CETRAD researcher attended the 4th ESP Europe conference held in in Heraklion, Greece, 10-14th October 2022. Ecosystems services empowering people and societies in times of crisis was the broad conference theme. Lívia Madureira presented the communication “Ecosystems services supply by agriculture: using choice experiments to estimate trade-offs between monetary and non-monetary incentives”.
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…
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…
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…
May 15-18, 2024 @ CETRAD, Transdisciplinarity Summer School, Vila Real, Portugal In our societies, we are confronted with a growing number of complex challenges. For example: Climate change exacerbates droughts, making water management, food production, health, and biodiversity conservation more difficult. Rapidly expanding cities struggle to provide services, opportunities, and healthy living conditions for their…
José Victorino C. Rosário, a PhD Student from CETRAD participated in the First National Meeting with Angolans Residing in the Diaspora held in Luanda from April 1st to 3rd, 2024. During his intervention, the PhD student in Agribusiness and Sustainability emphasized the importance of designing an agricultural knowledge and innovation system in Angola to enhance…
The next stop in CETRAD’s Public Discussion Series on Rural Well-being was Torneiros, a rural suburb of Vila Real. A diverse group of people, old and young, students and professors, business owners and employees, former and current residents took part in a morning discussion hosted in the local Junta de Freguesia. An authentic perspective, honest…
