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In a context marked by the digital transition, this research raises awareness about a still intense relation between music, territory, and local identity. It does so by an in-depth analysis of the electronic music ecosystems (EMEs) of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA). The localisation of these musical practices continues to play a crucial role. However, there is a lack of research that offers a characterisation of EMEs, their different actors and their relations, and how they are embedded in territories. The innovation of this project lies in the fact that it goes beyond fragmentary readings of the EMEs. It seeks a holistic approach, co-constructed with the different players who compose these ecosystems and it is an essential contribution to overcoming the knowledge gap about Portuguese EMEs, their workers, working conditions, networks, and their potential and challenges. Simultaneously, it allows us to broaden the focus of analysis beyond Lisbon, comparing the reality of the main urban centres with peripheral or even peri-urban contexts. Our main goal is to study the LMA's EMEs and produce knowledge useful to its actors and policymakers. The research does this by showing the EMEs’s territorial embeddedness and unveiling differences within the AML; raising awareness of their importance and value; and identifying with the stakeholders ways to make them more sustainable and resilient within the framework of designing public policies for popular music, that do not exist in Portugal. Partial goals include: 1) mapping and characterising the LMA’s EMEs; 2) identifying their main challenges and opportunities; 3) setting up a web platform to systematise and share data and resources on EMEs, promoting their connectivity and the careers and circulation of their players; 4) giving visibility to territories and a musical genre that are usually peripheral in the design of public policies. The project is based on a multi-method qualitative approach, combining documental analysi...

EDITS IV é a quarta fase de um projeto conjunto entre o DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte (D'C) e o Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) com o objetivo de colaborar na análise empírica e modelizadora de novas tendências disruptivas de inovação tecnológica e social para reduzir a procura de energia.

As cities become more populous and diverse, improving our understanding of the urban landscape is becoming increasingly important. All@CityScape aims to leverage digitalization to develop scientifically sound methodologies based on the concept of Landscape Identity to support innovative transformations in public space in response to demographic dynamics and the risk of social exclusion.

Security and trust are vital concerns in today’s digital age, namely in internet-based systems, automotive applications, and biomedical devices. With the drastically increasing number of interconnected devices in low-cost internet-of-things (IoT) applications, providing reliable, energy-efficient and cost-effective hardware (HW) security solutions becomes of paramount importance. Ubiquitous IoT devices face additional challenges because of varying environmental conditions and possible physical access by hackers. Moreover, it is necessary to ensure seamless system security hardware primitives for silicon produced elsewhere. Therefore, it is necessary to create and implement design flows to sustain the trust chain. It is critical for Europe to ensure that if silicon is produced in a non-trusted environment (more than 90% of silicon in advanced CMOS nanotechnologies, below 5nm, is produced in Asia), Europe still controls the trust chain, keeping the design capabilities and intellectual property. To further improve PUF (Physically Unclonable Functions) reliability, randomness, energy-efficiency, stability and robustness against ageing variations, several techniques will be used in SECURE for the design of new PUFs. The main innovation of the proposed hybrid PUF ID system is based on the hybrid combination of the best of two different technologies. On the one hand, to achieve a better static entropy source, we will use passive electronics printed directly on flexible substrates. This will ensure that our PUFs are primarily composed of better structures that amplify intra-die variations (due to the inherent process variability associated with low-temperature printing technologies). The use of cryptographic algorithms in hardware is also a novelty explored in the project. The two groups involved in this proposal, from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (associated with CTS, CEMOP of UNINOVA and CENIMAT/I3N), and ISTAR-Iscte - Information Sciences, Technologies and Architecture Re...

Despite decades of devoted research, cancer remains a tremendous health threat and societal burden. Europe's Beating Cancer Plan aims to improve the lives of more than 3 million people by 2030 by improving prevention, early detection, diagnostics, therapeutics, and quality of life. The biggest single hurdle here is the highly inadequate way cancer data, both from research and healthcare, are still being dealt with. While other areas of society (e.g. e-finance, e-commerce, logistics, travel, meteorology, etc.) have fully exploited advances in data and information technology to serve organisations as well as individual consumers, so far this has failed in the health domain. Consequently, cancer data are hard to Find, Access, make Interoperable and Reuse. Evidently this is not caused by lack of suitable technology, but rather by organisational, social and cultural causes. Inherently, solving the problem requires a cultural shift from the current craftsmanship approach to cancer research and data, to a drastic collaboration model at industrial scale. CANDLE therefore aims to scale-up and improve existing (inter)national health data infrastructures, align maximally with national EHDS implementations in member states, including HDAB’s, DAAMS’s and SPE’s. CANDLE will also identify and resolve potential barriers (https://www.health-ri.nl/en/participation/obstacles-removal-trajectory ) that jeopardize effective implementation of UNCAN.eu and ECPDC digital platforms. CANDLE aims to equipe data users and NCDN developers with a ‘ready-to-use' CANDLE Resource Kit in a process oriented (research journey, patient journey, data life cycle) way. In summary, CANDLE will provide an avenue towards a successful and highly desired data transformation in European cancer research and serve as a catalyzer for the UNCAN.eu and ECPDC platforms by advancing the development of NCDNs to reach the goal of the Cancer Mission and Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, i.e. reducing the burden of cancer.