On Thursday, July 17 at 11:00 a.m., the 19th session of the “Teses en discusión” series will take place at the CISPAC’s Lar, an open space for the presentation and discussion of ongoing doctoral research. This session will feature Óscar Sevilla Herrera, who will present his research titled “Fundamentos para la creación de un sistema normativo particularizado de protección jurídica enfocado a las necesidades del patrimonio cultural inmaterial. Estudio comparado México – España”.

On July 17 and 18, the international conference Europe Through the Arts: Histories, Culture, and Identity(ies) will take place at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of A Coruña. Cristina Blanco Sío-López, researcher at CISPAC, is a member of the organizing committee, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge and within the framework of the European project FREEMOVEU (CNS2022-135637).

The event will bring together scholars from European universities to examine the role of artistic creation and cultural criticism in the construction and transformation of the idea of Europe from the 19th century to the present.

CISPAC has just opened the 2025 call for the Xan de Forcados programme, an initiative aimed at supporting postdoctoral collaborative research between universities and the centre’s scientific fields. This is an internal competitive call addressed to early-career researchers affiliated with CISPAC.

The deadline for submitting applications is 15 calendar days from the day after the call is published on the CISPAC website.

On Friday, July 18, the conference “Paisaxe, infraestruturas e servizos: A planificación do medio rural para unha transición xusta” will be held in Santiago de Compostela. This event is promoted by the ESMAART research project in collaboration with Fundación RIA. The activity will take place at Casa RIA (Rúa Virxe da Cerca, 6) and will bring together leading experts in land planning, sustainability, and rural development.

Among the speakers are two members of CISPAC: Xavier Simón, Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Vigo and Director of the Wind Observatory of Galicia, who will address the challenges of the energy transition in rural areas; and Jaime Fagúndez, Associate Professor of Botany at the University of A Coruña, who will present his work on bioeconomy and the RuralTXa! project.

On June 24 and 25, 2025, CISPAC researcher and professor at the University of A Coruña, Jaime Fagúndez, participated as a European expert in the peer review organised by the European Union’s Interreg Europe programme. The initiative, held in Leuven and Ghent (Belgium), aimed to provide advice to the municipality of Alba Iulia (Romania) on improving its river restoration policies and blue-green infrastructure strategies.

The review was promoted by Interreg Europe’s Policy Learning Platform and brought together five experts from different European countries. Among them was Fagúndez, who contributed his knowledge in ecological restoration and territorial planning, drawing on the Galician context. The review focused on the Mureș, Ampoi, and Sebeș rivers, which cross the city of Alba Iulia but currently offer limited environmental, social, and recreational value.

On Wednesday, July 9 at 12:00 p.m., a new session of the CISPAC research seminar series will take place in Seminar Room 103 of the Fontán Building (Cidade da Cultura). On this occasion, we will welcome Vikkram Singh, researcher at Toronto Metropolitan University (Canada), who will deliver a talk titled Geopolitical risk 101: impact on rural areas.