On 14 June the first talk of the cycle of Territory Talks – Talks about the Territory’s Future(s) took place.
The first guest was the Economist and Foresight Specialist José Félix Ribeiro and was moderated by Professors Luís Ramos and Lívia Madureira.
The aim is, over the coming months, to launch the challenge of outlining a prospective vision of the territories, to a number of personalities, researchers and civil society itself.
It is available online at: https://youtu.be/-XviMNnKG6Q
CETRAD organised an Open Class entitled The Various Dynamics in Rural Well-being Research on the 27th of January at UTAD. The session clarified what the multifaceted concept of well-being means and explained why it is an important policy focus today. The speakers from CETRAD’s Data for Low-density (D4LD) project discussed the state of the art…
Two researchers from CETRAD participated in the University of Stavanger “Design Thinking for Transdisciplinary Research” course, aiming to implement methods for creative problem-solving geared towards fostering innovation by harnessing designers’ sensibility and methods. Through ‘frame creation’, Design Thinking (DT) seeks problem-solving by deeply understanding contextual values and themes related to tradition and innovation, paving the…
On May 31st, The Centre of Transdisciplinary Development Studies (CETRAD) at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), organized a workshop on the implementation of transdisciplinary approaches to rural development. Several Ph.D. students, postdocs and university professors from different backgrounds participated in a discussion. Lívia Madureira, Professor at UTAD and Director of CETRAD, opened…
Through a recent collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and SpaceX, a team of researchers, led by Dr Judith-Irina Buchheim from the University of Munich, has had its research proposal approved for the ‘Fram2’ mission. This mission, which includes the despatch of a Dragon capsule, will enable the collection of crucial data by the…
The recording of the 12th GEIT session is now on air. It can be viewed at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6M2CvaQH6U.We would like to remind you that, at this meeting, we welcomed Dr Diego Hernando Florez Ayala, a researcher from UNIVALI, Santa Catarina, Brazil, a member of the ‘Transitions in Latin America and the Caribbean’ group,…
On the 12th April, within the framework of CETRAD’s 20th anniversary celebrations, the Tourism and Sustainability research group CETRAD will organise a session on Tourism and Sustainable development in low density territories. Morning session: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/94463899479?pwd=dXcrdk9tckwrYkszS21keUlYeWpaUT09Afternoon session: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/91212926294?pwd=bHRQNS9EbnBhYi9INncwVFNBWEdqdz09
