Innovation for Sustainable Development (Innovación para el Desarrollo Sostenible IDI – SOS)

This team aims at promoting and strategically managing research projects related to sustainable development and innovation, from a participatory scope, including social, cultural and political equity, and economic effectiveness perspectives, as well as the rational use of natural resources, ecological sustainability, orderly territorial development and appropriate technologies.

Coordinator: Dra. Marta Tostes Vieira

We are renowned researchers in generating scientific evidence aimed at creating innovative sustainable development models. We have experience in studies that integrate economic, social, environmental and technological factors, the purpose of which has been to generate socially fair and ecologically balanced development processes. We defend inter- and intra- generational equity, which requires directing investment and scientific and technological progress towards meeting the needs of different human groups in the present, without compromising the possibility of future generations to meet theirs.

Ecological management for sustainable development

Strategic organization management for systemic innovation with a sustainable development perspective
Agricultural innovation for sustainable development in regional productive chains
Renewable energies for productivity and quality-of-life improvement in urban and rural areas
Systematization of training, technology transfer and training processes for sustainable productive innovation
Technological innovation for developing productive sectors
Make proposals for agricultural innovation programs for sustainable development based on public policies, evidence and experiences
Social innovation for human development
Biodiversity management for innovation
Economic valuation of environmental services
Strategic environmental assessments
Socio-environmental baselines
Analysis of socio-environmental risks and impacts
Technological needs for management, processes and services