Each academic year CIHEAM Zaragoza organizes a number of advanced courses in its life-long learning programme. These courses represent a significant part of CIHEAM Zaragoza activity that covers an important training need in the Mediterranean region for updating professionals’ knowledge and capacities.

The courses are programmed in the five specialization areas of CIHEAM Zaragoza and the offer is renewed each year. The topics are selected according to their current relevance and interest and, when considered appropriate, successive editions of the same course are organized in different years. A certificate of attendance is awarded to participants.

Course characteristics

• Duration of one or two weeks maximum.
• Aimed at professionals with a university degree whose experience is related to the subject matter of the course.
• Fundamentally applied orientation to address hot issues in the Mediterranean context, explore innovative technical aspects and particular methodologies, or provide an integrated and multidisciplinary approach to the topics.
• Taught by invited experts selected for their expertise, working in research centres, universities, administration bodies, private firms and international organizations from all over the world.
• High-level, updated knowledge, complemented by the opportunity to exchange experiences, within an international framework, with the lecturing guest experts and with the other professionals participating in the course.
• Many organized in partnership with prestigious international and national organizations.
• Held at CIHEAM Zaragoza or hosted at partner institutions.
• Delivered in English, Spanish or French with simultaneous interpretation when required according to the nature of the course and the linguistic profile of the participants.

Courses organized with EU Projects

CIHEAM Zaragoza organizes numerous courses with EU projects

• When CIHEAM Zaragoza coordinates the EU project or is the partner responsible for the training and dissemination work package
• When CIHEAM Zaragoza is asked by Consortiums to contribute to the training goals of EU projects concerning topics related to CIHEAM Zaragoza activities and experience

Some examples in recent years are:

	Barista (Advanced tools for breeding BARley for Intensive and SusTainable Agriculture under climate change scenarios) / ERA-NET Cofund activity SusCrop project Gendibar (Utilization of local genetic diversity to understand and exploit barley adaptation to harsh environments and for pre-breeding) / PRIMA project ● Predictive breeding tools for intensive and sustainable production under climate change scenarios, January 2022
	CAMA (Conservation Agriculture in the Mediterranean Area) / PRIMA project ● Recent trends in conservation agriculture in Mediterranean environments, February 2022
	SEA-TRACES / Interreg Atlantic Area Project ● Innovative tools and methods for ensuring seafood authenticity (Online modality), April-May 2021
	MedAID (Mediterranean Aquaculture Integrated Development) / H2020 project PerformFISH (Integrating Innovative Approaches for Competitive and Sustainable Performance across the Mediterranean Aquaculture Value Chain) / H2020 project NewTechAqua (New technologies Tools and Strategies for a Sustainable, Resilient and Innovative European Aquaculture) / H2020 project ● New feeds and feeding technologies in aquaculture (Online modality), June 2021
	MedAID (Mediterranean Aquaculture Integrated Development) / H2020 project ● Epidemiological surveillance in aquaculture (Online modality), September-October 2021
	SEA-TRACES / Interreg Atlantic Area Project ● Smart traceability and labelling tools for a sustainable seafood, June 2020
	MedAID (Mediterranean Aquaculture Integrated Development) / H2020 project ● Sustainability assessment and social acceptance of aquaculture, February 2020
	SIMRA (Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas) / H2020 project ● Social innovation in rural areas, November 2019
	ParaFishControl (Advanced Tools and Research Strategies for Parasite Control in European farmed fish) / H2020 project ● Diagnostics and prevention for fish parasite control in aquaculture, October 2019
	MedAID (Mediterranean Aquaculture Integrated Development) / H2020 project ● Application of epidemiology in aquatic animal health, February-March 2019
	REFRESH (Resource Efficient Food and dRink for the Entire Supply cHain) / H2020 project ● Food loss and waste reduction and management, January 2019
	XF-ACTORS (Xylella Fastidiosa Active Containment Through a multidisciplinary-Oriented Research Strategy) / H2020 project POnTE (Pest Organisms Threatening Europe) / H2020 project CURE-XF (Capacity Building And Raising Awareness In Europe And In Third Countries To Cope With Xylella fastidiosa) / H2020 MSCA-RISE project ● Plant diseases caused by Xylella fastidiosa: detection, identification, Nov. 2018
	MINOUW Science, Technology and Society Initiative to Minimize Unwanted Catches in European Fisheries) / H2020 RIA project ● Managing discards in fisheries: Ecological and socioeconomic analysis and methodologies, April 2018
	MINOUW - Science, Technology and Society Initiative to Minimize Unwanted Catches in European Fisheries (EU H2020 RIA) ● Technological solutions for reduction of discards in fisheries, February 2017
	INFORMED/FORESTERRA - INtegrated research on FOrest Resilience and Management in the mEDiterranean (Collaborative Project)/ Enhancing FOrest RESearch in the MediTERRAnean through improved coordination and integration (ERA-NET) ● Concepts, methods and tools for an integrated approach of resilience in the Mediterranean forest, December 2016
	ECOAQUA - Aquaculture Development under an Ecosystem Approach (ERA-Chair) ● Marine algae culture: techniques, uses and development perspectives, June 2016
	PLF - Bright Farm by Precision Livestock Farming (FP7) ● Precision livestock farming, April 2015
	ULYSSES - Understanding and coping with food markets volatiLitY towards more Stable World and EU food SystEmS (FP7) ● Methodological approaches to assess and manage food price volatility, November 2014
	CREAM - Coordinating Research in support to application of Ecosystem Approach to fisheries and management advice in the Mediterranean and black seas (FP7) ● Ecosystem approach to fisheries in the Mediterranean and Black seas. Management and decision making, March 2014 ● Ecosystem approach to fisheries in the Mediterranean and Black seas. Scientific bases, February 2014
	NEWFOREX - New Ways to Value and Market Forest Externalities (FP7) ● Payments for environmental services in Mediterranean ecosystems, February 2014
	AQUATRANS (ERDF POCTEFEX) ● Recent technical advances for early stage production of marine species of economic interest, January 2014
	DEWFORA - Improved Drought Early Warning and Forecasting to strengthen preparedness and adaptation to droughts in Africa (FP7) ● Drought forecasting and its use in informed decision making, September 2013
	FUME - Forest fire under climate, social and economic changes (FP7) ● Managing forest fires to face climate and socioeconomic change, May 2013 ● Forest fires in the perspective of global change, February 2012
	REDNEX - Innovative and practical management approaches to reduce nitrogen excretion by ruminants (FP7) ● Environmental assessment of livestock production systems, April 2013
	TELERIEG - Use of remote sensing for irrigation practice recommendation and monitoring in the SUDOE space (Interreg IV B SUDOE) ● Use of remote sensing for irrigation management, November 2011