This study aims to monitor and analyze the PICCLE - Intervention Plan for Citizens Competent in Reading and Writing, a project of the National Reading Plan (PNL2027). Specifically, it aims to design and implement a tool for monitoring and evaluating the results of the use of the digital platform developed under PICCLE, focusing on its application in a number of pilot schools.

Through the analysis of different empirical fields, the project aims to explore the realities and potentialities of the dialogues between scientists and citizens in contemporary societies, contributing to the advancement of knowledge about modes of relation to science, in a perspective of social progress, social responsibility and the cognitive and democratic empowerment of citizens.

The research project "Processes of inclusion of women victims of domestic violence: education, vocational training and entrepreneurship" analyzes the process of social and economic autonomy of women who leave violent relationships and enter into a shelter. With three axes of analysis - policies, institutions and individuals (women victims) - the overall objectives of the project are developed at macro, meso and micro level. The project aims to: 1. Assess the importance of political strategies in education, employment and training, social inclusion and equality in the process of social reintegration of victims of domestic violence and the prevention of their revictimization; 2. Map and examine the policies for the social reintegration of the victims and the role of the support institutions, namely shelters; 3. Understand the process of social reintegration of victims of domestic violence who have been hosted in a shelter; to longitudinally analyze the inequality of resources throughout the life course of the woman and the strategies to promote their autonomy and a life project.

Taking the awardees of Gulbenkian’s Stimulus for Research Program as reference, the project aims to analyse the academic and professional careers of young Portuguese researchers, focusing on the emergence of scientific vocations and on the current contexts and dynamics of science in the Portuguese society. More specifically, the project is based on the following procedures: documentary analysis of the application files and the present awardees’ CVs, biographical interviews and interviews to the jury members.

The project aims at producing a first set of assessment items of the PNL (National Reading Plan), regarding its implementation, the attitudes towards reading of different public sectors, and the PNL impacts in fostering reading and literacy. The final goal is to design a proposal for an Evaluation System of the National Reading Plan. A mixed method approach is used, combining documentary analyses, surveys, interviews and case studies.

The objective of this project is to establish a research programme focused on two interrelated aspects:an analysis of the relationship between family and work, on the one hand, and the dynamics of transition in this relationship, on the other.