Our Impact on Society
Activities with societal impact carried out by our researchers
in different sectors of our society.
Training for Higher Officers
In 2023, Sofia Vale, from the Economics group, provided training for Higher Officers of the Military Institute officers.
Sofia Vale
Partnership with
#OKTA
Training on emerging models of climate financing
In 2023, Paulo Viegas de Carvalho, from the Finance group, provided training on emerging models of climate financing for staff of the Mozambique Government in partnership with the World Bank
Paulo Viegas de Carvalho
Partnership with
#OKTA
Data Science and Statistics Webinar
In 2022, 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
#OKTA
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
#DA
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
#OKTA
PMP Connect – Developing a sustainability mindset
Ana Simaens, researcher from Marketing & Management Group at BRU-Iscte, participated in the “PMP Connect – Developing a sustainability mindset”, demonstrating that developing a sustainability mindset can be fun, creative and pedagogical with Playmobil Pro®. The event was held on February 9th, 2021.
Ana Simaens
Partnership with
#DA
Webinar Series Pro PALOP-TL ISC | Iscte
In September 2020,Economics Group researcher Sofia Vale was involved in the UNDP webinar for PALOP countries on Public Finance and Sustainable Development in a postCOVID world. Her contribution to the webinar was on the topic of public debt management.
Sofia Vale
Partnership with
#DA
Celebrations of the National Day for Prevention and Safety at work
On 28th April, 2020 for the celebrations of the National Day for Prevention and Safety at work, researcher Sílvia Silva, made a communication on “Safety culture: the role of the individual” (Cultura de Segurança: o Papel do Indivíduo) at SIMAR on for the benefit of the company’s workers and managers.
Sílvia Silva
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
#LR
Participation in a public debate on the Challenges of the European Union
On 19th June 2018, Economics group researcher, Sandro Mendonça, participated in a public debate at Culturgest Auditorium on the Challenges of the European Union, with a presentation on “Innovation, Digital Europe, Employment, Growth and Competitiveness”. This was part of an ongoing conference cycle by bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos in collaboration with the European Institute.
Sandro Mendonça
Partnership with
Debate about “Equity between men and women”
On 22nd May 2018, Ana Patrícia Duarte, participated in the debate about “Equity between men and women”, talking about what companies are doing to promote gender equity in the scope of their corporate social responsibility policies. This debate was part of a series of informal gatherings organised by ISCTE-IUL, the “Ciclo Tertúlias – A falar é que a gente se entende”, where relevant and current societal topics are discussed bringing academia closer to society.
Ana Patrícia Duarte
Partnership with
Collaboration in Social Project Program
In 2018, BRU-Iscte researcher, Marta Bicho, collaborated with IES-SBS (Instituto de Empreendedorismo Social-Social Business School) by mentoring in their “Social Projects” programme, mainly to the benefit of social entrepreneurs and non-profit organisations.
Marta Bicho
Partnership with
Produce a Barometer of Temporary Work in Portugal in 2018
Researchers from the Economics group, Nádia Simões and Nuno Crespo, collaborated with APESPE-RH –the Portuguese Association of Private Sector Enterprises in Employment and Human Resources, to produce a Barometer of Temporary Work in Portugal. In 2018, our researchers prepared monthly reports concerning the evolution of the temporary employment in Portugal, using the data from the main firms of the sector.
Nádia Simões
Nuno Crespo
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
#LR
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
#LR
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
#ETSC
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
#ETSC
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
#ETSC
