SARAS takes part in Sustainable Tourism seminar at the Catholic University of Uruguay Photo by: Universidad Católica del Uruguay Last September 17th and 18th at the headquarters of the Catholic University of Uruguay (UCU), the seminar “Sustainable Tourism, present and future challenges” took place. The event was organised by [...]

UNESCO approves new Chair on Anticipation and Resilience at SARAS SARAS Institute has been part of the UNESCO Chairs Programme since 2017 through a UNITWIN Network on the topic of Climate Change and Decision Making. The new Socio-Cultural Anticipation and Resilience Chair has recently been approved after the conclusion of [...]

Colloquium “Climate Policy: challenges and perspectives" Climate Change is a reality that presents multiple challenges at different spatiotemporal scales. With the aim of addressing such challenges and their impact on public policies, SARAS Institute and Konrad Adenauer Foundation Montevideo are co-organizing a colloquium entitled “Climate Politics: challenges and perspectives". The [...]

SARAS presents project closure results with FAO and MGAP The meeting that marked the closure of the project “Analysis of vulnerability, resilience and climate change adaptation of Uruguay's productive sectors”, which had been in execution by SARAS though a Letter of Agreement with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the [...]

First workshop on Science-Policy dialogue in Uruguay, in the context of LatinoAdapta “Latino Adapta: Strengthening the links between science and governments for the development of climate-related policies in Latin America” is a research initiative that seeks to identify and analyse the knowledge gaps affecting the development and implementation of measures and [...]

Recorded webinar “Human and non-human animals in the jungle, the river, culture and climate change” This webianr was held on July 25th, 2018 and was delivered by Francisco Bustamante Professor of Literary Theory at Instituto de Profesores Artigas -Teachers Training Institute- and Latin-American Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences of [...]

SARAS 2018 Eighth Public Conference held in Montevideo On December 5, 2018, SARAS Institute held the eighth edition of the series of public conferences with the event entitled "Ecosystem services: knowledge development and decision-making". The event was attended by national and international researchers, as well as representatives from various institutions and [...]

Webinar: “Language’s trap: when our words mean something else” Online seminar delivered by Prof. Andrea Casals, as part of the Environmental Humanities series, a topic promoted by SARAS Institute for Latin America after the conference “Environmental Humanities for the 21st Century”. During her presentation, Casals will approach the idea of the [...]