Project List

The ESIF.COM-BOOST Project stems from the recognition that European citizens in general, and Portuguese citizens in particular, possess limited knowledge about European funds and hold a moderately positive perception of their impact. This project, funded under the Technical Assistance Programme 2030 (PAT2030-FEDER-00023200), aimed to enhance public awareness of European funds through the qualitative improvement of communication efforts under PT2030, a public policy framework consolidating European funds in Portugal. To achieve this, an applied research initiative was developed to identify the primary constraints affecting communication within the process of constructing the public value of European funds. Additionally, it sought to pinpoint key interventions capable of overcoming these barriers and generating causal chains with the potential to strengthen their public value over time. Furthermore, the project identified gaps in knowledge and competencies among media communication professionals, facilitating the development of action proposals for capacity building within audiences directly linked to the media communication ecosystem.

Focusing on hybrid trends and models of living (e.g. cohousing and coliving and working flexible and multifunctional spaces), HybGen aims to understand which resilient values and survival strategies young adults (20-35 years old) of Lisbon and Oslo are adopting, and how such strategies intersect with urban green care. The goal is to delve into the hybridity of the new urban lifestyles and the blockages of a generation that, despite being one of the best prepared to face the new challenges of the digital transition, is being sacrificed by the urban economic extractive model. A comparative study will be carried out through participatory action research. This includes fieldwork conducted in both cities; participatory workshops with different stakeholders; a joint seminar to discuss and share findings and good practices; an open-access publication. This bilateral initiative will promote the cooperation, exchange and sharing of knowledge and networking between Portuguese and Norwegian entities, identifying best practices and producing useful policy recommendations for common problems.

This project seeks to analyze the emergence of a global administrative space in transnational climate policymaking and its impact on issue-specific policy discourses. The project draws on research on international bureaucracies (Knill and Bauer 2016; Bauer et al. 2017; Ege et al. 2020), transnational administration (Ladi and Stone 2015; Moloney and Stone 2020; Stone and Moloney 2019), and Global Administrative Spaces (Kingsbury et al. 2005; Chiti and Wessel 2011), as well as broader literature on global climate governance architecture (Aldy and Stavins 2007; Biermann et al. 2009; Keohane and Victor 2011). The bureaucratic side of these governance arrangements will be particularly examined. The concept of International or Transnational Administrative Spaces is relatively new in the fields of Public Administration and International Relations. Kingsbury et al. (2005, 20) identify five types of global administration that together characterize Global Administrative Spaces: administration by formal international organizations, administration based on collective action through transnational networks of cooperative agreements between national regulatory authorities, decentralized administration carried out by national regulatory authorities within contracts, networks or other cooperative regimes, administration through hybrid intergovernmental-private agreements, and administration by private institutions with regulatory functions. Empirically, the project is based on quantitative data collected through the social networks of International Public Administrations (IPAs). Further longitudinal data will be collected and analyzed using inferential social network analysis and natural language processing. This will allow for methodological triangulation to analyze the role of international organization secretariats in discourse coalitions on transnational climate policy. The proposed project systematically builds on previous research on social networks of international treaty sec...

The ever-increasing challenge of affordable and adequate provision of housing in Europe calls for collective actions and approaches from different perspectives. Being a social sector, housing requires special attention on the aspects of participation, social cohesion, interaction, and integration in its physical and functional manifestation of space. However, these aspects are ignored since housing is largely driven by its transformation as a commodity. Thereby, lack of co-creation and inclusiveness of civil society in the whole design, planning, and delivery process along with the private and public sector or municipalities involved remains one of the major challenges. In this direction, this project is envisioned to support the transition of the status-quo of housing towards more participatory and inclusive governance, development, and implementation through developing a citizen engagement model.