PlantHealth - Plant Health in Sustainable Cropping Systems University of Padua

Overview

The PlantHealth - Plant Health in Sustainable Cropping Systems program at University of Padua is a 2-year programme that offers to its participants the unique opportunity to study plant health in an international setting at two of Europe’s leading institutions in this field, obtaining a double diploma.

It combines highly specialised training, prestigious international lecturers, field trips and other practical learning. It aims at training young, bright minded and internationally active students, so that they can contribute to the development of their home countries through their agricultural expertise and passion.

Specific objectives of the programme

• Educating young professionals in basic and advanced aspects of plant health management in a diversity of crop production systems and various regional/climatic situations following principles of sustainability.
• Exposing students and scholars to the different realities of crop production systems and available environmentally friendly means of crop protection according to regional specificities.

Learning outcomes

On completion of the PlantHealth Master Degree, graduates will be able to:

• Diagnose and identify plant health problems
• Analyse the causes of these problems and evaluate their environmental, economic and social consequences
• Conceive technically adapted, economically viable, socially acceptable, health and environment benign solutions, meeting the requirements of sustainable cropping systems
• Apply research methods, instruments and tools appropriately
• Use their knowledge and skills in a wide range of agricultural contexts and transfer the scientific advances to a wide range of projects and actors at international level.
• Understand plant pests and pathogens, the risks they pose and the ways how these risks can be managed, both on a practical and scientific level
• Know and apply the international regulatory framework for plant health