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Researcher Alberto Akiki is developing an innovative study on einkorn wheat, promoting healthy food and sustainable agricultural practices. 🍞🌱The project was selected to receive support from the Research Infrastructures (RI) services of the European consortium AgroSERV, which promotes research into agri-food sustainability and the agro-ecological transition. UTAD SocioEconomics, through CETRAD, is collaborating in this initiative,…

University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro and Crédito Agrícola reward academic merit! The University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) and Caixa de Crédito Agrícola Mútuo de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro are launching the 1st edition of the ‘Crédito Agrícola Awards’, honouring the best master’s dissertations and doctoral theses in the areas of economics, management,…

Research on the reception of refugees in low-density territories (TBD, 2017-2024), carried out at CETRAD, was presented at the 1st Meeting on Challenges and Policies for the Integration of Migrants, held at UTAD on 17 January 2025. Four central ideas can be deduced from this research: (i) the existence of structural problems, especially at the…

The 1st Meeting on Migrant Integration Challenges and Policies: An Atlantic vision will take place on 17 January 2025 at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real.Immigration is expanding in Europe. Measured through employment and education, the integration of migrants into European communities has been improving (OECD, 2023). It is assumed that…

A significant milestone in research into human dynamics in contexts of isolation has been reached with the approval of the project ” HD-ENVI- A Social Network Approach to Human Dynamics During a 100-day Isolation and Confinement Study”. Led by Professor Pedro Quinteiro (CETRAD), this innovative project will investigate how the perception of social isolation, paranoid…

The National Institute of Administration, I. P. (INA) organised the webINAr ‘INA Prize – Best Research in Public Administration’ on 20 November. (INA) held the webINAr ‘INA Award – Best Research in Public Administration’ on 20 November, an online event that highlighted studies that won awards in the first three editions of the prestigious recognition.Paulo…

We are pleased to announce that the first of the seven volumes containing the proceedings of the international scientific symposium “Networks, Markets & People – NMP 2024” has just been published by Springer; the others will be published in sequence shortly. This is a result that gives us great satisfaction, but which is the fruit…

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 XXVI Seminário Luso-Espanhol de Economia Empresarial, organised by CETRAD/UTAD, took place between 6 and 8 November, bringing together senior and junior researchers in an event dedicated to the challenges of entrepreneurial economics in an Iberian context. Attended by more than 90 participants from Portugal, Spain and Brazil, the event featured the presentation and discussion…