Uniadrion

Master in Economics for a Sustainable Transport Development (MAEST)

The MaEST is intended to face the topic of a sustainable transport development in the Adriatic-Ionian basin also through the creation of an academic consortium among Universities and Research Institutes of the Adriatic-Ionian Initiative Member States. The problem is tackled mainly in its economic dimension, but taking into consideration also technical and legal features, according to an interdisciplinary approach connecting all the different aspects of sustainable development

Course Description

With the “Master’s Programme in Economy for a Sustainable Transport Development”, UniAdrion - Working Group n.4 intend to sensitise public authorities and private operators in the region, making them aware about environmental and economic subjects, so that they will be able to endow the territory with economically and environmentally sustainable transport systems. In particular, national and international economic policies for transport and the environment can promote development joining economic efficiency issues and protective measures for the natural and cultural resources of the region, through the exploitation of modern technologies, especially those involving information science, telecommunication and transport (Intelligent Transport Systems). Managing, both at local and national level, such important policy measures, requires the Institutions to constantly train people coming from the entrusted technical-administrative cadres in issues of transport planning inland and along the coast, with a simultaneously theoretical and hands-on approach. In this context, special attention has to be focused on the peculiarity of the Adriatic-Ionian Initiative for what regards the process of the European Integration of some of its Member States and neighbouring countries. Practitioners dealing with transport issues, both in the public and in the private sector, should be aware of European Community policies and programmes, and also European financial support instruments (e.g. TEN Programme, R&D Framework Programme, INTERREG) and fund-raising possibilities in this specific field for the Adriatic-Ionian region.

Target audience

Target participants of this course are mainly graduate students coming from All Member States who intend to take offices related to planning and management transport systems at various levels within Local and National Institutions (Regions, Provinces, Port Authorities, Public Companies, International entrusted structures, Governmental and non- Governmental agencies, Research Institutes and Universities, and private engineering and consulting consortia). Moreover, MaEST students would have to be able, at the end of this post-graduate experience, also to tackle some practical project ideas developed within UniAdrion Working Group n.4. Training a ruling class and, generally, competent people, aware of European political and economic scenarios, could determine a dragging solution of “old” unsolved problems, i.e. feasibility of the Adriatic Ionian Corridor, as well as it could answer future needs, i.e. updating of the scheduled land planning where there are risks of seriously compromising the environment and the receptive capacity of the existing infrastructures, studies of new road/rail links in order to avoid, in a close future, the congestion of freight and passenger traffic in the existing network, especially coming from the South-East region and Turkey, further to the EU enlargement process.