The goal for the funding by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is to encourage changes in the behavior of ISCTE-IUL campus users to reduce energy consumption and improve campus environmental sustainability. It will combine knowledge of Psychology, Engineering, Architecture and Informatics, involving the entire ISCTE-IUL community and will be implemented IoT strategies, behavioral economics and gamification with the connection to BIM models. The project is developed over 4 sequential phases:    1st stage: Diagnosis of the current situation: a. Analysis of the ISCTE-IUL community's perception of environmental sustainability; B. Installation of sensors to measure the energy performance of ISCTEIUL users (eg temperature, humidity, luminosity, noise and power consumption).    Goals:   1) Diagnosis of community perception based on surveys of the target population. Feedback received will serve to identify the main requirements and approaches of our platform. Indicators - Report with variables, data collection and analysis. Goals - Evaluate a representative sample of non-teaching staff, teachers, students and visitors.   2) Real-time collection of sensor data and respective analysis on IoT platform for identification of patterns and behaviors. Indicators - reading real-time data identification patterns. Weekly, monthly, yearly reports. Real-time information on mobile devices. Goals - installation of measurements in 20 locations (reading energy, air quality, luminosity, temperature, noise).    2nd phase: Definition of objectives for the reduction of energy consumption, taking into account the quantitative and qualitative baseline built in the 1st phase of the project related to the calculation of the ecological footprint (consumption) by individual, room, department, building. Indicators - consumption metrics by person, room, department and building. Behavior analysis and its quantification Goals - Perceived behavior and organization of a workshop to disseminate ...

Os sacos de plástico, em conjunto com as garrafas de plástico, constituem 70% dos resíduos que se acumulam nos mares, tendo impactes negativos nos ecossistemas marinhos, na economia e no turismo local. Em Portugal, a Lei que cria a contribuição sobre os sacos de plástico leves é a Lei n.º 82-D/2014, de 31 de dezembro, que aprova a Reforma da Fiscalidade Verde. A lei entrou em vigor no dia 1 de janeiro de 2015, tendo os produtores, importadores e adquirentes intracomunitários de sacos de plástico leves passado a cobrar a contribuição a distribuidores, retalhistas e comerciantes a partir de 31de janeiro de 2015, e os consumidores finais a pagar a contribuição a partir do dia 15 de fevereiro de 2015. O valor da contribuição sobre os sacos de plástico leves é de 0,08 €, acrescido do IVA à taxa legal em vigor (23%), por cada saco de plástico. No momento em que estão para se completar três anos da entrada em vigor da lei importa avaliar os seus impactes na sociedade, particularmente no âmbito económico e psicossocial.

A promoção do investimento das empresas na I&D, o desenvolvimento de ligações e sinergias entre empresas, centros de investigação e desenvolvimento e o setor do ensino superior, em especial a promoção do investimento no desenvolvimento de produtos e serviços, na transferência de tecnologia, na inovação social, na ecoinovação, em aplicações de interesse público, no estímulo da procura, em redes, clusters e na inovação aberta através de especialização inteligente, e o apoio à investigação tecnológica e aplicada, linhas-piloto, ações de validação precoce dos produtos, capacidades avançadas de produção e primeira produção, em especial no que toca às tecnologias facilitadoras essenciais, e à difusão de tecnologias de interesse geral 

The Centre for Psychological Research and Social Intervention in ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, is one of the partners in "Inherit", an international project that was awarded in August 6 million euros of European funds Horizon 2020 to study good practices to simultaneously defend health and the environment. The consortium is led by the non-governmental Belgian organization EuroHealthNet and has the scientific coordination of University College London, where Michael Marmot, professor of epidemiology and the public health is a worldwide reference in the field of health inequalities. The project is coordinated in CIS-IUL by the researcher Sibila Marques and Prof. Maria Luisa Lima and researchers Cristina Godinho and Sylvia Luis are part of the team.It is a four-year project that will study European experiences that promote the health of communities and at the same time are environmentally sustainable. The Re-Food movement, launched in the Lisbon area, and social gardens that bloom throughout Portugal are some of the most interesting cases considered to be studied and replicated in other countries.