Program Overview

Program Overview

The University of Lisbon offers a Master's program in Applied Environmental Sustainability. This program is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the principles of sustainability, including its historical context, key concepts, and operational significance.

Objectives

The program aims to achieve the following objectives:

• Provide knowledge of the fundamentals of sustainability science, including its history, main concepts, and motor systems.
• Understand the phenomena and challenges of environmental unsustainability and the necessary steps for regulation and allocation of resources in multidisciplinary systems associated with the conservation or recovery of natural capital.
• Develop capacities for innovation, design, optimization, and operationalization of sustainability initiatives for public or private management of natural resources, focusing on the nexus sectors.
• Apply methodologies and tools to define strategies and apply practices and techniques to integrate sustainability into policies, systems, and processes within the nexus, at local and global scales.

Professional Outcomes

Graduates of this program will be able to:

• Identify and formulate solutions for environmental sustainability problems using fundamental and applied knowledge.
• Promote integrated resource management interventions, combining the territory's carrying capacity in agricultural, forestry, and urban systems with water and energy resources and nature conservation values.
• Treat and interpret experimental and digital data to evaluate and measure the environmental sustainability of policies, systems, or processes.
• Manage sustainability strategies, plans, and measures, knowing how to explain, communicate, and support society in participatory processes.
• Work individually and in multidisciplinary teams, making inter- and transdisciplinary syntheses, with the capacity for entrepreneurship and lifelong learning.

Admission Criteria

To be eligible for the Master's program in Applied Environmental Sustainability, applicants must meet one of the following conditions:

• Hold a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in sciences or engineering related to the environment or similar fields.
• Hold a foreign academic degree conferred following a 1st cycle of studies organized according to the principles of the Bologna Process by a State adhering to this Process.
• Hold a foreign academic degree recognized as satisfying the objectives of the Bachelor's degree by the scientifically competent body of the institution of higher education where they intend to be admitted.
• Have a school, scientific, or professional curriculum recognized as attesting to the capacity to carry out this cycle of studies by the course committee.

Tuition Fees

The indicative tuition fee for the 1st year is 1,063.47, and the same amount applies to the remaining years.

Program Structure

The program is structured to provide a comprehensive education in environmental sustainability, with a focus on the nexus of water, food, energy, and biodiversity. It includes coursework, research, and practical applications, preparing students for careers in sustainability management, research, and policy.

Research Areas

The program covers various research areas, including:

• Sustainability science and its applications
• Environmental management and policy
• Natural resource conservation and recovery
• Climate change and its impacts
• Sustainable development and the nexus approach

Duration and Mode of Study

The program has a duration of 4 semesters and is offered in a diurnal regime.

Accreditation

The program is accredited by the Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES) for a period of 6 years, as decided on October 3, 2024.

Registration

The program is registered with the Directorate-General for Higher Education (DGES) under the number R/A-Cr 71/2025, as of March 2025.