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WAT? 2024: Workshop for Advanced Training Exploring the links between Circular Economy and Biodiversity 🌍 🍃 On the 25th of September the second edition of WAT? - Workshop for Advanced Training at CENSE took place at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. WAT? is an advanced training initiative particularly targeting CENSE PhD students and researchers. CENSE WAT ? 2024 focused on “Circular Economy and Biodiversity” and its relevance for environmental and sustainability research. Prof. Maria Rosa Paiva welcomed participants and the two keynote speakers for this edition, introducing workshop objectives. Barbara Pia Oberč addressed the workshop topic with the presentation “A policy framework for a circular economy with biodiversity at its core”, while Patricia Rodriguéz González instituto de agronomia presented “Ecological Restoration in Portugal: challenges and opportunities for supporting biodiversity sustainability”. 🌿 Following the keynote lectures, participants worked in small groups, moderated by Prof. Rita Lopes. Through structured exercises, participants were guided by a set of questions to support a reflection on the topic “circular economy and biodiversity” and their own research topics.

🎉 🌿 Congratulations to CENSE researchers Tomás B. Ramos and Carla Sofia e Sá Farinha for their remarkable achievement of being included once again in the Stanford University prestigious ranking of the World's Top 2% Scientists! 🎉 👏 More information here: 👉 https://lnkd.in/d8wmYt2G https://lnkd.in/dhHXYKRj

🌿 🔗 Our CENSE member Nazaré Couto participated as a member of the Organizing Committee for the Remtech Conference (September 15-20, 2024, Ferrara, Italy). In addition, she delivered a presentation under the scope of the European Union Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law (IMPEL) and the ISLANDR Horizon EU project (GA 1001112889), discussing The Role of Soil Health in Sustainable Wastewater and Water Reuse Practices during the "BAT in Wastewater Treatment" session. More information: ▶ https://www.impel.eu/en ▶ https://lnkd.in/dPFAybY9 ▶ https://islandr.eu/

🌿 Our CENSE members Antje Disterheft and Carolina Mello participated at the international conference https://lnkd.in/gVzHGjAh, held at University of Padova, Italy, with two communications in which several CENSE members were involved: 🗨 "Teaching sustainability transversally to large groups: Exploring Perspectives on a Compulsory Sustainability Module in a Portuguese University" by Antje Disterheft, Rita Lopes, Paula Antunes, Lina Arroyave, João Pedro Gouveia, Irene Perez-Ramirez, Rui Santos, Nuno Videira. This paper presentation shared a mixed-methods study about the sustainability module of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa compulsory course for all 2nd year BSc students " Society, Sustainability and Digital Transformation". 🗨 "Deep Time Walk: an embodied learning tool to transgress current pedagogies" by Carolina Mello-Silva, Antje Disterheft, Matthias Barth In this Teaching and Learning Lab, Carolina shared her latest PhD work about the Deep Time Walk. The conference discussed sustainability-oriented transformations in higher education. It brought together different audiences involving students, educators and changemakers in the field of transformative learning for sustainability.

📚 New publication by CENSE member Leonor Amaral. Click on the link to continue your reading. ▶ https://lnkd.in/dhB-mtt5

🔗 🌏 🌿 Visit of Timo Schisanowski (deputy of the German Bundestag) to the Telheiras Renewable Energy Community 🌿 CENSE members Miguel Macias Sequeira, and João Pedro Gouveia took part in an official visit from Timo Schisanowski (deputy of the Bundestag, SPD, president of the Portuguese-German parliamentary group and member of the Bundestag Housing and Urban Development Committee), Luise Rürup (Representative of Friedrich- Ebert-Stiftung (FES) in Spain and Portugal), Thomas Tünnemann (Economic Department of the German Embassy) and Fabian Schmiedel (Director of FES Portugal. Using the Telheiras/Lumiar Renewable Energy Community project as a starting point, the conversation focused on the topic "The energy transition at your doorstep - How can we make our cities ecologically sustainable and socially fair?". The Lumiar Parish Council was represented by its Board Member for Sustainability Rodrigo Benitez and by the technician Luís Keel Pereira.

🌿 🔗 Our CENSE member, Lourenço Gouveia Booth, presented his work on "Circular Economy in European Cities" at the Inaugural International Conference titled "Circular Economy: The Pathway Towards Sustainable Development." 🗨 This event was organized by the Hellenic Society of Circular Economy and the Technical University of Crete.

📚 New publication by CENSE member André Mascarenhas. Click on the link to continue your reading. ▶ https://lnkd.in/dE5SMfyh

👀 Last week, as part of the Ibero-American network #VENUS and #VIbRA-IS activities supported by CSIC, I headed to Mérida (México🇲🇽) to participate in the international Seminar of Red Iberoamericana de Pobreza Energética y Bienestar Ambiental (#RIPEBA) hosted by Facultad de Ingeniería, UADY (Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán), where I presented our work in Portugal 🇵🇹 and at the EU level with #EPAH and exchanged with colleagues from Argentina 🇦🇷, Chile 🇨🇱, Colombia 🇨🇴, Costa Rica 🇨🇷, Cuba 🇨🇺, Ecuador 🇪🇨, España 🇪🇸, México 🇲🇽, Panamá 🇵🇦 and Uruguay 🇺🇾 I've also been a keynote speaker at the 3rd Congreso Internacional sobre Desarrollo Sustentable y Transición Energética: Preservación del Patrimonio Natural y Cultural hosted Tecnológico Nacional de México and supported by Sistema Nacional de Investigadores CONAHCYT sharing with students and university professors 👉 https://lnkd.in/ds52dCcT 📺 I've also had the opportunity to speak to Mexican TV, unfolding the importance of just energy transitions and #climatechange mitigation #solutions. With Teresa Cuerdo Vilches Alexis Pérez Fargallo #Bassam Ali Carolina Margarita (Stevenson) Rodriguez Claudia Eréndira Vázquez Torres Félix Espinosa Oscar May Tzuc Rodrigo Durán Valeska Cerda Fuentes Nina Hormazábal Mario A. Jimenez Torres Elisa García José Antonio Soto Ruiz Bruno Damián Arballo Lucía Bazterrica ernesto yoel farinas wong Alvaro Ruiz Pardo Beatriz Lorenzo Yera 🔎 #VIbRA-IS - “La vivienda iberoamericana ante los desafíos post-COVID y de adaptación al Cambio Global, desde la habitabilidad: propuestas arquitectónicas y técnicas para hábitats igualitarios y salubres ”. 🔎 #VEnUS - “La vulnerabilidad energética de hogares iberoamericanos, en el contexto de cambio climático. Detección, capacitación y Alivio ”. Programa CytedCENSE - Center for Environmental and Sustainability ResearchFaculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade NOVA de LisboaUniversidade Nova de Lisboa