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The QUALREP project aims to produce a theoretically-driven analysis of the quality of women’s representation, attentive to intersectional and ideological diversity and with concern for the most marginalised.In a time when achieving women’s equal political participation and representation is formally recognized as a priority under commitments such as the UN SDGs and the EU Gender Equality Strategy, representative democracy continues to fail in the delivery of political equality for all women, in particular marginalised and minoritised women.This “poverty of representation” experienced by minority women across democracies, whose voices, interests and experiences are excluded from policy and debate is heightened in periods of natural and human-made crises and changes, and particularly in the face of anti-democratic backsliding and the rise of populist, anti-gender movements.QUALREP addresses this urgent need for renewed research on women’s political representation by investigating the institutional features which incentivize better representation and enhance connection, legitimacy and positive symbolism between women and their representatives and representative institutions.Through a comparative empirical analysis across five European nations — Belgium, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, and the UK — QUALREP is committed to produce recommendations for policy-influencing and work with stakeholders to ensure their impact, thus contributing to contemporary debates on democracy’s fragility, inequality, and the need for institutional redesign to address systemic injustices.By advancing a theoretically sophisticated, intersectional, and empirically grounded understanding of women’s political representation, QUALREP makes the case that through improving the representation of all women, the wider health of representative democracy is supported in the face of its contemporary existential challenges.

ALGOWATCH aims to create a dedicated multi-stakeholder team focused on algo-literacy, an emergent sub-field of Media and Information Literacy (MIL), with a special focus on how to detect and deflect algorithmic disinformation. The action will use an empowerment by design methodology, having participants co-create interactive quizzes and board games, to foster self-efficacy and participatory processes among people with low skills (youth 15+ and multiplier professionals). ALGOWATCH will capitalize on 2022 Crossover project (https://crossover.social), to scale up algo-literacy across Europe. It will unpack the Crossover “Algo literacy for all in 10 key points, with interactive quizzes and board games shared in local exhibits, for better e-inclusion. The action will have a strong focus on behavioural change, motivating watchful participants to build individual resilience and collective resistance to disinformation (verification, advocacy, alternate uses). The ALGOWATCH work plan includes 4 activities, over 2 years: 1) Produce interactive quizzes and games for awareness; 2) Engage participants in co-creative activities in an exhibit space; 3) Deploy exhibit in workshops with multiplier professionals in formal settings (schools) and in informal settings (libraries, museums); 4) Disseminate the resources for transfer of practices. The final deliverables will consist of an activity bank and a dissemination toolkit (with pathways for e-inclusion, communication plan and evaluation plan). The ALGOWATCH consortium brings together all required expertise, each partner working with an extended network of partners and EDMO hubs: 1) S*D (France), a MIL NGO with experience in games, quizzes and project coordination; 2) DKMK (Croatia), a MIL NGO with experience in workshop evaluation; 3) NUIM (Ireland), a university specialised in digital games and empowerment by design; 4) ISCTE (Portugal), a university specialised in training and outreach to diverse communities of practice. ...

Since the end of the 19th century, Portuguese immigration, composed mainly of populations from the Atlantic islands of the Azores, Madeira, was concentrated in some of the largest industrial cities in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, such as New Bedford, Fall River, MA, and Providence, RI. (Pap, The Portuguese Americans, 1981). However, these immigrants also settled to a lesser extent in two smaller cities close to Boston: Cambridge and Somerville (Ito-Adler, The Portuguese in Cambridge & Somerville, 1980). Here, the most expressive Portuguese visibility is concentrated in a small area crossing the border between these two cities. Despite the transformations of deindustrialization and gentrification that took place there since the last three decades, Portuguese ancestry still depicts the sociocultural landscape of this area which hosts a small, yet visible, Azorean-American community.Azorean-American ethnicity remains largely undocumented and understudied in Cambridge and Somerville. Yet, signs and symbols of a uniquely Azorean presence persevere in this territory of rapid change, defined by gentrification threatening this community’s existence. These markings range from associations, religious organizations, churches, processions, celebrations, flags, car stickers, supermarket products, photo albums, intimate family recipes, meals, and forms of Azorean-American speech, among others. Our research aims to deepen knowledge about this process of urban transformation along three interrelated dimensions:a)    Sociolinguistics: an analysis of the linguistic landscape of the Portuguese language in this territory within the specific Azorean contexts of language and prestige, in more public or more intimate family contexts (the home, festivities, school, work, etc.), in part through an auto-ethnography of a Portuguese language instructor.b)    Transnationalism: identification of the current connections between the neighborhood and abroad, focused on the biogr...

The Esports EMJMD proposal aims to design the first EMJMD on competencies and skills necessary for the Esport industry. The Esport industry continues to bloom and grow (culturally and economically), creating a dynamic environment that attracts new generations and creates abundant jobs of different kinds. Precisely, Esports is a growing industry that addresses current trends in the lifestyle of young people. However, there is a lack of professionals trained in the development, promotion and implementation of Esports activities, as well as in the interaction with Esports players. Importantly, at a European level there is no bachelor degree preparing professional for the Esports industry. This is partly due to complex nature of Esports; nevertheless this is a growing industry that has been dominated from professionals not educated about Esports, its particularities and special conditions. To address this gap, this application seeks to develop, a broad, holistic and multidisciplinary master degree curricullum, that will qualify students with the necessary skills to successfully enter the job market of the eSport industry. To achieve this, the proposal aims to develop and propose a master degree program with the participation of an international consortium of academic institutions with expertise on the diverse fields involved in education about Esports, such as education, management, informatics, integrity etc. This master degree program will fill in an existing gap in the European educational framework, as there is no other program on Esports and it is expected to provide manpower to a flourishing and expanding industry.

Over the centuries, religious built heritage played and essential role in Europe, shaping social, economic, environmental and cultural values. It defined communities and left a deep imprint on territorial development and their silhouettes, still visible in present-day city landscape. In Portugal, as well as in Norway, at present, the dominant religions face common challenges, socially, in terms of dwindling communities, environmentaly and economically, due to the reduction of the number of parishes and the territorial change that result from this. this often leads to a low utilization rate or even redundancy of religious buildings. The transHERITAGE iniciative aims to establish a first cooperation among Portuguese and Norwegian partners, aimed at knowledge sharing and creating access to innovative solutions using the transformative role of religious heritage: its potential to cause importante and enduring changes in the territories of northern and southern Europe.