Livia Madurerira, director of CETRAD, was interviewed by the ECO newspaper in a special feature on Portuguese forests, highlighting the ECOFOR project of which CETRAD was a part. Livia Madureira warns of the need to invest in forest prevention and management in a sustainable and efficient way and emphasises the importance of solutions to guarantee the future of Portuguese forests.
The CETRAD team is leading the setup and implementation of the five territorially-based living labs being established by the LivingSoiLL — Healthy Soil to Permanent Crops Living Labs project. LivingSoiLL brings together 50 partners from Portugal, France, Spain, Italy, and Poland. The project will be developed across 54 months, based on a transdisciplinary approach, involving…
CETRAD hosted, between May 30 and June 3, the CETRAD International Summer School, an initiative organized together with the INTEGRURAL project. The event received about 40 participants, of which 20 were international, from different countries, including Italy, Spain, Greece and Germany. During the five days of the International Summer School, the participants had the opportunity…
The Portuguese Association of Political Economy and CETRAD organised the 6th annual Political Economy Meeting at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, in Vila Real (Portugal) from 26 to 28 January.The meeting gathered more than 150 people among students of different cycles and researchers from different disciplinary areas and approaches, who understand economic phenomena…
CETRAD’s researchers Octávio Sacramento and Veronika Joukes and participated in the work meeting of the INTEGRURAL project – Capacity Building for Integrated Sustainable Development in Rural Areas, which took place in Cori (Italy) from 4-8 April. The INTEGRUPAL project consist of a network of entrepreneurs, universities, rural counties, social laboratories, computer experts and researchers from several European…
CETRAD was represented by four researchers (Tânia Gonçalves, Sofia Gouveia, João Rebelo, and Alexandre Guedes) at the 3rd Conference of the European Association of Wine Economists, which took place in Lecce (Italy) between 11 and 14 June. The results of four ongoing studies related to the fields of wine economy and wine tourism were presented,…
CETRAD organises a discussion event about the quality of life in the low-population density region of Portugal. The event will take place on November 24 from 10:00 to 12:30 in room C1.13 of the UTAD laboratory complex. Registration at: https://forms.gle/71FDTW6rEw2DpFaW7 This event aims to collect the various stakeholders of low-density regions and engage them in…
