Program Overview

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Postgraduate Degree in Environmental Ethics

Program Presentation

The Postgraduate Degree in Environmental Ethics is a Ramón Llull University (URL) specific degree that we teach in Barcelona and, in teaching professionals, addresses one of the great challenges of the 21st century: sustainability.

Applied ethics is emerging as an interprofessional discipline that offers tools to focus on the environment from reflection and provides answers to the ethical challenges posed by professional activity. Due to their work, professionals who must manage environmental problems often lack the knowledge and skills necessary to address the related ethical aspects.

The Postgraduate Degree in Environmental Ethics is designed to reinforce the professional’s ethical perspective, enable them to detect and address the ethical problems associated with environmental management, and increase their job satisfaction.

The programme’s design makes knowledge acquisition inseparable from its application to specific issues, situations, and problems in the professional fields of the participants.

Two institutions strongly committed to society, the Institut Químic de Sarrià (IQS) and the Institut Borja de Bioética (IBB), have come together to offer this postgraduate degree to train the best professionals in tackling crucial issues that not only have an impact on each professional and their field of work, but also involve the very future of humanity and the planet.

• IBB is a pioneer in applied ethics not only in Catalonia and Spain but also with an impact throughout Europe.
• IQS brings all its international experience in areas related to engineering, scientific development, the environment, and sustainability from a perspective committed to the world and society.

Key Information

• Start: 9/27/2024
• End: 4/04/2024
• Duration: 7 months
• Method: Blended
• Credits: 17 ECTS
• Hours: 162 class hours
• Tuition: 1.700€
• City: Barcelona
• Timetable: Friday 3:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Why Study at IQS?

This programme is offered in a blended method to make it easier for professionals to fit in their schedule.

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The programme can also be done 100% online.

An excellent “practitioner” faculty.

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Description

We seek to attract two types of participants:

• Young people who want to start their professional career with solid knowledge and skills in addressing the environmental ethics issues that will permeate their professional performance and that they will inevitably encounter.
• Professionals with a certain track record and an interest in enhancing ethical thinking in the workplace, as well as improving knowledge and skills in detecting and addressing associated ethical issues.

It’s offered in a blended method to make it more accessible because we know schedules are often challenging.

The programme is taught in a blended method, combining face-to-face synchronous sessions and asynchronous sessions on an online platform.

Asynchronous work is done through the virtual campus and includes readings and work with other materials: conducting exercises, participation in discussion forums, virtual campus work, reflection, and personal research.

The synchronous work takes place at the sessions and/or via streaming. In these sessions, students will have the opportunity to resolve doubts, analyse cases, and participate in debates to deepen, reflect on, and give concrete answers to the issues studied and the problems detected in their professional practice.

The programme can also be done in a 100% online method where the learning methodology pivots around the virtual campus and in which students have access to different teaching materials (texts or audiovisual materials), including recommended and complementary literature. Moreover, the campus provides meeting spaces for students and professors to carry out and discuss hands-on exercises, participate in debates through the forums, and provide regular tutoring for each student.

Apply to study this Ramon Llull University (URL) specific degree.

In accordance with Spanish Royal Decree 822/2021, published on 28 September 2021, which regulates the titles of university degrees in Article 37, section 9, Ramon Llull University grants the degree of University Expert in Environmental Ethics to students who, holding a required university degree, study and pass the complete programme and carry out and defend their project. The processing fees (approx. €300) for said degree are not included in the tuition fee and usually take between 2-3 years from the application to its issuance by the Rector of the University.

Additionally, IQS grants the Certificate of Completion for the Postgraduate Degree in Environmental Ethics to students who complete and pass the full programme. Processing fees are included in the tuition fee and it is issued on the last day of the programme.

Objectives

The main objective is to train professionals to identify ethical and environmental issues and problems that may arise in their professional practice, emphasizing personal, business, government, and civil society responsibility and to give them with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to provide solutions.

Specific objectives:

• Acquire knowledge about the philosophical and anthropological foundations in ethics.
• Know and understand how to apply aspects related to environmental ethics.
• Identify specific ethical problems in the professional field itself.

FAQs

Can I Benefit from Any Aid as an Individual?

Yes, you must be admitted to the programme in order to apply for aid.

The percentage or amount of the aid will apply only to the amount billed to the participant and may vary depending on the candidate’s economic, personal, and work circumstances.

In the event of personal payment, IQS offers the possibility of deferring it in several instalments, taking into account that there is an initial payment when the spot reservation is formalized.

IQS and IBB alumni, collaborating entities with IQS and IBB, as well as partner companies of the IQS Business Foundation can take advantage of special economic conditions (50% discount, cannot be combined with other discounts).

Can My Company Benefit from a Discount?

The discount policy for companies in Executive Education programmes requires that the candidate have completed the admissions process and the company must also comply with any of the following circumstances:

• Be a member of the IQS Business Foundation.
• Have trained employees in IQS Executive Education over the last four years.
• Enrol more than one participant in the same programme and edition.

The percentage or amount of the discount will apply only to the amount invoiced to the company.

IQS Alumni can take advantage of special financial conditions.

What Do I Need to Do to Enrol?

1. The candidate must fill out the “Apply for Admission” form accessible by clicking on the button to the right of this same web page.
2. The Academic Directorate of the programme and the Admissions Directorate evaluate the application.
3. IQS sends an email to the candidate enclosing the admissions letter (if applicable) and the proforma invoice or IQS communicates the reasons for rejecting the application.
4. Applicants shall send an email to the indicated IQS email address with the following:

• Photocopy of valid ID card or passport
• Passport-size photo
• Original certified photocopy of your university degree or receipt of your request for the degree
• Proof of bank transfer for the spot reservation (CAIXABANK, IBAN ES 0049)

5. IQS enrols the student in the academic management system and sends the final invoice indicating the due date for the remaining amount.

The invoice must be paid in full at the beginning of the course, except for agreements between the parties that must be duly documented.

Participants may request the cancellation of their enrolment up to 15 days before the start of the program, which will entail an administrative fee of €150 to be borne by the participant. After this period, or once the programme has started, IQS will not refund any sums paid.

IQS Executive Education reserves the right to cancel or delay the start of the programme if the minimum number of participants is not available to carry it out and guarantee its quality standards. In this case, IQS will contact the participants or the company to proceed with the reimbursement of sums paid.

Is the Programme Reimbursable by the Fundae (Tripartita)?

It is indeed eligible for reimbursement as we meet the requirements for this purpose. The amount or percentage of the reimbursement will depend on the teaching hours and method, as well as other non-IQS criteria.

Curriculum

Ethics Fundamentals. Basic Concepts.

• Bioethics: birth and development. Other applied ethics.
• Ethical experience. Morals and ethics. Values and conflicting values. Relationship between ethics and law. Relationship between ethics and religion.
• Ethical pluralism. Minimum and maximum ethics.
• Moral decisions Utilitarian, deontological, and dialogical ethics.

Foundations of Environmental Ethics.

• Part one:
  • The relationship between people and nature. The state of affairs.
  • Anthropocentric versus biocentric discourse.
  • The principle of responsibility Hans Jonas’s argument for future generations.
  • Peter Singer’s pathocentric rationale. Transcending speciesism.
  • Hans Küng’s global ecological ethics and the role of religions.
  • Leonardo Boff’s Theology of the Earth. Cosmic fraternity.
• Part two:
  • Ecological values to build an ecological culture.
  • Ecology, a dimension of justice: Environmental justice.
  • Comprehensive Ecology. Proposal of the Laudato Si’

Demography, Ethical Aspects.

• Climate injustice.
• Human development indicators and planetary pressure.
• Poverty and ecosystems.

Environmental Policies and Legal Framework.

• A History of environmental policies: religious traditions, indigenism, and social movements.
• Transnational treaties: history, commitments, implications, evaluation.
• Environmental policies for the European Union: general principles and basic framework.
• Spanish and Catalan environmental policies and legal framework.

Technoethics, Economics, and the Environment.

• The age of humanism: Humanism, human sacrality, and progress (A. Florensa, O. Quintana).
• Environmental problems and the technological trap (A. Florensa, O. Quintana).
• Environmental ethics in business (F. Comim).

Ethical Conflict Resolution Methodology, Deliberative Method, Communication, and Mediation.

• Basic ethical principles. Principialism.
• Resolution of ethical issues: deliberative process and decision-making.
• Ethics of research and innovation in environmental sciences.
• Research ethics committees.
• Communication and mediation.

Specific Areas

• 1. Scientific and technical foundations of climate change
• 2. Biogeochemical cycles
  • Water cycle
  • Carbon cycle
  • Nitrogen cycle
  • Sulphur cycle
  • Phosphorus cycle
• 3. Resources, scarcity, interventionism, and neocolonialism
  • Water management
  • Energy management
  • Land management
  • Air management
• 4. Case studies
  • Post-war Iraq
  • Jordan basin cooperation
  • Liberia: agribusiness for peacekeeping
  • Nepal: lessons from micro hydropower
  • Colombia: local development to overcome conflicts
  • Philippines: how natural resources affect peace
• 5. Future prospects
  • Climate diplomacy
  • The military’s role in peacekeeping

Program Director

• David Lorenzo Izquierdo
• Josep Oriol Pou Ibar, PhD
• Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Faculty IQS of the Postgraduate Degree in Environmental Ethics

• David Lorenzo Izquierdo
• Francesc Torralba Rosselló
• Francisco Cambra Lasaosa
• Francisco Javier Arregui Moreno
• Jaume Duran Navarro
• Joan Carrera Carrera
• Jordi Díaz Ferrero, PhD
• Dean of the IQS School of Engineering and Department of Analytical and Applied Chemistry
• Josep Oriol Pou Ibar, PhD
• Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
• Llorenç Puig Puig, PhD
• Department of Ethics and Christian Thought
• Montserrat Esquerda i Aresté
• Oriol Quintana Rubio, PhD
• Department of Ethics and Christian Thought
• Rafael González Olmos, PhD
• Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Admission Process

The admission process starts with an interview in which we talk about you:

• Your professional trajectory and evolution until the date
• Functions where you have demonstrated better performance
• Competencies or skills that you need to reinforce
• Next challenges or projects that you must lead
• Goals that you pursue in the short and medium term

The objective is to evaluate together how the programme can help you to achieve your professional objectives while ensuring that the requirements for participation are met.

• Academic degree and previous professional experience related
• Motivation and enthusiasm for continuing to grow professionally
• Commitment to the programme and willingness to contribute to the group

The next steps are:

1. Formalize the application for admission by filling out the web form “Apply for Admission”
2. The Academic Directorate of the programme and the Admissions Directorate evaluate the application.
3. IQS sends an email to the candidate enclosing the admissions letter (if applicable) and the proforma invoice or IQS communicates the reasons for rejecting the application.
4. Applicants shall send an email to the indicated IQS email address with the following:

• Photocopy of valid ID card or passport
• Passport-size photo
• Original certified photocopy of your university degree or receipt of your request for the degree
• Proof of bank transfer for the spot reservation (CAIXABANK, IBAN ES 0049)

5. IQS enrols the student in the academic management system and sends the final invoice indicating the due date for the remaining amount.

The invoice must be paid in full at the beginning of the course, except for agreements between the parties that must be duly documented.

Participants may request the cancellation of their enrolment up to 15 days before the start of the program, which will entail an administrative fee of €150 to be borne by the participant. After this period, or once the programme has started, IQS will not refund any sums paid.

IQS Executive Education reserves the right to cancel or delay the start of the programme if the minimum number of participants is not available to carry it out and guarantee its quality standards. In this case, IQS will contact the participants or the company to proceed with the reimbursement of sums paid.

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