1. General Information

 

Postgraduate studies in Ecoinformatics strive for top European education and training of staff, who after graduation will be able to meet the needs of industry.

• Name of the proposer: University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Faculty of Information Sciences and Computer Engineering - FINKI
• Name of the study program: academic second cycle studies in Ecoinformatics
• Scientific-research area: technical-technological
• Field: Computer Engineering & Informatics
• Area: eco-informatics
• The value of postgraduate studies is 60 ECTS or 120 ECTS credits .
• Duration of studies: 2 or 4 semesters .
• One academic year consists of two semesters lasting 30 weeks (1 semester = 15 weeks).
• The first semester consists of subjects, while the second has a smaller number of subjects and is reserved for the final project, ie. for the master's thesis.
• Admission Requirements : Completed undergraduate studies in the field of informatics or computer technology and informatics with a minimum of 240 credits. For study directions that carry less than 240 credits, exams offered in the introductory layer are added.
• Introductory layer : Students who have earned less than 240 credits during their studies are offered a set of differential introductory courses. After their successful realization, the student acquires the right to continue with the second year of postgraduate studies.
• First semester: 3 Mandatory courses and 2 electives, one of which may be from the University list.
• Second semester: 1 Mandatory and 1 elective, which can be from the university list (only if in the first semester the subjects are selected at the Faculty level) and a final project of 18 ECTS
• 1 ECTS credit corresponds to 30 hours of total work engagement
• The number of contact hours is 4
• The academic title or degree obtained after graduation is

- Master in Information Science and Computer Engineering in the field of Ecoinformatics

 

 

2. Studies

Table 3: List of Postgraduate Courses

РБ	CODE / Subject	Semester	M / E	ECTS
1	EI-Z-01 Concepts in Eco-informatics	IX	M	6
2	EI-02 Ecological modeling	IX	M	6
3	EI-Z-03 Implementation of Geographic Information Systems	IX	M	6
4	Elective course 1	IX	E	6
5	Elective 2	IX	E	6
6	EI-Z-04 Knowledge Discovery in Environmental data	X	M	6
7	Elective course 3	X	E	6
8	Master Thesis	X	M	18

 

At least one elective should be chosen from the offered electives in Table 4. At most one of the electives can be chosen from the University list of master's degree programs. A maximum of two electives can be selected from the courses offered at the other postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Information Sciences and Computer Engineering.

 

Table 4: Electives

РБ	New Code / Subject		Semester	ECTS
1	EI-I-01   Requirements Analysis in Ecosystem informatics		IX	6
2	EI-I-02   Monitoring and data processing in environmental engineering		IX	6
3	ЕE-E-03   Remote sensing		X	6
4	ЕE-E-04   E-business		IX	6
5	ЕE-E-05   Data visualization		IX	6
6	ЕE-E-06   Digital Marketing		X	6
7	EI-I-07 Advanced Distributed and Parallel Systems		IX	6
8	EI-I-08 Internet Infrastructure Management		IX	6
9	ЕE-E-09   Smart Sensor Networks		X	6
10	IT-I-10   Network Virtualization and Cloud Computing		X	6
11	IT-I-11   Data Science		IX	6
12	IS-I-04   Mobile web services		IX	6
13	ПС-E-08   Linked Open Data		X	6
14	PS-I-07   IoT for Environmental Systems		IX	6

 

The student can choose a subject from the list of offered elective courses from all study programs of the second cycle of studies. The list of offered electives can be found on this   link .