Master in Coastal and Marine Biology and Ecology

Designed for students passionate of Biodiversity and Ecosystems, the Coastal and Marine Biology and Ecology (CMBE). The course delivers qualified education on fundamental and applied biological and ecological marine sciences, integrating eScience and more traditional approaches with the aim of understanding the fundamental ecological mechanisms underlying phenomena occurring at various scales in coastal, transitional, and marine ecosystems.

CMBE is a two-year, second-level course. It offers two alternative curricula: Marine Biology and Ecology (MBE) focusing on theoretical and experimental multidisciplinary training in marine biology and marine ecosystem sciences or E-Biodiversity and Ecosystem Sciences (EBES). Focusing on the theoretical foundations of biodiversity organization and ecosystem functioning and devoted to the issue of eco-informatics, recognizing the biodiversity-ecosystem nexus as an information enterprise, requiring analytical and synthetic capabilities in the generation of services for solving environmental challenges (climate change, emerging ecosystem threats, biodiversity loss, waning natural resources) and the promotion of sustainability.

This is a young dynamic university, keen to expand and to prove itself at a national and international level. Since 1955 the Università del Salento has had the aim of promoting knowledge, skill, and merit and has offered a large range of educational opportunities. From law to science, economics to engineering, and humanities to media studies, the university provides academic pathways to a range of professions as well as post-graduate and specialist courses tailor-made to meet the needs of the workplace.

Eight Departments provide services and information for students, as well as thirty-three Research Centres throughout the Salento area. The Università del Salento has grown rapidly in recent years, consolidating and reinforcing its role as the keystone of the local cultural and social system. It also has a Phd. School and Post-graduate schools for Cultural Heritage and for the Legal Professions. The prestigious ISUFI Grandes écoles school offers high-level undergraduate and postgraduate courses for scholarship students to promote excellence.

Mission

The University of Salento is a community, made up of students, teachers, and technical-administrative staff, which recognizes itself in the free promotion of research and teaching as tools for human development, the affirmation of pluralism, and the pursuit of equal social dignity, in full independence from any ideological, political, religious or economic orientation. Within the university community, no one may be discriminated against, in any way or form, due to their study, research, and teaching choices.

The University of Salento guarantees its students equal opportunities and equal dignity by promoting merit and enhancing excellence and supports applied and basic research by recognizing the principle of evaluation.

Alongside the two fundamental objectives of training and research, the University of Salento pursues a third mission, that is, it works to encourage the direct application, valorization, and use of knowledge to contribute to the social, cultural, and economic development of the territory in which it operates.

On an international level, the University of Salento pursues all forms of collaboration aimed at promoting knowledge and mutual enrichment between cultures, the circulation of knowledge, and the exchange of students and staff.