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Portugal debate-se atualmente com uma grave crise habitacional, ainda que apresentando contornos diferentes da situação vivida em Abril de 1974, e que levou à ocupação ilegal de casas em bairros ainda em construção, como é o caso do bairro das Amendoeiras. Embora exista alguma documentação e conhecimento produzido sobre o bairro, o interior das casas e a forma como elas testemunharam as mudanças socioeconómicas e políticas em 50 anos de democracia continua por explorar, tal como como a invisibilidade persistente do papel das mulheres em todo o processo. Este projeto tem por objetivo geral dar visibilidade às dinâmicas espaciais, económicas, sociais, políticas e identitárias do bairro das Amendoeiras, também conhecido por Zona I de Chelas, em Lisboa.

Teacher burnout is a significant psychosocial, educational, organizational & economic challenge worldwide that has been aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Impacts have been reported on teachers’ occupational health/wellbeing, job satisfaction, and performance, as well as on the quality of the learning environments. Hence, contributions to prevent teacher burnout have been receiving more attention by policy makers globally, as investing in occupational health can have a return on investment of 5 times the investment, and teaching is becoming unattractive with many OECD countries facing a shortage of new teachers and high turnover rates. Yet, an emphasis has been placed on some individual-level variables (as optimism), leaving the impact of other individual (e.g., self-care) & contextual variables (as job resources, e.g., leadership practices) overlooked. This project intends to investigate teachers’ needs regarding personal & job resources and whether teachers’ and the leadership team’s perceptions of personal/job resources needs are concordant. It also investigates how personal and/or job resources relate with teachers’ occupational health/wellbeing. Lastly, it proposes to investigate how a digital platform based on a Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) approach for teachers and their leaders, can foster teacher wellbeing and performance. Study 1 employs a sequential explanatory design to assess the perceptions of teachers and leaders regarding personal and job resources. Participants will complete a survey, followed by focus group discussions with teachers and individual interviews with leaders to enrich the quantitative data. Study 2 adopts a quantitative design with teachers to examine the relationship between personal and job resources and teachers' occupational health and wellbeing. Study 3 involves developing and testing the #SELhub digital platform to promote a positive school culture and enhance teacher wellbeing and performance, through an experim...

O objetivo deste projeto é desenvolver soluções duradouras no domínio da cooperação científica, de implementação e de processos de ensino, no âmbito de parcerias académicas internacionais. Os resultados do projeto deverão constituir uma base para o desenvolvimento de uma cooperação duradoura entre entidades que formam uma parceria para produzir resultados significativos nas áreas da investigação, mobilidade e ensino.

Democracy and citizens’ political engagement have been long-lasting policy goals of the European Union’s standards and values. The European Commission has established a new push for democracy as one of its priorities for 2019-2024, intending to foster democratic governance and civic participation. However, these objectives are challenging in light of transnational repression and the lack of policy tools for migrant protection in host societies across Western democracies, the primary recipients of human rights defenders.  However, the E.U. has overlooked the rapid change in more vibrant forms of migrant political activism and how authoritarian governments control their diasporas abroad. There is a knowledge gap in understanding transnational repression’s gendered effects on receiving countries’ political environment. WomenACT-REPinHOST advances global discussions on migrants’ rights by analysing Latin American women activists’ practices of resistance to transnational authoritarian rule. It also discusses how they could be best supported by international organisations and host countries’ democratic institutions. The proposed action aims at enhancing three career objectives: acquiring scientific and transferable skills in Gender Studies and Psychosocial Research (short-term); securing a permanent academic position in the E.U. (mid-term) and; developing an independent career path as a gender consultant in human rights international organisations (long-term). These objectives will be accomplished through an individually tailored research and career development plan. The methodology includes a literature review and fieldwork research based on in-depth interviews, online non-participant observation and focus groups with LAC female activists and organisations in the U.S. and Spain. It also focuses on dissemination strategies to target scholars, practitioners and wide audiences with deliverables such as peer-reviewed articles, conferences, podcasts, and policy briefs...