CETRAD News

It has just been released at the scientific journal EuroChoices the Special Issue Designing Evidence-based Farm Advisory Policies for Sustainable Transition organised by the multi-actor team of AgriLink H2020 project (2017-2021). UTAD, through CETRAD researchers contribution, including PhD students, had a significant participation in this project, coordinating the working package on the “Innovation case studies…

CETRAD researcher Tigran Keryan participates in the CISTI’2022 – 17th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, held between June 22nd and 25th, 2022, at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain. CISTI is a scientific event aiming to present and discuss knowledge, new perspectives, experiences and innovations in the field of science, information…

Three CETRAD researchers, belonging to the Innovation Ecosystems and Markets Research Group, were present in Ankara, Turkey, between the 20th and 24th of June, to participate in the group meetings of the Energy Transition Entrepreneurs in Action (ETEIA) project. The researchers Carla Marques, Carmem Leal and Carlos Marques represented UTAD in these meetings, which had…

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…

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…

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 presentation of AnaEE (Analysis and experimentation on ecosystems) took place last May 18-19 in Vila Real. It was an event that counted with the presence of the Vice-Rector of UTAD, with the international presence of Michel Boër (Director of AnaEE) where he spoke about opportunities for the Portuguese scientific infrastructures and three AnaEE responsibles….

Last May 12, Professor Tomaz Dentinho gave a course at UTAD on how to use the Q-Method and its importance and application in real cases.This course was attended by about 15 people, including several national and international students of the PhD in Development, Societies and Territories.

Lívia Madureira attended the 14 th European Farming Systems Conference (IFSA – European Group), held at the University of Évora, Portugal from 10 – 14 April 2022. held at the University of Évora, Portugal, and hosted by the Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development (MED) The main focus of the conference was Farming Systems Facing Climate Change and Resource…