Our Impact on Society
Activities with societal impact carried out by our researchers
in different sectors of our society.
Data Science and Statistics Webinar
Margarida Cardoso, from the Data Analytics group, participated in a session of the Data Science and Statistics Webinar – DaSSWeb, with a communication on “A combined distance measure between time series: experiments and applications”.
Margarida Cardoso
Partnership with
Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI)
In 2022, Ana Simaens, from the Marketing & Management group, contributed to the webinar “Integrating Sustainable Development Goals into higher education“, hosted by the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI), a United Nations related initiative.
Ana Simaens
Partnership with
Science Summit 2022
In 2022, Ana Patrícia Duarte, from the Organizational Behavior & Human Resources group, presented a communication on “How organizational climate and supervisor support promote waste separation at work: the role of workers’ attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioural control regarding waste separation” at the Science Summit 2022, organised by FCT.
Ana Patrícia Duarte
Partnership with
Psychosocial Risks at Work
In November 2018, BRU-Iscte signed a collaboration agreement with ACT – Autoridade para as Condições do Trabalho (Portuguese Authority for Work Conditions) to implement a project on the evaluation of psychosocial risks at work. This project is being developed by researcher Sílvia Silva from the Organizational Behavior & Human Resources Research Group.
Sílvia Silva
Partnership with
Social Responsibility Impact
In 2018, Nelson Ramalho, researcher from the Organizational Behavior & Human Resources group, was responsible for the design of scientific procedures and methods in an applied research project targeting the evaluation of social responsibility impact of a public institution. This project was funded by INCM – Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, within its framework for collaborative R&D projects, “Innovation Network”.
Nélson Ramalho
Partnership with
Characteristics of the Vocational Education and Training Systems
In 2018, Nádia Simões of the Economics Group has participated as an expert in the project “Ensuring labour market relevant VET”, of the European Centre of Expertise and the European Commission. She was involved in the process of comparing the characteristics of the vocational education and training systems of a group of countries of the European Union.
Nádia Simões
Partnership with
Providing Support in Judicial Processes
In 2018, Ilídio Lopes, researcher of the Accounting, Marketing & Management Group, contributed as advisor for the Tribunal da Concorrência, Regulação e Supervisão (Competition, Regulation and Supervision Court), providing his expertise in judicial processes in the fields of Auditing, Accounting and Bank Supervision.
Ilídio Lopes
Partnership with
Contribution for the National Health System
Since 2016, Marta Bicho, researcher of the Accounting, Marketing & Management Group, has contributed as an expert in the regulatory group of non-conventional medicine of the national Health System Central Administration (ACSS).
Marta Bicho
Partnership with
Member of the General Council
Since 2015, Isabel Lourenço is a Member of the General Council, the Executive Committee and the Corporate Accounting Standardization Committee of the Portuguese Accounting Standards Board (Comissão de Normalização Contabilística), appointed as a personality of recognized merit in accounting.
Partnership with
