UNAM Europe Permanent Seminar

Biodiversity, Climate Change and Water: Interdependent Challenges Date: 9 September 2025 · 18:00 (Spain time) Venue: Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid · C/Alcalá 42 Host : UNAM España Speakers:   Dra. Julia Carabias, Faculty of Sciences, UNAM Dr. Joaquín Giménez, Department of Botany, University of Santiago de Compostela Dr. Sergio Martos,  Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Institute of Geology and Mining of Spain Featured in Gaceta UNAM: "Seminario UNAM Europa propone soluciones basadas en la naturaleza"   by Dr Ciro Murayama, Director of CEM UNAM Spain. Overview The seminar will bring together specialists in biodiversity and water resources to examine the challenges of adapting to climate change. Scientific and policy perspectives from Mexico and Spain will be discussed, with a focus on sustainable water management and ecosystem conservation. Video: 

Climate Change and Pollution: Their Impacts on Marine Ecosystems UNAM Europe Permanent Seminar Date: 26 June 2025 Host: UNAM France Speakers: Carlos Robinson (UNAM) Cristina Romera (CSIC) Christophe Prazuck (Sorbonne Université) Raúl Zepeda (King’s College London) Programme: A decade of warming and declining productivity in the Gulf of California: exploring the drivers Speaker: Carlos Robinson, Researcher at the Institute of Marine Sciences and Limnology, and Director of the Fisheries Ecology Laboratory, UNAM The role of dissolved organic matter in oceanic carbon sequestration Speaker: Cristina Romera, Researcher at the Institute of Marine Sciences, CSIC, Barcelona Mission Bougainville: cost-effective and planetary monitoring of the microbiome Speaker: Christophe Prazuck, Director of the Ocean Institute, Sorbonne Université Historic Agreement for Net Zero Emissions in Maritime Transport Speaker: Raúl Zepeda, Research Associate at the Oxford Department of International Development and...

The National Autonomous University of Mexico strengthens its academic presence across the European continent through the Permanent Seminar of the UNAM Offices in Europe , comprising its branches in Germany, Spain, France and the United Kingdom. This initiative seeks to consolidate a shared space for dialogue and exchange among university communities—principally from UNAM—and European institutions, with the aim of fostering interdisciplinary cooperation, encouraging joint research, and promoting the dissemination of knowledge across diverse fields and disciplines. The Seminar will convene four times a year, rotating its host location, and will feature the participation of UNAM researchers alongside specialists from European universities and research centres. This effort reflects UNAM’s firm commitment to internationalisation and is fully aligned with the Institutional Development Plan. It also reinforces the active academic and scientific network that UNAM has built and sustained in E...