In recent years there has been a growing influence of the gambling industry into the world of sport and sporting culture, which the literature has described as the "gamblification of sport". Bookmakers dominate sponsorship in the sports sector, states have increased their dependence on tax revenues from gambling and advertising for sports betting takes up more and more airtime on television and radio. Consequently, sports betting is becoming increasingly normalised in society. Although the liberalisation of gambling is an inevitability (given the ease of access to illegal markets), the absence of regulations establishing restrictions on sponsorship in the sports ecosystem and on sports betting advertising in several countries, such as Portugal, has been exposed risk groups to addiction.   The aim of this research and its innovative nature is, precisely, to evaluate in what extent the "gamblification of sport” have been changed the consumption of and the interest in sports events in young people and athletes in Portugal, and what kind of risks this represent for society and integrity of sports. 

The expansion of Esports will result in the development of a large part of the population, especially children, adolescents, and young adults, that will spend a lot of their leisure time playing or watching Esports and refraining from physical activity. It is imperative to better understand this phenomenon and prevent the associated negative health hazards before it becomes a problem for European societies. Existing evidence (see Needs analysis section for more detailed information) indicates that Esports players adopt a sedentary lifestyle spending many hours during the day playing Esports. Furthermore non-active video games and increased screen time have been associated with an increase in Body Mass Index (BMI) which results in higher levels of obesity and unhealthy lifestyle behaviors. Also, there is anecdotal evidence indicating that Esports players are sedentary for 4.2 h each day while training, and due to their sedentary lifestyle, there is a high risk of injuries and chronic diseases. The project involves the understanding of physical activity and health-related behaviors of Esports players. It envisages developing awareness-raising material and policy recommendations that will facilitate sports and Esports authorities to promote physical activity and healthy lifestyles in a population of young people who are at risk for sedentary lifestyles, obesity, and drug use. 

The Esports EMJMD proposal aims to design the first EMJMD on competencies and skills necessary for the Esport industry. The Esport industry continues to bloom and grow (culturally and economically), creating a dynamic environment that attracts new generations and creates abundant jobs of different kinds. Precisely, Esports is a growing industry that addresses current trends in the lifestyle of young people. However, there is a lack of professionals trained in the development, promotion and implementation of Esports activities, as well as in the interaction with Esports players. Importantly, at a European level there is no bachelor degree preparing professional for the Esports industry. This is partly due to complex nature of Esports; nevertheless this is a growing industry that has been dominated from professionals not educated about Esports, its particularities and special conditions. To address this gap, this application seeks to develop, a broad, holistic and multidisciplinary master degree curricullum, that will qualify students with the necessary skills to successfully enter the job market of the eSport industry. To achieve this, the proposal aims to develop and propose a master degree program with the participation of an international consortium of academic institutions with expertise on the diverse fields involved in education about Esports, such as education, management, informatics, integrity etc. This master degree program will fill in an existing gap in the European educational framework, as there is no other program on Esports and it is expected to provide manpower to a flourishing and expanding industry.

Although match-fixing and betting-fraud are fast moving international crimes, deeply infiltrated in the sports universe, they still face an anachronic lack of coherent, systematic and articulated response from sports, governments or society at large. Heterogeneous legal frameworks, reluctancy or even rejection to adopt enforcement measures, difficulties in assessing what should be the right approach and lack of thoughtful and efficient cooperation, all favour the continuous and infamous success and profit for organized crime in recent years. Match-fixing, in fact manipulating the results of matches and contests around the world for the purpose of betting-fraud, is more prevalent today than ever, but in a direct relationship to the increasing prevalence of on-line internationally available gambling on it, and to the clear and virtually unchecked vulnerability of gambling to criminal control and fraud or the lack of adequate and timely mechanisms for information exchange. As identified by several authors, widespread match-fixing occurs in great measure due to the lack of information and awareness of the athletes and/or of adequate and efficient capacity building programs of sport organisations and/or the lack of proper interexchange of information among the key-actors to enable them to counter criminal infiltration. In this framework, BITEFIX project aims to develop and provide innovative and practical tools to enable committed stakeholders (law enforcement authorities, betting regulators and operators, government agencies and sport governing bodies, mainly) to work together against match-fixing and betting-fraud in sports throught the exchange of timely, secure and reliable information and raise awareness about the importance of safeguarding the integrity of sport and of its irreplaceable role in European society, with a special focus on grassroots sports.

Craft sector is a major player in the economy, through traditions, techniques and culture it has brought and made  evolve. It is a dynamic and growing sector, whose contribution to the dynamism of the territories is well established. These Very Small Enterprises link all the countries and carry strong values of transmission, excellence, know-how,  short circuits, proximity or even sustainable development ...  In recent years, there has been a new attraction for crafts by people with a first professional experience, wishing to  give a new meaning to their life and choosing crafts to retrain.  However, the craft sector still suffers from a degraded image in the eyes of the general public, which too often  considers that the crafts they represent are painful and offer a limited future. This negative image also persists due  to a lack of gender mix in many activities. In fact, the volume of women managers only reaches 27%. The vast  majority works in services and caring profession (hairdresser, esthetician) or in production activities related to the  traditional crafts (jeweler, upholsterer, textile manufacturing, etc.); few of them represent such sectors as  mechanics, building.  Entrepreneurship experts assume that women start fewer businesses than men because they face more obstacles  (financial, time, and even self-confidence). 

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.

The project aims at promoting in a strategic way social transformation through sport in the Mediterranean region, by focusing on sport as a vehicle for promoting work capacities and employment/entrpreneurship. This objective goes in line with the main priorities of EU policies, not only in the frame of sport, but also in integration, immigration, development, security and international cooperation. In this sense Sport in this project is not and end but a “mean” (a tool) for addressing the social and economic problem of low employment, and hence massive migration processes, insecurity and terrorism threats. The key need addressed by this project is the high unemployment rate in the Mediterranean Basin (both North and South Coasts), which can be efficiently addressed only through a long term oriented strategy aimed at strengthening the labour force capacity, including entrepreneurship. A second key need which the project addresses is the growing need of “empowering sport” as a tool for social impact-change, i.e. empowering sport as a means and no longer considering it only as a scope in itself. A third key need is promoting a cooperative and trustful environment between South Coast and North Coast in the Mediterranean Basin. The planned event in Egypt has the potential to become a little mile-stone in the cooperation dynamics. The high reputation of the Consortium including United Nations ILO ensures a high-impact perspective to the  initiative.

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 aim of this project is to strengthen significantly the effectiveness of ongoing private/public policies against match-fixing through a strong focus on training/information sharing on proper competent and tailored implementation of different protected reporting systems, which are very relevant in disrupting the omerta/conspiracy of silence (the main obstacle to contrasting match-fixing) with a very good cost-benefit ratio.  The diffusion of these tools applied to sports is unfortunately still very limited in Europe despite the growing recommendations to use/protect whistleblowers (also Macolin CoE Convention art. 7.2.c).  The Italian Government has conceived and designed an advanced platform for protected reporting in sports which will be piloted since upcoming May 2017. On this solid experimentation base the project will pursue: a) Better understanding, through a solid data-setting; b) Strong tailoring of blended (traditional+e-learning) training models. Double target: 1. top decision makers in primary sport bodies (NOCs, National federations, top Sport Clubs); 2. managers of grassroots clubs where the cultivation of behavior/misbehavior takes place and where match-fixing practices are unfortunately emerging at youth level. The training model will be pilot-implemented in five European countries (Portugal, Italy, Slovenia, Belgium, Spain) to tackle the difficulty of professional and grassroots sports world, unable so far to build autonomously appropriate policies to fight match-fixing which include efficient tailored protected reported systems. It will build a capacity to this regard. The project is based on a very strong cooperation among many relevant actors with special reference to two National Governments and two National Olympic Committees, for the first time involved in such a cooperative process in this topic. The expertise of the partners involved (Universities, private networks ESSA, EASG, NGOs) is outstanding also thanks to previous EU projects.

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.

The specific objectives are: To establish partnerships between leading anti-corruption organisations and professional football leagues as well as other relevant stakeholders in six EU Member States and at the European level, To raise awareness among key stakeholders (officials of national football leagues and federations, clubs, players, referees, coaches, heads of youth academies, technical staff, the media, supporters, etc.) and the general public about match- fixing and the risks and costs associated with it, To pilot existing and develop new approaches and good practice in preventing and tackling matchfixing in six EU Member States and at European level, To develop and test materials (flyers, brochures), tools and models for country- specific workshops to train officials of national football leagues and federations, clubs, players, coaches, heads of youth academies, technical staff and referees in how to avoid being part of match-fixing.

The main objective of this study is to understand the phenomenon of corruption in different political regimes and determine how the opportunity structures have changed and adapted from authoritarian to democratic contexts. Some forms of corruption are of a structural nature and invariable with regard to the type of regime, whereas others have emerged and expanded as a consequence of democratization and the inevitable growth and complexity of state intervention. The study focus on the Argentinean, Portuguese and Spanish cases and tries to develop a general framework of analysis on how corruption actors, resources and exchanges evolve in response to changes in the nature of the regime. In order to understand the role of corruption in the daily life of people across regimes, the study looks at the major contextual social, economic, institutional and normative changes and how these affect the interaction between citizens and their political and administrative institutions.