Lista de Projetos

WED PT – Elites in Portugal is a research project inscribed in the World Elite Database (https://worldelitedatabase.org/), which is a cooperative data and analysis project led by researchers on elite populations across the world. We are an international consortium of scholars from Chile, China, Denmark, Italy, France, Finland, Germany, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the USA, but with the purpose of expanding to more countries worldwide. We work together to develop a new standardized data regime to study and share data about elites. Our aim is to solve the problem of comparability and heterogeneity in the study of national power structures, and to foster a cooperative community of scholars interested in studying elite populations systematically. Having in mind this international approach, “WED PT – Elites in Portugal” also has the objective of deepening the study of elites in Portugal, and for that will mobilize the theoretical and methodological instruments for historical and contemporary challenges that the study of elites entails for better understanding inequalities, class, values, democracy, economic growth, development, and social well-being.

ImAFUSA focuses on quantifying a variety of understudied factors influencing societal acceptance of UAM in urban, peri-urban and inter-urban areas, especially when these are deployed using U3 and U4 services. The Project will deliver an “Impact and capacity Assessment Framework for U-space Societal Acceptance” (ImAFUSA) to assist Local Authorities and other U-space stakeholders and users with the delivery of socially acceptable and beneficial UAM deployment in cities. The framework and its tools will provide insights into 3 major areas influencing societal acceptance: environmental impact (including noise, visual pollution and air quality), safety and socioeconomic impact (including affordability, accessibility, economic development, public space use and connectivity). In each area, innovative performance indicators will be described while mathematical formulas and algorithms will be developed to quantify them. Data on citizen noise perceptions, perceptions of visual pollution, safety perceptions and overall UAM acceptance will be collected during 3 immersive citizen experiences of UAM applications in the city of Athens, Greece. The usability of the developed indicators will be tested in a simulation environment simulating real future use cases with a varying volume and configuration of movements in U-space.

A proposta TOURSUS-EU visa contribuir para a definição e a transição para um modelo de turismo mais sustentável que constitui uma das grandes questões da UE. Sendo um projeto verdadeiramente interdisciplinar, o TOURSUS-EU pretende introduzir uma nova abordagem para medir o impacte do turismo de massa na economia e na sociedade, através da análise de dados de importantes destinos turísticos listados no Património Mundial da UNESCO (Veneza, Lisboa e Split). A proposta baseia-se na utilização de conhecimentos e métodos analíticos de última geração (Modelos de Painéis Dinâmicos, análise de séries temporais, Análise de Decisão MultiCritério e Análise de Big Data) para desenvolver uma abordagem estruturada inovadora para a avaliação e melhoria da sustentabilidade do turismo. Em particular, o projeto permitirá a avaliação quantitativa dos efeitos de vários fatores sobre os desenvolvimentos negativos no sector do turismo, bem como a avaliação do crescimento sustentável do turismo que terá em conta os efeitos negativos que o turismo de massa gera. Os resultados esperados serão benéficos tanto para a comunidade científica como para a comunidade local e terão influência na formação de práticas de gestão nos destinos turísticos, potencialmente a serem adotadas noutras regiões e destinos turísticos na Europa e no mundo.

  SYNCLUSIVE é uma abordagem de sistemas inovadores, integrais e interdisciplinares para estimular a inclusão de grupos vulneráveis ​​no mercado de trabalho. Para isso, os seis objetivos centrais são: 1) desenvolver e consolidando uma coalizão de partes interessadas em 4 Living Labs regionais em toda a Europa nos moldes da Comunidade Teoria da Ação de Coalizão, usando a abordagem ENGINE. Esta abordagem inclui um pacote integrado de intervenções que estimulem a mobilidade ascendente e lateral de trabalhadores vulneráveis, criando assim vagas para entrada de candidatos a emprego vulneráveis; 2) testar a utilidade e aplicabilidade da abordagem ENGINE para diferentes grupos vulneráveis ​​identificados como discriminados; 3) identificando impulsionadores e barreiras para mobilidade e influxo incluindo discriminação; 4) avaliar o impacto da abordagem ENGINE implementada sobre a mobilidade no mercado de trabalho e inclusão de grupos vulneráveis; 5) identificando caminhos de transição do regional ao nível da política nacional e da UE; e 6) identificar indicadores e padrões interoperáveis ​​e comparativos que são relevantes para a inclusão no mercado de trabalho de grupos vulneráveis, tendo em conta as necessidades regionais, nacionais (legislativo) e contexto cultural.

  Perceived exploitative working relationships are not a problem of a bygone era nor are they confined to developing countries, but rather the current pandemic spotlights how organizations are treating their employees as survival becomes the imperative. At what cost? Maria Grazia Giammarinaro (U.N. special rapporteur) reports that “the abuse of vulnerable workers - such as those deemed as essential - had increased “alarmingly” due to COVID-19, leaving many facing starvation and forced to accept exploitative conditions” (Reuters, July 30, 2020). Moreover, last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Labor Organization (ILO) concluded that long working hours kill hundreds of thousands of people a year from stroke and ischemic heart disease. Combined with the increasing use of new forms of work, outsourcing, technology advancements, less legal regulation, COVID-19 has added fertilizer to ripening conditions for organizations to exploit its employees. Consequently, this fast-paced and uncertain context coupled with the ongoing COVID-19 situation fuels a conductive environment for organizational mistreatment – organizations acting malevolently towards their employees in order to survive or thrive. One of these forms of organizational mistreatment is organizational exploitation. Drawing on seminal works in political economy and sociology, recent literature defines exploitation as employees' perceptions that they have been purposefully taken advantage of in their relationship with the organization to benefit the organization itself. Specifically, these perceptions of exploitation include: the organization uses and mistreats the employees, forces them into a contract that solely benefits the organization, does not compensate them adequately despite expecting employees to go to work at any time, does not provide job security and can dismiss employee at its convenience, uses employees’ ideas without asking or acknowledging and, does not care if it harms ...