European union law

The course aims to provide students with the basics of European Union law, especially its institutional part, and to provide knowledge on European Union policies that have a direct impact on mountain areas, namely environmental policy, common agricultural policy and cohesion policy. The course also aims to provide an overview of the regulatory framework, the strategies and the intervention programs that, at European and international level, have been adopted to protect and promote the development of mountain areas, providing tools to critically assess such measures.

At the end of the course, students must have developed their own judgement and be able to critically assess and analyse European and international measures in favour of mountain areas. Students will be also able to properly apply knowledge regarding the legal-legislative framework of mountain territories - dispositions, strategies and intervention programs relating to the sustainable development of these territories derive - to actions and projects for sustainable development, providing technical support for the management of the complexity of these areas.