This doctoral programme is promoted by the "Global Change and Heritage" Training and Research Unit, made up of three research groups of excellence: IBeA (Analytical Research and Innovation), HGI (Hydrogeology-Geotechnics-Environment) and GPAC (Built Heritage), plus other researchers from the UPV/EHU (Restoration, Architecture and Plant Biology), the Institute of Heritage Sciences - Incipit (CSIC) and the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Landscape.
The doctoral programme forms part of the high-level training commitments in Heritage and Landscape that the Basque Government acquired on joining the European Landscape Convention (Council of Europe on 19th July 2000 and signed by the member states in Florence on 20th October 2000). To do so, it tackles the different research lines in an inter-disciplinary manner based on projects with high social impact (Galerías de Punta Begoña, Valle Salado de Añana, Zona Minera, etc.), in which the doctoral degree students participate.