The mobilizing R&D project, CyChest – Gestão integrada do ciclo do castanheiro no Parque Natural de Montesinho, coordinated by Isabel M. Martins, Assistant Researcher at LSRE-LCM, was approved under the “Promove 2023” Program promoted by the Foundation “La Caixa” and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). A global budget of 250,000 euros was guaranteed for the CyChest project development in cooperation with the partner CIMO-IPB. The “Promove 2023” program aims to support innovative initiatives in strategic domains for developing inland regions with border dynamics replicable for other regions with similar characteristics.

Cychest project intends to promote better integration of waste management of chestnut production in the Parque Natural de Montesinho activities, with actions targeted at soil protection and pest control and creating value to guarantee the sustainability of the park's activities. The planned strategy is based on the valorisation of residues from the chestnut production by extracting compounds with high added value from their residues.

Please access the link for more details on the “Promove” Program.

LSRE-LCM congratulates Rafael Morais for his PhD thesis defense on July 28, 2023. 

Rafael finished the Doctoral Program in Chemical and Biological Engineering, with a PhD thesis entitled "Noble-metal free carbon-based materials for energy conversion" supervised by Professor Fernando Pereira and Doctor Natalia Rey Raap (INCAR-CSIC).

The staff and team of LSRE-LCM wish Rafael Morais success in the new professional stage that will now begin!