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The InCITIES project aims to achieve the transformations of HEIs and their surrounding ecosystem centred around on cities’ needs of inclusion, sustainability and resilience. Its specific focus on widening countries (Portugal and Slovakia) will allow to overcome structural, sociocultural, economic, political and institutional barriers to transformation fostering.
Addressing the European-global challenges of cities, InCITIES has 4 objectives:
1) Map institutional transformation strategies towards research-based sustainable universities including open science and career opportunities.
2) Build a long-term network of participating HEIs and surrounding ecosystems based on integrated knowledge HUBs. 3) Increase scientific, technological and staff capacity by sharing the best pedagogical, research, management and administrative practices in the consortium, and piloting leverages to widening HEIs.
4) Promote digitally driven universities by creating an open and innovative education and training platform in synergy with the project research and innovation agenda on inclusive, sustainable and resilient cities.
The 5 methods jointly developed will set the foundation for the consortium role model: 1) Method for a common research map, 2) Capacity building actions based on the Learning by Developing pedagogical model, 3) Capacity building in talent scout and career opportunity strategy (attractiveness of research careers, including open science incentives), 4) Capacity building on equality, diversity and inclusion, 5) Methods to address enablers and barriers to integration of the InCITIES Alliance.
From knowledge co-creation to joint production between European HEIs, surrounding ecosystems and citizens’ involvement, integrated actions play a key-role in achieving the consortium objectives.
Capacity building actions implemented are a step towards the submission to the European Universities Initiative; it will strengthen the ERA, the EEA, and Europe’s approach to cooperation in R&I.
| Research Centre | Research Group | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iscte | -- | Leader | 2022-10-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| Institution | Country | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE KOLN (TH KOLN) | Germany | Partner | 2022-10-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| LAUREA-AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY (LAUREA) | Finland | Partner | 2022-10-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| UNIVERSITE GUSTAVE EIFFEL (UNI EIFFEL) | France | Partner | 2022-10-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| ZILINSKA UNIVERZITA V ZILINE (UNIZA) | Slovakia | Partner | 2022-10-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| Name | Affiliation | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catarina Ferreira da Silva | Professora Associada (com Agregação) (DCTI); Integrated Researcher (ISTAR-Iscte); | Global Coordinator | 2022-10-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| Maria das Dores Guerreiro | Associate Researcher (CIES-Iscte); | Global Coordinator | 2022-10-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| António Trigo | Professor Auxiliar (DCTI); Integrated Researcher (ISTAR-Iscte); | Researcher | 2024-10-25 | 2025-09-30 |
| Bernardo Pizarro Miranda | Professor Auxiliar (DAU); Integrated Researcher (CIES-Iscte); | Researcher | 2023-01-01 | 2024-12-31 |
| Bruno Rebelo | Associate Researcher (CIES-Iscte); | Researcher | 2023-11-15 | 2025-09-30 |
| Caterina Francesca Di Giovanni | -- | Researcher | 2024-10-25 | 2025-09-30 |
| Diana Dias de Carvalho | Assistente Convidada (NCT); Assistente Convidada (DMPS); Research Assistant (CIES-Iscte); | Researcher | 2024-10-25 | 2025-09-30 |
| Isabel Machado Alexandre | Professora Auxiliar (DCTI); Integrated Researcher (IT-Iscte); | Researcher | 2023-01-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| João Ricardo Paulo Marques Guerreiro | Professor Associado (com Agregação) (DMOG); Integrated Researcher (BRU-Iscte); | Researcher | 2023-01-01 | 2023-12-31 |
| Jorge Rodrigues da Costa | Vice-Reitor; Vice-Reitor; Professor Catedrático (DCTI); Integrated Researcher (IT-Iscte); | Researcher | 2023-01-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| Miguel Sales Dias | Professor Catedrático (DTDA); Integrated Researcher (ISTAR-Iscte); | Researcher | 2023-01-01 | 2024-12-31 |
| Maria de Fátima Ferreiro | Professora Catedrática (DEP); Integrated Researcher (CEI-Iscte); | Researcher | 2023-01-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| Maria do Carmo Botelho | Professora Auxiliar (DMPS); Integrated Researcher (CIES-Iscte); | Researcher | 2023-01-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| Maria José Sousa | Professora Associada (com Agregação) (DCPPP); Integrated Researcher (BRU-Iscte); | Researcher | 2022-10-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| Mauro Costa Couceiro | Integrated Researcher (ISTAR-Iscte); | Researcher | 2024-10-25 | 2025-09-30 |
| Nuno Nunes | Pró-Reitor; Pró-Reitor; Professor Auxiliar (DCSE); Integrated Researcher (CIES-Iscte); | Researcher | 2022-10-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| Nuno Bento | Integrated Researcher (DINAMIA'CET-Iscte); | Researcher | 2023-01-01 | 2023-12-31 |
| Pedro Luz Pinto | Professor Associado (DAU); Integrated Researcher (DINAMIA'CET-Iscte); | Researcher | 2024-07-01 | 2024-12-31 |
| Pedro Joaquim Amaro Sebastião | Professor Catedrático (DTDA); Integrated Researcher (IT-Iscte); | Researcher | 2023-12-01 | 2024-12-31 |
| Pedro Mariano | Research Fellow (DCTI); Integrated Researcher (ISTAR-Iscte); | Researcher | 2023-03-01 | 2024-12-31 |
| Rodrigo Vieira de Assis | Professor Auxiliar (DMPS); Integrated Researcher (CIES-Iscte); | Researcher | 2024-10-25 | 2025-09-30 |
| Sandra Marques Pereira | Integrated Researcher (DINAMIA'CET-Iscte); | Researcher | 2023-01-01 | 2024-12-31 |
| Sara Eloy | Associate Researcher (ISTAR-Iscte); | Researcher | 2023-01-01 | 2023-12-31 |
| Sérgio Moro | Professor Catedrático (DCTI); Integrated Researcher (ISTAR-Iscte); | Researcher | 2023-01-01 | 2024-12-31 |
| Sofia Kalakou | Professora Auxiliar (DMOG); Integrated Researcher (BRU-Iscte); | Researcher | 2023-01-01 | 2024-12-31 |
| Stefania Stellacci | Research Fellow (DAU); Integrated Researcher (ISTAR-Iscte); | Researcher | 2024-10-25 | 2025-09-30 |
| Reference/Code | Funding DOI | Funding Type | Funding Program | Funding Amount (Global) | Funding Amount (Local) | Begin Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101071330 | -- | Contract | Comissão Europeia - HORIZON.4.1 - Widening participation and spreading excellence - Belgium | 1964601.76 | 521977.50 | 2022-10-01 | 2025-09-30 |
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| Year | Output Type | Name | Description | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Other Event | InCITIES | -- | Maria das Dores Guerreiro, Catarina Ferreira da Silva |
| 2023 | Workshop | Pedagogical Models: Learning by developing in inclusive, sustainable and resilient cities | -- | Maria das Dores Guerreiro, Catarina Ferreira da Silva, Isabel Machado Alexandre, Maria do Carmo Botelho |
| 2025 | Software (Open Source) | InCITIES Observatory | The InCITIES Observatory, developed under the InCITIES Horizon Europe funded project, automatically collects and aggregates indicators to assess the Inclusion, Sustainability, and Resilience of cities of InCITIES. The process began with a literature review to identify key indicators for evaluating city progress in these three domains. Based on these findings, and within the scope of a Master’s dissertation in the ISCTE’s Data Science programme, a web application was designed and implemented to visualise and analyse aggregated indicators for Inclusion, Sustainability, and Resilience of cities. Eurostat data relevant to these domains were selected, aggregated, and integrated into the application through automated retrieval. Priority is given to local data at the NUTS3 level to ensure sufficient granularity for accurate city-level comparisons and performance assessments. Indicators were chosen with historical data available since 2014, enabling the Observatory to provide insights into the evolution of urban inclusion, sustainability, and resilience. Future data releases from Eurostat will continue to feed the platform, ensuring ongoing updates. The InCITIES Observatory web application offers two core features: indicator charts and city rankings. These tools provide urban planners, policymakers, and researchers with a robust resource for benchmarking and promoting best practices in urban development. This work was developed by Beatriz Santos and supervised by Associate Professor w/ Habilitation Catarina Ferreira da Silva and Assist. Professor Carmo Botelho (ISCTE). | Catarina Ferreira da Silva, Maria do Carmo Botelho, Beatriz Santos |
| 2025 | Other Event | Harmonising Processes and Technologies Across the InCITIES Higher Education Institutions | Guideline’s booklet summarising best practices for harmonising processes and technologies that facilitate interoperability among InCITIES Higher Education Institutions | Catarina Ferreira da Silva, Maria do Carmo Botelho |
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With the objective to increase the research activity directed towards the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, the possibility of associating scientific projects with the Sustainable Development Goals is now available in Ciência_Iscte. These are the Sustainable Development Goals identified for this project. For more detailed information on the Sustainable Development Goals, click here.
