PlantHealth provides the competencies necessary to work in sustainable plant health management:
- A sound theoretical background,
- The ability to apply their knowledge,
- The skills to act at international level,
- The cultural awareness required in a globalised world.
Successful graduates will be able to apply to high-level PhD programmes or pursue a career in the practical plant health sector.
The first year (60 ECTS)
The aim of the first year is to provide basic knowledge on crop protection, farming systems and agronomy, ecology, population genetics and dynamics, statistics and experimental design and molecular biology.
You can spend the first year in either UPV or UGOE. All these courses are taught in English:
M1 First semester
- Sustainable farming systems (4.5 ECTS)
- Agricultural Botany (4.5 ECTS)
- Data acquisition, analyses, and scientific methods in life sciences (6 ECTS)
- Biodiversity conservation (4.5 ECTS)
- Adaptation to climate change in agroecosystems (4.5 ECTS)
- Molecular techniques in Plant Protection (3 ECTS)
- Population genetics (3 ECTS)
- Languages (3 ECTS)
M1 Second Semester
- Weed Biology (4.5 ECTS)
- Applied Entomology (6 ECTS)
- Plant Pathology (6 ECTS)
- Physiological responses of plants to pathogens and pests (4.5 ECTS)
- Population Genetics (3 ECTS)
- Molecular techniques in Plant Protection (3 ECTS)
- Internship (6 ECTS)
M1 First semester
- Agrifood economics and policy (8 ECTS)
- Sustainable agriculture (6 ECTS)
- Advanced statistics (5 ECTS)
- Integrated management of arthropod pests (6 ECTS)
- Language course (1 ECTS)
M1 Second Semester
- Precision farming (8 ECTS)
- Agricultural management of biogeochemical cycles (8 ECTS)
- Soil microbiology (6 ECTS)
- Plant breeding (8 ECTS)
- Research training (internship) (4 ECTS)
The second year (60 ECTS)
In the second year, students must select one of the four specialization itineraries in Germany, Spain, Italy or France.
A distinctive feature of the second-year course is the close cooperation with industry and interacting within active learning environments.
All the M2 courses are taught in English EXCEPT the ones offered by the French universities of the Consortium.
Specialization: Temperate crops, arable crops and crops for energy
M2 YEAR
- Molecular Diagnostic and Biotechnology in Crop Protection (6ECTS/C)
- Interactions between plants and pathogens (6ECTS/S)
- Pesticides - Mode of Action and Application Techniques in Plant Health Management (6ECTS/C)
- Plant Virology (6ECTS)/C
- Mycology (6ECTS/C)
- Ecotoxicological Risk Assessment for Plant Protection Products (3ECTS/S)
- Plant-Herbivore Interactions (6ECTS/C)
- Languages (6ECTS/C)
Detail of the courses: C = compulsory; S = selective/optional
Specialization: Mediterranean crops: vegetable crops in greenhouses, citrus and fruit crops
M2 YEAR
- Identification and monitoring of pests and beneficials (3 ECTS)
- Disease epidemiology (3 ECTS)
- Biological control of pests, pathogens and weeds (3 ECTS)
- Pesticides and other pest control measures (3 ECTS)
- IPM in Mediterranean vegetables and ornamentals (6ECTS)
- IPM in Mediterranean fruit crops (6ECTS)
- IPM in practice: implementation, assessment and evaluation (3ECTS)
- Languages (3 ECTS)
Specialization: Temperate fruit crops, ornamental woody plants in a landscape perspective
M2 YEAR
- Biotechnology for plant protection (6 ECTS)
- Sustainable use of pesticides (6 ECTS)
- IPM of pathogens of fruit crops in temperate climate (5 ECTS)
- IPM of pests of fruit crops and woody ornamentals in temperate climate (6 ECTS)
- Management of native and non-native pests in the landscape (6 ECTS)
- Language Course (1 ECTS)
L’Institut Agro and AgroParisTech
Specialization: tropical crops, horticultural and vegetable crops in the open field, annual field crops, and Mediterranean vineyards
This course is taught in French. Students will have access to a Summer Module (July-August) that includes an intensive French language course and plant health workshops.
M2 YEAR
- Tool modules: French Language for Foreigners and Statistics (2ECTS)
- Biodiversity and biotic regulations (plant pathology/entomology/acarology/weeds) (5ECTS)
- IPM in tropical crops (2ECTS)
- IPM in temperate productions (Parcel diagnosis, modelling in populations dynamics and epidemiology, population genetics) (5ECTS)
- Agro-Ecology in plant protection: Concepts and applications of pest management in agro-ecology (5ECTS)
- Integrated Crop Strategies (integrated crop protection, applied epidemiology and risk analysis, insects’ chemical ecology, environmental public politics and regulation) (5 ECTS)
- Integrative project: internship and integrative projects (6ECTS)
Master thesis (30 ECTS)
The students dedicate the 4th semester to their MSc Thesis.
During the master thesis period, PlantHealth students have the chance to apply their scientific basis in life sciences and the skills and methodology learnt during the master to do research or implement sustainable plant health strategies in an applied approach.
The Master thesis can be carried out anywhere in the world and are supervised by the M2 university.
A list of Master thesis completed is available here