Next Friday, September 13, the project "RENTURS: Rentabilidad social en las decisiones de inversión del turismo post-pandémico: clave para el desarrollo sostenible en destinos de interior" will be presented, prepared by staff from the University of Vigo and financed by Next Generation EU/ Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.

The event will take place at the Marcos Valcárcel Cultural Center (Ourense) at 12 noon. You can find more information about this project at the link below.

A few days ago, the report Care Work in the Just Transition: Providing for People and Planet
was presented, a brief of the Just Transition and Care network, coordinated by CISPAC researcher Stefania Barca. Precisely, this entity is promoted by the CISPAC, the Colorado State University and the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD).

The report seeks to answer one question: how to properly value and finance care helps to achieve the Just Transition (JT). The researchers of this report point out that until now JT policies have not taken care of the social and environmental role of care. That is why this publication insists on changing the focus of the JT to "assess and finance them properly".

Last week the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities published the provisional resolution proposal for the granting for the year 2023 to projects and actions to train pre-doctoral research staff.

In total, CISPAC's research staff achieved 10 projects with a total sum of 954,375 euros, to which must be added 4 pre-doctoral contracts associated with some of those projects.

Likewise, the researcher Edgard Camarós also got a project from the Emerxente line within the Consolidation and structuring of competitive research units program of the Xunta de Galicia.

The CISPAC publishes today, July 29, 2024, the bases of the Xan de Forcados program by which three postdoctoral research grants are called for members of the CISPAC. This denomination seeks to honor Don Xoán López Suárez (1880-1970), promoter of JAE activities in Galicia and also of the Misión Biolóxica de Galicia, among other centers.

The purpose of the call is to support three collaborative research projects (maximum €4000 per application) for postdoctoral researchers attached to CISPAC with the category "non-permanent" or "collaborating" researcher.

The deadline for submission of applications will begin the day after the publication on the CISPAC website and will end 15 calendar days from the day after its publication.

The CISPAC celebrated the welcome ceremony for the center's new research staff in the Edificio Fontán of the Cidade da Cultura. The event began with a formal greeting to the new members, at which point Pilar Bermejo Barrera, vice-chancellor of Scientific Policy at USC, intervened; and the members of the management team Lourenzo Fernández Prieto (scientific director), Laura Oso (deputy director) and Xavier Simón (transfer director).

Yesterday, July 15, a new CISPAC Scientific Committee meeting took place at 9:30 a.m. in the center's facilities. It was attended in person by Lourenzo Fernández Prieto (scientific director, USC), Laura Oso (deputy director, UdC) e Xavier Simón (transfer manager, UVigo), together with Stefania Barca (USC), Elvira Santiago Gómez (UdC), José Carlos Sánchez Pardo (USC), David Peón Pose (UdC) and José Antonio Fraiz Brea (UVigo). They were joined by Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade (UdC) and Trinidad Domínguez Vila (UVigo) telematically.

The Asociación Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas (HDH) has just celebrated a new edition of the HDH awards, which annually award scientific proposals linked to the digital landscape and the humanities. On this occasion, the Interuniversity Master's in Digital Cultural Heritage was awarded in the category of Best Training Initiative of 2023.

This master's degree was born as a new generation initiative developed from the Institutional Chair of Digital Cultural Heritage, integrated in CISPAC. Among its objectives is the training of expert personnel in the digital treatment of heritage in all its meanings, with a comprehensive vision of the historical and cultural heritage universe, as well as the development of transversal skills based on general and multidisciplinary skills.

Between July 12, 2024 and January 5, 2025, the exhibition "Unha vida viquinga" can be visited at the Museo Centro Gaiás (Cidade da Cultura, Santiago de Compostela). It consists of more than 120 pieces from Sweden, Denmark, France, Spain, Galicia and the Shane McLeod private collection.

The exhibition aims to show the contact of this civilization in the diaspora, also in Galicia, where the Viking presence was noticeable on the Galician coast. There are traces of this process in the Ría de Arousa, the riverside of Ulla or the Mariña (Lugo).

The curator is Irene García Losquiño (Elche, 1984), PhD in Scandinavian Studies, MA in Medieval Studies (University of Aberdeen), specialist in the Viking Age and CISPAC researcher.

Next July 15, CISPAC is organizing a welcome event for the new research staff assigned to the center.

At this meeting, the facilities and lines of work will be presented to new researchers, as well as a series of parallel sessions per thematic field. Some of the main elements that will be discussed will be linked to the services offered by the center, as well as what this new assigned staff can contribute to it, as well as exchanges and joint collaboration proposals for projects and other thematic initiatives.

The event will begin at 10:30 a.m., and will carry out the activities discussed throughout the morning.

On July 1st, a meeting of the Governing Council took place in the Pazo de San Xerome of the University of Santiago de Compostela and by telematic means for remote attendees.

The main point discussed was the incorporation of new research personnel to the center. In addition to the 72 current members, 44 new researchers representing the three Galician universities have joined: 16 from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 14 from the Universidade de Vigo and 14 from the Universidade da Coruña. The Governing Council values positively this new incorporation process, which highlights the researcher's career and prestige at international level, as well as an improvement in the gender balance at the center. This reinforces the idea of a qualitative leap in CISPAC's configuration.

Next Thursday, July 4th, the Consello da Cultura Galega hosts the conference 'As rodas do Bronce Final en Galicia: entre os mortos e para os vivos' (The Late Bronze Age in Galicia: among the dead and for the living). This will take place at the headquarters of the institution, on the 2nd floor of the Paxo de Raxoi (Praza do Obradoiro, s/n, Santiago de Compostela) throughout the day, from 9 am to 8 pm.

Two CISPAC researchers are also part of the program. On the one hand, Pilar Prieto Martínez will present three papers, and on the other hand, Mª Guadalupe Castro González will present one. Both are also members of the EcoPast group and the USC.

CISPAC signs a new collaboration agreement for the archaeological excavation in Castro Valente (Padrón, A Coruña). It will be directed by José Carlos Sánchez Pardo, researcher in charge of the project, and will count with the participation of Mario Pereiro Fernández.

The Council of Padrón is the promoter of the event, which will develop an archaeological excavation of 2 weeks of duration in the site of Castro Valente.