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The increasing volatility of the security environment in the international system has been affecting the Euro-Atlantic space and Western normative influence in many ways. One such way is disinformation, which, as one of the most cost-effective means of disruption, has become a common practice of strategic competitors of countries that integrate that space, such as the USA and Portugal. Considering that resilience starts with the protection of democratic values and institutions, public policies must pay attention to the undermining of the foundation of democracies through, among other actions, disinformation and information manipulation campaigns that foster distrust. This project develops activities promoting media literacy and critical thinking, focusing on a training program targeted at young/university-age individuals and practitioners working in all kinds of governmental and non-governmental institutions, including in the area of defense and foreign affairs, as well as a conference and a practitioner workshop focusing on the exchange of best-practices. The contents of the training program focus on public policies developed in the USA and Portugal individually and bilaterally, but also multilaterally, namely in the context of NATO and the European Union (EU), as well as on key concepts. These activities target university students, practitioners, and the wider public with the purpose of enabling them to help counter serious disruptions to our communities that can threaten our democratic political systems and institutions and render them vulnerable to further hostile interference. The project also includes the compilation of a toolbox for citizens to counter disinformation and foster critical thinking.

O SME Take-off visa o desenvolvimento de novos produto ‘Guia Interativo’ e processo ‘modelo I&DT scoring’ orientados à melhoria de desempenho das micro, pequenas e médias empresas (PME) inovadoras nos programas europeus relevantes para as atividades de investigação e inovação. 

According to the last WESO report, there are over 1.4bn workers in vulnerable jobs worldwide, with numbers expected to rise in 2020 due to COVID-19. Several attempts have been made at both domestic and international levels to address these concerns. This includes efforts through the Sustainable Development Goals process, which includes a specific statistical indicator to measure informal  employment (8.3.1), the formulation of SDG8 (decent work) and SDG9 (sustainable industrialization). Across countries and world regions, the degree to which SDGs have been used to address youth issues and inform national policies varies significantly. Indeed, in spite of the fact that the great majority of states have formally committed to addressing the SDGs, including those related to insecure employment, there is little evidence to indicate that developing regions currently have the capacity to systematically study the problems if informal employment and vulnerability in ways that facilitate the development and implementation of concrete viable solutions. This is due, in our view, to two major challenges. First, although a number of approaches that have been used inside the EU, there has been little, if any, attempt to adapt the existing framework elsewhere. Second, no systematic review of anti-precariousness policy has been attempted beyond the EU region. LABOUR is a research and training programme designed to address the above-mentioned shortfalls of research and development approaches with particular attention to a region where this is particularly worrying concern. Informal employment in Asia is estimated to account for 68.2% of the active population. By gathering a team of 14 participants that includes academic and non-academic partners working on labour insecurity, we aim not only at producing specialists on the topic and on the region but also at proposing concrete mitigation measures that can be taken into account by decision-makers and development organisations.

We are living in times of deep contradictions. While our world accelerates and grows smaller through superfast digital networks, it is also marked by widening socio-economic disparities. We face viral pandemics, rapid species extinction, increased automation of work, quick fixes for mental health, political upheavals and displacements of old certainties. Adaptation and resilience to these challenges must draw on past experiences and cultural resources – this can only happen if we slow down and take time to remember well. This Action addresses the need for increased interdisciplinarity in our understanding of how societies confront their past to contend with environmental, economic and social changes brought on by sudden events and by slow and creeping transformations. The future of peace, prosperity, politics, work and climate will depend upon how we remember socio-cultural and political changes. Transformative practices of remembrance – as objects of study and as critical interventions – will be shared collaboratively across Arts and Sciences in order to reveal the ways in which humans confront large-scale processes of change. This Action will uniquely focus the attention of scholars, policymakers and cultural professionals on alternative paths to build resilience in the face of contemporary rapid-response culture. Through transnational and interdisciplinary discussions, we will address urgency, emergency, crisis and acceleration by drawing together the ‘multi-sited’, ‘eventless’ and slow-moving phenomena that can best be studied by ‘slowing down’ our research methods, to afford capacity building, knowledge generation and impact activities. Inspired by ‘slow science’ (Stengers 2018), we seek an alternative kind of social remembering. Action keywords memory and heritage studies - oral history - inequality - political culture - democratic governance