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O venres 15 de marzo o consorcio do proxecto PAISACTIVO, financiado polo programa INTERREG POCTEP, desprazouse ata o municipio de Kuartango para coñecer Kuartango lab, un proxecto resultado do proceso de Recuperación Integral do Antigo Balneario de Zuhatzu Kuartango e que está orientado a favorecer o asentamento de distintas iniciativas ligadas a criterios de innovación social e emprendemento. Tivemos ocasión de coñecelo… Read More »Cara territorios máis resilientes: experiencias en innovación social, emprendemento e posta en valor do patrimonio rural no País Vasco.

Continuing with the visits within the framework of the project PAISACTIVO, on Friday, April 5, the team traveled to the northwest area of the Italian Alps, to Ostana, in the valley of the Po River, in front of Mount Monviso at an altitude of between 1,000- 2,000 m. The interest of… Read More »Community projects as a driver of the rural space transformation: architectural and housing development in Ostana (Italy)

The importance of Green Infrastructure (GI) in combating biodiversity loss due to climate change is increasingly recognized, with a call to European Union member states to integrate it into their territorial plans. However, the design of specific elements of GI, such as ecological corridors, is complex, often requiring high-quality data… Read More »SDSS to Guide the Design of Ecological Corridors in a Green Infrastructure in Galicia

The Operational Group TERRACTIVA has just published a compilation of inspiring experiences at European level on how to facilitate access to land either to new entrants (those willing to start an activity within the agricultural sector) or even to existing farms with no guaranteed generational renewal. The experiences demonstrate how… Read More »Supporting new entrants in the access to land: Inspiring experiences

The Programa de Transformação da Paisagem (Portuguese Landscape Transformation Program) and the Lei de Recuperación de Terra Agraria de Galicia (Galician Agricultural Land Recovery Law) were born in parallel, with similar ambitions in terms of management of the rural space. Therefore they share contexts and even similar instruments and tools.… Read More »Enhancing the instruments for the active management of the territory: Program for the Transformation of the Portuguese Landscape and the Galician Agricultural Land Recovery Law

The number of Operational Groups established through the CAP National Strategic Plans, (and RDPs during the 2014-2020 period) has recently surpassed the barrier of 3000 projects. The EU CAP Network Innovation & Knowledge Exchange | EIP-AGRI celebrated this milestone with the EU CAP Network Conference ‘EIP-AGRI Operational Groups: Innovation in practice‘… Read More »Over 3000 Operational Groups in Europe

During the years 2020 to 2023, a working group formed by researchers from several European universities carried out the project CROSSLAND – A new cross-disciplinary framework for studying the landscape over the long term (Erasmus+ KA2). The aim of the project was to test new pedagogical approaches related to the… Read More »Learning geospatial technologies in interdisciplinary environments: a rehearsal of innovative pedagogical approaches

The VIII Xornada Casal de Armán, organized by the Economic Forum of Galicia, took place on June 27, 2024 in Santiago de Compostela. This event brought together twenty experts linked to both the agricultural and rural development sectors in Galicia. As an introduction, the Professor Edelmiro López Iglesias and our colleague Quico Ónega… Read More »Generational renewal in the Galician agricultural sector: challenges and opportunities for debate at the VIII Xornada Casal de Armán

Since 2023 several groups of the University of Santiago have been working on the Agromanure  project for the “Development of an integrated management system of livestock manure generated in farms in northern Spain based on the development of high-quality fertilizers” funded by the Spanish national call for projects “Ecological and Digital Transition… Read More »Logistics and optimization of collection routes and location of manure treatment plants: combination of GIS tools with mathematical models

Rocío Losada Iglesias travelled to Vilnius (Lithuania) to attend the XX European Rural Development Network (ERDN) Conference, entitled “Green Transformation in European Rural Areas” that took place from 11 to 13 September. The goal of the conference was to present current research and discuss the future development of green transformation… Read More »Interaction between stakeholders and levels of governance in Green Infrastructure plans: Lessons learnt from two strategic planning processes in Galicia and The Netherlands