Lista de Projetos

SEACORN provides a fundamental contribution to the evaluation and development of Enhanced UMTS networks. It covers several aspects starting from the definition and characterisation of services and user profiles, including the modelling of the user's behaviour with respect to mobility and multimedia activity, and finally considering the optimisation of the networks from both points of views: the operator's and manufacturer's view of limiting the infrastructure and maintenance costs and the user's view of being provided with high quality services

MOSES expands and enhances multimedia contnet transactions in 3 ways: – standards compliance from OPIMA to emerging areas; – MPEG IPMP Extensions and DVB-CP; – IPMP functionalities in trials to include controlling, copying, moving, exporting and importing protected content in a fully-interconnected environment both peer-to-peer, and in the more classical client server; – supported platforms; – porting legacy secure infrastructures to devices other than PC, e.g. typical CE platforms. MOSES will deliver code as independent of platform and vendor as possible by use of open development suites such as Windows CE and DVB-MHP. This approach, recognising content provider and user needs, and validated in trials will ensure interoperable European content delivery.   Objectives: The main objectives of the MOSES project are: 1) extending the OPIMA interfaces and architecture to achieve compliance with the most recent security standards, some of which are still in the making like MPEG IPMP Extensions and DVB-CPCM; 2) extending current business models to encompass operational scenarios where the full set of functionalities pertaining to IPMP systems is implemented and tested, including means for controlling copying, moving, exporting and importing protected content as well as the relevant business and service data; 3) porting this end-to-end MPEG-4 compliant secure infrastructure to devices other than the PC, addressing typical CE platforms based on open development suites, like WinCE and DVB-MHP and point out additional actions needed for subsequent full and successful commercial exploitation. The developed software/hardware aims also at representing a European test-bed where new pieces of technology specified by the main standardisation fora in the field of content protection can be assessed and a co-ordinated European input to standard bodies can be provided.   More information at the European Commission website here.  

Comprender os processos de exclusão e inclusão escolar e social dos descendentes dos imigrantes e identificar e analisar as principais variáveis explicativas da diversidade dessas trajectórias escolares.

Compreender as formas de entreajuda e os tipos de troca que se estabelecem no contexto das redes de parentesco, em particular entre a geração intermédia que presta cuidados e a geração idosa que deles usufrui. O campo de pesquisa estará delimitado a uma zona específica do centro do país - o Baixo Mondego, aos conselhos de Soure (meio rural) e de Coimbra (meio urbano).

A participação política nas sociedades modernas não se restringe à defesa de interesses e valores associados às condições económicas e sociais. Pelo contrário, a mobilização política para outras causas culminou num processo de criação de novos direitos: ambientais, culturais, das minorias, dos consumidores. Associados ao crescimento destes novos direitos, acentuou-se o protagonismo de novos grupos sociais, caminhando, para o alargamento e a revitalização dos mecanismos de participação política nas sociedades comtemporâneas. As preocupações em torno da preservação e valorização do património cultural parecem ter ultrapassado a tradicional preocupação das élites e estar a envolver vastas camadas sociais, constituindo-se, como tal, como espaço para o exercício da cidadania.