Alberti
Digital - Tradition and Innovation in the Theory and Practice
of Architecture in Portugal
Research Team: Mário Kruger, Bruno Figueiredo, Bruno
Araújo, Pedro Filipe Coutinho, Giovana de Godoi, Gonçalo Canto Moniz, Hélder Silvestre,
Joaquim Pires Jorge, José Pinto Duarte, Maria Albuquerque
Gomes, Nelson Mota, Vítor Murtinho
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01/04/2010
End date: 31/03/2013
Keywords: Alberti; Architectural culture; Generative systems;
Digital representation
Expected Results: Organization of exhibition, final conference;
publication of book
ALCORA - New perspectives on the Colonial
War: hidden alliances and imagined maps
Research Team: Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Paula Meneses (coords.), Bruno Sena Martins, João Paulo Borges
Coelho, Natércia Coimbra
Funding Body: Ministry of National Defence
Duration: 12 months
Start date: 01/09/2010
End date: 31/08/2011
Keywords: Alcora; Africa; Colonial War; Foreign Policy;
Portugal
Expected Results: Advanced Training Course; International
Conference; Publication of book and scientific paper
Abstract: his project aims at deepening the knowledge about the
terms of the “Alcora Exercise”, an alliance, never publicly
recognized, established between Portugal, South Africa and
Rhodesia during the Colonial War. Thus, the project will focus
on the new perspectives that the "Alcora Exercise" offers to
understand the violent post-colonial order in Southern Africa,
as well as the consequences of the geopolitical dynamics of
Colonial War - as a "subsystem" of Cold War - for the present
foreign policy. The debate promoted by this project becomes
relevant because in 2011 50 years have passed since the
beginning of Portuguese Colonial War.
An
Analysis of Formula "One Country, Two Systems": The Role of
Macau in China's relations with the EU and the Portuguese
Speaking Countries
Research Team: Cármen Amado Mendes, Daniel Cardoso,
José Carlos Matias, José Luís Sales Marques, José Manuel Pureza, Helena Rodrigues
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01/04/2010
End date: 31/03/2013
Keywords: Macau Special Administrative Region; China; European
Union Portuguese Speaking Countries; "One Country, Two
Systems”
Expected Results: Publication of paper; Organization of focus
group and conference.
The Audiences of the National Theatre at
Lisbon
Research Team: Claudino Ferreira, Carina Gomes, Marta Santos
Funding Body: Theatre D. Maria
Duration: 13 months
Start date: 01/09/2009
End date: 30/09/2010
Keywords: social actors; public cultural agents;
Expected Results: Presentation of final report with conclusions
and recommendations
Abstract: The goal of the Observatory of The Audiences of TNDM
II (National Theatre D. Maria II – Lisbon) is to perform a
consistent and founded diagnosis of its audience and social
context. Thus, it intends to achieve the following 2 goals: to
characterize the socio-cultural audiences of TNDM II, assessing
the theatre’s attendance modes and the ways how the
institution and its activities are evaluated; and inquire the
population not attracted to TNDM II, determining non-audience
profiles and the theatre’s potential audience.
BECOM
- Choice beyond (in)commensurability: controversies and public
decision making on territorial sustainable
development
Research Team: Laura Centemeri (Principal Investigator),
Ana Cristina Cordeiro dos Santos, Ana
Cristina Narciso Fernandes Costa, João José Soares Tolda, João Pedro
Amaral Cabouco Rodrigues, José Joaquim Dinis Reis, José Castro Caldas, Luís Francisco dos
Santos Gomes de Carvalho, Maria de Fátima Palmeiro Baptista
Ferreiro, Maria Eduarda Barroso Gonçalves, Rita Serra, Tiago Santos Pereira, Vasco Barroso
Gonçalves, Vítor Manuel Leite Neves, Ricardo Coelho, Manuela Gervasi
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01/04/2010
End date: 31/03/2013
Keywords: socio-technical controversies; incommensurability;
uncertainty; public decision making
Expected Results: Scientific papers/presentations; organization
of seminars; international conference; publication of book
BEHAVE – A Behavioral Approach To Consumer Credit Decision-Making
Research Team:
Ana Cordeiro Santos (Investigadora Responsável),
Ana Cristina Costa,
Catarina Frade,
Cláudia Abreu Lopes,
Fernanda de Jesus,
José Castro Caldas,
José Miguel de Andrade de Pina Pereira de Oliveira
Funding Body: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT)
Duration: 36 months
Start Date: 01/03/2011
End Date: 28/02/2014
Partners: DINAMIA - CET– Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica
Keywords: heurísticas e enviesamentos; tomada de decisão de crédito ao consumo; práticas comerciais e de marketing; políticas de protecção ao consumidor
Executive Summary: Taking as starting point the results of the behavioral sciences on heuristics and biases, this project aims to investigate consumer credit decision-making, marketing strategies that exacerbate that behavior, and assess the extent to which consumer protection policy adequately takes into account heuristics people use when making complex decisions, human cognitive limitations and self-control problems Behavioral sciences, especially cognitive and social psychology and behavioral economics, have shown that people systematically deviate from the neoclassical economics model of human action that assumes complete information, unlimited cognitive abilities, and full self-control. Important departures from the model of rational action include: loss aversion; present consumption, status quo and availability biases; anchoring and framing effects, among others (Kahneman and Tversky 2000, Slovic 2000). This means that individuals tend to underestimate the risks in certain frames of mind, surrender to momentary desires, resist change, and base their decisions on available, accessible or salient information, rather than the most relevant information for the problem at hand, which lead to inferior individual and collective outcomes. The better understanding of the factors that render people more vulnerable to mistakes has promoted so-called ‘paternalistic’ approaches devoted to help people make choices more in line with rational behavior (Santos 2010a). The asymmetric paternalism approach, for example, support regulations with this aim in view, provided they impose little or no harm on those who are fully rational (Camerer et al. 2003). These proposals seem to be persuasive to policy-makers. Behavioral research and respective policy recommendations are particularly relevant to understand and assist consumers in their credit decision-making processes. The high debt rates of consumers in developed societies can be to some extent explained in terms of individuals’ failure in making sensible credit decisions due to non-transparent information which is difficult to process and to the temptation of immediate gratification, which is too salient as compared to the delayed costs of hasty decisions (Laibson 1997; O’Donoghue and Rabin 1999). Various agencies working in the area of consumer protection, such as the USA Federal Trade Commission and the Health and Consumer Directorate-General of the European Commission, have already anticipated the role behavioral sciences can play in the design of consumer protection policy. This is not surprising since the effectiveness of consumer policy requires a good understanding of both the individual and the external factors affecting consumers’ decision-making (Mulholland 2007, EC 2007). The experimental methods, on which the research on heuristics and biases is based, have limitations. They can but ground fairly generic inferences about human behavior in fairly artificial environments (Santos 2007, 2009, 2010b). More detailed information about consumer credit decision-making requires methods of research that investigate actual consumer behavior (Mulholland 2007). The four main goals of this project are, thus: 1) To investigate the heuristics and the cognitive biases that affect consumer credit decision-making, when accessing and appraising information and choosing. Indeed, people may fail obtaining relevant information due to inertia, or they may not process it accurately due to calculative inability, framing effects, myopia, over-confidence, or they may fail to act on this information due to lack of self-control. 2) To investigate the extent to which sellers’ marketing strategies manipulate heuristics and exploit consumer cognitive biases. 3) To investigate the extent to which consumer protection policy adequately addresses the identified biases and their exploitation by firms. 4) To recommend policy proposals that better address the complexity of consumer credit decision-making. In order to successfully accomplish the project’s goals we will mobilize extant psychology and economics research on heuristics and biases, as well as official reports, public opinion surveys, and other studies that provide evidence on behavioral traits of consumers regarding credit decision-making. We will moreover conduct interviews and carry out carefully designed questionnaires and experiments in order to identify relevant heuristics and biases to consumer credit. This project builds on and extends previous research by the team members on the interface of social psychology and economics, experimental and behavioral economics (Caldas et al. 2003, Costa 2008, Oliveira 2005, 2008, Santos 2007, 2009, 2010b), overindebtedness and regulatory frameworks (Frade 2006, Frade and Lopes 2009, Jesus, 2008). The multi-displinary composition of the team, involving psychologists, economists and a legal scholar, will be valuable to understand the complexity of consumer protection.
BIOSENSE
- Science Engaging Society: Life Sciences, Social Sciences and
Publics
Research Team: João Arriscado Nunes, Alexandre
Quintanilha, Ana Raquel Barros de Matos, Ângela Filipe, Daniel Neves, Ingrid Olsson, Jorge Pinto
Basto, José Borlido Santos, Paula Meneses, Marisa Matias, Marta Araújo, Rita Serra, Sónia Martins, Susana Costa, Tiago Santos Pereira, Daniel Neves
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01/04/2010
End date: 31/03/2013
Keywords: Science shops; science; society; publics
Expected Results: website; public campaigns; implementation of
pilot activities; information kits
Building
Interoperability for European Civil Proceedings on
Line
Research Team: Paula Fernando (Investigadora
Responsável), Conceição Gomes
Funding Body: European Commission – “Civil Justice”
Program
Partner Institution: The project is coordinated by the
University of Bologna, Italy
Duration: 24 months
Start date: 01/09/2010
End date: 31/08/2011
Keywords: civil justice, interoperability, new information
technologies
Expected Results: 2 seminars; 10 reports; 1 website;
International Conference; Publication of book.
CESSDA
- Building a Social Science Data Archive (APIS)
Research Team: José Manuel Mendes
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Partner institutions: Institute of Social Sciences of the
University of Lisbon (ICS/UTL), Centre for Social Studies
(CES), Centre of Geographical Studies of the University of
Lisbon (CEG/UL), Centre for Social Studies of the School of
Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon,
Centre for Sociology Research and Studies of ISCTE
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01/03/2010
End date: 28/02/2013
Keywords: Archive; Repository; Data; Social Information
Children of the Colonial War:
postmemory and representations
Research Team: Margarida Calafate Ribeiro (Principal
Investigator), Aida Dias, Luísa Silva Sales, Roberto Vecchi, António Sousa Ribeiro, José Manuel Pureza, Rui Mota Cardoso,Hélia Santos and Luciana Silva
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology) and Ministry of National Defence
Duration: 42 months
Start date: 01/10/2007
End date: 31/05/2011
Keywords: Postmemory; Colonial War; Trauma; Representations
Expected Results: Final report; book; scientific papers; a
seminar and an international conference (publication of
proceedings); dissemination of conclusions at national and
international conferences; follow-up activities in secondary
schools (multi-media exhibition on post-memories of the
Colonial War and debates with the participation of researchers
and subjects interviewed during the project.
Webpage: www.ces.uc.pt/projectos/filhosdaguerracolonial
‘The
comprometidos´: questioning the future of the past in
Mozambique
Research Team: Paula Meneses, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, João Paulo
Borges Coelho, Sílvia Maeso, Carolina Peixoto, Benedito Machava
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01/04/2010
End date: 31/03/2013
Keywords: Postcolonial state; polysemic silence; identity and
violence; Space/memory
Expected Results: Website; workshop; international conference;
publication of book.
Courthouse
architecture and access to law and justice: the case of family
and child courts in Portugal
Research Team: Patrícia Branco, Cláudia Pozzi, João Pedroso, Valério Izzo
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Duration: 18 months
Start date: 01-04-2010
End date: 30-09-2011
Keywords: Family and child courts; Courthouse architecture;
Access to law and justice; Justice in the 21st century
Expected Results: workshop; advanced training course;
international conference
Comparative Urban Research
Brazil-Portugal: Cities, Heritage and Consumption
Principal Investigator: Carlos Fortuna
Funding Body: CnQ - Brazil
Start date: 2006
End date: 2011
Deinstitutionalization
of mental patients
Research Team: Pedro Hespanha (Principal Investigator),
José Manuel Pereira, Maria José Ferros Hespanha, Sílvia Portugal, Cláudia Nogueira
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01/10/2007
End date: 30/09/2010
Keywords: deinstitutionalization policies, social and community
care, mental illness, informal care networks
Expected Results: Studies on deinstitutionalization and the
relationship between mental health care institutions, and also
between patients and their families are insufficiently
developed in Portugal; this project intends to fill this gap.
The project expects different kinds of results: impact on the
definition and implementation of policies; evaluation of the
mental health professionals’ intervention profile;
participation of mental patients and their families’
associations; raising public awareness about mental health
problems; dissemination of good practices related to the
cooperation between mental health care providers; contributing
to the creation of new modes of social assistance, adjusted to
the needs of mental patients and their families; development of
methodological procedures, namely in the field of
research-action.
DISASTER
- GIS database on hydro-geomorphologic disasters in Portugal: a
tool for environmental management and emergency
planning
Research Team: José Luís Gonçalves Moreira da Silva Zêzere
(Principal Investigator); Alexandre Tavares; António Manuel Saraiva
Lopes; Carlos Valdir de Meneses Bateira; Célia Marina Pedroso
Gouveia; Eduardo Manuel Dias Brito Henriques; Eusébio Joaquim
Marques dos Reis; Fernando Jorge Pedro da Silva Pinto da Rocha;
Ines de Figueiredo Mascarenhas Lopes da Fonseca; José Manuel Mendes; Laura Maria Pinheiro
de Machado Soares; Luciano Fernando Ribeiro Martins; Marcelo
Henrique Carapito Martinho Fragoso; Margarida Maria de Araújo
Abreu Vilar de Queirós do Vale; Maria Catarina de Melo Ramos;
Mónica Sofia Moreira Santos; Ricardo Alexandre Cardoso Garcia;
Ricardo Machado Trigo; Sérgio Manuel Cruz de Oliveira; Susana
da Silva Pereira
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Partner institutions: Foundation of the Lisbon University
(FUL/UL); School of Humanities of the University of Porto
(FL/UP); Foundation of the School of Sciences (FFC/FC/UL);
Centre for Geographical Studies (CEG/FL/UL)
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01/03/2010
End date: 28/02/2013
Keywords: Natural Disasters; floods; Landslides; GIS
database
Early Warning Systems: from
analysis to action
Research Team: Tatiana Moura, Maria Raquel Freire (Principal
Investigators), Katia Cardoso, Marta Peça, Rita Santos and Sílvia Roque, Carla Afonso
Funding Body: European Commission
Duration: 24 months
Start date: 15/07/2009
End date: 14/07/2011
Keywords: youth, gender, armed violence, security, early
warning, institutional constraints
Expected Results: i) To produce working papers and reports
about the gender and age dimensions of armed violence in Rio de
Janeiro, San Salvador, Maputo, Praia and Bissau and elaboration
of recommendations within this field directed to European Union
agencies; ii) To develop the network of researchers, activists,
think-tanks and civil society organizations on gender and armed
violence, already established at the Observatory on Gender and
Armed Violence (OGAV) of NEP/CES through the organization of an
international conference on gender, armed violence and security
and of several local workshops about youth, gender and violence
designed to youth associations, women’s groups,
nongovernmental organizations and local media; iii) To map the
European Union’s early warning systems in contexts of crisis
and identify the political and institutional constraints within
the European institutions regarding the activation of early
warning mechanisms, based on the Armenian case study; iv) To
organize an advocacy joint event, directed to European Union
agencies, about early warning.
Abstract: The project, presented by the European consortium
Initiative for Peacebuilding, which gathers 11 research centres
and European NGOs, has the following goals: i) to explore, in
partnership with local organizations, the multiple factors of
fragility and conflict in several geographical contexts of the
five continents; ii) to develop robust, independent and
locally-derived analyses that inform the prevention and
response strategies and policies to crisis promoted by the EU,
agencies of the respective member States, as well as other
relevant institutions at the national, regional and
international level; iii) to improve the comprehension as what
concerns to the main constraints at institutional and political
level and the obstacles to early action in chosen countries of
specific areas (Media and information fluxes; Climate change
and conflict; Early warning and institutional constraints;
Youth, identities and security); iv) to reinforce
intra-organizational cooperation, aiming at the consolidation
of network between research institutions, think-tanks, academy
and civil society organizations in the north and south;
The involvement of NEP/CES takes place at the level of the
clusters Youth, identities and security, and Institutional
constraints, with the case studies of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil),
San Salvador (El Salvador), Maputo (Mozambique), Bissau
(Guinea-Bissau), Praia (Cape Verde) and Armenia.
Eduardo Lourenço Chair
Research Team: Margarida Calafate Ribeiro (Principal
Investigator), Roberto Vecchi ,Mónica Silva
Funding Body: Camões Institute and University of Bologna
Start date: 2010
Abstract: The Centre for Social Studies and the Department for
Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Bologna,
under a collaboration protocol with Camões Institute, develop
projects of remote post-graduate research and education.
Currently, the e-learning training project on “Post-Colonial
Studies” is on progress.
Webpage: www.instituto-camoes.pt/catedraeduardolourenco
EGGE- Network of Experts in the
Fields of Employment and Gender
Equality
Research Team: Virgínia Ferreira (Principal
Investigator)
Funding Body: Giacomo Brodolini Foundation
Duration: 3 years
Start date: 2008
End date: 2010
Keywords: Equality of Women and Men; Employment; Expert
Network; National Policies; European Commission
Expected Results: 1 annual report on the National Reform
Programme; 2 thematic reports – one on childcare services and
another on job-market segregation patterns; Cooperation with
the Coordinating Committee in drawing up the analytical notes
required by the European Commission; Answering ad hoc
queries.
Abstract: This project aims at collecting the available data
and analysis about several aspects of national public policies
regarding employment, under the perspective of equality of
women and men.
ELOCAL: Electronically Learning Other
Cultures and Languages
Research Team: Margarida Calafate Ribeiro, Hélia Santos, Clara Keating and Olga Solovova
Funding Body: European Commission (Education, Audiovisual and
Culture Executive Agency - EACEA)
Duration: 24 months
Start date: 01/12/2010
End date: 30/11/2012
Keywords: LWULT (less widely used less taught) languages; new
Technologies applied to foreign language and culture teaching;
multilingualism.
Expected Results: online and DVD courses
Abstract: The goal of the E-LOCAL project is to promote
multilinguism through the production of new and original tools
and materials to teach 6 less used and less taught languages in
Europe: Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and
Portuguese.
Webpage: http://www.e-localproject.eu
EPOKS - European Patient Organizations in
Knowledge Society
Research Team: João Arriscado Nunes, Marisa Matias, Ângela Marques Filipe, Marta Roriz
Funding Body: Science and Society Programme, 7th FWP
Start date: February, 2009
End date: January, 2012
Keywords: Governance, knowledge, health, patient
organizations
Expected Results: enlargement of databases created by CSI and
CES in MEDUSE project; a national and a comparative report for
each health condition and workpackage; collaborative research
method and fieldwork; presentation of results to patient
organizations; a booklet for PO’s; an international workshop
with all concerned actors and a final report.
Abstract: EPOKS is a collaborative project continuing the ITEMS
network and the MEDUSE project, coordinated by CSI (Ecole
Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Paris) associating research
teams from the Centre for Social Studies of the University of
Coimbra (Portugal), the University of Cork (Ireland), the
University of Lancaster and the University of Durham (UK). The
EPOKS project seeks to investigate the contribution of patient
organizations to the production of knowledge and to the
governance of knowledge production through a comparative
approach of four health conditions (rare and/or orphan
diseases; childbirth; Alzheimer’s disease; and Attention
Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder) with emphasis on the
emergence and the role of European coalitions and platforms in
this field. The work of the Portuguese research team will
focus on the first two conditions and will include comparative
analysis.
The European arrest warrant in law
and in practice: a comparative study for the consolidation of
the European law- enforcement area
Research Team: Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Principal
Investigator), Conceição Gomes, Élida Santos, Marina Pessoa Henriques
Funding Body: European Commission
Duration: 30 months
Start date: 01/01/2008
End date: 30/06/2010
Abstract: The Tampere European Council made significant
progress towards a closer judicial cooperation within the
European Union as well as the achievement of one of the
Union’s strategic objectives: the creation of an area of
freedom, security and justice. The new EU Treaty now being
debated will reinforce this specific objective. On 13 July 2002
the European Council adopted the Framework Decision on the
European Arrest Warrant and Surrender Procedures (EAW). Despite
the efforts being made in the EU as whole to disseminate and
harmonise these procedures, little is known as to how they are
actually working in practice. This information is fundamental
to tackle possible problems and devise an adequate training
programme. Data collected in this project will also allow us to
learn about the profile of the criminal practices and
defendants the EAW is applied to. The project is not limited to
the analysis of legal literature and the creation and
application of a comparative grid for national legislations,
but it has an inter-disciplinary approach and focuses on
practical experiences and implemented policies. More
specifically, the project seeks to describe, study and compare
the practical application of the EAW in four Member States, the
profile of the criminal practices and defendants, as well as
the judges’ perception of how this instrument works and how
effective it is in preventing and combating the circulation of
crimes. The research will entail the following activities:
analysis of the literature, the law and relevant jurisprudence,
four in-depth case studies, four case studies reports plus a
comparative analysis, interviews, discussion panels, a
questionnaire, training programme guidelines, publication of
the results, an international conference (Coimbra, Portugal –
October 2009). The project will involve 5 senior researchers, 1
researcher, 4 assistant researchers and 43 judges and/or
experts, and will last for 24 months. The working language will
be English.
Evaluating
the state of public knowledge on health and health information
in Portugal
Research Team: João Arriscado Nunes (Principal
Investigator); Elisabete da Conceição Pereira Ramos; Joaquim
Manuel Pires Valentim; José Júlio Borlido Santos; Manuel
João Rodrigues Quartilho; Maria Cristina Cruz Sousa
Portocarrera Sanchez; Maria de Fátima Rodrigues Pereira de
Pina; Maria Rui de Vilar Correia; Rita Serra; Tiago Santos Pereira; Carlos Barradas; José Pedro Arruda
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Partner institutions: Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology
(IBMC/UP), Institute of Public Health of the University of
Porto (ISP/UP), University of Coimbra
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01-06-2010
End date: 31-05-2013
Keywords: Health; knowledge; information; communication
Results: Publication of book and scientific papers
Evaluation of the Cooperation in the
Sector of Justice between 2000 and 2009
Research Team: Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Conceição Gomes, Maria Paula Meneses, João Pedro Campos
Funding Body: IPAD (Portuguese Institute for Development
Support)
Duration: 12 months
Start date: December 2009
End date: December 2010
Keywords: evaluation; Portuguese cooperation; sector of
justice
Abstract: This is a service provided to IPAD (Portuguese
Institute for Development Support), with the goal of evaluating
the Portuguese cooperation implemented from 2000 to 2009 with
the Portuguese Speaking Countries in the sector of Justice and
within the Justice Sector Support Program. The project's goals
include, among others, understanding to what extent the
Portuguese intervention has been important to the development
of the justice sector in Portuguese-speaking African countries,
and assessing the level of integration and articulation between
the different local institutions.
Forensic
DNA databasing in Portugal - contemporary issues in ethics,
practices and policy
Research Team: Helena Machado, Helena Falcão de
Oliveira, Manuela Pereira da Cunha, Susana Costa, Filipe Santos, Susana Silva
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01-04-2010
End date: 31-03-2013
Keywords: DNA database; forensic science; ethic; governance
Expected Results: Publication of scientific papers;
participation in international conferences; consultant
workshop; organization of training course.
Gender Equality and the Exercise of
Citizenship
Research Team: Virgínia Ferreira and Mónica Lopes
Funding Body: ANIMAR (Portuguese Association for Local
Development)
Duration: 17 months
Start date: 01/08/2009
End date: 31/12/2010
Keywords: gender equality; organizational empowerment;
organizational diagnosis
Expected Results: Presentation of final report with conclusions
and recommendations
Abstract: CES is consultant of ANIMAR - Portuguese Association
for Local Development, which promotes the project Gender
Equality and the Exercise of Citizenship. Some of the
project’s general goals are: the promotion of organizational
empowerment and the reinforcement of an organizational culture
that includes the gender dimension in intervention and
communication practices, as well as at the level of human
resources internal management; the execution of a diagnosis
about Human Resources characterization, time management and
conciliation problems within Animar network’s organizations;
the dissemination of training/awareness raising methodologies
and techniques on Gender Equality that show an innovative and
participative nature, considering the original characteristics
and competences of different kinds of target (youth, women,
etc.) within Animar network’s organizations. CES
participates, namely, in the planning and scientific design of
the organizational diagnosis and regional awareness raising
campaign, in the preparation, design and organization of
workshops, in the elaboration of a diagnosis study and
strategic document with recommendations to the organizations
and in the project’s final seminar.
From spinal cord injury to social inclusion:
disability as a personal and socio-political
challenge
Research Team: Pedro Hespanha, Bruno Sena Martins, Fernando Fontes, Aleksandra Berg
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Duration: 24 months
Start date: 01/04/2010
End date: 31/03/2012
Keywords: Disability; Social model; Rehabilitation; Spinal cord
injury.–
Expected Results: Scientific papers/presentations; organization
of a seminar and final conference; documentary film; book
publication.
The
gender of family law and justice - Gender inequality and
violence in family law’s transformation and in Family Court
decisions
Research Team: João Pedroso, Cláudia Pozzi, Eliana
Patrícia Branco, Paula Casaleiro
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Duration: 24 months
Start date: 01/01/2010
End date: 31/12/2011
Keywords: Gender Inequality; Family Law; Family Courts; Legal
Enactment and Application
Expected Results: workshop; advanced training course; book and
several scientific papers.
Immigrant
Families: a longitudinal study of Brazilians, Cape-Verdians and
Ukrainians in Portugal
Research Team: Joana Sousa Ribeiro, Joana Feio
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Start date: 01-01-2008
End date: 31-12-2010
Keywords: Panel Study; Immigrant Families; Integration;
Transnationalism
Impact
Evaluation of International Cooperation Projects Implemented by
the Italian NGO Africa 70
Research Team: Giovanni Allegretti (Principal
Investigator), Juliana Luiz, Carlos Elias Barbosa
Funding Body: Africa 70
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01/08/2008
End date: 31/07/2011
Keywords: external evaluation, fight against social exclusion,
informal rehabilitation of urban areas
Abstract: The research work is based on the external evaluation
(both intermediate and final) of the development and impact of
two programs that the NGO Africa 70 implements with the
policies of fight against social exclusion in Cape Verde,
supported by the European Union
Information
and consultation of workers in multinationals: analysis of the
impact of European Business Councils in Portugal in the
metallurgic, chemical and financial sectors
Research Team: Hermes Augusto Costa (Principal
Investigator), Catarina Frade (Collaborator/Consultant)
Reinhard Naumann (Collaborator/Consultant)
Funding Body: Institute for Interdisciplinary Research of the
University of Coimbra
Start date: 01/09/2008
End date: 30/08/2010
Keywords: European Business Council; information and
consultation of workers; multinationals; Portugal; metallurgic,
chemical and financial sectors.
Expected Results: The results produced by this project are
designed to be made public both at national and international
level (especially within EU). This dissemination will take
place within scientific communities, trade unions and
associations, businesses, as well as Portuguese state and
government institutions. Particularly, by analysing and making
public the labour participation practices promoted by EBCs,
this project also intends to contribute to an improvement of
labour relations within multinationals.
Abstract: This project analyses the possibilities of labour
participation in European Business Councils (EBCs), especially
in the metallurgic, chemical and financial sectors, where there
is a larger number of multinationals with EBCs, as well as a
larger presence of elected/appointed Portuguese representatives
at EBCs. Furthermore, these are sectors which are particularly
vulnerable to restructuring, relocation and merger processes,
thus testing the role of those European institutions.
International Observatory for Local
Policies and Social Inclusion
Research Team: Boaventura de Sousa Santos; Giovanni Allegretti; Maria Paula Meneses; Pedro Hespanha; Nancy Duxbury; Mauro Serapioni; Stefania Barca; Elsa Lechner; Clemens Zobel; Michele Griguolo; Olena
Lucyna; Manuela Gervasi; Leonardo Veronez de Sousa
Funding Body: Commission for Social Inclusion and Participatory
Democracy (CGLU); Barcelona Municipality
Duration: 15 months
Start date: 01/01/2010
End date: 31/03/2011
Keywords: local policies; public management; civic
participation; social inclusion
Expected Results: creation of a virtual observatory
Abstract: The aim is to establish the Observatory as a virtual
database of innovative local policies of social inclusion,
which will allow knowing the most interesting initiatives of
social inclusion at city level, and promote knowledge exchange.
The published studies should focus specially on the effect of
citizens’ participation on social inclusion policies, and the
impact of these policies on securing the respect for Human
Rights.
Justice,
media and citizenship
Research Team: Helena Machado (Principal Investigator)
and Adriana Silva
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01/10/2007
End date: 30/09/2010
Keywords: Media´s Discourses; Judicial System; Public Sphere;
Citizenship
Expected Results: publication of book and scientific journal
papers , participation in conferences and promotion of training
courses.
Labour Accidents and Labour Risk
Narratives in the Portuguese Context
Research Team: António Casimiro Ferreira (Principal
Investigator), Marina Pessoa Henriques, Teresa Maneca Lima, Andreia Santos
Funding Body: CGTP (General Confederation of Portuguese
Workers)
Duration: 18 months
Start date: 01/10/2009
End date: 31/03/2011
Expected Results: This study has the goal of understanding the
route of the injured workers from the date of the accident
until his/her compensation, trying to identify how the process
develops, what are the limitations, which are the negative and
positive aspects, in the perspective of finding organizational
solutions adequate to this element of Social Responsibility.
Lives scarred by History: The Portuguese
Colonial War and the "Disabled of the Armed
Forces"
Research Team: Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Natércia
Coimbra, Bruno Sena Martins
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Duration: 30 months
Start date: 01-04-2010
End date: 30-09-2012
Keywords: Colonial War; Disability; Colonialism; War
Veterans
Expected Results: Publication of book and several scientific
papers; documentary film
Luso-Brazilian Architectural Construction
Research Team: Nelson Porto Ribeiro, José Simões Pessoa
Rosina Trevisan Ribeiro, João Mascarenhas Mateus, José Manuel
Aguiar
Funding Body: CNpQ/FAPES (National Council for Scientific and
Technological Development/Foundation for Research Support)
Partner Institution: The project is coordinated by the Arts
Centre of the Espírito Santo Federal University
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01/08/2010
End date: 31/07/2013
Keywords: Construction; Architecture; Portugal; Brazil
Abstract: The project’s goal is to promote the study of
construction techniques during the Portuguese colonization
period in the American continent in order to increase the
knowledge about the monuments built based on the knowledge
about their structures and facings, allowing professionals from
the cultural heritage field, both Brazilian and Portuguese, to
adequately perform the correct preservation and safeguarding of
these monuments Thus, it intends to contribute – not only by
promoting the organization and collection of documental
supports but also through theoretical considerations on the
subject – to the future elaboration of a “History of
Luso-Brazilian Construction”.
Menu
for Justice. Toward a European Curriculum Studiorum on Judicial
Studies - JUSTMEN
Research Team: Conceição Gomes
Funding Body: European Commission (DG Education and Culture)
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01/09/2009
End date: 31/08/2012
Keywords: Justice; Education; Training; Judicial studies
Mothers
and fathers after the "biological truth"? Gender, inequalities
and parental roles in the cases of investigation of
paternity
Research Team: Helena Machado (Principal Investigator),
Susana Costa, Susana Silva, António
Amorim, Cíntia Alves, Alice Matos, Diana Miranda
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Duration: 24 months
Start date: 01/12/2009
End date: 30/11/2011
Keywords: DNA tests; biological paternity; identity; parental
roles.
Expected Results: Elaboration of research reports and
scientific papers. Elaboration of a good practice guide, which
will include a set of recommendations to courts and forensic
laboratories in order to reinforce the rights of all
individuals involved in paternity investigations, namely
regarding informed consent and privacy protection, physical
integrity, informational self-determination and personal data
confidentiality.
New Challenges of
Peacekeeping
Research Team: Raquel Freire and Paula Duarte Lopes
Funding Body: European Cooperation in the field of Scientific
and Technical Research (COST)
Duration: 4 years
Start date: 2008
End date: 2012
Keywords: Peacekeeping, Crisis management, Multilateralism,
European Union, United Nations
Abstract: This project’s goal is to promote new research
projects which contribute to the construction of a European
vision towards peace operations and crisis multilateral
management. Specifically, the goal is to promote information
exchanges between researchers about “why”, “when” and
“with whom” should UE attempt to establish common peace
missions and interventions. Thus, the project will contribute
to the elaboration of a potential European peacekeeping
doctrine, to be included in a wider peace support strategy.
These two elements will be key components of a renewed and wide
European Security Strategy. The project shall contribute to the
efficiency and coherence of policy definition process at the
European level, carried out by political leaders and civil
society.
New Poetics of Resistance: the Twenty-First
Century in Portugal
Research Team: Graça Capinha (Principal Investigator),Clara Keating, Adriana Bebiano, Isabel Pedro dos Santos, Feliciano Mira,
Aline Lourenço, Clara Moura, José Manuel Lourenço, Jorge Vaz
Nande, Jorge Fragoso Ribeiro, Olga Solovova, Rita Grácio and Cristina Néry
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01/09/2007
End date: 28/02/2011
Abstract: The project New Poetics of Resistance: the
Twenty-First Century in Portugal is an interdisciplinary
project which includes four knowledge areas: Literary Studies,
Translation Studies, Sociology and Linguistics. It considers
the politics of language, namely some languages which from
their margins produce the centre, all the while resisting it,
serving ‘that which is not’ (Dante), reinventing and
enquiring into the space of excess (Lecercle), still the home
of language which is disapproved of, reproved or as-yet-to-be
proved (Howe). In this space, the infinite possibilities are
founded for the ever ‘new poetics of resistance’: in
experimentation; in the effort, at once inevitable and
impossible, of translating; in recognising the incompleteness
of a dia(multi)topic hermeneutics demanded by multiculturalism,
by emigration, by bilingualism; in etymological enquiry – set
upon a sociology of absences (Sousa Santos), in the permanent
and inevitable search for a line of escape (Deleuze and
Guattari) which, since it is always in a dynamic process, can
only lead to nomadism, to de-centring and to
de-territorialising language and the identity constructed in
it.
Webpage: www.ces.uc.pt/projectos/novaspoeticas
Nuclear
Portugal: Physics, Technology, Medicine and Environment
(1910-2010)
Research Team: Tiago Figueiredo Saraiva, Ana Isabel da Silva
Araújo Simões, Ana Isabel Oliveira Delicado, António Manuel
Simões Lopes Paiva, Cristiane Lage David Bastos, Gonçalo
Lopes Praça, João Arriscado Nunes, José Manuel Mendes, José Castro Caldas, Laura Centemeri, Maria Júlia Neto Gaspar,
Maria Luísa Carvalho de Albuquerque, Maria Paula Pires dos
Santos Diogo, Marta Catarino Lourenço, Paulo Jorge Granjo
Simões, Ricardo Nuno Afonso Roque, Tiago Santos Pereira
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01/03/2010
End date: 28/02/2013
Keywords: Nuclear History of Portugal; Atoms and Cancer;
Uranium Mining; Nuclear Energy
Expected Results: national and international workshops
Organized
civil society and courts: the mobilization of law and justice
in Lisbon, Luanda, Maputo and São Paulo
Research Team: Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Élida Santos, Conceição Gomes, Paula Meneses, Tiago Ribeiro
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Duration: 30 months
Start date: 01/04/2010
End date: 30/09/2012
Keywords: Organized Civil Society; Mobilization of Law; Courts;
Access to Law and Justice
Expected Results: Book publication; organization of conference;
publication of a Guide on the Mobilization of Law and Access to
Justice on Civil Society
PARLOCAL – Networks for the
communication and reinforcement of management in the management
of participatory assumptions and other instruments of
participatory public policies
Research Team: Giovanni Allegretti (coord.)
Funding Body: Malaga Council, Dominican Federation of
Municipalities (FEDOMU) of Dominican Republican and Payasandú
City Council of Uruguay
Duration: 12 months
Start date: 01/06/2010
End date: 31/05/2011
Keywords: Participatory Budget; Spain; Uruguay; Dominican
Republican
Abstract: This two-year project started in January 2010 and is
coordinated by the Malaga Council. It has three main
guidelines: 1) To create political connections between 36
councils and municipalities with experiences of participatory
budgeting processes in Spain, Uruguay and Dominican Republic;
2) To create a learning environment, also through a training
course designed to 60 local technicians and politicians
(including both presential classes and local classes); 3) to
execute a research project to analyse the effects and the
perceptions of PB participants in the 36 municipalities
involved. CES (with a multidisciplinary team) is in charge of
organizing some classes and mentoring 5 students. Giovanni
Allegretti, a CES researcher, is also Director of the
Scientific Board in charge of the field work.
Participatory
Budgeting as innovative tool for reinventing local institutions
in Portugal and Cape Verde? A critical analysis of performance
and transfers.
Research Team: Giovanni Allegretti, Clemens Zobbel, Juliana Luiz, Isabel
Carvalho Guerra, Mariangela Fornuto, Nelson Santos Dias, Mariana Lopes Alves
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01/04/2010
End date: 31/03/2013
Keywords: Governance; Participatory budgets; Local powers;
Innovative public policies
Expected Results: Training course to administrative and
political employees; methodological workshops; final
conference
Political Sphere and Participatory
Budget
Research Team: Ernesto Ganuza and Giovanni Allegretti (coord.)
Funding Body: Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation
Partner Institution: The project is coordinated by the Advanced
Social Studies Institute (Instituto de Estudios Sociales
Avanzados), based in Córdoba, Spain.
Duration: 24 months
Start date: 01/01/2010
End date: 031/12/2012
Keywords: Participatory Budget; Public Policies; Portugal;
Spain
Abstract: Coordinated by the Advanced Social Studies Institute
(Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados), Córdoba, Spain,
this two-years project intends to carry out a comparative study
of some participatory budgeting experiences in several
countries (Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Brazil and Germany)
in order to understand the way how PB relates to other
participation instruments in public policies.
Practice of judicial officers and
magistrates at courts: what needs to be changed to achieve an
added-value, more qualified and less repetitive work and a
better use of resources
Research Team: Boaventura de Sousa Santos e Conceição Gomes (Coord.), Elida Santos and Marina Pessoa Henriques
Funding Body: Ministry of Justice
Abstract: The projects intends to perform a study about the
Portuguese courts’ operation and, especially, about the work
of judicial officers and magistrates. The study includes the
elaboration of recommendations to a more efficient and
effective operation of courts.
Public Participation and Law – A
Comparative Approach
Research Team: Giovanni Allegretti
Funding Body: Research Centre for Government by Law - China
University of Political Science and Law
Duration: 18 months
Start date: 01/06/2010
End date: 31/12/2011
Keywords: Participatory Democracy; Asia; Europe;
Citizenships
Expected Results:
Abstract: This two-year research is coordinated by the
Constitutional Studies Institute of the China University of
Political Science and Law (Zhengfa Daxue) in Beijing, China.
The project’s main goal is to develop a comparative study in
some Asian and European countries about the legal framework
supporting and promoting the implementation of participatory
decision-making processes which involve citizens. CES (with a
multidisciplinary team coordinated by Giovanni Allegretti) is
in charge of the Iberian Research Unit.
RAP - ´Race´ and Africa in Portugal:
a study on history textbooks
Research Team: Marta Araújo (Principal Investigator), Maria Paula Meneses, Silvia R. Maeso, José João Lucas, Bruno Andrade and Rita Alves
Consultants: Michael W. Apple (Univ. Madison/Wiscosin) and
Augusto José Monteiro (CEIS20)
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology), ref. PTDC/CED/64626/2006
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01/09/2008
End date: 31/08/2011
Keywords: Eurocentrism in Education – Racism – Textbooks
– Postcolonial Africa
Expected Results: The purpose of this project is to understand
how the silencing of the History of Africa in textbooks has
helped to perpetuate stereotyped views of Africa and the
Black/African ‘other’ as uncivilized, pre- or a-historic,
and challenge these views. We aim at constructing a critical
framework that dialogues with all agents involved in the
process of textbook production and circulation, identifying and
making visible existing innovative practice. This will be the
most comprehensive study of history textbooks in Portugal that
we know of, and will offer a new theoretical framework to the
field, combining the approach of Sociology of Education to the
relationship between power, culture and education with
Postcolonial Studies that recover the silenced history of
Africa.
Webpage: www.ces.uc.pt/projectos/rap
The reasonable accommodation of
minorities: lessons from Canada
Research Team: Mathias Thaler (Principal Investigator);
Roberto Merrill; Mihaela Mihai; João Cardoso Rosas; Daniel
Weinstock
Funding Body: International Council for Canadian Studies
Partner institutions: Ethic Research Centre of the University
of Montreal, Centre for Humanistic Studies (University of
Minho)
Duration: 12 months
Start date: 1-05-2010
End date: 30-04-2011
Keywords: cultural and religious diversity; Canada; Europe;
Bouchard/Taylor Commission
Results: Publication of book and scientific papers
Abstract: This project attempts to contribute to our
understanding of the relations between Canada and Europe by
investigating the way in which the Bouchard/Taylor commission
(2007-2008) on “Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural
Differences” grappled with the challenge of cultural and
religious diversity in the province of Québec. Our hypothesis
says that Europe’s engagement with cultural and religious
diversity can be beneficially informed by a close reading of
the commission’s report. This hypothesis is based on the fact
that the authors of the report explore a novel type of “open
secularism” and draw upon a culture of compromise. This
approach might help us move beyond the unproductive opposition
between religion and democracy that characterizes a plethora of
European policies. Therefore, an investigation into the context
and the results of the commission’s recommendations appears
to be crucial for evaluating the model’s potential for
Europe.
This project received the “Theodor Körner Preis 2010”
Award (Austria).
Risk,
Social Vulnerability and Planning Strategies: An Integrated
Approach
Research Team: José Manuel Mendes (Principal
Investigator), Luís Figueiredo Neves, Alexandra Aragão,
João Arriscado Nunes, Alexandre Tavares, Lúcio Cunha, Eduardo Basto and Susana Freiria
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01/10/2007
End date: 30/09/2010
Keywords: Risk, Social Vulnerability, Land use, Planning
Strategies
Expected Results: Public sessions in each of the seven selected
municipalities in order to present and discuss the results and
their impact in the assessment and mitigation of local dangers;
public sessions which will include exhibitions with posters,
maps and other graphical kinds of information with risk zones
and greater social vulnerability; elaboration of a Guide to
evaluate the Vulnerability Index, which will be made available
to local technicians, as well as other actors involved in
danger management and assessment (land use, civil protection
and emergency services agents); organization of meetings with
local technicians, as well as with other actors involved in
danger management and assessment in order to define legal
standards; the Guide to evaluate the Local Vulnerability Index
and the legal standards will be made available to the general
public at the CES project’s website; press releases, which
will be elaborated at the project’s second and third years,
in order to present the project’s results to the general
public.
SCRAM
- Crises, risk management and new socio-ecological arrangements
for forests: a perspective from science and technology
studies
Research Team: Rita Serra (Principal Investigator), Alexandre Tavares, Anabela Marisa de Jesus
Rodrigues Azul, João Arriscado Nunes, Laura Centemeri, Marisa Matias, Vera Maria Prior Figueiredo
Santos, Mayren Alavez Vargas, Nelson Matos
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01/04/2010
End date: 31/03/2013
Keywords: Forests; risk management; science and technology;
crisis
Expected Results: database with information on forest
management regimes; documentary film; book, educational
material; international seminar.
SPOTIA:
Sustainable Spatial Policy Orientations and Territorial Impact
Assessment - Contribution to Portuguese context
Research Team: José Reis
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Partner institutions: Foundation of the Lisbon University
(FUL/UL); Centre for Social Studies (CES); Technical University
of University; Centre for Geographical Studies (CEG/FL/UL)
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01/03/2010
End date: 28/02/2013
Keywords: Land planning; sustainability; evaluation of land
impact; land models.
Study on Magistrates’ Recruitment and
Training
Research Team: Conceição Gomes (Investigadora
Responsável), Carla Soares, Catarina Trincão, Marina Pessoa Henriques, Paula Fernando
Funding Body: Ministry of Justice
Duration: 15 months
Start date: 02/06/2010
End date: 31/03/2011
Keywords: Training; Recruitment; Magistrates
Abstract: The study intends to analyse the procedures,
shortcomings and strong aspects of Portuguese magistrates’
recruitment and training systems, through a comparative
assessment of other models, in order to provide recommendations
to solve potential problems.
Study on the New Divorce Law
Research Team: Conceição Gomes (Investigadora
Responsável); Paula Fernando; Patrícia Oliveira
Funding Body: Ministry of Justice
Duration: 15 months
Start date: 02/06/2010
End date: 31/03/2011
Keywords: Divorce legal system; evaluation; recommendations
Abstract: The study intends to evaluate the new divorce legal
system, as approved by the Law no. 61/2008, identifying
potential problems or constraints resulting from its
implementation, and to elaborate recommendations.
Study on Voluntary Work
Research Team: Mauro Serapioni, Sílvia Ferreira, Teresa Maneca Lima, Pedro Hespanha, Virgínia Ferreira, Ricardo Marques
Funding Body: Eugénio de Almeida Foundation
Duration: 16 months
Start date: 14/07/2010
End date: 13/11/2011
Keywords: Voluntary work; Évora; diagnosis; good practices
Abstract: The study, having a prospective character, has the
generic goal of conducting a diagnosis, at the institutional
level, on the current practices and needs of voluntary work
promotion, aiming at the elaboration of proposals and
recommendations about a coherent, efficient and broad strategic
guideline in the field of voluntary work, regard for its
mission and sphere of influence.
Sustainable Peacebuilding
Research Team: José Manuel Pureza, Raquel Freire and Paula Duarte Lopes, Cristina Sala
Funding Body: European Commission - Marie Curie Actions
Duration: 48 months
Start date: 12-12-2009
End date: 12-12-2013
Keywords: Peace; Conflicts; Sustainable Peace; Participatory
Governance
Abstract: The project is created and developed by a solid and
dynamic network of 11 institutions (EDEN Network for Peace and
Conflict), with a proven commitment and ability to provide high
quality training services in the research area of Peace and
Conflicts. This network’s goal is to promote training and
research about sustainable peacebuilding strategies, with a
deep knowledge about the interactions between activities
associated to peacebuilding, especially the promotion of good
governance, inclusive development and security at several
levels. The project is based on the idea of participatory
governance, which reconcile social values with those based on
market economy, defending the promotion of peace and economic
and social development through the participation of all agents
and social actors, including local communities, interest groups
and companies, public sector and voluntary work sector,
including arts and environmental organizations.
Tax
evasion, tax avoidance and tax compliance: Individual, economic
and social factors
Research Team: Catarina Frade
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Partner institutions: Economic and Business Sociology Research
Centre (SOCIUS/ISEG); Centre for Social Studies (CES); Research
Unit on Complexity and Economics (UECE/ISEG)
Duration: 24 months
Start date: 01/04/2010
End date: 31/03/2012
Keywords: Tax evasion; tax policy; behavioural economy;
economic sociology.
TOLERACE - The semantics of tolerance and
(anti-)racism: public bodies and civil society in comparative
perspective
Research Team: Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Silvia Rodríguez Maeso, Marta Araújo, Clemens Zobel, Paula Meneses (CES). Tina Gundrun Jensen
(SFI), Frank Peter (EUV), Gabriel Gatti(UPV), Ángeles Castaño
(US), Salman Sayyid (CERS-Leeds), Olivier Guiot
Funding Body: EU – 7th Framework Programme
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01-03-2010
End date: 28-02-2013
Keywords: (Anti-)Racism, Tolerance, Integration Policies,
Mediation Agents, Action-Research
Abstract: TOLERACE starts from the assumption that public
policies in Europe do not adequately take into account racism,
resulting in precarious anti-racist measures. The project
proposes a comparative analysis that explores how the different
meanings of racism/anti-racism and tolerance/intolerance have
been historically embedded in wider ideas and discourses on
citizenship and identity in different European contexts
(Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, and UK). We
defend that a historically informed approach is required to
question widespread views of racism as a matter of beliefs or
attitudes arising from specific (extremist) ideologies and that
fail to challenge discriminatory social structures. We focus on
two key life spheres with a strong level of regulation
concerning the processes of social integration, and where
denunciations and public issues often emerge: employment and
education.
Webpage: www.ces.uc.pt/projectos/tolerace
Trajectories
of Hope: institutional itineraries of women in situation of
domestic violence
Research Team: Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Madalena Duarte, Cecília MacDowell Santos and João Paulo Dias, Ana Cristina Oliveira
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Duration: 24 months
Start date: 01/09/2009
End date: 31/08/2011
Keywords: Domestic Violence; Women; State; Civil Society
Expected Results: workshops to present the preliminary reports
in different cities; international conference; book and several
scientific papers
Without
rights: the (limited) citizenship of illegal immigrants and
their access to law and justice in the European Union and
Portugal
Research Team: João Pedroso, Patrícia Branco, Joana Sousa Ribeiro, Maria João Guia, Vera Lúcia Silva
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Duration: 24 months
Start date: 01/04/2010
End date: 31/03/2012
Keywords: Illegal immigrants; Access to law and justice;
Citizenship; European Union and Portugal
Expected Results: workshop; focus group, advanced training
course; international conference
Who
are they? Insights into professional characterisation of judges
and public prosecutors in Portugal
Research Team: António Casimiro Ferreira, João Paulo Dias, Conceição Gomes, Paula Fernando, Alfredo Campos
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology)
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01/04/2010
End date: 31/03/2013
Keywords: Judicial professions; Justice and citizenship; Values
and attitudes; Judicial powers
Expected Results: scientific papers, book, international
conference and recommendations
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