At Punta de Gáldar, a lab where Canary prototypes turn into products
Inside a building at the Circular Economy Experimental Area of Punta de Gáldar, things that until recently existed only on paper have been getting tested since mid-July. This is where, on 14 July, the Canary Islands Technological Institute opened its new R&D&I Space, an environment built not for theoretical research but for the trickiest step […]
Eight farms, one algorithm: how Gáldar is trying to cut its banana plants’ thirst in half
In an archipelago with no permanent rivers, where every drop used in agriculture is already a contested resource, the municipality of Gáldar has decided to bet on artificial intelligence to solve a problem as old as banana farming itself: how to irrigate enough without wasting water. The project is called AGALDAT, short for Sustainable Digital […]
Almost 4,000 new students and the rector front and centre: La Laguna officially opens the academic year today
This morning at eleven, the Paraninfo of the University of La Laguna filled with academic gowns, officials and families for the formal opening ceremony of the 2026/27 academic year. It was presided over by the President of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, alongside rector Francisco J. García Rodríguez, in front of around two hundred people […]
Paradise pays taxes too: a Ukrainian engineer on the real side of digital nomad life in Tenerife
Alexander didn’t mean to stay. In the winter of 2022 he arrived in Tenerife with a specific plan: a few months, then back to Ukraine. A doctor had recommended getting his daughter away from Ukraine’s cold winters, which were aggravating her respiratory problems, and the Canary Islands looked like the right place. As chief engineer […]
No More Automatic Licences: Nine Months In, How the Canary Islands’ New Holiday Rental Law Actually Works
In Breña Baja, a small town on La Palma, council officials and representatives of the island’s Cabildo sat down with a delegate from the regional government to work through, item by item, how to apply a law that has changed the rules of the game for thousands of property owners. It wasn’t a one-off meeting. […]
Bigger than construction’s GDP share: what sport is really worth to the Canary Islands
More than half of Canary Islanders exercise regularly every week, 52%, a figure in line with the Spanish national average and up six percentage points over the past five years. It sounds like a wellness-section statistic, yet it’s the starting point of one of the more interesting economic reports published this summer on the archipelago: […]
A hundred metres down: Gran Canaria tests Spain’s largest floating wind platform
In the port of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, a structure is taking shape that will be towed out to sea and anchored a hundred metres deep sometime between late 2026 and early 2027. It’s the prototype for the WHEEL project, short for Wind Hybrid Esteyco Evolution for Low-carbon solutions, and it’s the largest Spanish […]
Five Hundred Scientists, One Island: Gran Canaria Hosts Spain’s First-Ever World Congress on Sustainable Energy
Zagreb, the conference’s usual home, made way for Gran Canaria this year. It’s only the third time the international Sdewes conference, dedicated to the sustainable development of energy, water and environmental systems, has left the Croatian capital, and the first time it has come to Spain at all. From August 31 to September 3, the […]
Rent Under €800: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Named Spain’s Cheapest City for Remote Work
Would you rather pay €2,011 a month in Madrid, or €1,383 in the Canary Islands? For remote workers, that question now has a clear answer. According to the 2026 Working Abroad Index published by Dutch neobank bunq, which compares 75 cities across 41 countries, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is the only one of five […]
The Stadium That Wants to Drink the Fog: Inside Gran Canaria’s Green Bet for the 2030 World Cup
Buried among the hundreds of pages of technical documentation for the overhaul of the Estadio de Gran Canaria is one detail that sounds more like science fiction than a construction brief: mesh modules mounted on the roof, designed to intercept the tiny water droplets carried by the north wind Canarians call the alisio. The collected […]