Organisation

Admission

The Postgraduate Specialisation Course caters for a maximum of 30 participants satisfying the following conditions:

a) University degree, preferably in horticulture, agronomy, agricultural industry or food technology. For those participants who have not had previous training in agricultural economics, an obligatory introductory course on the subject will be held during January-February 2008.

b) Proficiency in Spanish, which will be the working language of the course. For those candidates admitted whose first language is not Spanish, courses to perfect their knowledge will be organised from June to September in 2007 and then will continue during the specialisation course. The Instituto Cervantes (http://www.cervantes.es) has a virtual classroom to teach Spanish through the internet. Information can be obtained at http://ave.cervantes.es, available in several languages.

c) Reading knowledge of English, necessary to follow part of the material distributed during the course.

The admission of professionals from the sector as participants in given modules, once the programme has commenced, should be approved by the Director of the course upon proposal from the coordinator of the corresponding area.