Dialogues for sustainability
Miramar Palace
Pº de Miraconcha nº 48. Donostia / San Sebastián
Gipuzkoa
Socio-economic change will come about when we realise that there is only one health
We need change to solve the environmental crisis, and the risks for the planet’s health can trigger action.
There is increasing evidence of humanity’s…
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Miramar Palace
Pº de Miraconcha nº 48. Donostia / San Sebastián
Gipuzkoa
Catalysis as a cornerstone of a sustainable society
Iker Aguirrezabal Telleria
PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of the Basque Country (2013). His main research work has focused on heterogeneous catalysis, always with the aim of searching for renewable energy and compounds. He did his grade studies at the University of the Basque Country (2006) and his Master’s degree at the University of Groningen (2009, The Netherlands). In addition, after completing his PhD, he worked as a researcher at the University of California Berkeley (USA) between 2014 and 2017. After returning, he obtained a teaching position at the Faculty of Engineering in 2018. Much of this work has been published in 30 scientific articles and he has participated in more than 15 national and international projects. He has also obtained research awards in different conferences and even in research projects at European level.
Miramar Palace
Pº de Miraconcha nº 48. Donostia / San Sebastián
Gipuzkoa
Energy management for collective self-consumption of photovoltaic energy
Aritza Camblong
Profesor Titular de Universidad en la Escuela de Ingeniería de Gipuzkoa (Donostia), en el departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática. Coordinador del Máster de Control en Redes Eléctricas Inteligentes y Generación Distribuida
Haritza Camblong nació en Baiona, País Vasco, el 31 de enero de 1972. Recibió el título de "Maitrise de Physique" en la UPPA de Pau, Francia, en 1994, el Diploma de Licenciado en Ingeniería Eléctrica por la ENSIEG de Grenoble, Francia, en 1996, y el Doctorado en Automática en el ENSAM de Burdeos y la Universidad de Mondragón en 2003. Después de graduarse en 1996, trabajó en Ikerlan, el centro de investigación del grupo industrial MCC, en Mondragón, durante dos años en aplicaciones de mecatrónica. Más tarde, trabajó en la cooperativa MSI, en Andoain, durante otros dos años. En 2001, se incorporó como profesor a la escuela de ingeniería ESTIA en Bidart, donde creó el grupo de investigación EneR-GEA. Desde noviembre de 2008, es miembro de la Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), donde actualmente trabaja en el Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática, y en el grupo de investigación SI + E en Donostia-San Sebastián. Es el coordinador del Máster en "Control en redes eléctricas inteligentes y generación distribuida". Las asignaturas que da actualmente son: “Automatización y Control” y “Modelado y Control de Aerogeneradores”.
Garazi Etxegarai
Doctoranda en la Escuela de Ingeniería de Gipuzkoa (Donostia), en el departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática.
Garazi Etxegarai graduated in Renewable Energy Engineering from the UPV/EHU in 2019 and subsequently studied a Master’s Degree in Smart Grid Control and Distributed Generation, also at the UPV/EHU. After finishing a project on the prediction on photovoltaic generation based on artificial intelligence at Ceit, she started working as a researcher at the UPV/EHU in the framework of the EKATE project. She is currently working on her thesis also at UPV/EHU, partially financed by the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council through a research and innovation project on circular economy, energy sustainability and climate change in 2022. Her current research interests cover energy management, including the prediction of electricity production and consumption using artificial intelligence techniques
Miramar Palace
Pº de Miraconcha nº 48. Donostia / San Sebastián
Gipuzkoa
Eco-social education for the challenges of the 21st century
Miriam Campos Leirós
Elementary teacher. Environmental educator. Teachers For Future Spain Coordinator
Miriam Leirós, primary school teacher. Environmental educator. Coordinator of Teachers For Future Spain. Collaborator in El Asombrario-Público in the Environmental Education section and in El Diario de la Educación. Miriam Leirós, primary school teacher. Environmental educator. Integrator of environmental projects in the formal classroom since 2014. Coordinator of Teachers For Future Spain, a group that develops eco-social action and awareness programmes. Collaborator in El Asombrario-Público in the Environmental Education section and in El Diario de la Educación. Author of the book of environmental stories “Los secretos de los cuentos clásicos”. Member of the group of Independent Experts of the Citizens' Climate Assembly. Participant in COP 25. Lecturer at the Ministry of Education, Menéndez Pelayo International University and Simo Educación, among others.
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The origins and development of environmental law
Agustín García Ureta
Professor of Administrative Law (UPV/EHU)
Xabier Ezeizabarrena Saenz
Director of the Master of Environmental Law
Miramar Palace
Pº de Miraconcha nº 48. Donostia / San Sebastián
Gipuzkoa
Sustainable management of mountain pastures (or the life of a shepherdess and her sheep)
Elena Galan del Castillo
Investigadora del BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change
PhD in Economic History, Graduate in Environmental Sciences. Postdoctoral researcher at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3). She did her thesis studying the transition of agriculture and livestock farming during the 20th century in Catalonia. She has been working on the impacts of climate change and its adaptation in dairy farming. Recently, her research focuses on the study of the economic, social and institutional aspects of Basque shepherding systems, including a co-production process with the Artzain Eskola (Shepherd School). This season she left her academic job to work as a shepherdess in the Pyrenees (Lower Navarre), with the result of a deep and complex vision of the livestock sector.
Miramar Palace
Pº de Miraconcha nº 48. Donostia / San Sebastián
Gipuzkoa
Socio-economic change will come about when we realise that there is only one health
Fernando Javier Valladares Ros
Profesor de investigación del CSIC y profesor asociado de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Fernando Valladares is a research professor at the CSIC and associate professor at the Rey Juan Carlos University. Fernando Valladares holds a PhD in biology, is a researcher at the Spanish National Research Council and associate professor at the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid. He is a highly cited scientist, with numerous research projects on the role of biodiversity and the impacts of climate change and human activity on ecosystems. In 2021 he received the Rey Jaume I Award, in the category of Environmental Protection, and the BBVA Foundation Environmental Communication Award. His concern for the environmental crisis has led him to actively disseminate information about the environmental crisis in various media and on his La Salud de la Humanidad channel on social networks. Both the details of his curriculum and all his informative production in multiple audiovisual formats and in press, radio and television can be found on his website: www.valladares.info
Miramar Palace
Pº de Miraconcha nº 48. Donostia / San Sebastián
Gipuzkoa
Climate change: challenges and opportunities
Elisa Sainz de Murieta Zugadi
UPV/EHUko irakaslea eta BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change erakundeko ikertzaile elkartua
I am a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Applied Economics at the UPV/EHU, as well as an associate researcher at the BC3. I hold a PhD in Geological Sciences (UPV/EHU) and my research focuses on studying the impacts of climate change, as well as adaptation policies and measures, from a socio-economic point of view. I started my professional career in a cooperative of the Mondragon Group and then I had the opportunity to work in the public administration as Director of Biodiversity (in the Basque Government). During this stage I became aware of the importance of science to support decision-making, so at the end of this period I decided to start my path in the academic world. In 2010 I was lucky enough to join BC3 to develop my PhD thesis on the impacts associated with sea level changes on the Basque coast. I have been a visiting researcher at the London School of Economics and have worked on several international, national and local research projects.
Courses
The 2022 edition offers various courses that are included in the Forum's five main challenges:
- Ecosystems and natural resources
- Food, health and local development
- Energy, mobility and cities
- Business sustainability and circular economy
- Environmental communication and education
February 2022
Tackling climate change represents an unprecedented social, economic and environmental challenge. However, climate policy also offers great opportunities.
Many of the effects of climate change are already evident. CO2 concentrations have exceeded levels recorded for tens of thousands of years; the global average temperature has risen by almost 1.2°C since pre-industrial times, sea levels are rising and large ice block are destabilising.
March 2022
We need change to solve the environmental crisis, and the risks for the planet’s health can trigger action.
April 2022
Sheep taught me what I couldn’t understand from the office.
When at the end of last spring I went to the Pyrenees in Lower Navarre, I still had a very academic view of mountain shepherding. I knew that sustainable management of mountain pastures involves avoiding overgrazing, which creates bare soils, and undergrazing, which leads to scrubland (with the subsequent risk of fires). The consequences of both are increased greenhouse gas emissions.
May 2022
Environmental law makes up one of the branches of law that has seen the greatest growth in recent decades. An exponent of this is the legal framework of the European Union.
La temática propuesta para el 13º Encuentro Internacional de Cultura, Comunicación y Desarrollo 2022 será “La cocreación e innovación social para el avance en el Desarrollo Sostenible y los objetivos de la Agenda 2030”, aprovechando experiencias provenientes de África y América Latina, fundamentalmente de El Salvador, México, Colombia, Cuba, y Senegal. Además, recogeremos procesos fundamentados y liderados desde el País Vasco.
June 2022
La digitalización y los cambios sociales están propiciando un cambio hacia nuevas formas de Movilidad. La creciente disponibilidad de datos de todos los agentes que intervienen en ella, incluidos los usuarios, apoyada en la tecnología, permite no sólo la automatización y el camino hacia el vehículo autónomo, sino la gestión inteligente y la aparición de nuevos servicios.
Este Curso de Verano pretende potenciar la rehabilitación de edificios históricos construidos con madera, mostrando las ventajas de un enfoque centrado en el respeto de las preexistencias, compatibilidad de materiales y tecnologías, y sostenibilidad, con una visión completa, desde el bosque a la intervención, desde el edificio al casco histórico, técnica y gestión.
El Curso se estructurará en una parte teórica y práctica y posteriormente en una mesa redonda en la que se genere debate y fomente la participación del alumnado
Europe is the birthplace of industrial production, which continues to power the region’s prosperity, which is a main driver of innovation, job creation and growth. The manufacturing industry is key to Europe’s economic, social, and environmental sustainability and a strong, innovative industrial sector is essential to ensuring prosperity and meeting EU goals for the economy, society, and the environment.
Sweeteners and their use in food processing and for health purposes is a subject generating nowadays big controversia, mainly because the real effects of the use of Sweeteners and Swetness enhancers on health are still unknown. In addition, the regulatory framework and consumers's perceptions of sweeteners and the use of these food ingredients is also under development.
There are many different approaches to energy communities and the European Union also makes a definition of energy communities through its directives.
At the moment, European legislation has not been fully established in the Spanish legislation or in the legislation of the Basque Country. It seems that the Social Economy can have something to say on this subject, even more so, the Community Energy Initiatives in which the Social Economy institutions are protagonists.
El objetivo de alcanzar la neutralidad climática en 2050 tiene como condición sine qua non la descarbonización de nuestra economía, a través de una transición energética que permita reducir drásticamente las emisiones de CO2. Este proceso implica hacer de la transición ecológica un proceso de transformación económica y social que se plasme en un nuevo modelo de economía sostenible.
Naturan Hezi Eskola eremu berdeetan hezten duen hezkuntza-komunitatearen topagunea da, non ikastaroak eta urteko Topaketak ospatzen ditugun. Topaketen helburua gai zehatz baten inguruan sakontzea da, hizlari adituei entzunez, esperientziak partekatuz, eta ikastetxeen artean elkarlanak eta sinergiak sortuz.
Lehen edizioan, 2021 urteko Uda Ikastaroan, naturan hezteak ikastetxean zekarren eraldaketa pedagogikoa izan genuen aztergai, eta zeharka baina nabarmen, irakasle eta ikasleen begirada aldatu behar zela ondorioztatu genuen.
La humanidad está atravesando una encrucijada histórica ante los límites cada vez más evidentes del planeta y la necesidad de reorientar el crecimiento hacia modelos sostenibles. La pandemia provocada por la COVID-19 ha puesto de manifiesto la fragilidad y vulnerabilidad del mundo en el que vivimos. El reto climático al que nos enfrentamos, junto a la recuperación de la pandemia, son una oportunidad histórica para pensar, identificar nuevos modos de hacer, replantearnos prioridades y actuaciones y promover un desarrollo sostenible.
According to the latest IPCC report, the impacts of climate change will be irreversible. The impact will be uneven. We must learn to live with uncertainty and learn to build resilience. Through eco-social education, students can understand the problems of their environment: their neighbourhood, its urban, natural and social problems. They must also understand the interrelationship between the habitat and the interdependence of resources and cohabiting beings and seek solutions through project-based learning that involves them in solutions with social impact.
July 2022
Energía se suele definir como la capacidad para realizar un trabajo, pero su significado preciso depende del contexto en que se utiliza. El Curso de Verano "La domesticación de la energía" comienza, el primer día, con la presentación del concepto de energía en dos contextos propios de la física, el universo y el mundo cuántico. Prosigue con un breve repaso de transiciones energéticas en la historia humana y con la descripción de avances científicos actuales en el camino hacia la sostenibilidad. En el segundo día se presentan los flujos de energía que ocurren en los sistemas vivos.