The Cávado + Igual”Project is part of CIMs promoter and as partners the 6 Associated Municipalities, CIES-IUL (scientific entity) and KUN (international partner). It intends to materialize the first systematized and strategic approach of CIM directed to issues of equality with regard to the Associated Municipalities.  This project intends to materialize the first systematized and strategic approach of the CIM directed to the issues of gender equality and reconciliation with personal, family and professional life.  This project integrates a set of activities based on a shared process, mobilizing the aggregator to improve the conciliatory and egalitarian practices, involving local agents, designing strategic bets and identifying success indicators to elevate the territory of Cávado as more EQUAL.  Given the importance of promoting Equality and Conciliation, the overall objective of the Project is to mobilize and inspire best practices in the development of the Project, involving local actors, designing strategic bets and identifying indicators of success to elevate the sense of the rights and to conquer the territory of Cávado like more EQUAL. To this end, a portfolio of structuring measures and actions, to be developed at the municipal and intermunicipal levels in the field of governance and personal, professional and institutional capacity building, is being tested.

This project aims to analyse quality of life and quality of work patterns in the present economic Portuguese context, taking gender and skills as structuring elements. Based in the statistical analysis of secondary data and in the analysis of national and European social policy, this project aims to analyse change in the patterns of quality of life and work, considering skills (mis)match as an essential element for recovery in “post-crisis” societies, and gender as a structuring part of labour market integration and well-being processes.

Este projecto de investigação visa analisar a forma como as empresas estão a responder aos desafios da actual crise económica na gestão dos seus recursos humanos. Num quadro económico e social de acentuadas pressões para a redução dos custos de trabalho, muitas organizações adaptam a sua estrutura, políticas ou estratégia, aos condicionamentos externos, procurando assegurar bons níveis de desempenho e, simultaneamente, a manutenção do capital humano adquirido. Recorrendo a dados do Inquérito europeu às empresas (2009 e 2013) e à realização de estudos de caso organizacionais em Portugal, Espanha e Grécia, a investigação pretende analisar as principais dificuldades identificadas pelas empresas na gestão de pessoas e o tipo de medidas de ajustamento accionadas nas respostas à crise. Considerando as interações entre organizações e instituições, o estudo incide sobre empresas de países com configurações institucionais aproximadas e fortemente afectados pela presente crise, propondo o aprofundamento da dimensão empresarial nas análises dos mecanismos de ajustamento do mercado de trabalho.

Using a gender perspective, the aim of this quantitative and qualitative research project is to examine entrepreneurship patterns and dynamics in Portugal, how these patterns and dynamics affect daily functioning of PT SME,and how they affect life course of individual entrepreneurs, especially women.It is crucial for the project to examine the gendered nature of entrepreneurship in Portugal, something which will be connected to a broader, integrated analysis of main determinants explaining the identified patterns of entrepreneurship.This framework needs to be addressed if a deeper understanding of social and cultural determinants of women and men’s entrepreneurship behaviour is to be achieved.A number of articulated methodological strategies will be used in this research.As we wish to achieve an in-depth, understanding of the determinants of entrepreneurship it is necessary to use a multi-level approach.

Quality is a innovative quantitative and qualitative research project that aims to examine how, in an era of major change, European citizens and workers living in different national welfare state regimes and subject to different public and organization trends and policies evaluate the quality of their lives. The project will analyse international-comparative data on the social well-being of citizens and collect new data on social quality in European workplaces in the selected partner countries: UK, Finland, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Hungary and a candidate country for EU enlargement, Bulgaria.