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In order to develop a review on the current higher academic training in groundwater science in Portugal, a comprehensive survey of the national offer of undergraduate, master and postgraduate specialization courses was carried out. This survey consisted of an extensive research on institutional websites and a survey. This allowed the identification of curricular units (common name: discipline) that include significant groundwater topics. An analysis of the obtained data made it possible to recognize that the training offer included a considerable number of courses from science, engineering, technology, health and humanities. Taken globally, the identified curricular units include subjects from probably all scientific and technological areas in which groundwater is subject of study and intervention. Ethics topics have some relevance in the training. It is thus possible to conclude that there is higher education offer in Portugal covering the diverse areas of scientific and professional knowledge on groundwater. Factors other than the unavailability of qualified professionals and scientists with a higher education degree obtained in Portugal with at least some significant knowledge on groundwater, may explain the existing perception that there is a current deficit in the capacity to intervene in relevant matters in which groundwater plays an essential role. |
