Three days of field surveys, presentations, discussions, and training activities have closed the IRIS project. In the first day, the unique pastoral settlements known as katuns in the Sinjajevina mou...

End of summer has brought the EAA conference at Queen’s University in Belfast. This was a great opportunity to share IRIS project results from the Italian team and to discuss about them with internati...

During summer, the researchers of Municipal PhD and IRIS Project, from DAFIST and DISTAV department of University of Genova, carried out a fieldwork on terraced slopes in the site of Castagnello, in V...

This seems a very good year for grapefruits in the Cinque Terre National Park of Liguria. The spring season has been relatively rainy, while the summer started warm and sunny as it should be. This si...

Researchers from the MEMO Lab of University of Granada carried out activities in Río Verde.   Their first goal was to showcase the tangible heritage of the local communities and involve them actively...

During the winter of 2022-2023, researchers from the DAFIST and DISTAV department of University of Genova (Italy) carried out a participatory mapping activity in collaboration with schoolchildren and ...

On 3rd March, a fieldwork was carried out within the study area of the Cinque Terre National Park (Corniglia, Vernazza, SP), in a terraced area planted with vines owned by the La Polenza. The inspecti...

The photo reportage about the Sinjajevina crisis from Italian photographer Giacomo Lai in collaboration with GEODE group is out! Check the link above: https://parallelozero.com/sinjajevina-the-threa...

At the Marsano Agricultural Institute, researchers from the DAFIST and DISTAV of the University of Genoa (Italy) carried out participatory activities with students of the 3rd grade, in collaboration w...

Researchers of IRIS project and “Municipal PhD” from the University of Genova carried out various fieldwork activities in the Ligurian Apennine during summer and autumn 2022. The main area of interes...

The online magazine of the University of Genoa, UniGE.life, has just published an article about the first IRIS workshop 'The Living Rural Heritage of uplands - Practices in protection and cons...

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The workshop will be hosted by the Ristorante Albergo - Locanda "Lago delle Lame". The structure, located at an altitude of 1085 metres, is completely immersed in the Foresta delle Lame, a place-name ...

The 1st International Workshop of the IRIS project, entitled "The Living Rural Heritage of uplands", will be held on 6 and 7 April 2022. The  workshop will be the first opportunity to present the proj...