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.

On Wednesday, September 26, Daniel Alejandro Rodríguez Cadena held a seminar in the ICTA-ICP building to present his project "Urban-periurban community agriculture in Quito", about rooftop-green houses he carried out in Ecuador.

Some of the main researchers of the FertileCity II project who participated were the doctors: Xavier Gabarrell, Joan Rieradevall, Maria Rosa Rovira of the UAB and Alejandro Josa of the UPC. The doctors also participated: Carmen Hervada, Adria Muros, Eusebi Jarauta (UPC), Isabel Pont, Eva Cuerva and Violeta Vargas. Like the doctoral students of the Sostenipra group who presented the results of the project.