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Esta projeto envolve a criação do observatório da educação da Lezíria do Tejo. O projeto está dividido em duas prioridades. A primeira delas envolve a investigação e a avaliação do fenómeno do abandono escolar e do sucesso escolar na Comunidade Intermunicipal da Lezíria do Tejo. A segunda prioridade implica avaliar as diferentes ações constantes do plano integrado e inovador de combate ao insucesso escolar da Lezíria do Tejo. 

Learning to play music changes brain structure and function, and there is much interest in the idea that these changes might transfer to skills beyond music. Many studies examined if music training improves abilities such as speech and intelligence. However, remarkably little is known about potential transfer effects to social skills, notably the ability to process emotional voices and faces. This effect could be hypothesized from the fundamental link between music and social and emotion processes, and is of central theoretical and applied importance: for understanding brain plasticity, the neurocognitive links between music and socio-emotional abilities, and the potential of music as a therapeutic tool. This project asks if music training improves socio-emotional processing, focusing on three unresolved questions. First, we determine if adult musicians reliably outperform non-musicians at recognizing emotions, and establish the scope of the effect: is it limited to voices, or does it extend to the visual domain (faces)? Is it limited to formally trained individuals,or does it extend to musically sophisticated non-musicians, who developed music skills via informal engagement withmusic? This will clarify previous mixed findings and provide a mechanistic understanding of the effect. A new tool for measuring musical sophistication will be validated and made available to the community. Second, we will combine state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging and electrophysiological techniques to delineate the neural mechanisms of the effect. This includes examining how emotions are represented in the trained brain, modulations in the processing time course, and changes in functional connectivity and brain anatomy. This comprehensive approach will add critical new insights into how music drives plasticity. Third, we will conduct a longitudinal study in children to test the effects of a music training program on socio-emotional processing, including pre- and post- training ass...

Este projeto de investigação tem como objeto de estudo os cadetes das Forças de Segurança Portuguesas, a Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR) e a Polícia de Segurança Pública (PSP), que no ano escolar de 2015/16 frequentavam as respetivas escolas de formação superior, a Academia Militar (AM), os cadetes da GNR ,e o Instituto de Superior de Ciências Policiais e de Segurança Interna (ISCPSI), os cadetes da PSP. O objetivo principal do estudo é o de conhecer as características sociais, as representações institucionais, as orientações profissionais e os valores humanos dos cadetes que frequentam as duas escolas de formação superior.  A concretização do presente projeto acontece num período de elevada exigência económica e financeira para Portugal e com elevadas repercussões para o emprego e para a inserção profissional dos jovens, bem como da falta de oportunidades que se lhes oferecem; de sucessivos questionamentos das profissões militar e policial, das suas missões e interface, num mundo em que as questões de segurança e defesa readquiriram uma nova centralidade, nas discussões aos vários níveis, perante as novas ou reconfiguradas ameaças que atingem vários países, em diferentes continentes, e finalmente, porque se pretende dar o melhor contributo possível para o conhecimento mais pormenorizado das motivações/razões que levam os jovens a optar por uma profissão policial, sendo que a GNR apresenta a característica de força de polícia com estatuto militar.  Por outro lado, também se procura conhecer o “viveiro” de recrutamento destas duas instituições, bem como os perfis sociográficos dos cadetes para se possa compreender se existem diferenças relevantes entre os jovens que a elas concorrem. Sendo também motivação suplementar para a concretização do presente estudo o facto de não se conhecerem estudos sistemáticos que abordem os dois universos em análise. O modelo analítico adotado no estudo socorrer-se-á do modelo que tem sido adotado para o estudo da profissão milita...

This project, supported by Portugal 2020 funds, aims to support BRU-Iscte institutional capacities in submitting applications to European competitive funding, namely within the Horizon 2020 programme. With this support, BRU-Iscte has drafted a strategic plan for 2019-2022 with regards to the submission of applications to competitive European funding schemes in areas of key interest for BRU research activities.

Project Title: Graduates Advancement and Development of University capacities in Albania (GRADUA)   Duration: 4 years (15/10/2017-15/10-2021)   Project reference number: 585961- EPP-1-2017-1-AL-EPPKA2-CBHE-SP   Programme: Erasmus +   Action: Capacity Building in Higher Education (CBHE)   The project aims at set up in Albania an innovative IT based platform for graduates tracking and employability at support of policy making and HE reform. The platform is different with respect to existent experiences (databases/job intermediaries): it is an integrated and certified demand/supply matching model based on the online DB of Albanian graduates, easily “replicable” in new universities. The platform has a twofold scope:   -enhance university enterprise cooperation and graduates employability in a unifying context of data aggregation, graduates monitoring and university-enterprises cooperation. Online graduates CVS are certified by universities, made available to companies that can check and compare on line by university, faculty and degree course level the graduates to hire according to set of variable (i.e.academic career, language and IT skills, experiences, expectations). Graduates can update their CVs and directly send their candidature to the firms through the platform. The efficacy of AL in job intermediation with respect to other systems is proven by figures (Bargues and Sylos Labini 2009).   -strengthen both the effectiveness/efficiency of the whole HE system through IT based practices and methodology: the platform is conceived to provide  documentary evidence for decision making processes,  new programmes planning and methodology, with particular attention to training activities and services to students (graduate’ profile survey). It is an integrated model as the surveys’ high response rates together with the statistical quality of data depends on the graduates’ fidelization effect achieved thanks to the placement services offered to them.   The pro...