Introduction
The Master’s degree in Environmental Management and Policies (MGPA) is an associate course among the Universidade de Évora, the Universidade de Aveiro, and the Universidade Nova de Lisboa-Faculty of Sciences and Technologies, circulated by the 3 institutions.
It consequently acquires an interinstitutional and interdisciplinary dimension, through the integration of different scientific areas of the Environment, with others, such as Sociology, Economy, International Relations and Environmental Law.
The MGPA proposes to address the environmental issue from an interdisciplinary education, that makes its participants more tolerant, open to dialogue and therefore more able to intervene in environmental issues at different levels (local, regional, national and international). These issues in all their complexity emerge as one of the most important contemporary problems and the interdisciplinary emerges as a fundamental epistemological strategy to deal with.
Interdisciplinary education in the environment has a huge positive impact on the participants, specifically in relation to: (1) the integration of multiple learning from an understanding of different causes or factors that intervene on reality; (2) the integration of different languages and scientific approaches essential to the knowledge; (3) the development of bridges and areas of convergence for effective actions that promotes responsible citizenship allied to an education of excellence.
