PROGRAMME DURATION

The graduate university study programme in Mariculture lasts two years or four semesters (120 ECTS credits).

DEGREE AWARDED

Upon the completion of the graduate programme, students are awarded the academic degree of a Master of Engineering in Mariculture (mag. ing. maricult.).

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Career opportunities in mariculture are diverse and primarily include jobs that are directly related to food production such as farming, maintenance, feeding, catching, transport and similar but also include jobs in fish hatcheries and farms management. Smaller production facilities in mariculture are mostly operated by one expert who is responsible for the entire production process as well as for running the company and its financial operations.

Experiences throughout the world show that experts who have graduated from a mariculture programme get jobs in ancillary activities that provide services to mariculture production, such as procurement of equipment and food, sales of fish and shellfish for consumption as well as in consulting jobs at the entrepreneurial and state level.

Upon graduating from the graduate programme in Mariculture, students will be able to independently work in the jobs mentioned above as well work on introducing new species of marine organisms in the commercial aquaculture production.

Compulsory courses

• Introduction to mariculture
• Mariculture technology
• Sustainable fish farming
• Sustainable Bivalve Molluscs farming
• Diseases of cultivated organism
• Fish nutrition and live feed culture
• Physiology of cultured organisms
• Aquaculture waste management
• Mariculture genetics

Elective courses

• Developmental biology of fish
• Developmental biology of cultured invertebrates
• Multitrophic mariculture
• International business negotiations
• Inovation Management
• Marine stock enhancement
• Reproductive biology of fish

Compulsory courses

• Diversification of mariculture
• Aquaculture food safety
• Practical work and investigation
• Master thesis

Elective courses

• Aquaculture adaptation to global stressors
• Marine biologically active natural products
• Ecological monitoring
• Culture of ornamental species
• Mariculture marketing
• Marine spatial planning
• Ethical and socioeconomic aspects of aquaculture
• Marine and coastal ecosystem services
• Safety at sea
• Natural science research in the Mediterranean

WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT

The University of Dubrovnik has chemical, biological and biotechnological laboratories at its disposal as well as experimental research fish and shellfish hatcheries, breeding parks, vessels and a suitable facility for practical student work in the Bistrina cove (part of the Bay of Mali Ston). Also, the University owns the school research ship ‘Naše more’ (‘Our Sea’), which is used to organize field trips for students so that they become acquainted with research methods at sea.
From the very beginning of their study, students are included in scientific research projects together with their teachers, they participate in projects, scientific conferences and publish papers with the results of their research both domestic and international journals.

OUR FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT

• Two amphitheatres
• 17 lecture theatres
• Five computer laboratories
• One distance lecture theatre
• Chemical laboratory
• Biological laboratory
• Laboratory for mariculture in the Bistrina cove

CONTACT

www.unidu.hr

Email: upisi@unidu.hr

Phone: +385 20 446 028