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On February 6, 2025, the EcoPeak4Fish project concluded with a final event at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) – Campus Alameda, bringing together researchers, industry professionals, and stakeholders to discuss key findings and future directions for sustainable hydropower and aquatic ecosystem conservation. The event was also accessible online, for a broader engagement. The project led by …

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The SHAREe project (Jan 2023 to Jun 2024) it’s over! It was one and half year of intense work and collaboration between researchers from IST-ID, led by Isabel Boavida, and NTNU, led by Tor Haakon Bakken and Knut Alfredson, that ended up in a very interesting Seminar on Sustainable Hydropower. The scope of SHAREe project …

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The MSc student Gabriele Ferrari attended the 10th International Degrowth Conference that took place in Pontevedra, Spain, from 18 to 21 June. Hosted by the University of Vigo, this year the conference consisted of a joint conference of the international degrowth research networks and the European Society for Ecological Economics. This joint conference was part …

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Renan Leite, the PhD candidate at the University of Lisbon working on the EcoPeak4Fish project, presented the key outputs from the project at the X Iberian Congress of Ichthyology (SIBIC 2024) held in Catalonia from June 18-21, 2024.  The SIBIC congress, organized by the Iberian Society of Ichthyology and the University of Vic – Central …

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UROPE In early June, Renan Leite and Isabel Boavida attended the 8th IAHR Europe Congress that took place in LNEC, Lisbon, Portugal. Renan Leite presented the results from the EcoPeak4Fish project. He was also short listed among 24 other candidates for the IAHR Gerhard Jirka Award for Young Researchers 👏 This year conference was focused …

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In early May, Isabel Boavida and António Pinheiro, both from IST, traveled to Québec, Canada, to attend the 15th International Symposium on Ecohydraulics and Fish Passage. Isabel presented the laboratory experiments conducted as part of the EcoPeak4Fish project, where we tested the flow-refuge with native and exotic species. The conference covered a wide range of topics, …

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On the scope of the SHAREe project, the Seminar on Sustainable Hydropower funded by the EEA Grants Portugal took place at Instituto Superior Técnico las April 2nd. The event featured the participation of the colleagues from Norway Tor Haakon Bakken, Lennart Schönfelder, Christianne Solvag, Hanne Bjørnås Krogstie and Jo Halleraker (remotely). The Seminar brought together …

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We are delighted to announce that our efforts have been highlighted on the prestigious Newswise website!  Take a moment to read the article, where we delve into the innovative invention stemming from the EcoPeak4Fish project. Currently, we are in the process of crafting a comprehensive outreach strategy to bring this groundbreaking invention to commercial fruition. 

We are proud to have our fieldwork highlighted in the Water Journal cover!  As part of Issue 1, the paper entitled “Seasonal and Size-related Fish Microhabitat Use Upstream and Downstream from Small Hydropower Plants” was published in Water Journal this January covering the seasonal (early and late summer) and size-related (juveniles and adults) microhabitat use …

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We are happy to share that we submitted a provisional patent (nº 118955) application to protect the method of a flow refuge installation for fish as an output from T2&3 of the project. This invention relates to a method for installing a flow refuge shelter for fish downstream of hydropower dams. After many hours of …

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