The main objective of the research is to analyse the impact of the recent legislative and policy changes in the recognition of trans people and in the promotion of their citizenship. The analysis will take into account the diversity of identities and gender expressions of trans people, as well as the period and context of the formation of (trans)gender identity, starting from three temporal milestones delimited in relation to the legal framework for gender identity in Portugal: 1) the absence of any mechanism or legal protection for gender identity (until March 2011); 2) recognition through a “medical-legal alliance”, based on the gatekeeping of rights and the “medical model of transsexuality” (until August 2018); and 3) recognition of gender identity based on self-determination. The research follows the protocols of qualitative research, with in-depth interviews with trans people being the main method of gathering information.      

O estudo de caracterização, análise e avaliação da qualidade das residências para estudantes do ensino superior pretende mapear e analisar as estruturas e as condições de alojamento em residência de estudantes do ensino superior. Propõe-se abranger o universo de residências sob gestão de Instituições de Ensino Superior de todo o território nacional (incluindo regiões autónomas), universitárias e politécnicas, públicas e privadas. Exclui-se da análise os equipamentos do setor empresarial e do terceiro setor. O desenho do estudo está fundamentado numa abordagem de triangulação metodológica quanti-qualitativa.

Although many girls serenely navigate the transition to adulthood, many are not provided adequate support and opportunities to achieve their fullest potential. They live in a condition of exclusion because of their migrant background, because belonging to a disadvantaged family or for individual fragility and psychological patterns – and often for these factors combined. Their difficult socio-economic condition makes them ill-equipped to deal with the pressures around them, which in turn make them more likely to suffer from low-esteem, inactive lifestyles, bullying or to experience lower probabilities to attend a school suited to their attitudes. Gender bias often exacerbate their already difficult situations as they perpetuate stereotypes about acceptability of behaviours, interests, and roles for men and women. Within the extensive scientific literature on the multiple dimensions of social exclusion, little attention is paid to the “femaleadolescent” binomial aspects of such processes. At EU level there remains a need to create more, dedicated space for single-sex work with young women, especially those experiencing marginalization. Most projects focus on dealing with perceived problematic behaviour and educational deficiencies of young boys, while the remaining limited programming with girls emerges around their perceived potential victimhood, particularly those of early pregnancy, precocious sexuality and low self-esteem. Instead, little interest is given, within generic youth services, to actions focusing on empowerment,exploring gender equity, or interrogating heteronormative gender discourses. In this context, there is also an emerging socio-economic issue that should not be underestimated: the so called "gender digital divide", which is often based on theroles that provide the social expectations and shape the male or female use of technology. In already disadvantaged contexts, affordability, lack of education, as well as inherent prejudices and socio-cultur...

This action is organized around the general objective (G.O.) to strengthen the mechanisms for the integration of immigrants into Cabo Verde society, while reinforcing the contribution to the priorities defined in the cooperation framework between Portugal and Cabo Verde. This objective is achieved by carrying out several activities oriented towards practical and accurate results, based on the exchange of experiences between both countries to improve the services provided, considering the following specific objectives/outcomes: • S.O.1. – To improve instruments and operating procedures regarding immigrant integration in Cabo Verde, by implementing four local units for immigrant support, a multichannel platform to support and strengthen public services available to immigrants and developing instruments for local approaches. • S.O.2. – To develop capacity-building actions for Cabo Verdean authorities (at national and local level), civil society organizations and ACM key staff, in legal migration management and integration. • S.O.3. – To provide certified professional training of immigrants to promote their professional qualification. • S.O.4. – To produce and disseminate knowledge about migration in Cabo Verde, by developing studies, awareness-raising campaigns, and setting up a Migration Observatory in the country.

The research project aims to develop a national study on the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex peole and people with other non-cisgender and non-heterosexual identities (LGBTI+) and on discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (OIEC).It includes three components: i) a review of national and international literature to understand the phenomenon of discrimination on the basis of SOGIESC; ii) an analysis of the situation of discrimination on the basis of SOGIESC and the needs of LGBTI+ people in Portuguese society today, based on interviews and focus groups with associations and structures representing and/or working with LGBTI+ people, as well as data provided by the services for LGBTI+ victims of domestic and gender-based violence; and iii) an analysis of the national legal framework on "hate crime" and "hate speech" in light of the recommendations of the Council of Europe, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The research project includes the formulation of the main conclusions and recommendations on the subjects covered, in order to support public policies directed at the LGBTI+ population.    

The Cávado + Igual”Project is part of CIMs promoter and as partners the 6 Associated Municipalities, CIES-IUL (scientific entity) and KUN (international partner). It intends to materialize the first systematized and strategic approach of CIM directed to issues of equality with regard to the Associated Municipalities.  This project intends to materialize the first systematized and strategic approach of the CIM directed to the issues of gender equality and reconciliation with personal, family and professional life.  This project integrates a set of activities based on a shared process, mobilizing the aggregator to improve the conciliatory and egalitarian practices, involving local agents, designing strategic bets and identifying success indicators to elevate the territory of Cávado as more EQUAL.  Given the importance of promoting Equality and Conciliation, the overall objective of the Project is to mobilize and inspire best practices in the development of the Project, involving local actors, designing strategic bets and identifying indicators of success to elevate the sense of the rights and to conquer the territory of Cávado like more EQUAL. To this end, a portfolio of structuring measures and actions, to be developed at the municipal and intermunicipal levels in the field of governance and personal, professional and institutional capacity building, is being tested.

The research project "Processes of inclusion of women victims of domestic violence: education, vocational training and entrepreneurship" analyzes the process of social and economic autonomy of women who leave violent relationships and enter into a shelter. With three axes of analysis - policies, institutions and individuals (women victims) - the overall objectives of the project are developed at macro, meso and micro level. The project aims to: 1. Assess the importance of political strategies in education, employment and training, social inclusion and equality in the process of social reintegration of victims of domestic violence and the prevention of their revictimization; 2. Map and examine the policies for the social reintegration of the victims and the role of the support institutions, namely shelters; 3. Understand the process of social reintegration of victims of domestic violence who have been hosted in a shelter; to longitudinally analyze the inequality of resources throughout the life course of the woman and the strategies to promote their autonomy and a life project.

The project involves a sociological investigation of transsexual and transgender identities and ways of expressing gender that will contribute to the greater visibility of a hidden reality in Portuguese society and to the study of a topic that is still inadequately dealt with by the social sciences in Portugal.

The project's objective is to discuss and present some new theoretical proposals and to operationalise key concepts based on micro-data from the European Community Households Panel (ECHP), with a view to making an innovative contribution to the social characterisation of contemporary Portugal in the European context. The intention is to cross the problematics of social classes and underclass and the distribution of incomes and poverty. It will combine traditional approaches taken by the analysis of income that is characteristic of economic science, with some core areas of sociological research, such as the structured systems of social inequalities. The presentation of the ways of life concept will complement and deepen in a qualitative perspective this objective.

The purpose of this project is the establishment of an observation and analysis implement on the two central processes which are transforming the portuguese development pattern: the recombination process of the competitive factors which is giving raise to new factors such as quality, flexibility and strategic capacity as a result of the internationalization; the production process of new forms of social exclusion.