The course covers the main aspects of digital water resource management at the catchment scale. The course aims to train the learner on the following topics:
• regulatory aspects of water resources management;
• the use of hydrological modelling software;
• the use of hydraulic modelling software to assess the hydraulic characteristics of a free-flowing stream.

Knowledge and understanding
The course aims to develop students' knowledge and understanding skills, such as:
• knowledge and understanding skills in a field of study at a level that is characterised by the use of advanced textbooks and also includes knowledge of some cutting-edge topics in the field of watershed managment;
• ability to understand and hydrological data.

Applied knowledge and understanding
The course will enable them to apply knowledge by demonstrating adequate understanding, enabling them, for example:
• to apply their knowledge and understanding in a way that demonstrates a professional approach to their work, as well as adequate skills to both devise and support arguments to solve problems in the field of watershed managment;
• ability to collect and analyse hydrological data.

Making judgements
The course will allow the development of independent judgement at various levels, such as
• hypothesising which causes most influence the occurrence of hydrogeological instability phenomena using one-dimensional hydraulic modelling software;
• propose solutions for the mitigation of hydrogeological instability phenomena using one-dimensional hydraulic modelling software.

Communication skills
Attending lectures and/or making independent use of the material provided will facilitate the development and application of communication skills, such as:
• ability to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions, on the topics covered, to specialist and non-specialist people;
• use an appropriate and up-to-date technical vocabulary in the field of hydrological-hydraulic modelling.

Learning skills
Attending lectures and/or making independent use of the material provided will facilitate the consolidation of one's learning skills, enabling one to, for example:
• activate a programme of continuous updating of one's knowledge;
• autonomously identify ways of acquiring information;
• identify and use the most useful sources of information for personal updating.
This learning capacity will be fundamental for undertaking subsequent studies with a high degree of autonomy.