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International development involves ideologies and activities ostensibly directed towards the improvement of well-being of populations in the Global South. Mainstream development interventions emphasize forward-looking ideas of progress and advocate for novelty. In so doing, however, the sector is often myopic, as evidenced by countless unintended consequences that stretch beyond interventions’ official life cycle. Whether deemed as success or failure, such interventions leave behind a long trail of tangible and intangible traces. Project AfDevLives explores how development interventions’ representational and material remains are experienced, utilized, and re-appropriated by local actors over time, and how such active immanence of the past affects people’s life-worlds. It weaves together three temporal gazes: prospective (development’s blueprints); retrospective (sediments of the past, shorthanded as interventions’ ‘afterlives’); and present-time lived experience. Consciously de-centering formal development discourse and temporalities, the project develops and applies a phenomenological framework oriented around the embodied interweaving of people, objects, and space. Using an interdisciplinary approach centered on social anthropology, research will be conducted in Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique, neighbouring Eastern African countries that are among the highest recipients of development aid and whose past and present hold both continuities and ruptures. The project will unfold via an iterative process involving four complementary work packages: Movement, Image, Storytelling, and Synthesis. Working across work packages, countries, and case studies, the project will pursue three categories of objectives: conceptual (methodological toolkit), empirical (based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork), and practical (aimed at the development sector, local heirs of interventions, and the public at large). The project will result in a robust set of outputs.

The proposed network on “The European Green Deal: Governing the EU’s Transition towards Climate Neutrality and Sustainability” (GreenDeal-NET) focuses on one of the key European and global challenges. Its overarching objective is to provide a platform for collaboration and exchange on European climate and sustainability governance so as to (a) collect, share, discuss and advance relevant academic research/ teaching and (b) actively foster engagement and debate with policymakers and the broader public. GreenDeal-NET pursues its five specific objectives through six interlocking Work Packages (WPs). Based on professional management and coordination (WP1), the Network will establish GreenDeal-Connect, a new online platform for sharing knowledge and promoting exchange and debate (including peer review) (WP2); foster impactful new research collaboration and build research capacity (WP3); advance collaborative means, channels and capacities for teaching (WP4); foster novel academic and societal debate (WP5); and widely disseminate key findings, results and activities for high impact (WP6). The WPs are divided into a coherent set of tasks that will result in a rich array of outputs, including a lecture series, a PhD school, a MOOC, special issues/edited books, review articles, processes for advancing teaching and research collaboration, roundtable debates, academic conference panels, international conferences, policy-link workshops, policy impact papers, policy briefs, newsletters and podcasts. GreenDeal-NET will be run by a highly motivated, highlyqualified, multidisciplinary and diverse team from 12 leading universities across 11 European countries. This consortium will form the nucleus of a much wider network and community with broad reach across Europe and beyond. It will hence serve as an important focal point for academic work on the key geopolitical challenge of the climate and sustainability transition and its link with related societal and policy debates.

The research project focused on exploring the use of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to automate DevOps and IT Service Management (ITSM) processes. The primary objective was to investigate how RPA technology could be leveraged to streamline and automate repetitive tasks, workflows, and manual activities within the DevOps and ITSM domains. By analyzing existing processes, identifying bottlenecks, and studying industry best practices, the project aimed to identify suitable areas where RPA could be applied to improve efficiency, reduce errors, and enhance overall productivity. The research explored how RPA bots could be programmed to perform tasks such as code deployments, system monitoring, incident management, and configuration management, among others. The project aimed to bridge the gap between manual execution and automated workflows, facilitating the integration of RPA into DevOps and ITSM practices. The research aimed to contribute to a deeper understanding of the potential benefits, challenges, and considerations associated with implementing RPA in these domains and provide insights to organizations seeking to optimize their DevOps and ITSM processes through automation

No âmbito deste projeto é proposta a atribuição de 3 bolsas a estudantes de arquitetura ou áreas afins, para integração no projeto em curso, Siza ATLAS - Filling the gaps for World Heritage, financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, através do programa Projetos de Investigação Científica e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico no âmbito da Arquitetura de Álvaro Siza Vieira – 2019 (SIZA/ETM/0023/2019).     A coordenação do projeto é da responsabilidade do ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) - Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Informação, Tecnologias e Arquitetura (ISTAR-IUL). São entidades participantes, a Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP, UP) - Centro de Estudos de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (CEAU) e a Universidade Portucalense (UPT).    O projeto Siza ATLAS propõe diversas linhas de investigação e tem como objetivo contribuir para a candidatura de um conjunto de obras de Siza para a lista do Património Mundial da UNESCO, promover a sua proteção e conservação para transmissão às gerações futuras.  As atividades propostas integram as tarefas T2 e T3 do projeto, dedicadas ao inventário e documentação das obras.   Estas bolsas proporcionam aos estudantes a aprendizagem de métodos de investigação científica, no âmbito da inventariação do património arquitetónico, com base em normas internacionais neste domínio.