Prizes for best Bachelor's, Master's Degree Final Projects and Doctoral Thesis on Planetary Wellbeing 

The aim of this call is to award the best Bachelor's and Master's Degree Final Project (TFG and TFM) and the best Doctoral Thesis linked to Planetary Wellbeing.

• Prize for best Bachelor's Degree Final Project (TFG) on Planetary Wellbeing
  • The prize for the best Bachelor's Degree Final Project in Planetary Wellbeing is jointly organized by the UPF and the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change ESCI-UPF.
     
• Prize for Best Master's Degree Final Project (TFM) on Planetary Wellbeing
  • The prize for Best Master's Degree Final Project (TFM) on Planetary Wellbeing is jointly organized by the UPF, the UPF-BSM and the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change ESCI-UPF.
     
• Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis on Planetary Wellbeing
  • The prize for Best Doctoral Thesis on Planetary Wellbeing is organized by the UPF

Projects Funded by the Planetary Wellbeing initiative (2019-2023)

The bases of this call aim to promote interdisciplinary collaborations to provide seed funding opportunities to activities related to the Planetary Wellbeing concept. This call has been divided into different categories throughout the years: 

(1) actions aimed at PhD students who wish to steer their research in the direction of Planetary Wellbeing 

(2) actions aimed at postdoctoral researchers who wish to steer their research in the direction of Planetary Wellbeing 

(3) action aimed at promoting interdisciplinary workshops and conferences dedicated to the debate on cutting-edge research topics related to Planetary Wellbeing, and

(4) seed fund projects that, through collaborative research, allow the researchers to seek external funds to conduct larger projects by submitting proposals to international competitive calls.

Seminar Series (2023)

This seminar series, organized during 2023, was intended, on one side, to showcase UPF research on Planetary Wellbeing themes and, on the other side, to forge closer relations with researchers of other institutions. The talks were in hybrid format, every last Tuesday of the month, at 13-14 (GMT+1). Talks were open to anyone interested with previous registration. Find the recordings of our previous sessions here.

Projects related to Planetary Wellbeing (ongoing)

Please find below a list of ongoing projects related to Planetary Wellbeing:

• RAINDROPS -Resilience and Adaptation to Drylands (ERC grant, IP: Carla Lancelotti)
• H-MIP -Human Mosquito Interaction Project (ERC grant, IP: John Palmer)
• IDAlert -Infectious Disease decision-support tools and Alert systems (EU grant, IP: John Palmer)
• CATALYSE - Climate Action to Advance Healthy Societies in Europe (Horizon Europe, IP: Cathryn Tonne)
• PLANET4HEALTH - Translating Science into Policy: A Multisectorial Approach to Adaptation and Mitigation of Adverse Effects of Vector-Borne Diseases, Environmental Pollution and Climate. Change on Planetary Health (Horizon Europe, IP from UPF: John Palmer)
• Material Culture, Gender and Maintenance Activities in Making and Resisting Early Modern Colonial Globalization. A Long-term Perspective from the Mariana Islands (ERC, IP: Sandra Monton)
• Microcosmos BCN (Ajuntament de Barcelona i 'La Caixa', IP: Ricard Solé)

• Emerging projects from the collaboration with the Department of Information and Communication Technology (UPF) through the María de Maeztu strategic program (2023-2026). See more information here.