CIHEAM Zaragoza

Raúl Compés, Director of CIHEAM Zaragoza, at the Future of Tourism World Summit

Last 27 October, Raúl Compés, Director of CIHEAM Zaragoza, participated in the BCN21 Conference “Future of Tourism World Summit” held in Barcelona and organized by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the INCYDE Foundation and the Advanced Leadership Foundation. Raúl Compés spoke at the round table “A conversation on Wine Tourism and Rural Development” and discussed the factors that have made of wine tourism a strategic activity for wineries, wine growing regions and wine producing countries.

Sustainable cultural tourism: CIHEAM Zaragoza and TuHuesca organize Living Lab Huesca’s third meeting

Living Lab Huesca’s third meeting was held yesterday within the framework of the European SmartCulTour project, belonging to the European Union‘s H2020 research and innovation programme. Huesca is one of the project’s Living Labs, together with the region of Scheldeland in Flanders (Belgium), the town of Utsjoki in Lapland (Finland), the county of Split-Dalmatia (Croatia), the city of Vicenza (Italy) and the metropolitan region of Rotterdam (the Netherlands).

Exhibition ‘Science according to Forges’ at CIHEAM Zaragoza

The exhibition ‘Science according to Forges’ was opened last 9 November at CIHEAM Zaragoza. The display is organized by Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas on the occasion of its 80th anniversary, with the collaboration of the Fundación General CSIC through the 'Cuenta la Ciencia' grant scheme, as well as with the support of the Fundación Dr. Antoni Esteve and the Instituto Quevedo de las Artes del Humor, which belongs to the Fundación General Universidad de Alcalá.

Celebrating the first Mediterranean Day

This 28 of November is the first Mediterranean Day in History. CIHEAM Zaragoza joins the Union for the Mediterranean to promote dialogue across our region!

Raúl Compés, Director of CIHEAM Zaragoza, welcomes participants to the 2nd meeting of "Biodiversity Ambassadors"

"Biodiversity Ambassadors” is a project carried out by the Agri-Food Research and Technology Centre of Aragon (CITA) with the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology– Ministry of Science and Innovation– that seeks to promote scientific, technological and innovation culture through citizen science. It is a project aimed especially at revitalising rural areas, where the effects of depopulation are causing a gradual abandonment of activity in the primary sector (livestock and agriculture), and to improve research on the different species of horticultural seeds that are stored in the Germplasm Bank, located at CITA-Aragon, a Bank of national and international reference.

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.