2nd International Conference on Resilience and Sustainable Regions
2-4 July 2025
Setúbal, Portugal
The International Conference on Resilience and Sustainable Regions is an international conference organized by Polytechnic University of Setúbal (IPS) with the participation of several international and national institutions. Institutions from Portugal, as well from E³UDRES² Alliance, Businet and International Business Week Network, joined efforts to reflect, discuss, and share advances and trends on different scientific areas that contribute to the resilience and sustainability of the regions.
The conference focuses on exploring and reinforcing the relationship between management and the different areas of technology and engineering to stimulate the development and sustainability of the regions.
With a multidisciplinary approach it is expected that this conference will be attend by participants from more than 15 countries and attracts an interesting public combining academic scholars, practitioners and individuals who are engaged in the topics of:
- Resilient Economy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Collaboration, Governance and Networks
- Marketing, Product and Branding
- Technological, Engineering and Environmental Solutions
- Regional Development and Sustainability
- Finance, Investments and Funding
- Society, Education, People and Behaviour
- Sectoral studies on Tourism, Agriculture, among others
- Sustainability in construction and buildings
- Artificial Intelligence in Environmental Sustainability studies
- ESG Reporting and Organizational Sustainability Accountability
Keynotes
Climate Modelling and AI for a Resilient Earth in the Context of Climate Change
Keynote Speaker: Pedro Matos Soares
- Assistant Professor at the Department of Geographical Engineering, Geophysics and Energy, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon.
- Principal Researcher at Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon.
- idlcc.fc.ul.pt/people.php?id=32
- pmsoares@fc.ul.pt
Pedro Matos Soares is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geographical Engineering, Geophysics and Energy and Principal Researcher at the Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), both at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. His PhD in Physics focused on turbulence and clouds in atmospheric models.
Over the last 3 decades he has focused his research efforts on climate modeling, climate change, and energy and sustainability, leading from 2018 to 2022, the IDL research group on Climate change, atmosphere-land-ocean processes and extremes.
He was an active member in 13 international (PI of 1) and 13 national (PI of 5) projects and coordinates the Portuguese CORDEX team endorsed by WRCP. He was the scientific coordinator of the EEA grants project “National Roadmap for Adaptation 2100 – Assessment of the vulnerability of the Portuguese territory to climate change in the 21st century (RNA 2100)”, and led the “Regional Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change in the Alentejo” and the “Municipal Climate Action Plan of Barcelos”.
Recently, he was appointed to the Portuguese Council for Climate Action, and is a member of the Scientific Committee of the PhD Program in Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies and of the Scientific Commitee of the Portuguese Council for Health and Environment. In the context of climate change and its impacts, it has strong collaboration with institutions such as the Lisbon City Council (Lisbon-Enova), the Health authorities, the Portuguese Environment Agency, E-REDES, CCDRs, and many others.
He has published more than 130 scientific articles in refereed international journals and carried out hundreds of international communications and outreach presentations; and, is a science communicator with a constant presence in the media. In 2020 he received the University of Lisbon/Caixa Geral Depósitos award for scientific production in the last 5 years in Earth Sciences, and in 2022 the Prize from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon in Earth Sciences.
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