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NEWS AND EVENTS


SURCO workshop
We just wrapped up the SURCO workshop, funded by FORMAS, on Climate Change, Water Scarcity & Biodiversity: How Rural Communities Choose...
3 days ago


Impact Metrics and Open Repositories: Keys to Collaborative and Transparent Science
Andrés Palacio participated as a main panelist in the webinar: “Impact Metrics and Open Repositories: Keys to Collaborative and...
Dec 11, 2024


FORMAS conference on oceans and water
At the recent FORMAS conference on oceans and water, I presented research on the critical role of groundwater reserves in supporting...
Nov 28, 2024


Introducing the First Speakers for the Research Initiative of Colombian Studies Seminar Series: Climate Change, Environment, and Water Edition
We are excited to announce the first set of speakers for our upcoming seminar series at Lund University, focusing on Climate Change,...
Sep 24, 2024

Call for papers WEHC Session
Call for papers WEHC Session - CfP: “Collective action in local common-pool resources: water crises from a global economic history...
Sep 5, 2024


SEI - Stockholm Environmental Institute
The water unit at the Stockholm Environmental Institute, composed of Tania Santos, Sebastian Palomino, Camilo Sanabria, and David Zamora,...
Aug 23, 2024


CARSUCRE
We visited CARSUCRE, the local environmental authority in Sucre. We had a long conversation with Gustavo Perez, the person in charge of...
Aug 15, 2024


Corpoguajira
The Surco team interviewed Dr. Samuel Lanao Robles, director of Corpoguajira. We had a thorough conversation about water needs in la...
Aug 13, 2024


Comprehensive Introduction to QGIS: FORMAS Project
The course "Comprehensive Introduction to QGIS: FORMAS Project" was concluded between August 5th and 8th at the facilities of the...
Aug 9, 2024


Universidad de La Guajira
Today, we had an insightful discussion with Professor Daiver Pinto from Universidad de La Guajira . Together with Cristina Chaminade...
Aug 8, 2024


The start of our fieldwork in Colombia
We're excited to announce the start of our fieldwork in Colombia aimed at enhancing the sustainable development of rural and dispersed...
Aug 5, 2024

Call for Abstracts: Research Initiative of Colombian Studies Seminar SeriesClimate Change, Environment, and Water Edition
We invite submissions for the upcoming seminar series on Climate Change, Environment, and Water, taking place at Lund University. If you...
Jul 31, 2024

2025 World Economic History Congress : Our session "Collective action in local common pool resources" has been accepted
We are happy to inform you that our session on water crises was accepted for the World Economic History Congress in Lund in july 2025....
Jul 5, 2024


Stockholm, Academic Forum Chile - Sweden Sustainable water use, food security and transformative climate policy - interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives from Chile, Sweden and beyond
Montserrat Lopez and Andrés Palacio had the pleasure to join a diverse group of researchers working on sustainable water development. The...
Jun 14, 2024


Social cartography on the run: welcome to Giancarlo Macchi from University of Siena, Italy
Associate professor Macchi has accepted our invitation to join the team and produce the protocols, the material and do the lecturing to...
May 6, 2024


Environmental DNA at sight in Sucre
After many phone calls and contacts, Leidys Murillo and John Asprilla could produce some evidence of the existence of the piezometer. The...
Apr 22, 2024


Christina Chamide
"I have just returned from a field trip to Colombia, in the framework of a project on the nexus of water-biodiversity-climate change. We...
Mar 9, 2024

Uniguajira
"In order to advance studies that allow for an understanding of how different actors cooperate in the management and use of water and how...
Mar 8, 2024


Public leadership for sustainable transitions
At the Externado de Colombia, our team member, Prof. Cristina Chaminade, took part in a panel about public leadership for sustainable...
Mar 7, 2024


Humboldt institute
At the Humboldt institute, we met Natalia Flórez, sub-director of Bioeconomy. She laid out the Institute´s whole agenda. We plan to share...
Mar 6, 2024


Institute of Hidrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (IDEAM)
At the Institute of Hidrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (IDEAM in Spanish), Fabio Bernal, sub-director of...
Mar 5, 2024


Empowering rural communities under climate change and water scarcity
Andrés Palacio, Associate professor in Economic History at LUSEM, recently got funded by Formas
Oct 21, 2023
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