Local Development University of Padua

Overview

The Local Development programme at University of Padua offers an in-depth knowledge of the different methodologies used for the formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programmes for local development and promotes the implementation of sustainability process. Its intrinsic multicultural and multilingual dimension is reinforced by international partnerships and mobility agreements.

A course held entirely in English that offers students a multicultural and multilinguistic dimension due to its numerous international experiences while providing an advanced level of training in promoting local development. Students follow the economic, sociological, political, statistical, historical-geographical, socio-pedagogical, and anthropological areas while acquiring an in-depth knowledge of the social, organizational, economic, territorial, as well as the institutional and dynamic forms of the local development processes. Students will learn to analyse the territorial framework and promote conditions that are favourable to local development allowing graduates to hold managerial roles in the project development, monitoring, and evaluation phases as well as working as professionals in development cooperation or in governmental and non-governmental organizations.

Career opportunities

Graduates work as professionals in local development and development cooperation within different social and territorial contexts, in governmental and non-governmental organizations at the local, national and international level, trade and citizenship associations, enterprises.