DESIRA project brings digital technologies to forests and rural areas
The DESIRA (Digitisation: Economic and Social Impacts on Rural Areas) research initiative is a four-year Horizon 2020 project coordinated by the University...
Participatory video to collect experiences on Social Innovation Actions
The Social Innovation Actions within the European Union H2020 "Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas (SIMRA)" project have been coordinated by the European...
SIMRA Final Conference: social innovation to boost EU rural areas
Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas (SIMRA) is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. SIMRA seeks...
Deforestation made in Italy
Last summer, following the major fires that hit Siberia, Amazonia and central Africa, the European Commission outlined new actions to protect and...
Call for abstracts: 13th RSAI World Congress in Morocco
The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and the Moroccan Regional Science Association (AMSR) invite regional scientists, economists, economic geographers, urban planners, policy makers, and...
Challenges to community forest research in northwest Mediterranean Europe
Does our research make a difference for forests, rural areas and communities? This is what we asked ourselves when we saw the...
Innovation inspiration at a SIMRA workshop in Solsona
Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas (SIMRA) is a European project focused on research and innovation actions. FORECO, one of the 26...
12 scholarships for MSc in Sustainable Development
Applications are open for the annual VLIR-UOS Scholarship programme designed to encourage students from selected African, Latin American and Asian countries to...
Global perspectives and mutual learning for forest ecosystem services
The first SINCERE Learning Lab has brought experts together from across the globe to brainstorm on issues pertaining to forest ecosystem services....
SIMRA’s October sessions: Lessons learned from the project innovation actions
On 7 and 8 October EFIMED organised two workshops in the province of Teruel (Aragon, Spain) to close the Innovative Action that...
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Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People
Forests provide vital ecosystem services
crucial to human well-being and sustainable development, and have an important
role to play in achieving the seventeen Sustainable...
