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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

📢 We’re proud to share that Alex Velert, PhD researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, has been featured by Levante, in an interview exploring the electoral impact of the DANA, the devastating rainfall event that struck Valencia in 2024. #AlexVelert #UPF #UniversitatPompeuFabra #DANA #Valencia

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Welcome to the new addition to the team, Séréna Aupoix! 🫶🏽 ✍🏽 Her research within DIVERSE will focus on Catalunya and Madagascar, exploring environmental justice and digital resistance through relational and decolonial thinking.

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Meet Cecilia Gebruers! 💚 She is a Marie Curie fellow, joining DIVERSE group from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona Cecilia has nearly 15 years of experience as a human rights advocate and clinical professor. Her research focus on property and land rights, extractivism and water conflicts.

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

👏 Meet our team member, Carolina Gallardo! She is responsible for the administrative and financial management of the grant, including budget planning and monitoring, resource allocation, HR recruitment and selection processes, staff hiring, reporting, and compliance with ERC rules.

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Welcome to the DIVERSE team, Inês! 💚 Inês holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics & Economics from King’s College London and an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics. #DIVERSEProject #welcometotheteam #environmentaljustice #indigenousresearch

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

On June, our team coordinator, Beatriz Rodriguez-Labajos, joined the Green Trade Lab Workshop 2026, “Embedding Trade within Planetary Boundaries: Towards a Common, Equitable Future”, hosted by the Sustainability Research Group at the University of Basel, in Switzerland.

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

🌎 Why does World Indigenous Peoples' Day matter? Because they deserve respect to their lifes, lands and culture. They are also at the forefront of protecting some of the world's most biodiverse territories that face pressure from climate change, extractive activities and political threats.

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Thank you, Lev! 🙌 As Lev Jordà Vico wraps up his time with the DIVERSE team, we'd like to thank him for his dedication, curiosity, and thoughtful contributions as an intern.

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

👋 Welcome to the team, Anna Schlingmann! Our new Database & GIS Specialist joins DIVERSE to help map and manage the data behind our research. 🌍 #DiversePeople #WelcomeToTheTeam #DIVERSEproject #GIS

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

🌍 Today Juliana Valencia, joined our weekly team meeting to share her master’s thesis on the transformative impact of multimedia exhibitions in raising climate awareness — how art, science & tech can drive real change in what people feel and do. 🧵

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🎮 Workshop recap! We hosted Dargan Frierson (UW, EarthGames.org) to talk climate justice videogames. Key idea: games make the invisible visible & let people step inside stories of struggle 🌍✊ Interested? Check: tr.ee/dRoffzxgnb

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Congratulations to Mia Lanca, for a very successful defence of her master's thesis "Building Technological Sovereignty from the Bottom-up: Understanding the Success of Catalonia’s Grassroots Digital Initiatives" (European Politics and Society: Václav Havel Joint Master Programme) 🎉

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Monday’s discussion on climate coloniality was a powerful reminder of why these kind of conversations matter ✊🏾 ❤️ Thank you to the speakers and everyone who participated. Your contribution made all the difference. #ClimateJustice #PoliticalEcology #ClimateColoniality #DIVERSEproject

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Live now at UPF Barcelona: Prof. Farhana Sultana, presenting her new book "Confronting Climate Coloniality: Decolonizing Pathways for Climate Justice" 🌍📖 Rich responses from Mary Ann Manahan and Joan Martínez Alier, now open Q&A with the audience.

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

☕ Before the main event, we kicked things off with an informal colloquium bringing together researchers based in Barcelona for a relaxed coffee chat with Prof. Farhana Sultana. Streaming of the event: 👇https://www.upf.edu/web/guest/retransmissions/campus-ciutadella (Click on "Sala Polivalent")

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Last day of #POLLEN2026! 👉Yesterday, the DIVERSE team convened panel P058: “Between grassroots digital praxis and transformative scholarship — seeking deep narratives beyond the digital divide.” Moderated by Beatriz Rodriguez-Labajos and with the intervention of Constanza Monterrubio Solís, PhD.

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Great to see our colleague Balša Lubarda presenting at #POLLEN2026! His talk, “Centre-right politics of environment in times of far-right mainstreaming,” introduced a forthcoming special issue in Environmental Politics and sparked an engaging discussion on changing environmental politics.

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

DIVERSE at #POLLEN2026 🌍 Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos presented on how grassroots initiatives defending biocultural diversity navigate digitalisation — and how relationality, not performance, seems to be driving this process. With Constanza Monterrubio Solís & DIVERSE team 👈🏽

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

📢 1st participation of DIVERSE in POLLEN 👉 Workshop recap: Digital Grassroots in Practice: How are digital tools transforming the construction of counter narratives within environmental struggles? 👏🏽

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🌿 We're participating at POLLEN 2026 in Barcelona! 🗓 June 30 — Workshop: Digital Grassroots in Practice (Constanza Monterrubio) 🗓 July 1 — DIVERSE Panel 42 + presentation by Balsa Lubarda 🗓 July 2 — DIVERSE Panel 58 on digital praxis & transformative scholarship

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

📢 We are hiring! 👉 Research Assistant for the ERC-DIVERSE project, led by Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos, based at JHU-UPF Public Policy Center, Barcelona. Part-time (25h/wk), 2-yr contract, starts Sept 2026. Deadline: 6 July 2026 Apply: apply.interfolio.com/188097 Ref. CPIS-PSR-2026-14

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

📢 July 6th, 11h — Barcelona + online: A conversation with Farhana Sultana! (Syracuse U.) on her book ‘Confronting Climate Coloniality’ 👉 In person or stream online. Registration: tr.ee/JFmDT9bj2O

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

🌿 In the Amazon, the plant expert isn't the biologist but the Indigenous person. At this month's DIVERSE workshop, Ricard Scoles (UFOPA, Brazil) reminded us that researching *with* Amazonian communities — not *about* them — changes everything: the questions, the methods, and the knowledge produced.

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

💕 Big day for one member of the DIVERSE team! Alex Velert just defended his thesis on Governance of Planned Relocations under Climate Change 🎓 👉Alex answered a relevant question: How does digitalisation shape the agency of communities forced to move by climate? Congratulations! 👏

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🌿Do grassroots communities lack digital capacity — or do they simply make relational choices about technology? 👉Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos (main PDI of DIVERSE) just shared interim findings linking care, community & connection to strategies of transformation ↓

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

🌿 Happy World Biodiversity Day! 🐝 According to Martínez-Alier & Rodríguez-Labajos (2025), main PDI of the DIVERSE project, the key to preserving life on Earth will be the social metabolism of wealthy nations and embracing redistribution over endless growth.

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Save the date! 📅 We're excited to announce 'Confronting Climate Coloniality: A Conversation with Prof. Farhana Sultana' — coming to UPF Campus Ciutadella on July 6th, 2026! Follow us for programme details and registration info 📣

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

💻❓ Do grassroots movements shaping socioecological change engage with digital technologies — and if so, how and why? The DIVERSE project proposes that relationality, not performance, drives these decisions, and this talk presents interim findings from expert interviews exploring that hypothesis 🔎

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Universitat Pompeu Fabra @upf.edu · 08/05/2026

#MaríaDeMaeztu El @politiquesupf.bsky.social de la #UPFBarcelona, reconegut com a unitat d’excel·lència María de Maeztu pel Ministeri de Ciència, Innovació i Universitats @sommalliance.bsky.social. Amb aquest, ja són tres els departaments de la UPF acreditats amb aquesta distinció. ℹ️ tuit.cat/8rJZg

El Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials de la UPF, reconegut com a unitat d’excel·lència María de Maeztu.

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Did you know that rising sea temperatures are feminising sea turtles along our coastlines? 🐢🌊

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

🌿 Do you want to know more about environmental justice? Don't miss the event at Ateneu Barcelonès, @ateneubcn.cat where three leading researchers will explore how ecological economics, political ecology, and environmental justice connect — and why it matters now more than ever.

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

📢 Last week, our home institution, UPF, awarded its highest academic distinction — the Doctor Honoris Causa — to Nelga Nowotny and Maria Leptin. Two scientists who didn't just do groundbreaking research, but built ERC, the infrastructure for independent, curiosity-driven science across Europe. 👩‍🔬 🧵

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Open science is central to erc.europa.eu projects. DIVERSE contributes by promoting multidisciplinary collaboration and research transparency. To put this into practice, our #DataManagementPlan is now available. You can explore the Data Management Plan here: www.upf.edu/documents/d/...

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Congratulations to Joan Martínez-Alier and DIVERSE's Beatriz Rodriguez-Labajos, for their new publication in World Development. Martínez-Alier, J., & Rodríguez-Labajos, B. (2025). Development as multidimensional environmental impoverishment. World Development, 199, 107228. doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We’re excited to share that our blog post reflecting on how grassroot transformative initiatives are engaging with digital practices has been published on @pollenetwork.bsky.social! Thank you to POLLEN for sharing our work! Read the blog here: pollenpoliticalecology.network/between-digi...

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Between digital practice and transformative models: narratives beyond the digital divide and the DIVERSE project - POLLEN

By Claire Karaguesian and the DIVERSE Team By Claire Karaguesian and the DIVERSE Team By Claire Karaguesian and the DIVERSE Team

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DIVERSE UPF (ERC-project) @diverse-project.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Call for Papers! The DIVERSE project is excited to host Panel P058, exploring how digitalisation shapes environmental justice and biocultural diversity worldwide at #POLLEN2026 @pollenetwork.bsky.social. We welcome speakers from academia and beyond. Panel information: nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...

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P058: Between grassroots digital praxis and transformative scholarship - seeking deep narratives beyond the digital divide

Oral presentations (by speakers outside & inside academia). The audience will be encouraged to share stories of transformative digitalisation too.

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Universitat Pompeu Fabra @upf.edu · 26/06/2025

La #UPFBarcelona organitza el II Congrés d'Humanitats Ecològiques per repensar la relació amb el planeta des d'un punt de vista transdisciplinari. Un intercanvi d'idees entre l'àmbit acadèmic i la societat civil sobre els canvis necessaris davant la crisi ambiental. f.mtr.cool/esgwnijadn

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