The main objectives of the project are, firstly, to develop an in-depth diagnostic study of the municipality of Cascais (territorial, demographic and socio-economic projections) and its public and private education system (school network, school population, school performance, educational projects and partnerships); and, secondly, to draw up a technical proposal for an educational charter and a municipal educational strategic plan, a document that falls within the competence of the City Council, which responds to the current challenges facing schools and the needs of the municipality in the field of education, with the aim of promoting school success and the quality of learning, within a framework of strengthening the recursive role of local authorities in the educational system in conjunction with European, national and regional programs and projects; through a multi-method methodology with a strong component of promoting the participation of stakeholders and local actors in the diagnosis and design phases of local education policy and, subsequently, in the implementation/monitoring and final evaluation phases.  

The study focuses on the four-year Sustained Support Programme (PAS4) implemented by the Directorate-General for the Arts (DGARTES) / Portuguese Ministry of Culture. Based on the construction of the Sustainable Support Programme's Theory of Change, the study's main objective is to design a framework of monitoring and evaluation indicators to support PAS4's decision-makers and management structures.

Com o presente trabalho pretende-se elaborar a Carta Educativa de Palmela preparando-a para o desenvolvimento de um planeamento estratégico educativo municipal com um alcance mais alargadosobre o sistema educativo local, e não apenas focado na gestão da rede de estabelecimentos, capaz de responder aos atuais desafios da escola e às necessidades do concelho no domínio da educação,tendo como vocação a promoção do sucesso escolar e da qualidade das aprendizagens e a redução do abandono escolar precoce, num quadro de reforço do papel recursivo das autarquias no sistemaeducativo.

The ESIF.COM-BOOST Project stems from the recognition that European citizens in general, and Portuguese citizens in particular, possess limited knowledge about European funds and hold a moderately positive perception of their impact. This project, funded under the Technical Assistance Programme 2030 (PAT2030-FEDER-00023200), aimed to enhance public awareness of European funds through the qualitative improvement of communication efforts under PT2030, a public policy framework consolidating European funds in Portugal. To achieve this, an applied research initiative was developed to identify the primary constraints affecting communication within the process of constructing the public value of European funds. Additionally, it sought to pinpoint key interventions capable of overcoming these barriers and generating causal chains with the potential to strengthen their public value over time. Furthermore, the project identified gaps in knowledge and competencies among media communication professionals, facilitating the development of action proposals for capacity building within audiences directly linked to the media communication ecosystem.

Participation as national expert for Portugal in the project "Ex post evaluation of Cohesion policy programmes 2014-2020" financed by the ERDF, mainly with the tasks: 1. Supplement the central literature review by identifying and summarizing key national material review 2. Provide feedback on country fiches prepared by the core team 3. Preparation of the case study on reforms and framework conditions in Portugal. This task includes desk research (reviewing and integrating Member State preliminary analysis; proposing a final set of interventions to be addressed in the research); consultations with the stakeholders (identifying 5-6 potential interviewees and carrying out interviews with them) and the provision of country report.

The project aims to develop and test an innovative methodological approach to impact assessment directed to the next generation of public policies financed with European Community funds (2021-2027). This methodological approach is anchored in the triangulation of three basic methods: Policy–Scientific Approach, Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Contingent Valuation Method. The implementation and testing of the methodological proposal will focus on Investment Priority 08 of Portugal 2020 and its social housing support operations (developed under the regional operational programmes). This option seeks to build an impact methodology framed in the logic of “theory-based evaluation” and in the “realist evaluation” type that maximizes the potential of combining two essential theories for the current Public Policy Science, programming theory and causal theory, also taking as a milestone the determination of two basic pillars of public governance: the logic of results-oriented public policies and the principle of evidence-based policies. It is considered that the main added value of this proposal is not so much in the overall calculation of the effects of the interventions, but rather in the possibility of knowing in detail the causal relationships that result from them, attributing to it an effective economic value, no longer only in the perspective of the achievements, but above all from the perspective of the real impact.