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O projeto Covid Check pretende ajudar a otimizar a comunicação oficial e a esclarecer as principais questões dos portugueses sobre a pandemia, através da criação de uma rede pública de conhecimento que estará disponível através de um website específico. Desta forma pode contribuir para a otimização dos resultados efetivos de protocolos de comunicação entre as entidades da saúde (Ministério da Saúde, DGS, SNS24, etc.) e os seus stakeholders, a nível interno, e jornalistas e cidadãos, a nível externo. São resultados esperados: a promoção de mensagens eficazes e claras junto da população; contribuir para a identificação de desinformação que possa ser prejudicial para a saúde pública; fomentar na sociedade a procura por fontes fidedignas. Para isso acontecer: as entidades devem melhorar a sua comunicação com base nos resultados da investigação; os meios de comunicação criar mensagens mais focadas; os cidadãos interiorizar as práticas e comportamentos desejados para a resolução da pandemia. O projeto faz parte da investigação sobre desinformação em curso no MediaLab_Iscte

The outbreak of Covid-19 has had a profound impact on all the social, economic and political life of practically all societies. To help contain the virus and limit pressures on national health care systems, spatial mobility has also been severely affected. Motivated by the rapid spread of Covid-19, countries around the world closed their borders, airlines cancelled their flights and people have been told to stay at home by their governments, limiting human circulation in a manner unprecedented in the post-war period. As a border-crossing and now a border-closing related phenomenon, the global flow of international students has been severely disrupted by social isolation measures put in place without consideration of the consequences for mobility-dependent individuals, a predicament that invites research and analysis. Looking at the Portuguese case, this situation not only reflects the challenges raised by the pandemic in regard to how institutions dependent upon mobility function, but also existing inequalities between the Global North and the Global South, and the socio-economic differentials that have shaped individual experiences of the lockdown: what has become for a many forced displacement from sending countries or an involuntary return home. Some people are evidently better equipped or better situated to cope with the sudden immobility than others. Special attention in our work is given to the impact of lockdown on the quotidian routines of international students, taking into account the new, and existing, challenges they now face, as well as the effectiveness of the response made by host institutions. Empirical evidence is drawn from 30 interviews conducted with international students who were attending Portuguese universities during the lockdown, providing us with illustrations of their capacity to cope with what we have termed ‘pandemic immobility’.

O projecto, desenvolvido em colaboração com as agências públicas portuguesas IAPMEI e AICEP, pretende contribuir para a melhoria da gestão dos incentivos ao investimento empresarial, recorrendo a várias abordagens de aprendizagem automática que permitem identificar níveis de risco operacional e estratégico dos projectos, nas fases de análise de candidaturas e de verificação de pedidos de pagamento. O projecto deverá resultar na produção de scorings de risco que possam auxiliar as actividades de análise e verificação na gestão dos incentivos. Os principais tipos de risco a analisar incluem: • Risco de anulação do projecto (antes ou depois do contrato, por iniciativa do promotor ou das autoridades públicas) • Risco de devolução de incentivo (por anulação do projecto, incumprimento do contrato, não certificação de adiantamento, inconformidade da despesa ou outros motivos) • Risco de não-utilização do incentivo aprovado • Risco de inclusão de despesas inelegíveis (nos pedidos de adiantamentos contra-factura, na certificação pagamentos intercalares ou nos pedidos de reembolso) • Não cumprimento das metas contratualizadas

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.