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The News Barometer periodically analyzes the most prominent 'top stories' on online news media in Portugal. Thus, it is intended to identify, systematically and with a consistent methodology over time, the thematization of the public debate through the media. It is assumed that the news media contribute to shape the cultural and social ‘fabric’ through the selection and dissemination of certain media events, in the most diverse social fields. The choice of online media is related to the growing relevance of online news, which corresponds to changes in journalistic practices and, ultimately, how the news reaches the public, in general.  The project is carried out in partnership with Priberam that provides its news monitoring platform and technical support to the proprietary algorithm behind Priberam news clipping web service. The platform dynamically captures all news publications available in more than 1,000 entities (sources of information). The algorithm delivers the 50 most significant 'stories' grouped into clusters. After this process, semantic validation is carried out by human coders, using traditional content analysis techniques. 

Global diagnostic study whose purpose will be to listen to the main stakeholders of the CCI- key actors in each of the countries and, in this way, provide an accurate picture of the actions of the associated organizations at global level, identify good practices that can serve as a standard model for all associates and identify priority intervention areas that can guide the design of new projects and facility of their funding.

Renewable energies (RE) generate value from the technological innovations, which allow increasing efficiency, lower investments costs, favoring the reduction of the final energy bill and energy dependence. Additionally, generates other social and economic benefits, generally not properly assessed. Domestic energy policy needs to assess them so as to shape this, enabling environmental benefits by maximizing its local social doles based on the development, production, installation and maintenance of RE technologies, increasing access to energy, reducing energy costs and resource conflicts, allowing to improve environmental quality. This research assesses the impact of new investments in solar and wind electricity generation capacity on the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) and other harmful toxic gases such as SO2 or NOx, for the Central Region of Portugal. The main contribution is a global impact assessment, not only from the traditional perspective of the power generation planning, but also considering costs and benefits of economic and social aspects of the most relevant externalities. The first phase of the project assesses the impact of new solar and wind generation capacity investments on the GHG and other harmful emissions in the Central Region of Portugal, using a centralized planning model to be developed, based on the operation and investment costs of the generation units. The recent Portuguese National Plan for Energy and Climate (NPEC) objectives will be considered. This region has been chosen due to its relevance in the national energy sector and positive contribution to Europe's energy efficiency and RE commitments. For example, 70% of its final electricity consumption is based on renewable generation, while the national average is 59.1%. The second phase assesses the local effects of its most relevant externalities such as decreasing emissions, lowering electricity prices, decreasing energy dependence, new business model’s creation (such as RE commu...

The global COVID-19 crisis triggered major changes across societies around the world disrupting the way we live and conduct business. Across Europe, the measures and restrictions enforced due to the pandemic have led to sudden changes in many paradigms paving the way for new business models and market exchanges. This dramatic disruption has accelerated some socio-economic trends, which were visible before the COVID-19 crisis, such as the adoption of sophisticated technology and data solutions to facilitate human-centered, people-smart, and sustainable operation models; the incorporation of sustainability and climate mitigation as non-negotiable principles of operating and doing businesses and last but not least, relying on smart data evidence-based solutions to guide decision making for optimal commercial and sustainability performance. The tourism industry is one of the global economic sectors that is most severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and associated with its economic downturn, according to the UN World Tourism Organisation. UNWTO data states that the current crisis is responsible for a global fall in export revenues of between EUR 750-900 billion and a loss of direct jobs that could be between 100 and 200 million. With the fall in profits and lack of certainty for stable markets, the recovery shortly of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which according to UNWTO shoulder 80% of global tourism, is at stake. With lost revenues and subsequently, talent drain to other economic sectors, tourism SMEs face the need to adapt at a time of crisis with constraint capacities. Through the design of a dynamic technological solution (platform) for knowledge-transfer and experience exchange made available to a network of tourism SME clusters across six countries, this project will demonstrate how digitalization can accelerate innovation and uptake of new sustainability solutions in a sector that is built up mostly of small enterprises with limited resources for n...

This main objective of this project is to study of criminal extradition processes between countries in South Europe and South America between the increase in Atlantic mobility, in the 1870s, and the beginning of the Second World War, in 1939. It hopes to contribute to the study of transnational crime and the development of diplomatic and police cooperation relations in combating new forms of crime, integrating them into a global history of crime, surveillance and criminal justice. Historiography on topics such as the repression of anarchism, trafficking in persons or drugs has emphasized that at the end of the 19th century, nation-states began to test cooperation strategies in the repression of criminal practices that transcended national borders. One of the cooperation strategies was the signing of agreements that facilitated the extradition of individuals accused or convicted of certain crimes and the extradition of individuals through an increasingly intense exchange of criminal information between diplomatic and police authorities. However, there is no study on the individuals who were effectively extradited and the processes that led to this action. On the other hand, geographically, international historiography has been mostly concentrated in the North Atlantic or, when it focuses on Latin America, dedicated mainly to the relations established between States in this region of the globe. This research aims to fill both gaps. The research will deepen the study of the relations between Brazil, Portugal, Spain and Italy. In Brazil, the empirical research will take place in the Archives of the Itamaraty and National Archives, in Rio de Janeiro, in Portugal in the Torre do Tombo and Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Lisbon, in Spain in the Archivo del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y Cooperación in Madrid and in Italy at Archivio Storico Del Ministero Degli Affari Esteri and Archivio Centrale Dello Stato in Rome. The main objectives of this project a...