This project emerges from the need to reassess the growing disconnect between human habitats and the natural world. The objective is to reverse this trend through an innovative approach that combines the promotion of biomes, bio-construction, and collaborative robotics for the construction of regenerative and resilient buildings. The methodology proposes the development of software capable of generating adaptive architectural models, integrating them into their natural context, maximizing energy efficiency, and promoting biodiversity.

The RETIME project (Horizon Europe Innovation Action) aims to address impactful changes at both the contextual district level and individual homes of natural and human-caused disasters. It will introduce a data-driven tool that aggregates existing data from weather stations, sensor networks, and satellite images, automated on-site surveys to simulate the impacts of current phenomena and future projections. The innovative aspect lies in an advanced computational analysis that generates prospective scenarios based on socio-architectural and environmental studies, combined with local, territorial remote and on-site surveys.  

SYNCLUSIVE is an innovative, integral, and interdisciplinary systems’ approach to stimulate inclusion of vulnerable groups in the labor market. To achieve this, our six central objectives are: 1) developing and consolidating a coalition of stakeholders in 4 regional Living Labs across Europe along the lines of the Community Coalition Action Theory, using the ENGINE approach. This approach includes an integrated package of interventions that stimulates upward and sideward mobility of vulnerable employees, hereby creating vacancies for inflow of vulnerable job seekers; 2) testing the usefulness and applicability of the ENGINE approach for different vulnerable groups identified as being discriminated against; 3) identifying drivers and barriers for mobility and inflow including discrimination; 4) assessing the impact of the implemented ENGINE approach on the labor market mobility and inclusion of vulnerable groups; 5) identifying transition pathways from the regional to the national and EU policy level; and 6) identifying interoperable and comparative indicators and standards that are relevant for the labor market inclusion of vulnerable groups taking into account the regional, national (legislative, social security) and cultural context.

The Master's Degree in Managing Digital Transformation in the Health Sector (ManagiDiTH) is an innovative initiative in the European educational panorama, the result of a project financed by the European Union and led by the School of Applied Digital Technologies (Iscte-Sintra), in collaboration with two other universities: the Laurea - University of Applied Sciences, in Finland, and the AUTH - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in Greece. This Master's degree aims to train future professionals, both in the technological and healthcare areas, with essential skills to face the challenges and opportunities that the digital era brings to the healthcare sector. Given the rapid acceleration of technological development, there is an urgent need to equip professionals with the necessary tools to navigate this constantly evolving scenario. With a multidisciplinary and innovative curriculum, the ManagiDiTH master's degree integrates three fundamental components: societal, digital and health. Furthermore, students can choose between two areas of specialization: Data Science or Interoperability. This flexibility allows each student to personalize their training according to their interests and professional aspirations. Thus, students have the opportunity to deepen their knowledge in areas such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, automation, cybersecurity and other emerging technologies that are redefining the way healthcare services are provided and managed. The study program, consisting of three semesters with a total of 90 ECTS, provides a solid theoretical basis combined with practical experiences and real projects in the sector. Teaching is taught in English, following the most recent pedagogical guidelines related to Distance Learning, which allows the participation of students of different origins and nationalities. The highly specialized teaching staff, coming from diverse academic and professional backgrounds, constitutes an added value of this master's ...

The iNSPIRE Social Entrepreneurs Network (iNSPIRE) project will create a learning HUB that will develop inspiring apprenticeships processes, based on the identification of transferable lessons from the formal and informal learning environment to support the development of a social entrepreneurship network in several European countries (Turkey, Portugal, Ireland, France, and Belgium). Ireland and Belgium have already an important background in social entrepreneurship and will contribute to creating a strong partnership to support and develop a European social cluster. Evidence from Ireland and Belgium shows that social entrepreneurship demonstrates great potential for employment growth. The iNSPIRE goal is to improve skills for social entrepreneurs and increase the potential for social enterprise creation. The project will engage diverse stakeholders in dialogue and cooperation including non-profit associations, universities, training providers, social innovation organizations, research centers, and public agencies. It will capture the experience, including learning mechanisms, approaches to management, and networking competencies from other projects in the social field, mainly developed by the partners, for instance, capacity building.

This project will meet the EU citizenship education needs of all students at respective partner schools between the ages of 14-18; In the form of written materials with important elements as purpose, content, learning teaching processes and evaluation are defined as "EU CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION PROGRAM". In our project, the number of students who say I know their EU citizenship rights is 30%. With the studies of European Youth and Culture Club and mobile application; We aim to increase the number of students who say I have information about the European common culture by 40%. The subject, scope and goal of this project requires transnational cooperation of different schools and universities from Europe.

Cultural heritage is as a cultural right but not for all people. Built heritage is at risk in earthquake-prone areas or due to armed conflicts or uncontrolled house prices growth, such as in central metropolitan areas and tourist destinations. Underrepresented, partially demolished, or abandoned houses, humble constructions associated with biases or social stigma are also under threat. In these countless cases, overlapping memories and physical legacies are being lost. As a case in point amid this complex picture, we analyse traditional architecture with overhanging timber-based volume, known as casas de andares em ressalto, in three regions in Portugal (Northern Portugal, Central Portugal, Lisbon, and Tagus Valley). This construction system evolves into a set of more informed solutions during the post-earthquake rebuilding in the late 18th century. As a response of social distancing and disinformation on heritage sites, we propose a place-based learning based on advanced data information and visualization. This study raises awareness on the importance of preserving these memories and it promotes the use of timber-based design solutions. Speak_OVER also contributes to understand how best-compromise strategies of adaptive reuse can be implemented in future scenarios, involving critical stakeholders, such as homeowners’ rights groups, different heritage actors, tourist operators, and civic authorities.

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.