New International Forest Challenges

Code:

SIC3001

Acronym:

SIC3001

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Forestry and hunting

Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Biology
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Forest Engineering and Biotechnology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
L:EBF	3	Official Study Plan	3	-	3	21	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Integrate the student in forest issues in an international context, identifying some of the main challenges that forests face.
Identify opportunities for the valorization and management of the forest and its resources through various examples around the world, especially in the European continent.
Acquire dialogue skills, using foreign languages as a working tool in an international context.

Learning outcomes and competences

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

na

Program

The contents vary from academic year to academic year, identifying a teacher/researcher in the area of Biotechnology and Forestry Engineering who works and studies on current topics of particular relevance for the forestry sector and rural territories.
It is important each year to identify key themes of general concern that can be further explored through contact with realities outside the country (climate change, water management, sustainability, new technologies, precision forestry, among others).

Mandatory literature

Thompson, I., Mackey, B., McNulty, S., Mosseler, A. (; Forest Resilience, Biodiversity, and Climate Change. A synthesis of the biodiversity/resilience/stability relationship in forest ecosystems., 2009

Complementary Bibliography

David M. Hillis, H. Craig Heller, Sally D. Hacker, David W. Hall, Marta J. Laskowski, David Sadava; LIFE - The Science of Biology, 2020

Comments from the literature

The study materials will be provided by the instructors of the course.

Teaching methods and learning activities

The teaching activity will take place in the B-learning format, ensuring support in face-to-face teaching sessions and in synchronous sessions in the distance learning modality, in which the teacher(s) and students work together at a predefined schedule. This teaching approach will be complemented by asynchronous activities, allowing for flexible, independent work by the studentes at their own chosen times.

B-Learning will be favoured to facilitate the contact between students and different universities, especially throughout
Europe or the Mediterranean area. Bibliographic research complements the moments of contact with the foreign
lecturer/researcher and is essential to deepen content. Active learning methods are used based on hands-on and project-based learning, inviting student participation and intervention and promoting creativity in the search for solutions.
Once the topic has been proposed and validated, the progress of the work is supervised by the teacher(s) to monitor its
development and intervene with clarifications, incentives or recommendations to support learning. This component is
carried out in face-to-face and distance learning with three intermediate moments of reflection and comment on the
development of the work in a feedback dynamic.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	30,00
Trabalho escrito	70,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	3,00
Elaboração de projeto	12,00
Frequência das aulas	6,00
Total:	21,00

Eligibility for exams

Those defined in the regulations of the institutions involved regarding attendance.

Calculation formula of final grade

In the continuous assessment mode, a project is planned with three assessment moments:
a) Oral presentation of the selected topic and planning of the work to be developed (scheduled date October 23);
b) Preliminary version, with a summary of the work carried out (due November 20);
c) Final presentation in oral form and submission of a monograph (around 20 pages) (due January 8).
The weights for calculating the final grade are 10% for a), 20% for b) and 70% for c). In component c), 10% corresponds to the oral presentation, 10% to the discussion, and 50% to the written work in a monograph.

Examinations or Special Assignments

na