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Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is a new approach to the challenges related with population aging and has as its main goals applying ambient intelligent technologies in supporting and training people with specific requirements (such as giving to elderly with memory loss products/services that help them reminding events or paths), and in developing safe environments to the maintenance of an independent life, promoting the active aging. Many national and international actions in the scope of AAL, more or less articulated, have been done, exploring several approaches to the development of innovative technologies. However, in general, we do not have a global understanding that determine and guide the Investigation & Development in AAL. In this context, the AAL4ALL project aims to develop a platform for the aggregation of products / services that promote the creation of assisted living environments, presenting an answer through the development of products and services ecosystem for AAL associated with a business model and validated by a large-scale pilot test.

O projecto “Arquitecturas do Mar” alia o conhecimento histórico ao arquitectónico relacionado com o mar, para apresentar um conjunto de propostas de intervenção integrada ao nível dos usos, enquadramento paisagístico e reabilitação arquitectónica, atendendo às especificidades regionais e da sua cultura local. Considerando que as actividades humanas devem ser compatíveis com a preservação destes valores, estuda os fundamentos de uma gestão sustentável desse território (Orla Marítima da Arrábida e Costa Sotavento Algarvio) do ponto de vista ecológico, económico e social. O projecto conta com um trabalho conjunto de Centros de Investigação ligados à Arquitectura (CIAUD - FA-UL), Arquitectura Paisagista (CEAP – ISA-UL), Ambiente (CERENA – IST-UL), Antropologia (CEI-IUL – ISCTE-IUL) e Arqueologia (Campo Arqueológico de Mértola), definindo o conjunto de critérios que sustentam modelos operativos de intervenção de natureza transdisciplinar.

Based on a series of rescue archaeology projects carried out in the Alentejo region to mitigate the archaeological impact of a number of public works, an integral project is proposed. The project aims to study the Recent Prehistory funerary practices in the low Alentejo region (Beja district) and build models to the diffusion of knowledge produced over non accessible (or totally dismantled) archaeological heritage, that has been establishing and empirical revolution in the Beja district, in the context of impact assessment projects developed by Redes Electricas Nacionais (REN) and Empresa de Desenvolvimento de Infraestruturas de Alqueva (EDIA). So, using a set of eight archaeological sites of particular scientific relevance, excavated in the context of impact assessment, we intent to address and understand death management practices in their diverse dimensions in the Guadiana basin in low Alentejo, from Late Neolithic to the Bronze Age and the contrasts and articulations established with the funerary solutions known in peripheral areas of Southwest Iberia. Resulting from discoveries and interventions occurred in the context of rescue Archaeology, the majority of the sites was partially or totally destroyed or became inaccessible after the mitigation processes. The project’s implementation strategy will consider a general parallel development of the different dimensions, in order to favor their interactions, but with the necessary adjustments related to specific goals and precedent needs. Archaeological research will address the study of funerary architectures, ritual practices concerning votive deposits, organization of funerary space in articulation with the anthropological approach to human osteology. Geophysical survey will be done in elected sites, for a more global characterization at a site´s scale and archaeometric studies (namely absolute chronology) will be carried out. At the same time, theoretical work and models definition for public access to the produc...