Management and Faculty

The program is directed by María Victoria Campos and Rubén Arcos Martín, and the faculty includes a list of experienced professionals in the field.

Duration and Development

The program is offered online, with a duration of 30 credits, and 210 contact hours. The place of delivery is online, and the program starts on September 17th, 2026, and ends on March 12th, 2027.

Reservation of Place and Enrollment

The pre-registration period is from May 1st to September 15th, 2026, and the enrollment deadline is from September 1st to September 15th, 2026. The title price is 2,000 Euros, and there is no possibility of a scholarship.

Documentation to Attach, Forms, and Place of Delivery

Applicants must submit the following documentation:

• National Identity Document or equivalent
• University Degree of the studies that give access to the requested postgraduate degree
• Curriculum vitae
• Responsible declaration of veracity of the data provided in digital format
• Any other document required by the Academic Department of Continuing Education for acceptance