Research group of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
 

Research group of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Research group of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The Research Network Sociology of the Arts aims to advance sociological and interdisciplinary research providing contexts for understanding the multifaceted and interwoven factors that characterize the arts in society, in the past, present, and potential futures. RN02 promotes collaboration and scholarly exchange between European-based scholars of the arts and non-European scholars whose work encompasses the arts in Europe.

Social and Economic Development network in a comparative perspective between Brazil and Portugal: innovation, management practices and social policies, in coordination with the Post-Graduate Centre in Research in Administration and Centre for Regional Development and Planning of the Federal University of Minas Gerais.

Partnership between Social Service Schools for the development of multilateral and bilateral research projects and for the organisation of seminars, workshops, conferences and lectures on different topics based on the different national realities. 

The Research Network Urban Sociology aims to stimulate scientific debate within the area of Urban Sociology, by creating a cross-disciplinary space of exchange open to sociologists and scientists from other disciplines interested in creating knowledge about, but also intervening in, urban space and urban life.

Women on the Move is a transdisciplinary network of European researchers who focus on historic and contemporary female labour mobility spanning six centuries to the present. The objective is to show the presence and economic contribution of female migrants in European history by revealing women as active migrants and builders of Europe - with economic means, belongings, assets and social networks - capable to overcome gendered obstacles. This will contradict macro-narratives that present women as vulnerable migrants and economic burdens.

“Cive Morum” stems from Latin, meaning “a moral citizen”. Its designation mirrors its objectives: calling for a participatory citizenship governed by ethical principles, coordinating them to advocate more environmentally sustainable and participatory lifestyles and mobilising greater shared integrity.

The Emigration Observatory is an independent technical and research structure integrated in the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL) of ISCTE-IUL, where it is based.

The Observatory was set up through a protocol signed in 2008 between the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) and the Directorate-General of Consular Affairs and Portuguese Communities (DGACCP), and is supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under a cooperation agreement signed in 2016.

The Inequality Observatory is an independent structure, set up by the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES), at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL). CIES is in charge of the scientific coordination and the on-going operation of the Inequality Observatory, having as initial partners the Institute of Sociology, at the University of Porto (IS-UP), and the Centre for Social Studies, at the University of Azores (CES-UA).

Regenerar – Network of local agricultural associations is the forum for agroecological consumption and production groups in Portugal, known as AMAP, Association for the Preservation of Local Agriculture, or CSA, Agriculture-supporting Communities.

This group gathers researchers who study religion and religions in the context of multiple modernities (chronologically and geographically) aiming to contribute to bring together those who share this research problematic in a multidisciplinary approach, facilitating the creation of contexts of circulation, exchange and network cooperation.

The Portuguese Solidarity Economy Network (RedPES) aggregates, helps establish, supports and disseminates organisations, informal groups and individuals who identify with the concept and practices of Solidarity Economy practices.

To be a leader in the Portuguese market in interventions focused on the human factor or systems boosted by this market, to promote  a better life and expand it abroad, mainly to Portuguese-speaking countries. To help create or shape values, attitudes and behaviours, towards a sustainable social, environmental and economic environment.

In a contemporary social context marked by risk and ambivalence between labour precariousness and quality of life at work, in which societies continue to reshape the structure and social culture of work, it is relevant to form a specialised “social space” to monitor, reflect on and discuss the general changes in working conditions.

Dissemination and discussion of multidisciplinary research on the problematic of Industrial Heritage. The seminar brings together researchers from different Portuguese universities who work on this topic. This decentralised seminar also involves international researchers who bring their experiences and research findings to the sessions.

The Social Barometer platform is essentially sociological in nature, but does not exclude any scientific area, and is made up of a group of individuals who are interested and willing to reflect on and discuss in full aspects of Portuguese society and its specific organisational, functional and relational features.

The Social Observatory of Vila Nova de Gaia was created in 2019 and results from a collaboration with the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto. The Social Observatory aims at deepening, in a scientifically autonomous and independent way, the knowledge about the demographic, economic and socio-cultural fabric of the municipality, in order to inform municipal intervention and public policies.

Associação sem fins lucrativos, criada em 2011 por profissionais que representam a maioria das áreas implicadas no trabalho com crianças abusadas e negligenciadas, incluindo o Direito, a Medicina, a Psicologia, a Sociologia, os Serviços de Proteção da Infância e Juventude, e investigadores, entre outros.