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  • OpenEc - Economics and the “real-world”: the case of the Portuguese Memorandum

    Research Group Governance, Economy and Citizenry Website: n.a. Presentation: The impact (or the lack of impact) of “real world” economic events and developments on “economic science” is the question that frames this project. The exploration in this project focuses on the Portuguese troika memorandum, its policy implementation, the assessment of its consequences, and their feed-back effect on economic theories. This exploratory study involves three main steps: 1) disclosing the articulation between the implicit ends and values of the Portuguese memorandum, its theoretical foundations, its policies and its measures of performance; 2) Examining the memorandum’s policy implementation, identifying its consequences and their putative feed-back effects on “economic science”; 3) Examining how features of reality perceived has problematic conform (or fail to conform) to stabilized conventions of quantification. In fact, previews periods of economic disruption have given rise to crises and “paradigm shifts” within the discipline of economics. This was the case with the “Keynesian revolution”, during the Great Depression, or the neoliberal turn, during the 1970s and 1980s, following the so called “oil crises”. What may explain the current apparent immunity of economics to crisis events? The question is relevant especially if making economics more sensitive to the consequences of economic policies, that is, “opening up economics to the “real world””, is perceived as a goal worth pursuing. Period: 2014 - 2015 Funding Institution: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia - FCT | EXPL/IVC-ESCT/2324/2013 Coordination: José Maria Lemos de Castro Caldas (CES); Ana Costa (DINÂMIA'CET-IUL) DINÂMIA'CET-IUL Team: Ana Costa External Team: Tiago Santos Pereira, Vítor Neves, Paulo Alexandre Chaves Coimbra Resources: - Conference: As narrativas da crise e a crise das narrativas | 17 February 2016 Updated: 31/01/2018 #AnaCosta #GEC

  • Evolution and Profiles of Divorce in Binational Couples in Portugal (1988-2013)

    Research Group Governance, Economy and Citizenry Website: n.a. Presentation: This project aims to analyze the evolution and patterns of divorce in binational couples in Portugal between 1995 and 2013. Although there are some studies on divorce dating from 1980 and 1990, mainly of a qualitative nature, this subject did not deserve much attention from the Portuguese sociology. At the origin of the interest in divorces between binational couples (also known as exogamous or mixed by some authors) is the fact that immigrant communities in Portugal increased considerably, especially from the 1990s (Ferreira and Ramos 2008, Gaspar 2010, Ramos et al., 2015), which contributed to a remarkable increase in marriages between individuals of different national origins. In fact, binational marriages have been changing Portuguese family and conjugal structures and dynamics, representing, for the academy as well as for the public, a central theme to be analyzed and understood. This study will focus on divorces of couples involving Portuguese and nationals of other countries (possibly will be operationalized considering only marriages between Portuguese and the nationals of some of the most represented immigrant communities in Portugal). Most of the statistical information of the research will be obtained from official national institutions (INE), namely the microdata of divorces (from 1995 to 2013) and the General Census of Population (Censuses 2001 and 2011). The study of these data will allow us to analyze not only the sociodemographic structure of divorced Portuguese and foreigners in 2001 and 2011 (Censuses), but also the evolution of divorced couples during the period under analysis. Thus, it will be possible to obtain the evolution of the main tendencies and patterns of divorces in binational couples, and to identify the characteristics of the social actors (national and foreign) that are part of this process. In parallel, and in order to contextualize the analysis, the patterns of divorce between national couples in which both spouses are Portuguese (here called "national couples") and binational will be compared. We hope this analysis will make it possible to identify the sociodemographic characteristics of the spouses, being crucial for the distinction of the profiles of divorces between national and binational couples. In fact, the microdata of divorces and the information contained in the 2001 and 2011 Censuses include key data to be considered: nationality, existence of common children, age, education level, year of marriage, termination of the process, length of marriage, condition of work and situation in the profession. These indicators will allow us to respond to our objectives from a diachronic perspective by applying different univariate (descriptive measures), bivariate (contingency tables), and multivariate techniques (multiple correspondence analysis, cluster analysis) to observe trends and patterns associated with divorce, and to understand the influence of certain indicators on marital dissolution. Period: 2014 - 2015 Funding Institution: ACIDI - Alto Comissariado para a Imigração e Diálogo Intercultural, I.P. Coordination: Sofia Gaspar (CIES-IUL) DINÂMIA'CET-IUL Team: Ana Cristina Ferreira , Madalena Ramos Resources: Book Chapter: Marriage and Migration in Portugal: Exploring Trends and Patterns of Divorce in Exogamous and Endogamous Couples Ana Cristina Ferreira , Madalena Ramos, Sofia Gaspar Updated: 31/01/2018 #GEC #AnaCristinaFerreira

  • The Site of Discourse

    Research Group Cities and Territories Website: http://sitediscourse.org/ Presentation: The project The Site of Discourse intends to identify, analyze, debate and reflect on the editorial culture of the Portuguese periodicals of architecture, over the twentieth century. This study is based on the conviction that this editorial culture cannot be fully understood without a framework that requires an interpretative and analytical nature. The title of the project — The Site of Discourse — has a number of different meanings. First and foremost, it invokes an idea that belongs to architecture itself. The title suggests that this project is about the discourse as well as about the “place” on which such that discourse is produced — the specialized periodicals of architecture. It also invokes a complex grid of configurations about “who” produces, “what” contents involves, and “how” such “site” is constructed. Period: 2013 - 2015 Funding Institution: FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Coordination: Margarida Acciaiuoli de Brito (FCSH/UNL); Paulo Tormenta Pinto (DINÂMIA'CET-IUL), Ana Vaz Milheiro (DINÂMIA'CET-IUL) DINÂMIA'CET-IUL Team: Catarina Diz de Almeida (Research grantee), Rute Figueiredo Resources: http://sitediscourse.org/ Vitruvius Mozambicanus 12 March 2015 ::: 18h00 Biblioteca da Ordem dos Arquitectos Speakers: Hugo Segawa | José Luís Saldanha | José Manuel Fernandes | Miguel Santiago Arquitectura vista por Não arquitectos | 25 February 2015 ::: 18h00 Biblioteca da Ordem dos Arquitectos Speakers: Álvaro Domingues – Geógrafo António Bolota – Artista Manuel Villaverde Cabral – Sociólogo Paulo Catrica – Fotógrafo Updated: 02/02/2018 #CT #PauloTormentaPinto #AnaVazMilheiro #Architectureperiodicals #Editorialculture

  • UAW – Fostering Intergenerational Entrepreneuship

    Research Group Governance, Economy and Citizenry Website: http://uaw.unitedatwork.eu/index.php Presentation: The UAW Project "United at Work", supported by the European Union Program for Employment and Social Solidarity PROGRESS (2007-2013) was developed by SCML - Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, with an external evaluation carried out by Dinâmia'CET. The Project emerged as a social experimentation project with the main objective of analyzing the relevance and the appropriateness of promoting projects of intergenerational entrepreneurship as a way to fight against highly qualified unemployment of youth and seniors. The Project combines active labor market policies and social policies, as recommended by the European Commission for a long-term economic recovery strategy. The Project started in December 2013 and lasted until December 2015 with 120 participants, including highly qualified and unemployed young people up to 30 years old and seniors between 50 and 64 years old. The Project included Team Building and Capacity Building and Incubation activities designed to stimulate and accelerate the process of creating teams, ideas and business projects. Dinâmia'CET's external evaluation methodology included a set of participant surveys and interviews with the partners of the Project (Beta i, IAPMEI, IEFP, Caixa de Crédito Agrícola, Gulbenkian Foundation, La Caixa Foundation , Beth Johnson Foundation) and with the teams of participants. As a result of the evolution of the teams and business projects throughout the Project, 19 business projects were created in the areas of health, social action, culture, heritage and tourism, some of them intergenerational. The analysis of survey results shows the advantages and difficulties of intergenerationality in entrepreneurship as perceived by the participants and the partners of the Project. Among the most favorable aspects are the complementarity of the experience of seniors with the flexibility of young people and the combination of the knowledge of the market by seniors with the knowledge of new technologies (informatics) by young people. A good understanding in general was found between seniors and young people, only with some conflicts due to personality factors. Initiatives that contribute to an adequate knowledge and interpersonal understanding of the participants and to the transfer of knowledge and capacities between the generations proved to be important, such as team building, mentoring and team and business projects monitoring. Period: 2013 - 2015 Funding Institution: E.U. PROGRAMME for EMPLOYMENT and SOCIAL SOLIDARITY (PROGRESS) Coordination: Maria do Carmo Pinto, Vasco Gonçalves (DINÂMIA'CET-IUL) DINÂMIA'CET-IUL Team: Maria de Fátima Ferreiro , Margarida Perestrelo , Mafalda Pífano Resources: Updated: 02/02/2018 #FátimaFerreiro #MargaridaPerestrelo #VascoGonçalves #MafaldaPífano #GEC

  • LLM | Homes for the biggest numbers: Lisbon, Luanda, Macao

    Research Group Cities and Territories Website: Presentation: The research aims to survey, catalogue and contextualize housing projects in Lisbon, Luanda and Macao, built between the 1960s and the 1980s, which stood out for large scale occupation and high number of people housed. It is intended to identify the existing housing and urban models and to map the changes after 40 years of use in order to understand how to adapt to current conditions (urban and social) and to support its future.Methodology: Initially it begins with a detailed description and historical process, creating records of inventory, referenced to the Geographic Information System, and the redrawing of projects (for comparative analyses of the urban design and of the housing cell unit). It follows a visit to the complexes to verify its conservation state, experiencing the urban situation and describing the profile evolution of current populations. Questionnaires will be released for occupation and social satisfaction reporting (district/dwelling). Qualitative interviews to deep-rooted groups (social and cultural groups of belonging) will allow evaluating the integration in the city. The visits will be recorded on video for "future memory" and a documentary (three 30 minutes short-films) will be produced. In the last year, workshops will be implemented with the communities, involving architects, students, residents and local institutions, proposing architectural interventions based on historical and social analysis and in the Portuguese tradition of participatory architecture. Period: 2013 - 2015 Funding Institution: FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Coordination: Ana Vaz Milheiro (DINÂMIA'CET-IUL) DINÂMIA'CET-IUL Team: Paulo Tormenta Pinto , José Luís Saldanha , Isabel Guerra , Sandra Marques Pereira , Rogério Vieira de Almeida , Mónica Pacheco , Filipa Fiúza (BI), Bruno Macedo Ferreira. External Team: Débora Correia Félix, Hugo Coelho, Rui Leão, Jorge Figueira, João Santos Vieira, Isabel Martins, Luís Urbano, Consultants: Monique Eleb; Ângela Mingas; Fernão Lopes Carvalho; José António Bandeirinha. Resources: Updated: 02/02/2018 #CT #AnaVazMilheiro #PauloTormentaPinto #JoséLuisSaldanha #IsabelGuerra #SandraMarquesPereira #RogérioVieiradeAlmeida #MónicaPacheco #FilipaFiúza #BrunoMacedoFerreira

  • BANCA – Igualdade de Género na Banca

    Research Group Innovation and Labour Website: n.a. Presentation: This study covered all the active members of the Sindicato dos Bancários do Sul e Ilhas, Sindicato dos Bancários do Norte, and Sindicato dos Bancários do Centro. It had the following essential objectives: 1 - To evaluate, within the scope of equality the reconciliation of the profession / family with women, particularly in the perspective of equality in professional progression. 2 - Assessing the role of women in terms of both the representativeness of participation in decision-making and in terms of influence in determining of the contents of collective bargaining agreements. Methodology: 1) A questionnaire questionnaire hetero-administered by telephone in order to obtain quantitative information on working conditions, participation of women in the work and progression paths to positions of management or administration of the banking sector . 2) A set of interviews with privileged interlocutors with the purpose of collecting specific information about the topic. Period: 2014 - 2015 Funding Institution: UGT – União Geral de Trabalhadores Coordination: Glória Rebelo Resources: 2 internal reports. Updated: 02/02/2018 #IL #GlóriaRebelo #Labour

  • RegC&T- Regulating S&T risks in the era of social networks

    Research Group Governance, Economy and Citizenry Website: Presentation: The main goal of the project was to identify opportunities in the digital era to explore available data to better manage public health crises. As working goals the team had defined: 1) generating comprehensive datasets, including on legislation and on perceptions; 2) integrating and analyzing this data, and 3) providing useful recommendations to decision-makers, regarding crisis scenarios, specifically in the case of Influenza outbreaks. Throughout the project, computational tools were developed to gather and analyze large sets of data. A novel method was developed to use social networks (namely Google searches and Twitter) to better understand and predict global human behaviors in respect of health. This tool was expanded to include the on-call telephone service Saúde24. Moreover, a novel system for the detection of the flu onset was developed being tested in real time at Instituto Ricardo Jorge and followed by Direcção Geral de Saúde. This is a fundamental output, as it will offer relevant information and advice to political deciders. In addition, a computational method to automatically find relevant legislation and parliamentary debates was developed. Online surveys and focus groups were held to understand changes in perception in the case of the pandemic influenza outbreak of 2009. Moreover, the project discussed the case of “new risks” emerging from the privacy and data protection issues raised by such Big Data analysis in the health domain considering the new EU data protection regulation, and the extent to which it responds to the big data challenge. Period: 2013 - 2015 Funding Institution: FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Coordination: Maria Eduarda Gonçalves (DINÂMIA'CET-IUL) DINÂMIA'CET-IUL Team: João Raimundo External Team: Nuno Marques, Joana Sá Resources: Updated: 31/01/2018 #MariaEduardaGonçalves #GEC

  • EIRO Observatory 2014-2015 - Provision of scheduled and on-request reporting services – Network of C

    Research Group Innovation and Labour Website: Presentation: This service includes the provision of a variety of information products covering the three areas of quality of work and employment, industrial relations and restructuring related to Portugal. DINÂMIA’CET-IUL has provided these reporting services since 2005. Period: 2014 - 2015 Funding Institution: EUROFOUND - The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions Coordination: Heloísa Perista; Reinhard Naumann (DINÂMIA'CET-IUL) DINÂMIA'CET-IUL Team: Maria da Paz Campos Lima , Paulo Marques Alves External Team: Janine Nunes Páscoa, Eudelina Jesus, Paula Alexandra Carrilho, Raquel Rego Resources: Updated: 02/02/2018 #ReinhardNaumann #MariadaPazCamposLima #PauloMarquesAlves #IL #Labour

  • MEMO | Evolution of the Lisbon metropolitan area metabolism. Lessons towards a Sustainable Urban Fut

    Research Group Cities and Territories Website: http://memoaml.wix.com/home Presentation: Project goals are to develop a comparative analysis of the metabolic behaviour of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in different historical periods (from pre-industrial period to the present) and therefore assess the behaviour of urban form (generically) to the metabolic system in use in its own historical period under review. Additionally it is intended to identify elements of urban form in particular historical moments that were determinant to transform material and water flows in the city. The city urban structure will be assessed based on methodologies provided by (i) urban Material Flow Accounting research, ii) substance flow accounting and (iii) assessment of the morphological evolution of the urban form. Such assessment of the evolution of urban metabolism aims to evaluate drivers and successful responses to transform the current metabolism promoting a more sustainable urban environment. Period: 2013 - 2015 Funding Institution: FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Coordination: Samuel Niza (IST-UL); Teresa Marat-Mendes (DINÂMIA'CET-IUL) DINÂMIA'CET-IUL Team: Joana Mourão , Patrícia Bento d’Almeida Resources: Updated: 02/02/2018 #CT #TeresaMaratMendes #JoanaMourão #PatríciaBentodAlmeida

  • PERIURBAN | Peri-urban areas facing sustainability challenges

    Research Group Cities and Territories Website: http://projectoperiurban.wix.com/periurban Presentation: PERIURBAN | Peri-urban areas facing sustainability challenges:scenario development in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon PERIURBAN envolved a multidisciplinar team of three Lisbon Universities (Instituto Superior Técnico, Instituto Superior de Agronomia from Lisbon University and ISCTE-IUL) and allowed: i) the identification of a typology of periurban territories in Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA); ii) case studies of representative territories identified in i; iii) scenario design of each periurban area; iv) quantification of the sustainability of diferente types of periurban areas of LMA. The originality of PERIURBAN is related with its object considering the absence of these territories in research so far but also to team multidisciplinar nature and the adoption of participated methodologies that envolved a significant and diverse of stakeholders of LMA during all the steps of the project. This aspect allowed the development of transdisciplinar knowledge and its tranference to the selected territories envisaging their governance and sustainability. Period: 2012 - 2015 Funding Institution: FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | PTDC/AUR-AQI/117305/2010 Coordination: Isabel Loupa Ramos (CESUR); Maria de Fátima Ferreiro (DINÂMIA'CET-IUL) DINÂMIA'CET-IUL Team: Pedro Costa , Sebastião Santos , Teresa Costa Pinto (Consultant) Resources: http://projectoperiurban.wix.com/periurban Updated: 31/01/2018 #CT #MariadeFátimaFerreiro #PedroCosta #SebastiãoSantos #TeresaCostaPinto

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