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More than 1.5 billion students and youth across the planet are affected by school and university closures due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The Global Education Coalition launched by UNESCO seeks to facilitate inclusive learning opportunities for children and youth during this period of sudden and unprecedented educational disruption. Investment in remote learning should both mitigate the […]

COVID-19 has limited our activities and we are subject to greater economic pressure, but people need to eat! One of the constants features of humanity has been to find ways of producing and preserving food in order to ensure its availability. This include fermentation, smoking, dehydration, salting … and from the 19th century on, canning,

The EUROGEO 2020 international meeting and conference will be organized on April 23 and 24 in Madrid, Spain with the title: “Sustainable development goals for all”. EUROGEO is a European scientific society that connects geographers. EUROGEO works on the effective use of open geographic information and its use to contribute to areas such as demography

Last December, the steering committee of the Triptolemos Foundation for agri-food development met in the Rector’s Building of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. It is made up of a group of companies and universities representative of the food system, including the UPC, attended by its rector D. Francesc Torres, José Manuel Silva and D. José

Marine and inland fisheries today are at an important cross-road. On the one hand they make a crucial and growing contribution to food, nutrition and livelihood security, as reflected, for example, in the statistic that 22 out of the 30 top fish consuming nations are Low Income Food Deficit (LIFD) countries. On the other hand,

How do we contribute from the University to face the challenges of a Sustainable Global Food System? Coinciding with World Food Day (FAO), on October 16, the University of León and the Triptolemos Foundation held an event at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, chaired by the rector, Juan Francisco García Marín. Triptolemos Foundation offered its

“Food at the crossroads” Video produced by the UNESCO Chair UNED-TRIPTOLEMOS: Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development: Global Food Production and Food Security

The Executive Committee of the Innovation Management Network of the Agri-Food Sector (INNOVAGRO Network) announced the innovations that won the INNOVAGRO 2019 Award, which correspond to representatives of Costa Rica, Spain and Mexico in the categories of social, institutional and technological innovation , respectively. Winning innovations Triptolemos Foundation participated in the evaluation of the projects

VALENCIA, March 27, 2019 The “Fake news on food and consumption“ conference was held in Valencia, with the participation of interesting speakers, who coincided in broad lines in that the fake news is fashionable but not a fashion, that we have great access to the information but we are uninformed and it is very difficult to