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Our research agenda is focused on 6 research themes through which we seek to advance a comprehensive understanding of contemporary social challenges
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The European commitment to affordable housing. An urgent challenge? Sandra Marques Pereira on TSF
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The labour legislation reform threatens to leave 13,000 workers bound to fixed-term contracts and job insecurity.
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Paulo Marques interviewed in Associated Press News about the General Strike
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Essay by Sandra Marques Pereira: “Build-to-rent: a panacea for the housing crisis or its accelerator?”
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'Salários dos jovens em Portugal': A chapter by Paulo Marques, Rita Guimarães and Alexandre Mergulhão
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Care(4)Housing: Final Presentation
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The European commitment to affordable housing. An urgent challenge? Sandra Marques Pereira on TSF
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The labour legislation reform threatens to leave 13,000 workers bound to fixed-term contracts and job insecurity.
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Paulo Marques interviewed in Associated Press News about the General Strike
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Essay by Sandra Marques Pereira: “Build-to-rent: a panacea for the housing crisis or its accelerator?”
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'Salários dos jovens em Portugal': A chapter by Paulo Marques, Rita Guimarães and Alexandre Mergulhão
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Care(4)Housing: Final Presentation
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The European commitment to affordable housing. An urgent challenge? Sandra Marques Pereira on TSF
05/01/2026
In the 23 December edition of TSF’s ‘Na ordem do dia’ programme, DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte researcher Sandra Marques Pereira examined the European Affordable Housing Plan and its impact on national and local housing policies, with an emphasis on the Portuguese context
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The labour legislation reform threatens to leave 13,000 workers bound to fixed-term contracts and job insecurity.
05/01/2026
In the chapter devoted to employment within the IPPS-Iscte report Panorama 2026 - Politics, Economics, and Society in Portugal, researcher Paulo Marques (DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte) warns that the labour legislation reform proposed by the Government could reverse the trend of recent years regarding the reduction of fixed-term contracts, potentially leaving an additional 13,000 people in Portugal unable to escape a more precarious employment regime.
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Paulo Marques interviewed in Associated Press News about the General Strike
12/12/2025
Paulo Marques, researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte and coordinator of the Youth Employment Observatory was interviewed by Associated Press News, about the workers General Strike and the Government's proposals to change the Labour Legislation
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Essay by Sandra Marques Pereira: “Build-to-rent: a panacea for the housing crisis or its accelerator?”
12/12/2025
In today's edition of Expresso, Sandra Marques Pereira, authors a feature essay in the Ideias supplement, critically analysing the build-to-rent housing policies.
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'Salários dos jovens em Portugal': A chapter by Paulo Marques, Rita Guimarães and Alexandre Mergulhão
10/11/2025
The chapter 'Salários dos Jovens em Portugal' (Youth Wages in Portugal), by Paulo Marques, Rita Guimarães and Alexandre Mergulhão has been published in the book Salário Digno em Portugal, (Living Wage in Portugal) coordinated by José António Pereirinha and Elvira Pereira.
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Care(4)Housing: Final Presentation
10/12/2025
We invite you to the Final Presentation of the Care(4)Housing project – A care through design approach to address housing precarity, funded by FCT (PTDC/ART-DAQ/0181/2021). The presentation will be held on 15 December at 16:30, at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Building 4, Floor 3, Auditorium A302.
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YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
OBSERVATORY
The Observatory focuses on three key areas: youth unemployment, quality of youth employment, and labour market policies targeting young workers. Its main goal is to produce impactful publications—such as reports and policy briefs—and to provide regularly updated, accessible data for informed societal and policy discussions.
HABIDATA - Housing Observatory
The Observatory investigates current housing transformations, emphasizing production systems, affordability, housing conditions—especially indecent housing—and policies. It bridges academic research with policy and community involvement. Guided by a multidisciplinary team, it addresses a national gap and supports evidence-based decision-making, utilizing tools like LxHabidata to enhance analysis and outreach.
City-Region Transitions Observatory
The Observatory examines rapid transitions in city-regions by analysing their metabolic systems to promote sustainable human-environment relations. Through open data and interdisciplinary research, it maps socio-environmental dynamics and material flows, developing digital and spatial narratives that support better planning and decision-making for sustainable urban development.