1 Doctorate in Natural Sciences for Development Euro-Latin American, Inter-University, On-Line Post- Graduate Program in management and conservation of natural resources, sustainable agricultural system, and management of the environment for development Alpha II Project 0396-A UE-AL

Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares “Every person, at birth, has the right to be educated, and to pay, afterwards, by contributing to the education of others.” José Martí

3 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Objectives The principle objective is to create, from within the halls of superior education, space for reflection about the complex environmental problems of our times, proposing forms for intervention and management of our natural resources that are more considerate of our environment. In this sense, this initiative is trying to create a network of institutions of superior education that promotes the development of a scientific-technological community at the highest level in the distinctive levels that make up the future doctoral program and that develop among all the activities and strategies destined towards recognition and the homologation of the title of doctorate that will be granted by all the institutions.

4 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Specific Objectives 1. Creation of a Euro/Latin American network of experts in Environmental Sciences and in Sustainable Development for the creation of a study. 2. Up-date the professors who will participate in the Doctorate at a Distance in the use of the technologies that will permit them to participate in this post-graduate program. 3. To train the professors in the elaboration of instructional materials so that they can produce On- Line materials that will facilitate learning by the students. 4. To fortify the links between universities that offer and support post-graduate programs that are imparted on-line or at a distance. 5. To promote the development of a scientific- technological community at the highest level, in Environmental Sciences and Sustainable Development. 6. To define strategies for the standardization of diplomas and for academic recognition.

5 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Concrete results anticipated 1. The publication of studies and/or of the results of meetings and/or of seminaries. 2. Institutional documents resulting from meetings related to the project. 3. Implimentation of proposals for academic improvement and for the initiation of changes within the sphere of superior education. 4. The preparation of websites for the electronic diffusion of debates and of documents of importance for institutional and academic use. 5. Manuals for academic and administrative use..

6 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Results 6. Professorsof the courses for the first two years of the program trained in On-line and part-time-residence education. Results will be seen in the elaboration of materials and programs for the courses. 7. Materials for the courses of the first two years ready to be put on the website of the program. The results will be seen with the identification of prepared materials and evaluated when the students use them. 8. The identification of the teaching and learning strategies that are most adequate for use in this type of program. Results and evaluation will be similar to that of point The production of strategic documents for the doctorate. These will be defined by the Major-field commissions; Results and evaluation will be similar to that of point 7.

7 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Results 10. Reports from each training session and from the co- ordination meetings. The results of this will be seen in the presentatión of each one of them at the end of the activity and it will be the advances of the Alpha program which evaluate the accomplishment of the objectives set up for each activity. 11. Functional capacity of the website.Creation and consolidation of the interconnecting systems and connectivity on the level of institutions of superior education of the region, that lead to the development of sites for forming societies of knowledge, using and improving the potential of highly qualified human resources of the region. Evaluation will be in the in the ability to connect onto, and the capacity for answers from all the participants. 12. To create spaces for discussion and dialogue through these societies of knowledge, which should contribute to a high level of post-graduate education and to the specialization of all the professionals of the region. This will be evaluated by the links established with other professionals and institutions of the region.

8 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Other results expected 13. Establish methodological sinergies for the design of a Euro/Latin-American doctorate in Environmental Sciences and Sustainable Development among all the universities which make up the Web. 14. Define the contents of the doctorate, and the contributions and role of each one of the associates. 15. Establish the methodological criterium for the doctoral course. 16. Establish the mechanisms for the recognition of credits between participating universities The creation of a Euro/Latin-American On-line doctorate in the management of our natural resources and the conservation of our environment.

9 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Other results expected 18. Promote the development of a high-level scientific-technological community in the distinctive majors which make up this Doctoral Program. 19. The creation of a Website for co-ordination among the participants in the network. 20. Publication of materials and documents. 21. Establish criterium for the recognition of titles granted by each of the participating universities.

1010 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Curricular Centers RESEARCH Leading to new contributions to scientific knowledge SUSTAINABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT Economic and social development, environmental conservation, improvement in competitivity, respect for human rights, ethnical and cultural and gender diversity STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION AND OF TECHNOLOGY Development in the capacity to manage information, in the use of avalilable related technologies, and in ethical management.

1 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Majors Systems of Agricultural Production Management of our Natural Resources Environmental Management and Culture Applied Micro-Electronics (in study)

1212 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Academic Activities

1313 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Curricular Structure

1414 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Curricular Graph YEAR IYEAR IIYEAR IIIYEAR IV SEMESTERIIIIIIIVVVIVIIVIII COMMON CORE COURSES Cursos REQUIRED 14 CREDITS Seminario- Taller de investigación 17 créditos PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 4 GEO DYNAMICS, ENVIRON- MENT PROBLEMS 4 STATISTICS 6 DEVELOP- MENT AND SUSTAIN- ABILITY 4 SEMINARY- WORKSHOP 6 SEMINARY WORKSHOP II 5 SEMINARY WORKSHOP III 6 ELECTIVES 10 créditos ELECTIVE I 3 ELECTIVE II 3 ELECTIVE III 4 SPECIALIZATI ON COURSE 5 créditos Curso 5 RESIDENCY 10 créditos Pasantía 10 THESIS 40 créditos RESEARC H 5 RESEARCH 3 RESEARC H 4 RESEARCH 6 RESEARCH 12 DEFE NSE 10 TOTAL 100 créditos

1515 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Course of Study Common core, required:  Philosophy of Science  Statistics  Geo-Dynamics and Environmental Problems  Development and Sustainability  Research Seminary Workshop I  Research Seminary Workshop II  Research Seminary Workshop III Specialty  Specialty course Thesis Defense of thesis Elective courses depending on Major

1616 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Optional elective courses according to Major Systems of agricultural production Management of our natural resources Environmental management and culture Optional courses, elective in mor than one Major

1717 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Title to be granted The Doctoral program will grant a degree in Doctor of Natural Sciences for Development in:  1) Systems of Agricultural Production  2) Management of our Natural Resources  3) Environmental Management and Culture The Doctoral Diplomas will be granted jointly by the participating universities and by the regulatory commission of the program.

1818 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Credits

1919 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Organic structure of the program

2020 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Activities 1. Training of at least 20 Latin-American professors possessing doctoral degrees and members of the Program in Costa Rica, Mexico and Nicaragua, so as to be able to put their courses On- line. 2. Creation of a website for those who make up the network. 3. Design and elaborate the contents of the future doctorate.. 4. In-person meetings and stays of short duration in the countries participating in the network. 5. To succeed in having 75 per cent of the courses of the program On-line in the first semester of Design of the websites, interconnected between the member universities. Design, preparation, and putting in practice of tools for introduction into the institutions, and/or for the preparation, publication, and application of tasks to be executed within the perimeters of the project.

2121 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Activities 7. Design of website in each university.. 8. Meetings of the academic co-ordinators of the network via video-conferences. 9. Compile information, and publish notes Translation into English of all the documents produced Dissemination of the doctorate program for the training of students. Design, preparation, and putting in practice of tools for the introduction into the institutions and/ or the preparation, publication, and application of the tasks to be executed within the perimeters of the project.

2 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Chronogram

2323 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Proposal for international mobility

2424 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Institutional co-ordinators for Alpha II 0396-A

2525 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Anexo

2626 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Anexo FOR.COM. Formazione per la Comunicazione Consorzio Interuniversitario Università degli Studi di Torino - Università degli Studi di Macerata Università degli Studi di Salerno - Università degli Studi del Molise Università degli Studi di Cassino - Università degli Studi di Udine Università degli Studi di Bari - Università degli Studi di Foggia Università degli Studi di Sassari - Università di Camerino Université de la Savoie (CEFI-CNRS) - University of Malta University of Liverpool - Universitatea “Ovidius” Constanta - Romania

2727 Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales para el Desarrollo Actividades Cronograma Coordinadores Movilidad Resultados Objetivos Información Bases Curriculares Prospects for working with the UE y AL Search for financing for international equiping for AL. Search for financing for student scholarships for UE and Al. Integration of other Latin-American institutions of Continental and Central America.. Look for resources for the integration of the project with the Meso-American Network, whose central office is in the University of Queretaro, Mexico. Offer the first integrated post-graduate program in the hemisphere in Natural Resources, the Environment, and Sustainable Agricultural and Livestock Production Systems.