This project engages with the topic of digital transition in the development of careers in science, focusing on the experiences of people employed in research centres at Portuguese universities. It has the main aim of exploring how these processes have transformed the research profession, with positive and negative consequences for researchers’ personal and professional development, including work/life balance and internationalization. Through evidence-based analysis, the objective of the project is to help inform policymakers and stakeholders in the Research and Development (R&D) sector of the economy about these issues as they pertain to Portugal, and create a better understanding of the impact of digital transitions on the lives of professionals for wider research communities. Theoretically, the project situates digital transitions within a mobilities context. Significantly, this body of work has acknowledged the importance of greater global interconnectedness and a reliance upon information technology in highly qualified professions. This extends to the research teams’ own contributions to the mobilities research field, including the idea that many societies are currently experiencing an immobility turn arising from a problematization of corporeal travel within urban environments and an expansion of digital work platforms, at national and international levels. These developments create new possibilities and a wider range of connections, but also place impositions on researchers, including an erosion of personal time and space by work imperatives. In regard to empirical approach, research questions aim to explore not only the extent of digitalization in research units, including key tasks relating to experimental work, field studies and international collaboration, as well as the normalization of remote working, but also the impact on the domestic sphere, taking a cross-sectional approach covering researchers at different career stages, enabling the research ...

H:OUSE stems from the recognition of the right to housing as an essential first step towards significant integration of people in need of international protection into host communities. It also recognizes that many successful experiences in terms of support in accessing housing come from bottom-up approaches. The project starts from these premises to explore successful Community Sponsorship experiences, at international, EU and local level, to provide a systematization of the most effective practices, whichextrapolates their relevant strengths. From this, a multi-stakeholder intervention model will be developed and tested, based on the direct involvement of a wide range of public and private sponsors, drawing particularly on those segments of society that can benefit, economically and in welfare, from active engagement with newcomers; as well as on the representatives of the diaspora communities, as solid bridges between the communities of newcomers and the country of reception. This multifaceted group of target stakeholders will receive tailored training and tools to acquire the necessary skills to better engage with and support newcomers. In parallel, local authorities and stakeholders will be involved and informed on the most pressing issues affecting the migrant community, such as the knowledge and accessibility of housing solutions, but also the innovative practices developed in the field. Finally, the project will bring together all these actors in multi-stakeholder sponsorship groups, set up in the 7 project implementation territories (IT, HE, HU, IR, SL), in the collaborative planning and implementation of concrete interventions. The final result will be the creation of a network in direct support of final beneficiaries, backed by a structure solid, informed and connected at EU level, with the potential to influence decisions and promote a paradigm shift in housing policies.  

The project will explore ways to establish and enhance Private Sponsorship (PS) schemes in some Member States, in order to strengthen capacities at local level and improve refugee self-reliance. Experienced organisations will provide technical and operational support for planning and carrying out a PS pilot scheme, inspired by the community-based model as experimented in Portugal and by other kinds of civil society engagement already existing in other EU countries. The pilot project will develop new practices for achieving more efficient PS and scaling-up existing PS scheme, leading to better integration of sponsored beneficiaries. Thanks to study visits and desk research the project will gather and analyse information on good practices of community-based sponsorship in order to develop a green book on the implementation of such schemes addressed to families hosting refugees and organisations participating in the pilot phase. Involving families will greatly improve the efficiency of the integration process as it opens existing social networks. The project will develop mentoring and peer-to-peer activities between families and refugees to provide social and educational support throughout the settlement process. The project will facilitate access to the job market for refugees relying on the expertise of a network of social enterprises which will design tailored vocational training. To ensure the correct implementation of the project and establish the basis for future replicability, a monitoring system will be developed. Monitoring activities will gather crucial information needed to develop an evaluation system in order to assess the relevance, effectiveness and sustainability of the project. In the short and medium term, the beneficiaries will be both the persons in need of protection located in partners’ countries and the Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). In the long term, the institutions and European CSOs will benefit from the project’ stress on the enhanc...

The main objective of the project is the scrutiny and comprehensive analysis pf the anti-trafficking regimens in Southern Europe, with a special focus on Portugal, Spain and Italy. The research aims to analyze what and how certain migratory practices are defined in terms of trafficking, how some migrants are identified as "victims" of trafficking and how the intervention policies in this area are devised and applied. In methodological terms, it is a a qualitative study, anchored in a multisituated ethnography, in which discourses on, and representations of trafficking and its "capillarization (Foucault, 1979), from the supranational plan to the national plans, will be analyzed.

The project aims to develop and validate two pedagogical strategies that set off deconstructive reflections on gender stereotypes: Violets: Cinema & Action in coping with violence against women and Violet Lives, a game in which women give the cards!    

The project aims to collect the literature on the Trafficking of Human Beings in Portugal since the 2000 - year of the Palermo Protocol.Master theses and Doctoral dissertation (a), books and journals articles by researchers that work on THB in Portugal (b), grey literature (technical reports, research reports, government reports, white papers and similar documents) (c) on the subject will be collected.

  The project aims to be a sociological investigation of trafficking in women for sexual exploitation in Portugal. The research project is financed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and is a qualitative study of trafficked women, trafficking experiences and measures of assistance. This research looks into the measures of assistance and reintegration of trafficked persons - the lives of women in and after the trafficking.

The overall aim of this proposal is to create a transnational interdisciplinary research and training network between European and Latin American Universities and Research centres in order to promote transfer of knowledge and to produce innovative research in the field of the multilevel governance of cultural diversity in a comparative perspective.