Project List

This impact assessment study of the redevelopment process in Municipal Districts within the scope of the PRR aims to analyze and evaluate the results achieved by the ongoing redevelopment processes in the Municipal Districts. The study covers three areas: Condado, in the parish of Marvila, Padre Cruz, in the parish of Carnide (1989-1995), and Sargento Abílio, in the parish of Benfica (1998-2001). Each case study corresponds to different municipal housing development programs.

The "Research Data Management Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities" (RDMC-SSH) is an initiative led by Iscte Knowledge and Innovation (Iscte KI). The Centre will focus on establishing an infrastructure for managing research data in the fields of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), addressing the specific needs related to data management in these disciplines.

This project is developed within a PhD scholarship with the funding reference PALOP/BD/155083/2024.   Based on the hypothesis that, in the current context of infodemic (information overload), the persuasive perspective of health communication may face greater obstacles to encouraging vaccination (complacency, convenience, and trust) among the population, this research discusses the relationship between health communication and vaccination processes in Mozambique. The study is justified, first, by its potential to identify and discuss, based on empirical evidence, factors that  condition health communication for the promotion of vaccination in different sociological contexts; second, it can position itself as a theoretical contribution to improving health communication models in infodemic environments; finally, it may prove useful in showing how the global ideology of prevention, which focuses on immunisation as its central element, manifests itself in peripheral local contexts, such as Mozambique, both in terms of routine immunisation and in emergency circumstances. This is a qualitative study that will consist of interviews and non-participant observation (in a real environment) of users and health workers from three health units located in urban, peri-urban and rural areas of three  districts in the province of Maputo. In addition, the study will analyse official training and communication documents on vaccination, as well as explore other unofficial but impactful information on the same topic. Keywords: vaccination; communication; infodemic.

Project Upstream is a joint effort by Público and MediaLab Iscte to increase Público’s fact-checking capacity, widening the coverage and optimising response time. The focus is no longer solely on debunking false information, but in making prebunking top priority – by being able to anticipate disinformation narratives at their “seedbed”, we can tackle them sooner, and curb their propagation. Simultaneously, this project aims to increase the visibility of MediaLab’s research work on disinformation, providing a scientific context to Público readers – while also contributing to MediaLab’s scientific output production. At the project’s conclusion, the consortium will host a conference bringing together fact-checkers from all Portuguese IFCN-signatory media, as well as representatives from academia, public entities and NGO’s. Público started regular fact-checking activity in 2021, amidst the pandemic’s disinformation high tide. Since then, the scenario has changed for the worse. Despite increased efforts by media outlets such as Público, disinformation keeps emerging as fast as we can tackle it (if not faster) – and spreading at a much larger scale than checked content. Despite its importance, debunking alone is no longer enough to staunch the narrative flow. No matter how good a fact-checking process is, we can only mitigate the velocity at which disinformation spreads by detecting it at its source. In the social media ecosystem, algorithms governing content visibility tend to favour that with higher user interaction, regardless of the message conveyed. Hate content may go unchecked for quite long until platform moderators decide to flag, restrict or remove it. In Portugal, the last couple of years have witnessed a huge growth in anti-migration disinformation content, an unusual discourse for a traditionally welcoming and gregarious country. The phenomenon does replicate narratives earlier disseminated in other European countries, but one must not dissociate it from the ...