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Biotechnology

Bachelor Degree
L-2
In presence
Planned
No
  • Aberdeen (GB)
  • Aveiro (PT)
  • Bonn (DE)
  • Innsbruck (AT)
  • Kingston (GB)
  • Oviedo (ES)

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What is the objective of the course? What is it?
What does it train you for?

Biotechnology is a three-year degree course for a total of 180 ECTS. Main objective: Prepare students with high technical and behavioural knowledge and skills relevant for a modern study and research methodology, immediately usable in different fields of work. Training course:

  • frontal teaching activities in different field of biotechnology;
  • practical laboratory activity.
Students of the Biotechnology Degree Course will acquire:
  • ability to continuously update their knowledge in the sector of Biotechnology, characterized by rapid increase in scientific knowledge, including economic ethical and legislative knowledge, also related to the use of biotechnological products;
  • cognitive and technical skills and tools for the theoretical-experimental study of biological phenomena;
  • technical skills relevant for the study of molecular, cellular and tissutal processes;
  • ability to apply the acquired biotechnological knowledge in the industrial, biomedical and agri-food sectors.

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What do you learn?

  • Know and interpret, in a molecular and cellular key, biological systems;
  • apply protocols related to biotechnological productions;
  • design, develop and analyse biotechnological experiments.
The Student, thank to training activities to choose and  to the acquisition of other knowledge useful in the world of work, could be focus its knowledge on specific aspects of Biotechnology. Before obtaining the degree, the student will carry out an internship training at Industries, Affiliated companies or laboratories, at the University Research Laboratories, or abroad at Universities and Research Centres.

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What can you do with it?

Operational and managerial roles in medical, agricultural and pharmaceutical research fields, in bio-industrial production and in transformation processes. They can continue their studies in the Master's Degree Courses of the class LM7, Agricultural Biotechnology, LM8, Industrial Biotechnology and LM6 - Biology. In particular, they can find work in:

  • Universities and other public and private research institutes;
  • Biotechnological, agri-food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetology industries;
  • Research laboratories;
  • Laboratories and public and private diagnostic service providers;
  • Disseminators as freelance journalists, according to Law 148/2011.