O presente projeto pretende analisar e compreender qual a relação que, atualmente, os jovens em Portugal têm com a leitura, nomeadamente de livros, enquanto prática cultural, e como se perspetiva o futuro da cultura de leitura neste país. Vários estudos têm revelado que determinados contextos sociais têm um impacto profundo nas práticas de leitura dos jovens, e que, nas últimas duas décadas, se verifica um decréscimo da leitura por prazer junto desta população Recorrendo a estudos com uma estratégica metodológica quantitativa – inquéritos por questionário a uma amostra representativa de jovens matriculados no 3.o ciclo do ensino básico e do secundário, realizados em 2019 e 2023 –, pretende-se aferir como os contextos familiar e escolar – e neste as culturas juvenis –, marcados pela generalização dos dispositivos digitais online, influenciam a relação dos jovens com a leitura e livros, e, por consequência, o futuro da cultura de leitura em Portugal.   Orientação: José Soares Neves (CIES-Iscte) Patrícia Ávila (CIES-Iscte)    

The project's main goal is to build a regular observation system, on an annual basis, of the reading practices of students in compulsory education, particularly to its main indicators of characterization, monitoring and evaluation.  The production of annual reports on the evolution of reading practices, in the context of the growing integration of information and communication technologies in economic, social and cultural activities in modern contemporary societies, will strengthen the ability to diagnose problems and construct solutions in this area, thus responding to the demand for evidence-based public policies.  

Following the research on the reading practices of Portuguese students, PNL2027 [National Reading Plan] started in 2022 the study on Reading Promotion Practices among the young population. The new study aims to characterize reading mediators, as well as the census, analysis and discussion of reading promotion practices among the school-age population, between 6 and 18 years old. The universe of the study is made up of a wide range of players who, in different contexts, share the responsibility for encouraging reading: primary school teachers, teachers of Portuguese in the remaining primary and secondary school cycles, librarian teachers, librarians and curators of PNL2027 projects or other reading promotion projects. This study is conducted by OPAC - Portuguese Observatory of Cultural Activities, a structure of CIES-Iscte and has the collaboration of the National School Libraries Network [RBE] and the Directorate General of Education and Science Statistics [DGEEC]. Funding is provided by McDonald's. 

The Study on the Artistic and Cultural Sector in Portugal is the result of an institutional partnership agreement between the Directorate-General for the Arts (DGARTES) and Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, through the Portuguese Observatory on Cultural Activities (OPAC), in order to follow the Council of Ministers Resolution no. 41/2020, of June 6th, which approved the Program for Economic and Social Stabilization. The Study aims to analyze the impacts of the crisis in the short and medium term, with the production of updated indicators that allow a rigorous characterization of the labor situation of workers in the sector, the existing facilities and artistic entities, in order to support strategic decision-making in the governmental area of culture, and inform public and private entities as well as citizens. The study has three objectives: - To survey and characterize culture professionals as self-employed, precarious or intermittent workers regarding social profiles and labor profiles and to identify impacts of the crisis by COVID-19 in the short and medium term through a national survey that reflects the situation of artists, authors, technicians; - Share with DGARTES indicators on the universe of the entities applying for arts support programs, in order to better adapt the model during its revision and in preparation for the new cycle of pluri-annual support that will come into force in early 2022; - Create the Artistic and Cultural Atlas of Portugal, for the characterization of cultural facilities and artistic structures and entities. 

Study promoted by the National Reading Plan 2027 (PNL 2027) in partnership with the General Directorate of Statistics of Education and Science (DGEEC) and  the School Libraries Network (RBE), on the non-school reading practices of primary and secondary education students. The methodology is quantitative, from a survey to a representative sample of the various levels of education. The research team counts on the consultancy of Isabel Alçada, former minister of education and ex-Commissioner of the National Reading Plan.

 The Portuguese Observatory on Cultural Activities (OPAC) is an structure constituted within the framework of the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology of ISCTE--University Institute of Lisbon in December 2018, which is responsible for its scientific coordination and functioning. Its mission is the study, production and public availability of rigorous and updated information in the different cultural domains in order to contribute to the current debates in Portuguese society and to the formulation, monitoring and evaluation of public policies.

Edition of the results of visitors survey of nine national museums: Museu Nacional dos Coches, Museu Nacional de Grão Vasco, Museu Nacional do Teatro e da Dança, Museu Nacional do Traje, Museu Nacional da Música, Museu Nacional de Etnologia, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea - Museu do Chiado, Museu Monográfico de Conimbriga - Museu Nacional e Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves.