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Description of the title
Forest fires are no longer just a constant disturbance in our ecosystems, but have become a civil protection problem with serious socioeconomic repercussions. Climate change and the progressive abandonment of the territory in rural areas are generating increasingly complex and dangerous scenarios, producing emergencies whose management requires a greater number of specialized professionals. MásterFuego has been taught since the 2012-13 academic year. It was discontinued in the 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years due to a period of reform.
The 2022-23 academic year begins the second edition with the participation of three universities: University of León, Universitat de Lleida and Universitat Politècnica de València. The University of Vigo is a collaborating university. During the 7 academic years of the first edition, 216 students were enrolled. This increased specialization covers the handling of specific advanced technologies, knowledge of pyroecology, acquisition of skills to perform complex analysis of fire behavior, specialized training for the professionalization of the different positions of the Emergency Management Systems, knowledge of the legislative and planning structure both state and autonomous, mastery of the different information management tools or research in the different areas related to fires. Specialists, in short, in the different fields of integrated management of current forest fires.
Objectives of the degree
To provide comprehensive training in the field of forest fires (prevention and extinction) to future professionals who are already working or are planning to work in the future in this field at local, regional, state, continental or global level.
Career opportunities
This program offers a variety of career opportunities in the field of fire and forest management.
- Technical personnel of emergency services that include fire within their scope of action.
- Forest management professionals at all levels who need to reinforce their fire knowledge to include fire prevention and increase the resilience of forest stands within applied forest management.
- Professionals dedicated to cooperation and related international organizations.
- Technological companies providing services and machinery specially designed to prevent and extinguish fires.
- Researchers and trainers in this field.
Aimed primarily at
This program is designed for a variety of profiles seeking to specialize in forest fire management.
- Master’s level students.
- Junior and intermediate professionals who need to reinforce their theoretical and applied knowledge in forest fires.
- Responsible for emergency services involved in fire management.
- Responsible for forest management in areas with high fire risk.
Structure of the master’s degree
Credits: 90 ECTS
Mandatory:50 ects |Electives:17.5 ects |External internships:10.5 ects |Final Master’s thesis (TFM):12 ects
Module 1. Forest Fire Management and Technologies :50 ects mandatory
Subject:Fundamentals of forest fires
Minimum credits: 15 | Character: Mandatory
Subject:Forest fire risk and prevention
Minimum credits: 15 | Character: Mandatory
Subject:Forest fire emergency management
Minimum credits: 10 | Character: Mandatory
Subject:Fire extinguishing
Minimum credits: 10 | Character: Mandatory
Module 2. Management of resources and techniques in emergencies :17.5 ects electives
Subject:Operational management
Minimum credits: 15 | Character: Elective
Subject:Forest fire defense planning
Minimum credits: 10 | Character: Elective
Subject:Forest fire research and cooperation
Minimum credits: 10 | Character: Elective
Module 3. Internships :10.5 ects compulsory external practice
Subject:Internships
Minimum credits: 10.5 | Character: Compulsory External Practice
Note: In this subject a maximum of 10.5 ECTS in external curricular internships can be carried out (the syllabus contemplates a maximum of 10.5 ECTS for external curricular internships).
Module 4. Master’s Thesis :12 ects final degree project
Subject:Master’s Thesis
Minimum credits: 12 | Character: Final Degree Project
Internships
Internships can be carried out during the period of study of this Master’s Degree up to a total of 10.5 ECTS.
Research and access to Ph.
The TFM required in this Master may have a more research or planning orientation to be determined between the student and the tutor professor and subject to the approval of the Academic Committee of the degree. It is the academic requirement for access to the doctorate.
Academic exchange / agreements with other universities
This degree has access to academic exchange with the universities that the ETSIAMN/UPV has agreements with.
Facilities and laboratories
The laboratories of the different departments involved in teaching are fully available for the practices of this Master (Physics, Rural and Agrifood Engineering, Plant Production, Hydraulics and Environment and Projects). In addition, the computer classrooms are key to the practices of this Master’s Degree.
Master’s Thesis
A TFM is mandatory to complete this degree, with a weight of 12 ECTS.
Collaborating companies and more
There is a list of collaborating companies that is being updated.
