Lista de Projetos

Every day a vast amount of misinformation and Fake News are repeated and infinitely shared, reaching millions of people in a short time. The large-scale dissemination of misinformation is one of the major challenges that current societies face, with long-lasting costs to individuals and governments. European Commission’s recent efforts in seeking advice from experts regarding measures to counteract disinformation attest to the urgency of addressing this issue. The fact that people tend to believe in information they repeatedly encounter and to reject claims that contradict what they heard before makes misinformation-correction very difficult. Since most correction strategies entail both a repetition of the false claims and their contradiction, they ironically end up strengthening the validity of the misinformation they attempt to correct. It is thus of the utmost importance to examine the mechanisms that may contribute to the development of effective misinformation-correction actions.

  Projeto orientado a ciencia de dados e a melhoria do serviço da Polícia Judiciária (PJ) ao cidadão através da automatização do processo operacional de catalogação de imagens fotográficas e comparação com o banco de imagens existente com dezenas de milhar de imagens, implementado um protótipo que utiliza as mais recentes técnicas da Inteligência Artificial (IA), nomeadamente as redes neuronais convolucionais. Em particular, será criada uma solução inovadora para a área da balística, identificada pela PJ como uma área prioritária, que permitirá identificar com maior taxa de sucesso e rapidez a correspondência entre um invólucro deflagrado e o possível tipo de arma utilizado, reduzindo o esforço e tempo de intervenção dos recursos humanos especializados, o que terá impacto na celeridade do processo de produção de prova e consequentemente tornará Portugal um país mais justo.

O Projeto LXHABITA pretende monitorizar trimestralmente informação relativa a algumas situações de risco habitacional bem os principais recursos de políticas públicas, com vista a prevenir a exclusão social; compreender os processos associados à intervenção social na mobilização de quartos/pensões enquanto resposta, bem como as trajetórias residenciais e as variáveis que dificultam o acesso à habitação; e contribuir para um planeamento mais informado da intervenção social a nível local, bem como uma definição mais rigorosa das políticas públicas.

The project aims at promoting in a strategic way social transformation through sport in the Mediterranean region, by focusing on sport as a vehicle for promoting work capacities and employment/entrpreneurship. This objective goes in line with the main priorities of EU policies, not only in the frame of sport, but also in integration, immigration, development, security and international cooperation. In this sense Sport in this project is not and end but a “mean” (a tool) for addressing the social and economic problem of low employment, and hence massive migration processes, insecurity and terrorism threats. The key need addressed by this project is the high unemployment rate in the Mediterranean Basin (both North and South Coasts), which can be efficiently addressed only through a long term oriented strategy aimed at strengthening the labour force capacity, including entrepreneurship. A second key need which the project addresses is the growing need of “empowering sport” as a tool for social impact-change, i.e. empowering sport as a means and no longer considering it only as a scope in itself. A third key need is promoting a cooperative and trustful environment between South Coast and North Coast in the Mediterranean Basin. The planned event in Egypt has the potential to become a little mile-stone in the cooperation dynamics. The high reputation of the Consortium including United Nations ILO ensures a high-impact perspective to the  initiative.

Population growth, increased prosperity and rapid urbanization are bringing global demand for natural resources to a point increasingly beyond the Earth’s carrying capacity. Together with climate change, those pressures are causing significant environmental degradation in many parts of the planet. Latin America is particularly vulnerable. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) constitute urgent calls and drivers for higher education to be part of future generations of engaged citizens aware of their role in creating fair and healthy societies. The Change the Climate project addresses three main needs: environmental management at all levels of higher education activities, integration of environmental management with sustainability strategies and institutional quality management, and customized strategies for sustainability in education. The project’s main goal is to increase Latin-American University’s contribution to Sustainable Development, through the implementation of environmental systematic practices and quality processes in alignment with the UN SDGs, improving the management and operations of higher education institutions.  The project will deliver tools and guides for environmental impact analysis and SDGs mapping in campus operations and educational activities. An environmental management system will be implemented in each partner university decreasing their environmental impact; sustainability awareness will be assessed thoughout the academic communities; strategies for sustainability in higher education will be developed for curricula improvement; and a common open online course on sustainability will be created in English, Spanish and Portuguese. The project’s impact will reach stakeholders beyond the project partnership at local, regional and national levels contributing to behavioural change for sustainable futures.