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18/10/2006
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Students of the first masters in landscaping to graduate at Iberflora
On 19th October Iberflora’06 will host the graduation ceremony for the students of the first Iberflora Masters in Gardening and Landscaping. The teaching staff will also attend the event, as will members of IBERFLORA’s Organising Committee and the Polytechnic University of Valencia. The ceremony will bring the first IBERFLORA University Masters in Gardening and Landscaping programme to a close.
After two years of coursework the 22 students who have completed the two-year training have achieved the academic objectives set at the beginning of the Masters programme programme, the high point of which was an exhibition of their projects in the week of 3rd to 6th October.
This last step in the students’ training experience will constitute the definitive assessment of whether or not the first Masters course has achieved its educational objectives.
Juan José Galán, head of the Masters programme, singled out “the students’ tremendous efforts throughout the two years of the Masters course”, which enabled them to achieve a high degree of professional specialisation.
The projects the students worked on over seven months cover a broad range of subjects
The assessment of the students projects comes after a second year of teaching that was eminently practical and involved putting the theoretical knowledge acquired in the first year into practise. The projects range from the regeneration of places such as Sagunt castle, including studying the landscape and installing gardens, to studying the surroundings of the Albufera, the restoration of the Marjal del Moro and studying the Puçol-Valencia landscape from a moving car.
Launch of the third Masters programme
The IBERFLORA Masters in Gardening and Landscaping begins in October. This will be the third course to run and as it begins it will benefit from the insight afforded by the positive results of previous courses and the feedback from current students.
The third Masters will further establish a project that has received considerable support from the whole industry. What is more, the facility for students who cannot travel to Valencia on a regular basis to nonetheless follow the classes will be offered once more.
The Polytechnic University of Valencia’s Masters in Gardening and Landscaping was created as a joint initiative between Feria Valencia, IBERFLORA and the Comunidad Valenciana Flowers, Plants and Horticultural Technology Association. It was conceived as an academic project designed to provide training in the Planning, Design, Realization, Maintenance, Management, Conservation and Restoration of Public Urban, Rural and Forested Spaces. The course covers the different scales of magnitude and different contexts of such spaces and the architectural, landscape, environmental and social perspectives. The first programme, which coming to its end now, began in October 2004 and has lasted two years.
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(Source: Feria Valencia)
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