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Participant 4: Technical University of Madrid (UPM)

• Main Tasks: Staff exchange, research and networking
• Address: ETS Ingenieros de Montes, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, SPAIN
• Website: www.upm.es

General Information

UPM’s Schools cover most of engineering disciplines, as well as Architecture, Computer Science and Geodesy & Cartography. Moreover, UPM as a top quality academic establishment has a strong commitment to R&D and Innovation, boasting over 200 Research Units and over 10 Research Institutes and Technological Centres, and contributing significantly to the international scientific community with a high number of journal papers, conference communications, and PhD theses. The Research Group "Economics for a Sustainable Environment" was officially recognised by the Technical University of Madrid ("Universidad Politécnica de Madrid", UPM) in the first call of Research Groups in November of 2004. This Research Group includes 10 professors and associate professors all of them belonging to the Technical University of Madrid (UPM), as well as 4 external researchers.

Main research areas

The main lines of research of Economics for a Sustainable Environment Research Group are: Sustainable Forest Management, Theory and Applications of Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Group Decision-Making: Theory and Environmental applications, Economics of Wood-based industries, Management and pathology of urban forests, parks, gardens and riparian forests, Forest and Environmental valuation, Forest landscape planning and Biodiversity indicators in forest inventory and management

Key Persons

Dr. Luis Diaz-Balteiro, Associate Professor of the Department of Forest Management and Economics Dr. Carlos Romero, Professor of the Department of Forest Management and Economics and Head of "Economics for a Sustainable Environment" Research Group.

International collaboration

The UPM researchers have large expertise in research projects participation both at national and international level. The presence of UPM in the international R&D arena is ensured by its consistent participation in various EU programmes. As UPM participation in the 6th Framework Programme is concerned, the University has taken part in 149 European R&D projects with more than 25 M€ of funding received from the European Commission. After the first three years of duration of the 7th Framework Programme the UPM has been recognised as the Spanish University with the highest number of projects approved, with more than 107 projects and 26 M€ of funding.