The external evaluation of the project ‘Fostering Intergenerational Entrepreneurship’ of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, carried out by Dinâmia-CET, is a requirment of the call and is a process that monitors all stages of the project’s development.The methodological framework identifies: i) Project’s main dimensions; ii) actions to be developed within those dimensions; iii) indicators for actions assessment; and iv) techniques to be used for data collection. The involvement of social actors, besides participants, that are relevant for the development and success of the Project justifies the observation and characterization of public in general and the realization of participated sessions with partners. Therefore, three groups of actors will be considered: participants, public in general, and partners. Participants will be inquired (3 questionnaire surveys and 2 focus groups) during the different phases of the social experiment in order to get information related with their profile, expectations, options, and actions developed during the project. Partners will be involved in 2 focus groups envisaging the debate of Project objectives, evolution, results, and future developments regarding public policies design. Public in general will be considered for the assessment of dissemination effectiveness and Project’s embeddedness in public domain. Public registration in events and Project’s reference by media and social networks will contribute to the achievement of this objective.

This project is meant to explore decision making devices (instruments and procedures) and their role in dealing with conflicts between (incommensurable) values as they arise in the process of public decision-making concerning the sustainability of projects with major impact on environment. With the European Union Directive 2001/42/EC the assessment procedure known as Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) became a major instrument for implementing sustainable territorial development policies in the EU. Public decision is thus called to translate into practice the goal of territorial sustainable development - a guiding principle of public action that requires the composition of different and often contrasting definitions concerning desirable common goods to pursue. However, the way in which this composition may be achieved leaves room for controversies and varied, context-dependent, arrangements. The project combines two different but interwoven explorations. The first is meant to analyse the translation of monistic and pluralistic approaches into “devices of decision” (cost-benefit analysis; integrated and multicriteria approaches). The second axis is devoted to the observation of how these devices have been enacted in controversies concerning large infrastructural projects, specifically: the decision on the location of the new Lisbon airport, the decision of the construction of the Tua dam and the decision on the extension of Milan airport.