UAlg strengthens its involvement in MIPMAL at the University of Split

Paulo Santos, MIPMAL Academic Coordinator at UAlg, attended the event in Split to welcome the new students, deliver teaching activities and participate in the programme's in-person coordination meeting, which brought together representatives from the partner universities.

Spanning two years and 120 ECTS credits, MIPMAL is taught entirely in English and jointly delivered by the Universities of Cádiz, Gdańsk, Malta, Split and Algarve. The programme includes 12 months of compulsory international mobility, allowing students to study at different universities and experience diverse European academic environments.

In Split, the new students took part in the Welcome Day, which marked the beginning of the programme's second edition and provided an opportunity to become acquainted with MIPMAL and the international SEA-EU academic community. As part of the teaching activities, Paulo Santos also contributed to Module 1.1 – Introduction to MIPMAL, delivering a lecture entitled “Port community in Portugal: From cargo ports to fishing ports”, which explored the Portuguese port sector and the specific characteristics of commercial and fishing ports.

Designed to provide advanced education in port management and maritime logistics, MIPMAL covers areas such as port operations and services, economics and logistics, port law and digitalisation. During the final semester, students can choose between a research-oriented pathway and a more professionally focused pathway combining an internship and a master's dissertation. Developed in collaboration with port authorities across SEA-EU territories, the programme seeks to align academic training with the sector's current challenges, including sustainable transport systems, digital transformation and the energy transition.

Among the students enrolled in the second edition of MIPMAL is Francisco Gil, a Portuguese student from the Azores, who highlights the opportunity to deepen his knowledge in a sector of strategic importance to Portugal while gaining exposure to different European port environments. According to Francisco, “the opportunity to discover new cities, cultures and different port environments is one of the aspects that appeals to me most, allowing me to gain a broader perspective and knowledge that would be difficult to acquire solely within a national context.” He also emphasises the programme's well-structured organisation and considers its international approach a significant added value to his academic and professional development.

UAlg's participation in Split also included the MIPMAL coordination meeting, which focused on reviewing the programme's first edition and planning its next stages. Particular attention was given to the future development of the master's programme, including the assessment of the 2026 application and preparations for a new Erasmus Mundus proposal under the 2027 call for applications.

Participation in this meeting further strengthened UAlg's commitment to developing joint international educational opportunities within SEA-EU, not only through student mobility but also through the active involvement of its academic staff in teaching, academic coordination, and the development of joint programmes among the Alliance's partner universities.

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