La Palma Research Centre

La Palma Research Centre (LPRC) is an independent, internationally active think-tank headquartered on Isla de La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain.

Latest LPRC news

AIRSHIP Project Midpoint Consortium Meeting (3-5 December, Azores)

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CIRAN 3rd Consortium Meeting (Bologna, Italy)

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LPRC joins a new Horizon Europe project: GENESIS

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Macaronight 2024 – another successful event!

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La Palma Research Centre organizes the MacaroNight 2024

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𝐋𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐚, 𝐮𝐧𝐚 𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐜𝐜𝐢ó𝐧 𝐝𝐞 𝐈+𝐃+𝐢 𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐚 𝐑𝐈𝐒𝟑 𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐝𝐚, La Palma, 1 August

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TIMREX Steering Commitee Meeting, 27-28 June 2024, Wroclaw, Poland

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CRM-geothermal 3rd General Assembly, 3-5 July 2024, Munich, Germany

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START Consortium Meeting, 6 & 7 June 2024, Oslo, Norway

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PERSEPHONE Meeting, 10 & 11 April 2024, Brussels, Belgium

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LPRC co-hosted the recent CRM-geothermal webinar

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INVESTIGO Research Fellows 2024

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FIREFLY Project Consortium Meeting, Tenerife, January 2024

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LPRC Projects

  • AIRSHIP

    Autonomous Flying Ships for Inter-Island and Inland Waters Transport

  • FIREFLY

    FlexIble, predictive and Renewable Electricity powered electrochemical toolbox For a sustainable transition of the catalyst-based European chemicaL industrY

  • CRM-geothermal

    Raw materials from geothermal fluids: occurrence, enrichment, extraction

  • START

    Sustainable Energy Harvesting Systems Based on Innovative Mine Waste Recycling

  • ROBOMINERS

    Resilient Bio-inspired Modular Robotic Miners

  • MacaroNight

    MSCA for the Macaronesian public to develop careers in sciences

Where to meet us?

  • RTC25: From Raw Material Policies to Practice

    When: 19-21 February 2025
    Where: Ljubjana, Slovenia
    Related projects: CIRAN
    More information: Explore how policies translate into real-world practices at IRTC25 in Ljubljana, where researchers, industry players, policymakers, and thought leaders convene to delve into the latest innovations and strategies shaping the future of critical raw materials. Over three dynamic days, this event will gather participants from around the globe to explore the most pressing issues and new advancements in critical raw materials.

  • EUSEA 2025

    When: 14-15 May 2025
    Where: Elder Museum of Science and Technology, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain)
    Related projects: MacaroNight
    More information: Participants will have the chance to explore encouraging and challenging discussions in the framework of an island territory, namely, the Canary Islands. This will offer participants a unique context to better understand the perspectives and experiences related to science communication in public engagement in different geographical and societal environments and sometimes isolated territories.