Lista de Projetos

Este estudo centra-se na avaliação do contributo das políticas de segurança escolar desenvolvidas no âmbito do Programa Escola Segura para a concretização das políticas de integração, inclusão e igualdade educativa e social em contextos escolares marcados pela diversidade e complexidade social e cultural. Procurará desse modo avaliar a forma como se concretiza ao nível territorial a articulação entre o Programa Escola Segura e os programas centrados na inclusão e igualdade educativa e social, de forma a identificar os bloqueios e as potencialidades de colaboração entre os agentes e instituições responsáveis pela concretização das políticas públicas, com o objetivo de especificar os elementos centrais de uma metodologia integrada de intervenção (prevenção e regulação) da violência nas escolas e nas comunidades, passível de difusão alargada no sistema educativo e comunidades locais.

Sustainability has become a master concept in economic policies in Europe and around the world. The objective of this project is to analyze the discourse and practices of sustainability that different social agents have developed in the last decade in order to assess the efficacy and coherence of the sustainability programme. Moreover, the project seeks to critically unpack the concept of “sustainability”, questioning its capacity as an analytical concept. We will approach sustainability from different angles: 1) as a concept that often holds contradictory or ambivalent meanings for different stakeholders, social groups and institutions, 2) as a practice that implements policies defined by their ‘sustainable’ aim in widely different and local contexts, and 3) as a framing argument that engages civil society actors in various ways in response to ongoing political economic transformations. The hypothesis we seek to explore is that there are substantial contradictions and ambivalences between different social actors’ understandings of, and practices toward, ‘sustainability’ (various policy makers, large firms, civil society groups and ordinary citizens). This in turn is a potential basis for conflict and becomes a real obstacle toward the aim of social and territorial cohesion and towards an integrated objective of economic, environmental and social reproduction. This comparative study based on ethnographic, documentary and secondary statistical material seeks to make a major theoretical contribution by transforming the concepts and hierarchies for thinking about economic and social sustainability, through the emphasis on individual, institutional and collective actors’ understandings of social justice.

Cooperation in antenna field

The research programme will integrate diverse levels, methods and disciplinary traditions with the aim of developing a comprehensive policy agenda for changing the role of the financial system to help achieve a future which is sustainable in environmental, social and economic terms. The programme involves an integrated and balanced consortium involving partners from 14 countries that has unsurpassed experience of deploying diverse perspectives both within economics and across disciplines inclusive of economics. The programme is distinctively pluralistic, and aims to forge alliances across the social sciences, so as to understand how finance can better serve economic, social and environmental needs. The central issues addressed are the ways in which the growth and performance of economies in the last 30 years have been dependent on the characteristics of the processes of financialisation; how has financialisation impacted on the achievement of specific economic, social, and environmental objectives?; the nature of the relationship between financialisation and the sustainability of the financial system, economic development and the environment?; the lessons to be drawn from the crisis about the nature and impacts of financialisation? ; what are the requisites of a financial system able to support a process of sustainable development, broadly conceived?’