Diploma
International at
Equine Production

2025

Be part of a unique training experience in Latin America!

e-quine Academy and partner institutions offer a postgraduate Higher Diploma of a purely professional nature focused on strengthening multidisciplinary training on international equine production.

Date

March 2025

Estimated Time

220 hours

Duration

8 Months

Language

Spanish

Modality

50% Virtual | 50% Classroom

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What do we propose?

The diploma program offers a multidisciplinary training program, designed to reduce the learning curve for those professionals who have recently graduated or have only a few years of experience and are looking to enter the job market or take their skills to the next level.

Study from
anywhere

Our program combines face-to-face and virtual modalities, allowing you to study and train in a specific area of knowledge from anywhere in the world.

Critical Contents
in Equine Production

Facility design and management, biosecurity, forage production, feeding, training programs, reproductive management, and reproductive biotechnologies.

Teachers of
International renown

More than 60 professors from 11 countries will share their experience and knowledge in specific classes on critical points of equine production.

Balance between theory and practice

The program is divided into 50% theoretical (virtual) and 50% practical, with practices in farms and real production systems in Argentina.

Live Consultations and Discussions

We offer online meeting and discussion spaces with experts for an interactive and enriching learning experience.

Secure your place in this program
unique in Latin America.

Frequently Asked Questions

    • e-quine Academy
    • Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of Unilasallista Corporación Universitaria, Medellín, Colombia.
    • Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires.
    • Argentine Equine Veterinary Foundation

1. Generate a program for the transfer of knowledge, experiences, procedures and technologies that provide training in the area of Equine Production labor competence.

2. To offer formal and controlled training based on a map of competencies, skills and knowledge that will allow the professional activity to be exercised in a more competent, active, critical and suitable way in the horse production and industry.

Develop knowledge and skills to:

To contribute to preserve the health and welfare of the animals through the application of management methods and procedures coming from the empirical knowledge generated by dozens of years of practice and also scientific/technological knowledge coming from formal systems of knowledge generation on the multiple areas of equine production.

2. To adequately manage reproductive management programs and the application of assisted reproduction techniques.

3. Design, manage and control the different phases of equine breeding, care, dressage and training.

4. Design and plan appropriate equine facilities and biosecurity programs.

5. Properly manage feeding and nutrition in pastoral and confinement systems.

6. Identify and be able to analyze the basis and applications of genetic improvement programs.

7. Improve the environmental performance of the facility through sustainable and environmentally friendly practices, such as waste management and efficient use of resources.

8. Manage the operation and performance of a company that breeds and/or cares for equines.

9. Appropriately convey information and work collaboratively with other professionals and individuals or teams involved in equine care and management.

To professional Veterinarians, Animal Husbandry Engineers and Agricultural Engineers, ideally with work experience in equines, who wish to deepen and update their knowledge in the area of equine production.

The course load will be 210/220 hours, equivalent to 11 credits (20 hours per credit) distributed in 25 weeks, with an average weekly load of 4.5 hours (not including practical modules).

The course is scheduled to begin on March 15, 2025 and to end on October 1 of the same year. These dates are preliminary and indicative and are subject to minor changes.

Those who have obtained a university degree in Veterinary Medicine, Animal Husbandry Engineering, Agricultural Engineering or their equivalents may apply for this Higher Diploma. Those interested must submit the following documentation:

  • Copy of degree certificate (not necessary to be legalized)
  • Presentation note indicating interest in pursuing the degree, including a brief description of your area of work.
  • Updated Curriculum Vitae ( no more than 5 pages)
  • Digital delivery of a signed copy of the Diploma Regulations (which can be downloaded from this site) as proof of notification and acceptance of the regulations and conditions of the course and approval.

There is a quota of 25 people for the diploma course.

  • The modality will be semipresential.
  • The Diploma will be established in an integral way around curricular axes, with their equivalence in hours for courses, seminars, internships and final work.
  • The diploma will have a semi-flexible curriculum and will have compulsory and elective courses, which will be taught only once per cohort. will be taught only once per cohort..
  • Students must take 200 total hours of courses. Of these, 160 hours will correspond to mandatory courses and 40 hours to elective courses.
  • The courses will have a theoretical and a practical part and will be grouped into two thematic modules.
  • Theoretical and theoretical/practical classes will be taught 100% virtually. Some will be given in real time (online -synchronous-) and others in offline format (previously recorded classes -asynchronous-). Those taught in real time will be recorded and will remain available on the platform during the course of the diploma course.
  • Upon completion of the theoretical and theoretical/practical classes and after passing the partial evaluations of each module, the practical part will be taught 100% in person. It will be carried out in two instances of 5 consecutive intensive days each. They will include visits to different production systems, hospitals and laboratories, as well as the application of techniques and procedures on animals. The practices of all the theoretical courses taken in the previous module will be carried out in these 5 consecutive intensive days (50 hours).
  • Teachers will be able to select the support material they consider relevant for their classes. This content will be uploaded to the platform and shared with the students of the course.
  • On the digital platform, a system for virtual consultation will be made available to students in live and offline mode, to allow students to resolve doubts or concerns.

All courses will have complementary material, both bibliographic and video interviews (podcast) with professionals in topics related to the module, but basically the results of personal experiences.

The means of communication between the coordination of the diploma course and the students will be through the e-quine ACADEMY platform(e-quine.net). It will offer both theoretical and consultation classes as well as support and complementary material.

The practical classes will take place in different farms located in the area of San Antonio de Areco, Argentina. They will include visits to different production systems (intensive, semi-intensive, exclusive, mixed, of different breeds and scales), hospitals and laboratories, as well as the application of techniques and procedures on animals.

During the 5 days of the internship, all members of the Diploma will travel for visits (at least two hatcheries per day) only in a vehicle provided by e-quine ACADEMY, for exclusive use and with the required insurance.

The arrival to the town of San Antonio de Areco, located 113 km from the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the date and time set for the beginning of the internship will be the responsibility and responsibility of each person taking the Diploma.

– Lodging will be suggested by the organization so that, as far as possible, everyone will be accommodated in the same place. Attendance must be confirmed in order to make the pertinent reservations. Lodging and meal costs will be the responsibility of each person.

– The detailed program of each module will be sent to everyone by e-mail one month in advance. The dates of the practices are chosen to occur outside and within the breeding season in Argentina so that different contexts, animal categories and procedures can be analyzed.

– The material that each student will review, based on a worksheet that will be provided, will be the basis for the final individual work required for the approval of the Diploma.

Courses

  • All courses have an instance of competency verification.
  • Verification of competencies of the theoretical sessions will be carried out virtually. Those related to the practical sessions, in a face-to-face environment.
  • Each course will award a certificate of approval.

Final integrative work

  • The final work is individual and mandatory to fulfill the requirements of the Diploma. It consists of a work of analysis of all the real productive systems that were visited in the two practical instances and the contents of the theoretical classes developed during the course. Each student will have a personal tutor for consultation and guidance in the preparation and presentation processes. Personal tutors will be assigned at the beginning of the course, determined by e-quine ACADEMY. The final work must be presented in writing and must be presented orally virtually (online) within a maximum time of 40 minutes.

In order to obtain the Diploma in Equine Production, the following must be completed:

  • A minimum of 80% attendance to theoretical classes and 100% attendance to practical classes.
  • Approval of all the curricular areas and the final integrated work.