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The research aims to survey, catalogue and contextualize housing projects in Lisbon, Luanda and Macao, built between the 1960s and the 1980s, which stood out for large scale occupation and high number of people housed. It is intended to identify the existing housing and urban models and to map the changes after 40 years of use in order to understand how to adapt to current conditions (urban and social) and to support its future.Methodology: Initially it begins with a detailed description and historical process, creating records of inventory, referenced to the Geographic Information System, and the redrawing of projects (for comparative analyses of the urban design and of the housing cell unit). It follows a visit to the complexes to verify its conservation state, experiencing the urban situation and describing the profile evolution of current populations. Questionnaires will be released for occupation and social satisfaction reporting (district/dwelling). Qualitative interviews to deep-rooted groups (social and cultural groups of belonging) will allow evaluating the integration in the city. The visits will be recorded on video for "future memory" and a documentary (three 30 minutes short-films) will be produced. In the last year, workshops will be implemented with the communities, involving architects, students, residents and local institutions, proposing architectural interventions based on historical and social analysis and in the Portuguese tradition of participatory architecture.

This project aimed to investigate into detail the living conditions of individuals hit by the crisis and to understand with their cooperation how they coped with the economic shock they experienced or are still experiencing. Methodology: The work sought to: Identify the more recent studies in Portugal about this subject; A brief characterization of the phenomena of unemployment in the recent 5 years; An Identification of the interviewees on the basis of the criteria provided by the Coordinator as laid out in the methodological framework for the interviews; The realisations of 15 the face-to-face interviews to understand how people have been impacted by the crisis with the guidelines provided by the Coordinator; A word transcription of the interviews in the original language and in English; Analyze and summarize the main findings of the interview elaborating a report.

The central concept behind this project is to analyze the emergence and consolidation of social entrepreneurship within the context of the changes undergone by Portuguese society over the last decades, taking on board the international debate and alternatives to the capitalist model. The core objectives of the project are: a) to analyze the structures and dynamics of social entrepreneurship in Portugal; b) to make policy recommendations for social entrepreneurship in the fields of employment and education/training, organizational and management models.Methodology: The aim is to meet these objectives through an approach based on three analytical axes, combining both extensive and intensive methodologies, the latter based on participatory action research. These events shall be included in a documentary about social entrepreneurship for informative and didactic purposes, in order to disseminate this concept to regional and local communities and to society in general. A platform of social entrepreneurship, that can be accessed free of charge, will be one of the innovative products of the project, which shall include the documentary, a bibliographic database, a repository of public policies, a database of teaching/training institutions, and pedagogical guidelines, among a wide array of products generated during 3 years of project and that come to be regarded as relevant for dissemination purposes.

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The project's overall objective is the study of residential trajectories of the inhabitants of Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA), born between 1935-1985. However, given the need to deepen knowledge about the ongoing changes that could form the basis of a restructuring of the logic of the contemporary metropolis, priority will be the analysis of the younger generations: those born between 1965-1985 and whose entry in adulthood and residential autonomy will likely already occurred after the EU accession, the emergence period of the main indicators of modernity.

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