The food industry and the environment

Higher education in agroecology and food systems

Date –  Wednesday, 15th June, from 9:00 to 11:00

Responsible for the activity – Marta Rivera Ferre

Place – Segimon Serrallonga hall

Speaker/s 

  • Tomas P. Tomich. UC Davis. Agricultural Sustainability Institute
  • Marta Rivera Ferre, director of the Chair of Agroecology and Food Systems (UVic-UCC)

Abstract

Organized by: Society, Politics and Inclusive Communities research group

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Grasslands and Pastoral systems to global change

Date –  Wednesday, 15th June from 11:00 to 14:30

Responsible for the activity 

  • Carme Casas. Biodiversity, Ecology, Technology and Environmental Management research group. UVic-UCC
  • Feliu Lopez. Chair of Agroecology and Food Systems. UVic-UCC

Place – Segimon Serrallonga hall

Speaker/s 

  • Michele Nori. Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow, European University Institute
  • Feliu Lopez Gelats. Chair of Agroecology and Food Systems. UVic-UCC
  • Frederic Fillat Estaquè. Researcher of Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología. CSIC. Jaca
  • Imma Oliveras Menor. Evironmental Change Institute (ECI). School of Geography and the Environment. University of Oxford
  • Ferran Pauné Doctoral student, Department of Plant Production and Forestry Science, University of Lleida (UdL); collaborator of the Biodiversity, Ecology, Technology and Environmental Management research group of UVic-UCC
  • Elsa Varela: post-doctoral research fellow. CREDA (Centre for Agro-food Economy and Development). Barcelona
  • Carme Casas. Biodiversity, Ecology, Technology and Environmental Management research group. UVic-UCC

Abstract

Organized by: Biodiversity, Ecology, Technology and Environmental Management research group and Society, Politics and Inclusive Communities research group

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Benefits of the activities of R+D+i for companies

Date – Thursday, 16th June from 9:00 to 20:00

Place – Segimon Serrallonga hall

Responsible for the activity –  Laia Llenas Argelaguet

Speaker/s

  • Sergio Ponsá, director of Technology Centre for Biodiversity, Ecology and Technology, and Environmental and Food Management (CT BETA): General presentation of  CT BETA. Succesful cases of R+D+i projects with companies
  • Joan Colón, researcher of Technology Centre for Biodiversity, Ecology and Technology, and Environmental and Food Management (CT BETA): Optimization of th eproduction process based on enviromental sustainability parameters
  • Laia Llenas, manager of Technology Centre for Biodiversity, Ecology and Technology, and Environmental and Food Management (CT BETA): Tools for financies national and International R+D+i
  • Javier Viñas García de Falces, Director of corporative development of Innova Experts grouo. Fiscal incentives ans subsidies for companies doing R+D+i activities

Abstract 

Organized by: Biodiversity, Ecology, Technology and Environmental Management research group

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Aquatic Ecology

Date –  Friday, 17th June, from 9:00 to 14:00

Responsible for the activity – Sandra Brucet, ICREA researcher

Place – Room F309

Speaker/s 

  • Prof. Meryem Beklioglu; Middle East Technical University
  • Dr Nuno Caiola; Institute for Agri-Food Research and Technology (IRTA). Aquatic ecosystems
  • Dídac Jorda-Capdevila; Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
  • Dr Elena Abella Pérez. Doctor in Marine Sciences, Bios C.V. (Cape Verde)
  • Ignasi Arranz; UVIC-UCC

Abstract

Organized by: Biodiversity, Ecology, Technology and Environmental Management research group

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