Faculty of Tropical AgriScience

Basic information

Global Forestry (GloFor) is a two-year English language world-class Erasmus Mundus MSc programme that prepares graduates to deal with forestry’s tremendous contemporary challenges and potentials in medium and low-income countries.

A consortium of five European Universities with extensive experience in global forestry offers the programme:

CZU: Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Prague (Czech Republic) CZU
AgroTech Paris: Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences (AgroParisTech), Montpellier and Kourou campuses (France)
TUD: Technische Universität, Dresden, Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products, (Germany)
UCPH: University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics (Denmark)
UP: University of Padua, School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine (Italy)

Academic programme and structure

The GLOFOR EMJM comprises a first year of study with a joint first semester (30 ECTS) at UCPH followed by a second semester (30 ETCS) at either TUD or UP. For the second year of studies (60 ECTS), each student chooses a specialisation to be completed at either of the five partner Universities:

People and Forests (UCPH);
Actor-centred Governance (TUD);
Social and Environmental Responsibility (UP);
Agroforestry Systems and Biodiversity (CZU);
Tropical Forest Ecology (AgroParisTech).

You can find detail information about about study program, courses, admission procedures, students life: Global Forestry MSc