On Thursday 26/06/2019, 26 students from Wageningen University (master’s degree International Land and Water Management) visited Jijona’s plantation with their teachers Teun Vogel and Luuk...
Archive for tag: Communication actions
Dr Francisco González Artiles, Cocoon technology – “New and very simple”
Dr Francisco González Artiles, Technical Officer of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, explains how the reforestation process is carried out in desertified environments with Cocoon...
EU LIFE Regional Information & Networking Day on the LIFE program
The past Tuesday 07/05/2019 was the event the EU LIFE Regional Information & Networking Day on the LIFE program and the new 2019 call. The...
Replication activities in Italy – Apulia
Update: another replication site established in Italy within The Green Link Project: Apulia on March 25th 2019 agricultural company Guaceto completed the planting of 50...
Local awareness events are being taken in Italy – Caldarelli Highschool
Local awareness events are being taken in Italy At the highschool “Cardarelli” of Tarquinia a series of events dedicated to LIFE The Green Link have...
Visit of students to CIDE-CSIC facilities
Visit of students to CIDE-CSIC facilities Continuing with the dissemination activities of The Green Link project, past Tuesday 19/02/2019 CIDE-CSIC received the visit of a...
Celebrating National Tree Day in Italy
Celebrating National Tree Day in Italy On 21 and 22 November 2018, Catanzaro hosted the celebrations for the “ National Tree Day” organized by the...
Invitation to the 1st Meeting of the Iberian Ecological Society & XIV AEET Meeting next Feb 2019
1st Meeting of the Iberian Ecological Society & XIV AEET Meeting “Ecology: an integrative science in the Anthropocene” 4th-7th February 2019, Barcelona Spain Coinciding with...
Green Link Conference in Rome
On October 23rd, the LIFE Green Link team held a conference in Italy titled “Facing desertification in the Mediterranean with the Cocoon”. It took place...
Networking and Dissemination in Ciudad Real
Networking and dissemination in Ciudad Real Successful participation in the Joint International Conference of SECF + AEER working groups IV Reunión del Grupo de Trabajo...
Presentation of Green Link in Riocerezo (Burgos)
On February 25th, Volterra team participated in an environmental education event organized by Fundación Oxígeno in Burgos. During the event, a plantation of native species...
Visit of Land Life Company and Volterra to Campanarios de Azaba of Fundacion Naturaleza y Hombre
Following the visit of Egbert Sonneveld from Volterra to a tree planting plot of FNyH in Campanarios de Azaba (Salamanca), R&D Director Harry Lövenstein of...
Bioenergy day event at Agricultural University of Athens
4th December 2017, Bioenergy day event, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, The Bioenergy day event in Athens was organized by CERTH and HELLABIOM (Hellenic Biomass...
The ULPGC welcomes the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the LIFE programme
Successful participation of 8 LIFE Projects in the networking event organized by LIFE BAQUA Past Thursday, November 30th, the celebration of the 25 years of...
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES IN GRAN CANARIA
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES & INAUGURATION EVENT IN GRAN CANARIA In the framework of the XLVIII Tree Day in Gran Canaria, held on November 26th 2017, an inauguration...
Invitation to the networking event in Gran Canarias organized by LIFE BAQUA
NETWORKING EVENT BETWEEN LIFE Thursday, 30 of November 2017 9 to 11 hours Place: EDIFICIO POLIVALENTE 1. PARQUE CIENTÍFICO TECNOLÓGICO. TAFIRA BAJA. (Las Palmas, Gran Canaria) To download the...
Networking activity in Greece
As part of the AFTER LIFE activities, representatives from OPERATION CO2 project continue promoting their project at the International events in which they participate!. Today, our partners from LAND...
Summary about the project at DesertNet International
Summary about the project at DesertNet International CSIC-CIDE participates with a summary about the project in the newsletter DesertNet International Nº4 October 2017 To see the...
CSIC-CIDE visited a councilor for Environment and Rural Development at Jijona, Alicante
Local awareness activities in Valencia Local awareness activities in Valencia On October 24, Dr. Eugenia Gimeno researcher of the CSIC-CIDE has presented the The Green...
Local awareness activity and stakeholder consultation in the demonstrative area of Valencia
Local awareness activity and stakeholder consultation in the demonstrative area of Valencia Surveys in the demonstrative area of Valencia The CSIC-CIDE team visited the technical staff...
Meeting at the Agricultural Association of Regional Unit of Kozani
On 20th of September 2017 Mr. Akis Papadelis visited the facilities of the Agricultural Association of Regional Unit of Kozani. During his visit he informed...
Project poster in Almería and monitoring visit
On September 7th he CAESCG team visited the demonstration area of Almería in Chirivel During the visit the participants verified the installation of the information...
Volterra participates to a tree planting session by Maggi (Nestlé), Conesa and Fundación Global Nature in Badajoz
Maggi invited some of their most important stakeholders in Germany to visit the sustainable tomato production fields and facilities of Conesa in Badajoz last August...
Networking activities in Valencia – Tous
On the 5th of July, the CSIC-CIDE team received two professors from Wageningen University interested in knowing about the project: Dr.ir. L. (Luuk) Fleskens, Dr. Saskia...
Installation of the notice board in the demonstration area of Ptolemais
Taking advantage of the tehcnical monitoring visit to the demonstration area of Ptolemais, the CERTH team took a photo in front of the information board....
Volterra participates during the international conference on Climate Change Adaptation in Glasgow
During the 5th to the 9th of June 2017, the ECCA 3rd European Climate Change Adaptation conferece was held in Glasgow. ECCA 2017 was held...
Local awareness in Almería with the Velez Rubio school
On Monday, June 5th, celebrating World Environment Day, Santiaga responsible for the demonstration area of Almeria, presented to students the scope of The Green Link...
Visit of the Company Patagonia to the demonstration area of Almería
On Tuesday, June 6, the company Patagonia came to know the demonstration area of the project in Almeria. The company is aware of the impact...
VOLTERRA attends the EU Green Week summit in Brussels
On May 31st, representatives of VOLTERRA travelled to Brussels to be part of the EU Green Week Summit organized by the European Commission during the...
Local awareness with students in Almería
On May 30, 2017, Prof. Hermelindo Castro of the University of Almería and CAESCG, shared a session with the students of the subject Global Change,...
Networking LIFE Operation CO2
This week the Volterra team has represented LIFE The Green Link at the final conference of LIFE Operation CO2 in Palencia (Northern Spain). The conference...
UAL-CAESCG presents The Green Link at the InfoAgro Exhibition
From the 10 to 12 may, the InfoAgro Exhibition is organised in the Aguadulce Exhibition Centre in Almería. During the fair, producers and commercialists from...
Invitation to networking event in Gran Canaria
Cooperation event LIFE projects Monday, 22nd of May 2017 From 3 to 7.30 pm Finca de Osorio (Las Palmas, Gran Canaria) CONVOCATORIA The effects...
Project dissemination among students of professional education
Our partners of the Universtity of Almería organized an informative day for the higher professional education students from Almería. A group of students studying Forest...
Voluntary group of El Bruc (Catalonia) organizes communal reforestation
In order to promote the conservation of local fruit and forest tree species, the voluntary group of El Bruc will organize two events of local...
The Green Link meets with the University of Extremadura and the Global Nature Foundation.
On Thursday March 23rd, the Volterra team met with Gerardo Moreno of the University of Extremadura and Laura García of the Fundación Global Nature. Laura...
Is the cocoon interesting for farmers in Portugal? Water Management seminar in Evora
Is the cocoon interesting for farmers in Portugal? Water Management seminar in Evora The association of Dutch farmers in Portugal organised its annual meeting on...
Historias de Luz publishes video about The Green Link in Almeria
The online Andalucian news channel ´Historias de Luz (Histories of Light), has published a video in which our colleagues Hermelindo Castro and Inés Gutiérrez of...
The online magazine Historias de Luz interviews UAL-CAESCG about The Green Link
Last week, representatives of the online magazine Historia de Luz visited the project site of the University of Almeria in Chirivel. Historia de la Luz...
Start of the interviews and delivery of informative leaflets in El Bruc
The Creaf team has begun interviews with local stakeholders about their perceptions on the services that are delivered by the ecosystem they inhabit. Among the...
Opening event in El Bruc
On Thursday March 9, 2017, the Volterra and Creaf team celebrated a the inauguration of the demonstration area. The event was attended by the owners...
Placement of the informative panel in the demonstration area in Catalonia
The Volterra team visited the demonstration area in El Bruc, in order to place the informative panel next to the plantation site. The team took advantage of...
Land Life Company awarded with funding for environmental project on refugee camps
The Dutch Postcode Lottery has awarded a support of more than €2 million to the ´Green Refugee Camp´ project of the UNHCR and The Green...
Local awareness raising in El Bruc
Last Friday February 24, farmers of El Bruc met with their Counsillor of Environment, in order to discuss the possibilities of reproduction of the Vera...
The Catalonian forests suffer from summer droughts
Our partner CREAF has presented its annual monitoring report on the state of the Catalonian forests (DeBosCat) for 2016. The year was characterized by an extremely...
EC report confirms that climate change is threatening many ecosystem services
According to a scientific review by the University of the West of England that was published in the latest Science for Environment Policy news update of the...
Cocoon planting guide now available for download
This guide explains the preparations and steps to take in order to plant tres with the Cocoon method. It was developed by the Land Life Company and...
Succesful inauguration day in Chirivel, Almería
The inauguration event in Chirivel, Almería was organized by the owner of the demonstration area, Doña Santiaga Sánchez with the collaboration of UAL-CAESCG. The event...
Attendance to the international seminar: How to face climate change
Attendance to the international seminar: How to face climate change On the first of February 2017, Sven Kallen and Egbert Sonneveld participated at the Seminar ¿How...
Invitation to the inauguration of the demonstration area in El Bruc, Cataluña
Invitation to the inauguration of the demonstration area in El Bruc, Cataluña The partners of the Project LIFE THE GREEN LINK invite all citizens interested...
Mayor visits plantation site in Tous
Today the mayor of Tous, Mr. Cristóbal García Santafilomena, has visited the The Green Link project site that is located within his municipality. The mayor was...
Cooperation between LIFE The Green Link and the San Cebrián Foundation
This week Volterra and the Spanish San Cebrián Foundation have started the preparations for a planting that is planned to be executed this spring. The replication area...
The Green Link on Spanish National Radio
Tuesday the 17th of this month, the Spanish National Radio (RNE) interviewed Dr. Rubio of our project partner Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación-CSIC (CIDE-CSIC) on...
Creaf announces the Life The Green Link project
In order to give information and notoriety to the work done by The Green Link project, CREAF has put the large information poster at the...
Project leaflets and notice boards ready for distribution
Volterra has designed the leaflets and notice boards which are a valuable tool to disseminate information about the project to indirect stakeholders and the wider public....
Invitation to the inauguration of the demonstration area in Chirivel, Almería
Invitation to the inauguration of the demonstration area in Chirivel, Almería The partners of the Project LIFE THE GREEN LINK invite all citizens interested in...
Cocoon, a cardboard box free of irrigation to reforest the Mediterranean.
This Sunday, at the 13th of November, you can find an article in the newspaper, La Razón, about our European project The Green link, co-financed...
First step in replication of the project in Catalonia
On the 15th of October the team of Volterra visited Alella, in the province of Catalonia, to assist and help all the volunteers by planting...
Networking event for LIFE projects promoting sustainable forest management
On Tuesday, 5th of July, representatives of the LIFE projects MONTSERRAT, LIFE OPERACIÓN CO2 and the recently started GREEN LINK met at the premises of CREAF to...