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.

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

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.

Mass Higher Education and the Changing Labour Market Graduates: Between Employability and Employment, organized by Fátima Suleman, Pedro Videira, and Pedro N. Teixeira, has been chosen as the Iscte Library’s Book of the Month for December.

Paulo Marques, researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte and coordinator of the Youth Employment Observatory, was interviewed in Jornal Público, about the Government's proposals for changing Labour Legislation.

Paulo Marques, researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte and coordinator of the Youth Employment Observatory, was interviewed on Fórum TSF, about work flexibility and the Government's proposals for changing Labour Legislation.

The researcher Ricardo Paes Mamede, in an interview to CNN Portugal, argues that the labour market in Portugal is not rigid and that the Government’s proposed amendments to labour legislation will result in an "enormous reduction of the negotiating power" of workers, which has implications not only for their income but also for their living conditions.