CIHEAM Zaragoza

Online course on olive growing and climate change (27 September – 1 October 2021)

Olive is a strategic crop in the Mediterranean area, one of the hot spots of global climate change. The future will bring drought, heat waves, torrential rainfall and flood events as well as a shifting pattern of incidence of pests and diseases that will also increase the vulnerability of crops and communities.

Predictive Breeding Tools for Intensive and Sustainable Production under Climate Change Scenarios

CIHEAM Zaragoza –together with the EU Projects ERA-Net SusCrop BARISTA and PRIMA GENDIBAR, and ICARDA– organize this advanced course to raise awareness of the extra challenges imposed by climate change to food security and cereal breeding; give guidance on the possibilities offered by crop and climate models to improve predictions; and provide an integrated overview of the strategies that must be considered to increase breeding effectiveness combining recent advances on genomics and phenomics with crop and climate modelling

Mediterranean forest health in the context of global change

CIHEAM Zaragoza together with the European Forest Institute (EFI), through the EFI’s Mediterranean Facility (EFIMED), with the collaboration of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), through the Working Party 7.03.14 organize this advanced course to present the current knowledge, concepts, criteria and methods concerning forest health assessment, monitoring and management in a context of global change.

Smart Cultural Tourism as a Driver of Sustainable Development of European Regions

SmartCulTour aims to support regional development in European regions, with special attention to rural peripheries and the urban fringe, through sustainable cultural tourism. The project redefines cultural tourism through a contemporary lens and provides a comprehensive measurement framework for supply, demand and impacts. In order to support knowledge-led destination management, a decision-support system (DSS) will be developed for widescale monitoring purposes across European regions.

New Technologies, Tools and Strategies for a Sustainable, Resilient and Innovative European Aquaculture

The vision of the EU aquaculture industry is to grow substantially in the next decade and to provide annually 4.5 million tons of sustainable food products. To this aim, NewTechAqua intends to expand and diversify EU production of finfish, molluscs and microalgae by developing and validating technologically-advanced, resilient and sustainable new solutions.

Research-based participatory approaches for adopting Conservation Agriculture in the Mediterranean Area

The CAMA project aims to identify the main barriers that hinder Conservation Agriculture (CA) adoption by smallholders of Mediterranean countries and to overcome them with a participatory research approach based on the use of field experiments and pilot case studies in several conditions and the development of an extensive programme of dissemination and training.