Lista de Projetos

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.

H:OUSE stems from the recognition of the right to housing as an essential first step towards significant integration of people in need of international protection into host communities. It also recognizes that many successful experiences in terms of support in accessing housing come from bottom-up approaches. The project starts from these premises to explore successful Community Sponsorship experiences, at international, EU and local level, to provide a systematization of the most effective practices, whichextrapolates their relevant strengths. From this, a multi-stakeholder intervention model will be developed and tested, based on the direct involvement of a wide range of public and private sponsors, drawing particularly on those segments of society that can benefit, economically and in welfare, from active engagement with newcomers; as well as on the representatives of the diaspora communities, as solid bridges between the communities of newcomers and the country of reception. This multifaceted group of target stakeholders will receive tailored training and tools to acquire the necessary skills to better engage with and support newcomers. In parallel, local authorities and stakeholders will be involved and informed on the most pressing issues affecting the migrant community, such as the knowledge and accessibility of housing solutions, but also the innovative practices developed in the field. Finally, the project will bring together all these actors in multi-stakeholder sponsorship groups, set up in the 7 project implementation territories (IT, HE, HU, IR, SL), in the collaborative planning and implementation of concrete interventions. The final result will be the creation of a network in direct support of final beneficiaries, backed by a structure solid, informed and connected at EU level, with the potential to influence decisions and promote a paradigm shift in housing policies.

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.