Portugal is one of the European countries where the pressure of chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCDs) will be felt the most (Coelho et al, 2019). In Portugal, more than four in ten adults suffer from a chronic disease (OECD, 2021). In 2019, 41% of Portuguese aged 16 and over reported suffering from at least one chronic disease, a higher proportion than in the EU (36 %) (OECD, 2021). The assessment of the experience of the person with chronic disease and the caregiver has a central relevance by the Institute for HealthCare Improvement analysis based on the "experience of care", one of the three proposed by the "triple goal" framework having underlying "better health, better care and lower costs" (Mira et al, 2016). IEXPAC is based on the "Chronic Care Model" that assesses the user's experience and their continuous interaction with health professionals and services. It is necessary to generate results that consolidate this type of measurement, showing its association with other outcome indicators whose relevance and usefulness are widely needed to improve care and health gains, namely well-being. The perception of well-being reflects the cognitive and emotional reactions to life circumstances (Ponte & Ribeiro, 2016). People's perceptions of their lives as meaningful and purposeful may be a crucial psychological resource for maintaining their optimal well-being during a challenging period of illness (Mohiyeddini et al, 2020). TEAM RESEARCHAdelaide Belo: PAFIC; ULSLA; ACSSHelena Carvalho, Iscte - Instituto Universitário de LisboaInês Espírito Santo – PAFIC; CHULC, Iscte - Instituto Universitário de LisboaLiliana Gonçalves: ANCIMonica Santos – PAFIC; ULSLA    

Athena Project aims to develop the digital skills of university professors, reinforcing their response to the challenges that universities face today and in the future. The project seeks to foster cooperative learning environments, making them transformative and inclusive through the adoption of new technologies, such as e-learning, gaming platforms, virtual and augmented reality, systematically modeled to activate key competences in digital learning. The project will create models that teachers can adopt and adapt to their classes, using different pedagogical approaches.

The research aims to analyze the schooling process of Chinese children attending basic schools in our country, namely, their performance in school, compared to other groups: native students and students with other immigrant backgrounds. Based on official data from the Ministry of Education the results obtained standardized tests are compared by these groups of students, taking into account their social and academic profile. In addition to the gender differences, the differences in the parents' birthplace, the level of schooling achieved by the parents and the birthplace and nationality of the Chinese students will be taken into account. The results will be discussed in the light of the latest research results on the educational performance of descendants of populations of Chinese origin carried out in different countries on different continents.

Every year, the Ministry of Education's DGEEC systematises school attendance and results obtained by students in primary and secondary education according to their nationality and it is possible to know that school performance (measured by transition rates and by referral to non-regular education routes) varies considerably according to the nationality in question. It is not possible to know the impact on these results of a set of variables which predict them, such as the socio-educational conditions of the parents, the gender of the pupil or the socio-ethnic composition of the school and the class attended. Are the effects similar for all national origins? Which variables are more decisive in the achievement of students with a migrant background?It was possible to establish a protocol between CIES-Iscte and DGEEC/MEC that makes it possible to regularly (annually) provide statistical information collected by MEC regarding students from immigrant backgrounds in the form of micro data. Using this information, we intend to answer the questions raised, drawing a portrait of the schooling of these children and young people throughout the present decade in our country. The project is supported by the Observatory of Inequalities.

The life course perspective combines a rigorous, critical and systematic yet flexible theoretical approach to core sociological issues with methodological and epistemological eclectic nature and potential. Aiming to build bridges between past and future Life Course Research, this project tackles one appraised but underexplored principle, the "linked lives" principle, based on which "each generation is bound to fateful decisions and events in the other's life course". This will allow us to tackle family as a microcosms of inequalities, and as an observatory of interdependency and cross-effects of life events. Using a multi-dimensional logic, this project will ask different but interconnected questions concerning the interdependency of life events across an individual's life (including various spheres of life) and within the family (as a whole individually through some of its members), by developing different methodologies. A quantitative approach, based on the EU-SILC both multilevel and longitudinal data, aims to tackle cross-effects between family, work and wellbeing, both at an European and at the National Portuguese level. This European, macro and comparative level analysis, also provides relevant information about the specificity, or lack thereof, of the Portuguese case, which is useful for the subsequent and at a certain points overlapped qualitative components of the research. A qualitative approach, using primary sources of data (80 to 100 interviewees), intends to put the flesh onto the bones of the understanding of the linkages between certain life events in one or more life courses, by accessing the subjectivities and intentionality of the actions, and also the effects experienced. Biographical interviews will be carried out with life calendars and family trees, which will be subject to content analysis and holistic form analysis. Quantitative longitudinal analysis will also be used for life calendar information. This will be done at both individual and fa...

The general objective of the project is to develop advanced research and to strengthen and expand education provisioning in the area of educational public policies and school administration.

Roughly until the 2008 international financial and economic crisis and the sovereign debt crisis and austerity policies that followed, scholars studying the Southern European democracies (Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain) either focused on democratic consolidation or on the quality of democracy (see, for example, Morlino 1998; Gunter, Diamandouros and Phule 1995). However, the Southern European democracies have been experiencing profound changes since the emergence of the global economic and financial crises. As Matthijs (2014) noted, ‘there is already ample evidence that the strength of liberal democracy in Southern Europe has diminished since 2010, as seen in a weakening of civil and political rights, the rule of law and the functioning of government’. Clearly, there are significant changes in the functioning of contemporary democracies, especially those that haveendured painful austerity policies.The aim of this project is to examine these changes by analysing the case of Portugal, one of the countries affected most severely by the crisis, from both a longitudinal and a comparative perspective. Although it is still too early to definitely assess the impact of the economic crisis on the evolution of contemporary democracies, it is clear there are different responses to these external challenges and distinct trajectories of adaptation. Portugal can be considered a good example of one of the most important difficulties many contemporary democracies must face: the people’s loss of faith in the ability of democratic institutions — particularly legislatures, parties and the political elite — to solve problems and realise collective goals. We believe that by revisiting the concept of ‘democratic consolidation’ and by exploring aspects of a possible process of ‘democratic deconsolidation’ we can shed light on some of the changes recently experienced in European countries since the2008 crisis. The use of this concept here is not related to the consensus on the ‘rules of...

Babies Born Better is an international online survey on childbirth experiences. It is an output of the COST Action IS 0907 "Childbirth Cultures, Concerns, and Consequences: Creating a dynamic EU framework for optimal maternity care" and it is currently coordinated by an International Steering Committee. The survey is available in more than 23 languages, having obtained around 40,000 responses in each edition. In Portugal, data is managed and analysed by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University Institute of Lisbon: Mário Santos (CIES-IUL), Helena Carvalho (CIES-IUL), Marta Matos (CIS-IUL), Sónia Pintassilgo (CIES-IUL), and Dulce Neves (CIES-IUL). 

MYWeB takes a balanced approach to assessing the feasibility of a European Longitudinal Study for Children and Young People (ELSCYP) through prioritising both scientific and policy imperatives. Striking the appropriate balance between science and policy is guaranteed through the use of an evaluation/appraisal methodology which ensures that the outcomes will be methodologically robust, technically feasible and will represent value for money. A full scale pilot study in six countries means original empirical data on field experiences will provide direct evidence of the feasibility of an ELSCYP. Engagement with a wide range of stakeholders including policy-makers at a European, Member State and regional level ensures that the project outcomes take into account the broadest range of policy makers. Questions about the “value added” that a longitudinal survey can offer over a cross-sectional survey will, therefore, be fully informed by policy agendas. Children and Young People are integrated into the project plan to contribute to the operationalisation of notions of well-being as well as in understanding the best modes of conducting an ELSCYP. The MYWeB consortium contains researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and provides expertise in the areas of children and young people’s well-being, childhood care; education; the environment in which a child grows up, childhood/youth work and leisure and participation. In addition, all teams are experienced in undertaking questionnaire survey research. Each Delivery Partner and Collaborator in the consortium is part of the FP7 funded MYPLACE project and have direct experience of working with one another on a large and complex project and the requirements to deliver to contract. The consortium contains a team with international repute in the methodology of longitudinal surveys ensuring that the project outcomes are informed by cutting edge scientists working in this field of methodology.

The objective of this project is to identify and characterize the impact of the international partnership programs (IPS) on Portuguese universities. This program was created in 2006-2007 by inviting several American universities (MIT/CMU/UTA) to help develop selected universities. The lead universities were selected on the basis of their area of expertise (engineering, information technology and later medicine and business), the quality of their research, their degree of internationalization and their links with industry. Our research question is what impact did this have on 1) organizational change (including non-selected research teams) 2) curriculum innovation 3) staff development 4) student mobility 5) industry-university collaborations.

This projects aims to contribute to a substantive and deeper knowledge on this subject. Thus, the central question and driver of the project is that of scientific development in Associated Laboratories – this choice of the empirical object is justified in the “Plan and Methods”- and their contribution to improve technological innovation in firms. To achieve this goal, particular attention will be given to the following analysis dimensions: the forms of producing and organizing scientific activity in laboratories, the scientific life of researchers and their values orientation, the types of funding (public/private) and their impact in the scientists careers and in the modalities of “transfer of knowledge” to firms, as well as to the internationalization of science.

This research aims to analyse graduates and professionals of the domain of nutrition and food in Portugal, particularly in what concerns the professional activity and graduation within nutrition, dietetics and food engineering. This study includes a revision of the current academic degrees in these areas in Portugal, of the professional activity of workers related with these matters within the labour market and also of the associative movement of this work. In this sense, we intent to develop a study about the professional and associative field related with the associative movement of this professional activity.

This projects aims at identifying and analysing typical trajectories of success, failure and dropping-out among higher education students, relating them to structural and institutional parameters, and looking for explanatory factors and best practices. The scope of the project is nationwide and it spreads through the various Portuguese higher education subsystems. The analysis is carried out at three levels: structural, institutional and biographical, using statistical sources, surveys, institutional documents and in-depth interviews. The project is included in the programme “The Promotion of Educational Success and the Fight against Dropping-Out and Failure in Higher Education” of MCTES (Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education) and is supported by FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology). The research team is formed on the basis of a consortium between CIES-ISCTE and ISFLUP, and has also the cooperation of other higher education institutions and students’ unions.

The ICT skills shortage has been growingly mediated by the political power, at a national and European level, as an obstacle to the economic competitiveness and development. In fact, the eEurope Action Plans diagnose the existence of a growing lack in skills, namely in ICT sector, where the number of working posts that remain vacant is increasing. Presently, in what refers to the Portuguese situation, the referred mismatch between the offer and search of ICT professionals as well as its significance is mostly unstudied. This project aims at analysing this mismatch as well as the measures designed to cope with it, within the specificity of the Portuguese situation. The central hypothesis orienting this research is: the ICT skills shortage is strongly influenced by the asymmetry between the logic and rhythm of the development of the economic and educational systems. Within this general framework, three analytical vectors will be addressed: 1) the processes and the conditions that model the search for ICT professionals; 2) the conditions that model the offer of ICT training; 3) the factors conditioning the search for ICT training.

The study of the relationship between qualification systems and systems of formal and informal regulation of the Portuguese labour market represents the main objective of this project. The starting hypothesis of the research is that in specific sectors of economic activity the lack of demanding labour-market regulating mechanisms and instruments, from the perspective of formal qualifications, has the effect of removing the pressure on formal qualification systems to perform better. This research project aims to describe the ways of recruiting groups with different qualification levels and integrating them into the labour market and to analyse how they are affected unequally by phenomena such as precarious labour, unemployment and the development of new forms of work organization;  to describe the factors that condition the present performance of the Portuguese educational system and phenomena like repetition of a year or early school-leaving (dropping out of school), in particular before the end of compulsory education.

It is intended that this project should fill in certain significant lacunae in the treatment of a suject as important as that of the processes of modernization in contemporary Portuguese society.  The central objective of this project is to proceed towards a sociological analysis, strongle rooted in the theoretical field and solidly supported by empirical evidence, of the processes of reshaping of the social structures which are at present affecting Portuguese society.