BRU-Iscte will be joining the European Researchers’ Night (ERN) 2024 at the National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC) in Lisbon on September 27th, 2024.
Between 5 p.m. and midnight, ERN participants will have the opportunity to get to know some of the studies and projects carried out by Iscte’s six research units. Admission is free.
As part of this year’s theme, “Science for Global Challenges,” BRU-Iscte will have two activities.
Project Management for Sustainable Alternatives
EmotiFest: A serious game to promote emotional regulation in children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Activity Description
Project Management for Sustainable Alternatives
Irene Ciccarino from Management Research Group
Global challenges refer to critical and complex problems that affect humanity and require innovative and sustainable solutions. Social project management plays a crucial role in addressing these challenges and has the potential to teach how to prioritize social well-being as an alternative to the traditional way of producing and consuming that has generated these challenges. The Project DPro methodology, developed by PM4NGOs, provides a solid foundation for developing this sustainable thinking through five basic principles: good governance, participatory, comprehensive, integrated and adaptive projects. The activity will present these principles to participants via an interactive game, where they will be encouraged to question these principles in different projects to highlight what could be improved to promote sustainability. The game will consist of cards presenting the situations and a dice with the principles of project management. The situations relate to the sustainable development objectives that will be displayed on a Banner. Participants will be invited to record their impressions in messages on a wall for future analysis of the impact of this information on people and for inspiration for those who pass by. The activity encourages the development of critical reasoning on how to seek solutions beyond conventional management.
EmotiFest: A serious game to promote emotional regulation in children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Aristides Ferreira and Sara Lopes from OB&HR Research Group
Interactive demonstration of the EmotiFest serious game and the EMPOWER gaming platform. EmotiFest has been specifically developed based on empirical evidence, offering personalised support to meet the individual needs of each student in assessing and training emotional regulation and key emotional skills in children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). In this activity, participants will have the opportunity to explore the game, learning about its underlying principles and how EmotiFest and the other games on the EMPOWER platform can be implemented in the educational context.
Note: This activity is carried out as part of the EMPOWER Project- Design and evaluation of technological support tools to empower stakeholders in digital education
