Doctoral Program in Sustainable Human Development – SHD
The International Doctoral Program in Sustainable Human Development (SHD) is an agreement between the University General Sarmiento (Argentina), the University of Sancti Spiritus (Cuba), the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy), the National University of Nicaragua in Managua (Nicaragua), and the International School of Knowledge, Innovations, Policies and territorial practices for the United Nations Millennium Platform (KIP). It is foreseeable that other Universities, Municipalities and NGOs will join this network in the future.
Focus areas of the Doctoral Program will be:
Culture, consciousness, and co-evolution
Science, technology, and society
Project planning and management for human development
The Doctoral Program aims to provide an overview of the challenges that any professional, acting as an agent of change, should know to face an interconnected world in rapid transformation, both in the formulation of policies for sustainable human development and in their management at local, national and global levels. The Program also seeks to fill a gap in the international literature related to innovative and intercultural aspects of aid, international partnership, and local development.
Focus areas of the Doctoral Program will be:
Culture, consciousness, and co-evolution
- Epistemology of design intervention
- Pedagogy of human development
- Theory and practice of ethics in interventions for human development
- Sustainability
- Intercultural and interdisciplinary co-operation
- Inclusion, empowerment and participation of local actors
- Human rights and development: critical perspectives
- Change agentry
- Mediation
Science, technology, and society
- Research methodology
- Social policies
- Social movements
- Communication of ideas
- Critical perspective of governmental design financing lines
- Politics and theory of human development
- Transferability of knowledge and technology
Project planning and management for human development
- Health and local human development
- Food safety and human development
- Human resources and financial management in international projects
- Renewable energy and human development
- Disaster prevention and emergency management
- Interface of design intervention and local institutions and governments
- Innovation and local human development
- Impact evaluation of projects
The Doctoral Program aims to provide an overview of the challenges that any professional, acting as an agent of change, should know to face an interconnected world in rapid transformation, both in the formulation of policies for sustainable human development and in their management at local, national and global levels. The Program also seeks to fill a gap in the international literature related to innovative and intercultural aspects of aid, international partnership, and local development.