The documentary Mulheres, Terra, Revolução (Women, Land, Revolution), authored by Rita Calvário (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte) and Cecília Honório (CHAM-NOVA FCSH), has been officially selected to compete at two major film festivals, with April screenings honouring the legacy of the 25 April Revolution and the values of democracy.

This spring, the Political Economy Master’s programme (Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon) and PhD programme (Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, ISEG – University of Lisbon, and FE – University of Coimbra) are hosting a seminar series on pressing issues in capitalist societies. 

The upcoming session "Consumer price indexes and reproduction numbers, towards a history of public numbers", presented by Tiago Mata (University College London), will take place on 14 April 2026, at 18:00, at Iscte, Building 2, Auditorium B2.03.

The article 'The Paradox of Trust: How Leadership, Commitment, and Inertia Shape Sustainability Behavior in the Workplace’, co-authored by Winston Silvestre (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher), Sérgio Begnini and Isabel Abreu has been published by MDPI in the Journal of Administrative Sciences.

Rita Calvário, researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, produced the episode ‘Mujeres y Migraciones’ for the Soil Sisters podcast series, developed within the framework of the SWIFT project – Supporting Women-led Innovation in Farming Territories.

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte has published the working paper entitled 'Financialisation of workers and the erosion of trade union density in the European Union', authored by Ricardo Barradas. This publication examines the erosion of trade union density for the last five decades all over the world, which has been contributing to a strong deterioration of labour conditions, a dizzying loss of labour rights, a proliferation of exploitative labour practices and a persistence of high levels of income inequality.

Routledge has published the book entitled Governing Solidarity in European Labour Markets: Atypical Employment and Minimum Wage Reform in Spain and Portugal, edited by Paulo Marques — researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte and coordinator of the Youth Employment Observatory — in collaboration with researchers Rui Branco, Óscar Molina, and Renato Miguel Carmo.

The article ‘Aligning active labor market policies with national growth strategies: a comparative study of Portugal and Spain’, co-authored by Paulo Marques (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher and coordinator of the Youth Employment Observatory) and Pedro Videira (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher) has been published by Cambridge University Press in the Journal of Public Policy.

The El Salto company presents the production 'Dar o Couro' (D'Arrache Corps) on 5 and 6 March 2026, at Teatro Avenidas – Um teatro em cada bairro.

The documentary Mulheres, Terra, Revolução (Women, Land, Revolution), authored by Rita Calvário (resarcher at DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte) and Cecília Honório, will be screened at Sede do Grupo Coral “Os Papa Borregos de Alvito, at Rua das Pereiras, 6, Alvito, on February 28th, at 2:30 p.m.

The working meeting titled 'Precarization of Labour and Obstetric Racism' will take place on 9 Februray 2026, at Iscte, Building 4, Room A104, from 3.00 PM to 6.00 PM.

Rita Calvário, researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, will join the 9th Annual Meeting of Political Economy, as guest speaker, within the framework of the SWIFT - Supporting Women-led Innovation in Farming Territories research project.

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.