The Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of the Environment launches the eighth edition of the Master’s Degree in Environmental Management and Administration, which will take place during the academic year 2007/2008. This will be the first edition taught as a degree of the National University of Distance Education, UNED, in collaboration with the Menéndez Pelayo International University, UIMP. This is possible thanks to the agreement signed by this entity with these universities. This agreement gives the master’s degree a public character and allows it to have the academic endorsement of these two prestigious universities.

Thus, the purpose of this agreement signed between the Biodiversity Foundation, the National University of Distance Education and the Menéndez Pelayo International University is to establish the lines of collaboration between the three institutions for the programming and realization of the first edition of the Master’s Degree in Environmental Management and Administration as a postgraduate degree of the UNED. in collaboration with the UIMP and the Biodiversity Foundation, within the 2007/2008 Call for Continuous Training of the UNED. Together with the recognized prestige of both universities, this new course begins with an expansion of the network of collaborating companies in which students will be able to carry out their professional internships once they finish the course.

The course, which will begin in mid-October 2007 and will conclude in June 2008, consists of 600 teaching hours corresponding to 60 credits.

Since its first edition, held in the 1999/2000 academic year, the Master’s Degree in Environmental Management and Administration of the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of the Environment has been one of the leading postgraduate degrees in environmental matters in Spain. Throughout its seven editions, it has provided solid theoretical and practical training to students who are currently developing their professional activity as environmental managers in both the Public Administration and the private sector.

From the beginning, the faculty has been made up of renowned experts and professionals from the academic, business, and public administration environment, which has made it possible to offer a close and detailed vision of the challenges and circumstances in which environmental management develops, as well as its complexity and evolution in recent years. Likewise, the master’s degree has also had the participation of an exceptional network of collaborating institutions and companies.

In addition to the theoretical-practical training given, the completion of external internships by students in different companies, organizations, and entities with which the Biodiversity Foundation has signed collaboration agreements, has been essential to perfect and put into practice the knowledge acquired and facilitate their subsequent insertion into the labor market.

This master’s degree is aimed at university graduates and professionals who wish to improve their capacity and consolidate themselves as experts in public and private institutions and has been designed to acquire an integrative vision of the environmental factor as a cornerstone of sustainable development, as well as a deep understanding of the strategies, policies, planning instruments and tools available to ensure sustainable management and use of resources and an adequate management of environmental quality.