Lista de Projetos

Connectivity is the major driver in the modern “information society”, where the range of data-driven applications is exploding, and new information-based value chains are rapidly emerging. Optical networks are the backbone of the global communication infrastructure, interconnecting billions of people and a huge number of various autonomous devices, control systems, and machines. Optical systems’ development incites the skyrocketing growth in the demand for data exchange and harnessing, fuelled by webbased services such as ultra-HD streaming, cloud services, 5G proliferation, fostering the changes in the digital world, and shaping the structure of the modern society. The demand growth is especially pronounced in the access and metro links, where data rates largely exceeding the current <1 Tb/s will be required. Moreover, the COVID-19 – with the huge number of people working from home – has intensified the pressure on the optical networks. Also, features such as the financial cost of the system elements, latency, dynamic reconfigurability, and energy consumption gain progressively more importance for the new generation of access and metro networks. The Doctorate Network NESTOR will answer the How? When? and Where? coherent optical transceiver will be deployed in metroaggregation optical networks to meet the demand for new cost-efficient solutions. NESTOR will also address the Who? by providing advanced training to 10 Fellows - from a new generation of engineers - with PhD projects significantly expanding the flexibility and capacity of access/metro networks. NESTOR harnesses the complementary expertise of the top academic groups (Aston, PoliTO, UPC, SSSA, and TU/e) and core telecom industry (Infinera, BT, Orange, SM-Optics, VPI and Ericsson). NESTOR will provide Fellows with a uniquely broad education ranging from recent advances in ML&AI to real-world telecom engineering, which will enable them to design and implement high-capacity access and metro networks.

Em Junho de 2023, o primeiro-ministro de Portugal Antonio Costa realizou uma visita de estado a Luanda onde visitou o projeto de inauguracao do futuro Museu da Luta de Libertacao, situado na antiga Casa de Reclusao, lugar de prisao de varios protagonistas da independencia angolana. Sendo esta a primeira vez que se tornou publico o projeto, o momento de visita de Costa revestiu-se de um simbolismo politico relevante no contexto da diplomacia cultural e patrimonial lusofona pos-colonial. Mas, tendo em conta que o espaco em causa tambem incorpora uma historia de extrema violencia pos-colonial, quais sao os custos epistemologicos e politicos do projeto? A partir do estudo de caso do novo museu, propomos debater os processos de ritualizacao publica e performatizacao patrimonial do espaco pos-colonial lusofono. Para tal, utilizaremos o conceito operativo de “espetacularizacao patrimonial” para discutir os atores, as relacoes e representacoes em torno dos processos de patrimonializacao. 

The project aims to exploit transnational cooperation to explore the social and economic potential of Smart Industrial Tourism (SMIT), as a sustainable economic activity that can benefit tourism actors, SMEs, the industry, CCIs, R&D centers, HEIs and technology providers, and the local communities.   The project will create transnational working groups involving 4helix stakeholders to explore industrial tourism and related advanced technologies applications. It will eventually define a common strategy and Action Plan for the development of SMIT in the Med regions. The result will be a diversification of the economy and of the sector, a reduction of over-tourism and seasonalization, and a boost to social and economic growth and to technological innovation of tourism at large.

The project aims to co-design and pilot innovative methods and cooperation strategies for mental health promotion in HE for trauma prevention and support to: increase the quality of mental health promotion, address common needs, promote inclusion of vulnerable groups, create inclusive learning environments and build capacity for transnational cooperation through culturally sensitive, digitally relevant, and community-based approaches using international health promotion frameworks.

Peripheral and suburban urban areas though hosting major urban dynamics and population groups, are often perceived negatively, and have not received the attention of current urban planning and design practices in steering the necessary regeneration. In Portugal, as in other countries, urban development reflects these problems. In research, policy and practice, public space (PS) is addressed as a means to attain a better urban environment within sustainable development, but it also reflects inequalities in its provision and distribution, especially in more extensive and diversified urban contexts. While the recent crises have showcased the importance and potential of PS, they also stressed the urge for these places to be transformed. The main purpose of this project is to understand where and how to redesign PS to deal with transition challenges. The research does this by understanding and reframing the way PS is addressed in the “extensive city” and by discussing with stakeholders its value and potential to contribute to a more sustainable transition path. Through a critical analysis of the public space of peripheral areas in the Lisbon metropolis, the research aims to achieve prospective reasoning to tackle urban change obstacles. Partial goals include: mapping and characterising these public spaces; locating the main challenges and opportunities to be tackled; giving visibility to peripheral urban areas forwarding policy guidelines.