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 to advance...
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 restore the...
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 researchers of...
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 announcement of...
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 partners in...
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 study at...
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.
The Learning...
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 EFI leads...
Will you invest in the next generation? Join us for YLP-MED 2020!
The first edition of EFI’s Young Leadership
Programme – Mediterranean (2018) was a great success, with positive evaluations
from participants and speakers alike. Will you join...
EU funding news: Ambitious €100 billion Horizon Europe proposal
The European Commission has published its proposal of an ambitious €100 billion programme, ‘Horizon Europe’, that will succeed Horizon 2020 as the next EU...
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Landscape Fire Governance Framework: addressing complexity and uncertainty
Landscape fires are increasingly becoming a global problem, with over 300 million hectares burned annually. These fires are assuming increasingly extreme characteristics and causing...
