On 8 October, ECO held a debate on the role of the economy in defending and valuing the forest, at the Belém Cultural Centre. The event, which was attended by the Secretary of State for Forests Rui Ladeira, also saw the presentation of the ECOFOR.PT study – Economic Valorisation of the Goods and Services of Portugal’s Forest Ecosystems, by UTAD university professor and CETRAD director Lívia Madureira.
1) reference: OE202308/0420 (one position | Social Sciences, Economics, Management or related areas) https://www.euraxess.pt/jobs/138331 2) reference: OE202308/0414 (one position | Economics, Management or related areas) https://www.euraxess.pt/jobs/138321 Two junior researcher positions are available to join the European project AgroServ (Integrated services supporting a sustainable agroecological transition) (Grant Agreement ID 101058020, under the call HORIZON-INFRA-2021-SERV-0). The project has initiated in September of 2022…
CETRAD started the new year with a rural well-being forum on the 6th of January. This latest event in our Rural Well-being Discussion Series was organised in Raiva, a small mountain village in Oliveira do Arda, Castelo de Paiva, Portugal. Our CETRAD team met with an enthusiastic group of residents in the local theatre building,…
We are delighted to announce that CETRAD researchers Prof. Carla Marques, Prof. Carmem Leal and Prof. Rui Silva represented CETRAD in Toledo at the 38th annual congress of AEDEM – European Academy of Management and Business Economics – and were awarded the prize for best research in entrepreneurship with their work “Lifestyle Entrepreneurship in Rural…
Bridging ontologies and co-designing shared futures CETRAD Invites, The CETRAD SUMMIT – ‘Transdisciplinarity in Action: Bridging ontologies and co-designing shared futures’ aims to launch a multi-sector forum based on a transdisciplinary approach, with the aim of defining a sustainability agenda for Portugal’s low-density regions.On 27 November, from 10:00 to 17:30 in Auditorium B0.01 of the…
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…
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…
