Inclusion+ aims at fostering inclusivity and diversity in Erasmus+ mobility at the higher education level by tackling the barriers faced by students with fewer opportunities, namely students with caring responsibilities and students with disabilities, to participate in international mobility. By establishing cooperation between HEIs and host cities Inclusion+ will enhance both host institutional and cities’ inclusivity. Inclusion+ activities are scoping review, dialogue forums, and online survey on inclusivity in student mobility to feed into a storytelling report and an online inventory of promising practices. Collaborative laboratories to co-create recommendations for inclusive mobility for HEIs and host cities and co-design a full-fledged prototype for a mobility app. Development of a roadmap and two factsheet checklists to guide HEIs and host cities on how to improve inclusivity toward Erasmus+ students. Our project aims at improving the partner HEIs’ ability to exchange students in an inclusive way, and foster host cities’ inclusiveness toward international students. Raise awareness at the HEIs and city level of the barriers faced by students with fewer opportunities to participate in Erasmus+ mobility. Support HEIs and host cities’ on how to better respond to the needs of these students.  Website: https://inclusion.iscte-iul.pt/

The outbreak of Covid-19 has had a profound impact on all the social, economic and political life of practically all societies. To help contain the virus and limit pressures on national health care systems, spatial mobility has also been severely affected. Motivated by the rapid spread of Covid-19, countries around the world closed their borders, airlines cancelled their flights and people have been told to stay at home by their governments, limiting human circulation in a manner unprecedented in the post-war period. As a border-crossing and now a border-closing related phenomenon, the global flow of international students has been severely disrupted by social isolation measures put in place without consideration of the consequences for mobility-dependent individuals, a predicament that invites research and analysis. Looking at the Portuguese case, this situation not only reflects the challenges raised by the pandemic in regard to how institutions dependent upon mobility function, but also existing inequalities between the Global North and the Global South, and the socio-economic differentials that have shaped individual experiences of the lockdown: what has become for a many forced displacement from sending countries or an involuntary return home. Some people are evidently better equipped or better situated to cope with the sudden immobility than others. Special attention in our work is given to the impact of lockdown on the quotidian routines of international students, taking into account the new, and existing, challenges they now face, as well as the effectiveness of the response made by host institutions. Empirical evidence is drawn from 30 interviews conducted with international students who were attending Portuguese universities during the lockdown, providing us with illustrations of their capacity to cope with what we have termed ‘pandemic immobility’.

The aim of this project is to understand student migration in the urban settings of Lisbon and other Portuguese cities (Porto, Coimbra, Évora e Covilhã). Literature shows how international students' lifestyles, consumption patterns and modes of socializing, prompt processes of urban change in many cities. This project regards these impacts in a double direction: on the one hand the impacts caused by the presence of students over the city (studentification, transformations on urban production and consumption, reproduction of local imaginaries) and on the other hand the impact of urban experiences over students' subjectivities (transition to adulthood, construction of transnational biographies, individual and collective affirmation). In order to achieve the objectives qualitative methodologies will be displayed, focusing specially in an ethnographic approach on students' social lives, but also using quantitative instruments such as a survey to be launched in the 5 cities to student populations.

Economic inequalities, social exclusion, discrimination against minorities, cultural resistance and disruption of social cohesion – these are all key concerns in the current European and global agenda, both in scholarly work and policy-making. RESISTANCE aims at analysing these issues by focusing on the processes of resistance carried out by social actors that have been historically disadvantaged, discriminated against and dominated. By using a concept of resistance that connects continued and less visible forms of resistance, cultural dissent and violent revolts, the ultimate goal of RESISTANCE is to produce a reinterpretation of the universe of “the dominated”. RESISTANCE will provide an understanding of how these actors could influence processes of social change, either by opening up societies to diversity and making them more inclusive and equal, or, conversely, by causing the increase of repression. Rooted in the disciplinary field of history, RESISTANCE uses the past as a laboratory for the analysis. Focusing on the former Portuguese and Spanish empires, this project privileges a comparative approach in time and space in order to investigate an extended time frame (sixteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries) and a spatial framework that encompasses Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. The past experiences of their societies, strongly grounded on ethnic, social, economic, cultural, religious, and gender inequality, still shape current political and social dynamics. RESISTANCE is led by the University of Évora, and made up of seven beneficiary universities in Portugal, Spain and Germany, plus six universities in third countries (Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Cape Verde, Mexico and USA). In addition to academic-type deliverables, RESISTANCE proposes an extensive range of dissemination and communication outputs specifically targeted at wide-ranging audiences (schools, museums, international agencies, think tanks, policy-makers, and more).

The project aims to consolidate the international network of collaboration between both teams around partner anthropological research on methods of collective social participation in Portuguese and Brazilian cities. This initiative of Luso-Brazilian exchange binds to two doctoral programs: Urban Studies (FCSH-UNL and ISCTE-IUL) and Postgraduate Anthropology Program (PPGA / UFF). The aim is to analyze the diversity of forms and practices of urban participation and how they mobilize and renew cultural, organizational, economic, political labor resources. This survey also wish to draw attention to activities that display scenarios, visibility and dispute in urban public space, challenging for advanced training in scientific thinking, but also the dissemination of public debate about different realities with a potential for comparability and dissemination of good practices.