New SARAS Chair on Sociocultural Anticipation and Resilience was presented at Executive Tower The UNESCO Chair on Sociocultural Anticipation and Resilience based at SARAS Institute was presented last October 26th, 2018 through two events held at the Executive Tower in Montevideo, Uruguay.. In the morning, a meeting was held with different [...]

Conference and book presentation: “Transforming the Future. Anticipation in the 21st Century” “Transforming the Future. Anticipation in the 21st Century” constitutes the first event organized by the recently approved UNESCO Chair on Sociocultural Anticipation and Resilience based at SARAS Institute. This activity will include a presentation by Riel Miller (leader [...]

New contribution on the potential of present actions in relation to the possible future trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene Human beings constantly interact with the environment in the same way that our environment continually interacts with us. That is because we are part of an integrated whole, often [...]

Executive Director of SARAS presents results from LatinoAdapta during the Climate Week in Montevideo From August 20 to 23 the Latin America & Caribbean Climate Week 2018 took place in Montevideo, Uruguay. This event tried to advance climate action at a regional level with the goal of supporting the “implementation of [...]

Colloquium “Climate Policies: Challenges and perspectives" full recording The colloquium “Climate Policies: Challenges and perspectives", an activity co-organized by SARAS Institute and Konrad Adenauer Foundation Montevideo, took place last September 13th at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the Republic, Montevideo. The speakers of the event were Prof. Eduardo Viola, [...]

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 [...]