Last Wednesday, December 12th, the doctoral student Susana Toboso carried out with great success a participatory process with some residents of Badía del Valles to find out their opinion regarding the potential of using the roofs of their buildings. The main focus was the implementation of urban agriculture, solar panels and rainwater harvesting.

The ICTA-UAB researcher Gara Villalba, who participates in the FertileCity project, has been awarded one of the Consolidation Grants of the European Research Council (ERC) to carry out the project "Integrated vegetation systems analysis" and urban agriculture "(URBAG). More information in: https://ictaweb.uab.cat/noticies_news_detail.php?id=3517

Dr. Xavier Gabarrell, principal investigator of the FertileCityII Project together with the doctoral students of the SosteniPra research group, Susana Toboso and Ana María Manríquez, participated in the International Sustainable Production and Consumption Conference. The conference was held on October 4 and 5 in the city of Manchester, UK.

Doctoral student Susana Toboso gave an oral presentation entitled "Transforming cities: the water-energy-food nexus implementation on rooftops". The doctoral student Ana María Manríquez presented a poster with the title "Material Valorization of Rooftop Greenhouse Tomato Stems as a Way to Integrate the Biomass as Part of the Tomato Production Cycle" on October 4. On October 5, Dr. Xavier Gabarrell participated as moderator in the session of Circular Economy.

The now Doctor Ana Nadal held last Friday, September 28, her thesis defense with excellent qualification entitled: "Urban agriculture in the framework of sustainable urbanism" in the framework of the Doctorate program in Environmental Science and Technology within the research group Sostenipra.