World War II should have marked the triumph of democracies over Nazism and Fascism and, consequently, the end of dictatorships in Europe. However, dictatorial regimes persisted in very significant parts of the continent, notably in southern and eastern Europe. In particular Portugal, Spain and Greece, political regimes maintained or developed institutions that limited civil liberties of expression and association, did not respect human rights, and sought to hinder the ability to mobilize and to develop activism of the younger generations of these societies. This project aims to demonstrate to 21st cent young Europeans how totalitarian regimes of Southern Europe have imposed on previous generations strong limitations to their freedom of expression and association. At the same time, it will underline how, despite the political and legal constraints imposed, generations of young Europeans have been able to organize, mobilize and fight against dictatorial regimes in their own countries, ultimately contributing to their fall and dissolution and the advent of modern and democratic societies. These goals will be achieved through a series of events taking place in the 3 countries involved, combining academic and non-formal education activities including conferences, debates, public events, tours and interaction with archive material, exhibitions. We will articulate historical knowledge, scientific research, archives and testimonies from activists to present the various perspectives about the project’s subject in a creative and participatory way. The activities will be implemented through the cooperation of partner universities, cultural associations, museums. The major outcomes of the project will be a better understanding of how totalitarian and dictatorial regimes impacted on their societies, especially among the younger generation, but also how the agency of southern European youth played a decisive role in the fall of the dictatorships in their own countries. 

Contribuir para a produção de conhecimento e para o debate interdisciplinar e intersectorial sobre a integração das políticas nacionais e europeias de segurança humana e desenvolvimento e, no quadro destas, da securitização de questões relacionadas com migrações e alterações climáticas. 

Curso de formação superior com módulos teóricos e metodológicos comuns, ao longo de 20 horas de contacto onde os estudantes são introduzidos à dinâmica de funcionamento de uma unidade de investigação e ao processo de investigação académica, com aplicações à área científica dos Estudos Internacionais. Programa individual de investigação e de trabalho prático com o acompanhamento de um investigador responsável.

Projecto de aquisição de serviços para monitorização das ações e meios de campanha eleitoral utilizados pelos Partidos Políticos e Coligações Eleitorais na Eleição para a Assembleia Legislativa da Região Autónoma da Madeira, realizada no dia 22 de setembro de 2019 e na Eleição para a Assembleia da República de 6 de outubro de 2019.

The NOWALL project – headed by CEI-Iscte researcher Luís Nuno Rodrigues – is being developed in partnership with the Young Educators Europe (Portugal, Germany and Helsinki), the Willy Brandt Foundation (Germany), CAAT Projects (Netherlands) and the University of Helsinki (Finland), and with the support of the European Commission – Europe for Citizens programme. The project aims to promote a better understanding of European history and its diversity, focusing on the contribution of European actors to the fall of the Wall. From September 2019 to October 2020 the project partners will promote academic conferences, debates, workshops, non-formal education activities and public exhibitions in Portugal, Germany, Netherlands and Finland with diversified audiences – secondary school and university students, teachers, activists, researchers and the public in general. We will also disseminate information through a website and social media to reach a wider audience on the topics of the project.

The Entidade das Contas e Financiamentos Políticos (ECFP), of the Tribunal Constitucional, attributes to CEI-IUL the studies of evidences carried out by groups of monitors in municipalities, with the objective of validating the campaign expenses of political parties, comparing these spending with the budgets submitted to the ECFP, and eventually highlight the differences between budgets and campaign acts put into practice by the different candidacies during the 2017 municipal election campaign. The study intends to analyse scientifically the type and evolution of the campaign actions in municipal elections and also serves the purpose of evaluating these campaign actions.

In the context of the major changes that have been taking place in the global stage, whereby the EU’s values and standards — not to mention its own existence — are constantly being challenged from outside as well as from within, new foreign policy tools have emerged, such as the EU Global Strategy. To analyse the EU’s current challenges and opportunities, the Center for International Studies at ISCTE-IUL develops a research project to understand the kind of role the EU can play in the current transformations that we have been witnessing, as well as the domestic and external obstacles it faces as an actor. In this context, CEI organizes in Lisbon an annual interdisciplinary international conference on Europe as a Global Actor, with the presentation of papers by academics from all over Europe, which are then published at CEI's Ebook'IS series.

CEI-IUL (Center for International Studies) is a university-based multidisciplinary research center of the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL). CEI-IUL aims at promoting interdisciplinary research in Social Sciences, International Relations and Economy, focusing in its areas of geographic specialization: Africa, Asia, Europe and Transatlantic Relations.