European and International Degree of Excellence,

The Erasmus Mundus Master  in Sustainable Territorial Development

The territorialization of public policies invites civil actors to participate in local development. The imperative of sustainability is displayed in the main orientations of local authorities. The obligation to encourage the local competitiveness incites the territory to become the conductor of its own development. Economic globalization makes, in multiple forms and to varying degrees, local communities globalized and multicultural.
How to articulate local sustainability, which has meaning only in the overall sustainability, local competitiveness, which requires cross sectorial synergies, social solidarity, which requires a national regulatory framework, the global economic system, which reconstructs the actors, borders and markets, and multicultural societies, which interculturalize sustainable development ?  
We have  to  allow the local to get a major role in economic and international conceptions of sustainability. Sustainability is  to be led  for the globalized world but the local is the actor for its implementation.

To address these challenges, the Erasmus Mundus Master in Sustainable Territorial Development, is jointly issued after two-year course in an interdisciplinary program  taught in English or/and French by the Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy) and  K.U.Leuven (Belgium) during the two first semesters (Master 1) and by the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne  (France) and Universidade Católica Dom Bosco (MS-Brazil) during the two last semesters (Master 2).
The Erasmus Mundus Master concerns the economic competitiveness, social inclusion,  environmental protection, international cooperation  and intercultural relation  challenges of territorial development focusing not only on local communities, but also on enterprises, non-state actors and civil society organizations acting in the territory.

Admission to this European and international course is open to students of all countries with a first level degree (Bachelor's level degree or an equivalent diploma). Students are trained to be professionals and experts able to help organizations that deal with sustainability in practice to draft sustainable development policies for economic, social, environmental, international and intercultural management.
The multi-level approach incorporates local as well as global sustainability and contributes to the involvement of all actors, intra and extra muros, acting in the territory and to their cooperation to implement sustainability.

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