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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.

CETRAD researcher Lívia Madureira participated in the kick-off meeting of the AgroServ – Integrated SERVices supporting a sustainable AGROecological transition, held on last 17-18th October in Prague (at the Check Republic University of Life Sciences). CETRAD is responsible for the Socioeconomic services WP and will co-develop with CITAB the Portuguese pole of the Transnational Ling…

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…

On July 19, the Center for Transdisciplinary Development Studies hosted a webinar entitled “Transdisciplinary Approaches for Territorial Development”. During the webinar, participants learned about several transdisciplinary projects carried out in different countries such as Austria, Georgia, and Brazil. Dr. Tamara Mitrofanenko (BOKU The University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria) presented Living Labs…

CETRAD’s Innovation & Market Ecosystems Team organised a full-day seminar on the 16th of June about market ecosystem challenges across Europe. The keynote speaker, Dr. Veland Ramadani, a full professor of entrepreneurship and family business at the South-East European University, North Macedonia, presented an evaluation of the South-East entrepreneurial situation. Ranked among the most influential researchers in 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…