1. Concepts, theories and trends related with Sustainability Assessment (SA).
2. Understanding of the main SA tools, at strategic (policies, plans and programmes) and project level, in particular Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), Health Impact Assessment (HIA), Social Impact Assessment (SIA), on different aspects: conceptual, ethical, legal, methodological, technical and scientific, administrative and decision-making.
3. Exploring the role of SA in the assessment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals implementation and follow-up at different scales.
4. Training of specific EIA and SEA techniques, with emphasis on those that invoke different domains of knowledge.
5. Understanding and resolution of practical EIA problems by simulating professional practice.
6. Ability to use EIA and SEA as decision support tools, respectively for projects and for policies, plans and programmes (PPP).