Developing Competences for Stress Resilience @SMEs (DeSTRESS) aims to provide an innovative VET-based solution to this problem. Building on existing research, partners will develop a VET curriculum supported by an innovative VET Digital Training Platform using the latest techniques in game-based training and gamification, complemented by a set of practical tools and resources to facilitate the transfer of learning into the workplace. This environment will expose the main psychosocial health risks and their real impact on the individuals’ life and on the companies’ productivity. Players will assume roles, enabling them to think back on their experiences with these specific situations and how it happened, and which solutions are available for each scenario. Besides raising awareness on the problem, the project outputs will enable owner, managers and even decision makers to plan for and to mitigate its occurrence and the negative consequences of work- based stress. For that purpose, both a policy report and recommendations will be produced. A network of facilitators will also be created as an open forum to debate these issues. As such, the project will contribute to strengthening key digital competences in initial VET while preventing the inherent hazards. 

The goal for the funding by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is to encourage changes in the behavior of ISCTE-IUL campus users to reduce energy consumption and improve campus environmental sustainability. It will combine knowledge of Psychology, Engineering, Architecture and Informatics, involving the entire ISCTE-IUL community and will be implemented IoT strategies, behavioral economics and gamification with the connection to BIM models. The project is developed over 4 sequential phases:    1st stage: Diagnosis of the current situation: a. Analysis of the ISCTE-IUL community's perception of environmental sustainability; B. Installation of sensors to measure the energy performance of ISCTEIUL users (eg temperature, humidity, luminosity, noise and power consumption).    Goals:   1) Diagnosis of community perception based on surveys of the target population. Feedback received will serve to identify the main requirements and approaches of our platform. Indicators - Report with variables, data collection and analysis. Goals - Evaluate a representative sample of non-teaching staff, teachers, students and visitors.   2) Real-time collection of sensor data and respective analysis on IoT platform for identification of patterns and behaviors. Indicators - reading real-time data identification patterns. Weekly, monthly, yearly reports. Real-time information on mobile devices. Goals - installation of measurements in 20 locations (reading energy, air quality, luminosity, temperature, noise).    2nd phase: Definition of objectives for the reduction of energy consumption, taking into account the quantitative and qualitative baseline built in the 1st phase of the project related to the calculation of the ecological footprint (consumption) by individual, room, department, building. Indicators - consumption metrics by person, room, department and building. Behavior analysis and its quantification Goals - Perceived behavior and organization of a workshop to disseminate ...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has received substantial attention in Europe in the last decade. An incremental number of initiatives gave it high visibility both in the academia and in the public sphere. However, there is scarce research on the meanings attributed by the European public to CSR, and how these relate to their values, identities and choices as consumers. Moreover, there is a lack of comparative studies that can help to better understand how supra-national regulations contribute to the circulating representations about CSR. This project intends to examine the current social representation of CSR in different countries across Europe. The main goal is to develop a comparative perspective between member-states that have entered the European Union in different accession phases (France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Slovenia), and have thus different time-frames of exposure to EU soft laws on CSR. This will also allow to update the knowledge about the social representation of CSR in relation to previous research (Duarte, et al., 2010, Golob, 2011), and analyze whether it has kept stable or changed in the last decade. A second goal is to examine psychosocial factors that can contribute to identify segments of the public that are differently engaged with the CSR principles and practices. Three factors are examined in this project: values, pro-environmental identity and sustainable consumption behaviors. Crossing these variables will allow us to examine if and how are these individual characteristics associated with a specific representation of CSR at the country-level. The project will allow gathering information that contributes for a better understanding of the relationship the European publics establish with companies’ socially responsible principles and practices.