The seminar ‘Poverty and Territory, evoking the 50th anniversary of 25 April and reflecting on the future’ took place on 29 May.
The event featured several testimonies that brought back some nostalgia and were very enriching for the event.
We would like to thank all the participants who attended, both online and in person, as well as the speakers who took part and contributed to making this seminar as enriching as possible.
José Rosário, a PhD student at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro and a researcher at Cetrad – Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies, is developing a model to facilitate the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices in sub-Saharan Africa.https://www.90segundosdeciencia.pt/…/ep-1818-jose-rosario/
Cumieira is a small village in the vicinity of the town of Vila Real. While the whole region counts as low-density territory according to the prevalent categorisation of Portuguese territories, Cumieira has the advantage of both realities. It is located close to a relatively big urban centre with developed infrastructure and it also managed to…
October 20 & 27 | Advanced Short Courses – Construction of questionnaires to measure latent variables | UTAD – Laboratory complex auditorium B0.02 – 16h-18hProf. Doutor Carlos P. Marques (UTAD/DESG/CETRAD) Registration: https://forms.gle/QemV7RcDCvbRvQbF9 22 | Conversations on N2 – Shaped by the landscape! How rocks condition biodiversity and the culture of territories | Cumieira km 72.7 – 15h:30mThe…
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…
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 Portuguese Association for Political Economy (Ecpol) and CETRAD announces the call for communications for the 6th Annual Political Economy Meeting to be held at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, in Vila Real (Portugal), from the 26th until the 28th of January 2023 with the theme Dependences, Asymmetries and Territories. The Meeting aims to bring…
