Short Master in Assessment Tools to Support Decisions in Land Interventions

The short master provides essential tools and methodologies to support decision-making processes in land interventions. The thematic areas include territorial assessment, planning, environmental management, impact assessment and sustainable design. The aim is to teach how to compare intervention alternatives in a transparent and systematic way, taking environmental, social and economic criteria into account, and to support the choices of administrations, companies and professionals with evidence. The programme highlights how a well-structured decision-making process requires a clear identification of goals, criteria and stakeholders, and how assessment tools make it possible to make the trade-offs between costs, benefits and impacts transparent.

Teaching integrates lectures and applied activities and is held full time and in person in Bari, in Italian. The programme lasts one academic year, referring to 2026/2027. The page does not indicate the total hours, the modules, any internship, the credits or the assessment methods. Enrolment is shown as open for the 2026/2027 academic year and the procedures are carried out online. The applied activities make it possible to practise multi-criteria assessment and impact analysis methods, applying them to concrete cases of land transformation, and to develop the ability to communicate results to decision-makers and citizens, a decisive aspect when choices involve different interests and call for transparent discussion. The applied nature makes it possible to link theory to cases of urban planning, infrastructure and environmental management, so that participants can immediately transfer the methods they have learned to their own professional activity.

The aim is to train professionals able to apply assessment tools to support decisions in territorial contexts. Career opportunities include the public sector, technical consulting, consulting firms, public bodies, land management companies and technical-decision support roles in public administration. The programme is aimed at first- and second-level graduates, including those with a recognised equivalent foreign qualification, in disciplines such as engineering, architecture, planning, economics and environmental sciences, who wish to strengthen their skills in assessment and decision support, with a practical focus applicable to professional practice. It is a useful profile in technical offices, planning bodies and consulting firms that must justify and document their choices, in particular when public funding is involved. Students also learn to document choices and to compare alternatives transparently.