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SUMMARY:TRANSFORM | Shaping the Future of Work: From Evidence to Action - Registrations Open
DESCRIPTION:As part of the TRANSFORM project\, Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon (Portugal)\, with the support from NCPE Malta – National Commission for the Promotion of Equality\, is organising a live (online) event to share the global results of the survey ‘Blueprint of Tomorrow: Introducing the Future of the Human Workforce’. The event is free of charge and open to researchers\, academics\, policymakers\, practitioners\, employers\, employees\, and other stakeholders\, and will be held online on 29 October 2026. Registrations are open! \nRegister Here
URL:https://bru.iscte-iul.pt/event/transform-shaping-the-future-of-work-from-evidence-to-action-registrations-open/
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SUMMARY:BRU Research Seminar: Professor Ricardo Rodrigues
DESCRIPTION:Resource Configurations and Migrant Graduates’ Early-Career Transitions:\nUnequal at the Gateway\, Uneven Thereafter?\nRicardo Rodrigues (King’s Business School\, King’s College London) \n\nAbstract: Do migrant-background graduates face disadvantage on entering the labour market\, and does this disadvantage attenuate or intensify as their careers unfold? Extant research documents both catch-up and persistent inequality\, leaving unresolved whose disadvantages endure and under what conditions. Differences in graduates’ resources complicate such comparisons: unequal outcomes may reflect differing starting positions\, yet graduates with similar resources may also encounter unequal opportunities. Drawing on conservation of resources theory\, we examine whether migrant-background and non-migrant graduates with similar resource configurations experience comparable employment transitions and subsequent career outcomes.\n\nWe use data from a four-wave longitudinal study that follows graduates of a single UK university from their final undergraduate year to approximately three years after graduation. Latent profile analysis identifies configurations of family income\, parental education\, academic attainment and social-network breadth. Within each configuration\, we then compare employment entry\, employability competences and job satisfaction by migrant background.\n\nAt the outset\, migrant-background graduates are less likely to enter employment across all identified profiles. Subsequent differences follow contrasting patterns: gaps widen among graduates in more advantaged resource configurations\, whereas they narrow or disappear within the profile combining high academic attainment with low socioeconomic resources. Resource advantage therefore does not uniformly buffer against migrant-background disadvantage\, nor does a constrained resource position necessarily imply persistent divergence.\n\nThe study contributes to employability and career-transition research by examining inequality both within resource configurations and across successive stages of the transition. It highlights the limits of inferring career opportunities from resource possession alone and suggests that catch-up and widening disadvantage can coexist among graduates entering the labour market from different resource positions. \n  \nBiography: Ricardo Rodrigues is Associate Professor in Human Resource Management at King’s Business School\, King’s College London. His research focuses on careers\, employability\, and the changing relationship between individuals and organisations. A central theme in his work is how people navigate careers and develop employability in contexts shaped by shifting organisational structures\, labour-market uncertainty\, technological change\, and evolving expectations about work. His work has been published in journals including Human Relations\, Journal of Vocational Behavior\, Human Resource Management Journal\, and Human Resource Management. He currently serves as Associate Editor of Applied Psychology. \n\nSession Chair: Patrícia Costa
URL:https://bru.iscte-iul.pt/event/bru-research-seminar-professor-ricardo-rodrigues/
LOCATION:Iscte\, Building 4 – Room A104
CATEGORIES:Research Seminar
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SUMMARY:SYNCLUSIVE Final European Conference
DESCRIPTION:The SYNCLUSIVE Final European Conference\, will be held on 21 January 2027\, taking place in Brussels and online\, under the theme Enhancing Inclusive Labour Markets Through Regional Collaboration. From Living Labs to Wider Implementation.\n\nWhile the event is fully hybrid\, we encourage participants to join in person to fully benefit from the interactive programme\, in-depth discussions\, and networking opportunities across regions.\n\nThe event will share experiences and lessons learned from SYNCLUSIVE Living Labs in Bulgaria\, Finland\, the Netherlands\, and Portugal\, where local partners have tested new approaches to:\n \n\nStrengthen regional coalitions implementing initiatives for vulnerable groups\nImprove labour market inflow and mobility for jobseekers\nDevelop skills and lifelong learning opportunities to support labour market participation\nSupport work transitions and more sustainable careers\n\nStakeholders in Ireland\, Estonia\, and Italy have also explored how these Living Labs and regional coalitions co-create\, implement\, and evaluate interventions aimed at including vulnerable groups in regional labour markets.\n\nParticipants will hear practical examples\, join discussions\, exchange ideas\, and learn how successful regional initiatives can be developed into sustainable policies and practices across Europe.\n\nThe conference is open to policymakers\, employers\, researchers\, civil society organisations\, and everyone interested in building more inclusive labour markets.\n\nMore details on the programme and contributions will be shared soon.\n\nSYNCLUSIVE: System approach to close the employment gap and create a more inclusive labour market for vulnerable groups is a research and innovation project testing and studying an innovative\, integral\, and interdisciplinary systems’ approach to stimulate inclusion of vulnerable groups in the labour market. The project is carried out by sixteen research\, academic and stakeholder organizations and SMEs across Europe. It will use Living Labs as a central research approach. The project is funded from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101094526. \nThe research team includes BRU-Iscte researchers Maria José Sousa (the project’s Local Coordinator)\, João Leão\, Patrícia Costa\, and Pedro Fontes Falcão. \nEvent WebsiteRegistration
URL:https://bru.iscte-iul.pt/event/synclusive-final-european-conference/
LOCATION:Brussels & Online (Hybrid)
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SUMMARY:Curators in the loop: human-centred AI for the digital curation of cultural heritage collections
DESCRIPTION:The workshop ‘CAIR 2027 – Curators in the loop: human-centred AI for the digital curation of cultural heritage collections’ will take place on February 9\, 2027\, from 13:00 to 16:00\, at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon\, as part of the 21st International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC27) promoted by the Digital Curation Centre.\n\nDigital curation of cultural heritage collections is increasingly mediated by artificial intelligence: metadata is generated by models\, texts transcribed by handwriting recognition\, entities linked automatically\, descriptions drafted by large language models. Each step reshapes the curator’s role; often silently\, and rarely by design.\n\nThe prevailing framing of “human-in-the-loop” collapses to the curator as reviewer of model output\, understating the interpretive labour\, disciplinary craft\, and community accountability that curation practice carries. Responding to the IDCC27 theme\, “FAIR DO’s: Centring People in the Stewardship and Curation of Digital Objects\,” this workshop convenes work that pushes past oversight toward a richer account of curator-AI collaboration\, as a design problem\, an empirical research problem\, and a governance problem.\n\nWe invite contributions across four areas: \n\ndesign frameworks and interaction patterns for curator-facing AI systems;\nempirical studies of curator experience with AI-augmented workflows;\nmethodological and critical reflections on curator agency\, expertise\, and craft;\ncommunity\, participatory\, and governance approaches to AI in cultural heritage. Contributions from early-career researchers\, practitioners\, and community-based scholars are explicitly encouraged.\n\nObjectives: \nTo bring together researchers and practitioners across AI\, HCI\, digital humanities\, and cultural heritage; consolidate an initial map of design patterns\, evaluation methods\, and open questions for curator-centred AI; and seed a community of practice with a shared post-workshop report and future position paper (e.g.\, for the International Council on Archives).\n\nImportant dates \n\nSubmission deadline: 11 December 2026\nNotification to authors: 15 January 2027\nCamera-ready due: 22 January 2027\nWorkshop:9 February 2027\n\n\nThis workshop is organised by the DAViD Lab\, Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon.Photo by Jayson Hinrichsen on Unsplah. \nEVENT WEBSITEregistration EVENT WEBSITEregistration
URL:https://bru.iscte-iul.pt/event/curators-in-the-loop-human-centred-ai-for-the-digital-curation-of-cultural-heritage-collections/
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SUMMARY:INITIATE Hackathon – Portugal
DESCRIPTION:The INITIATE Hackathon – Portugal invites students to bring their ideas and work together to turn them into innovative\, practical and scalable solutions for Energy Communities\, solutions that enable citizens\, local authorities\, businesses and other stakeholders to take an active role in the energy transition.\n\nPortugal has significant renewable energy potential\, yet challenges remain in making Energy Communities more accessible\, inclusive and sustainable over time. Addressing these challenges calls for fresh ideas\, collaboration and skills from different fields.\n\nThe INITIATE Hackathon – Portugal will take place at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon (Lisbon Campus)\, on 18 and 19 March 2027.\n\nApplications are open until 28 December 2026. \n  \nThe challenge \nParticipants will develop proposals to support the growth and adoption of Energy Communities in Portugal. Ideas may adress: \n\nSustainable business models and financing mechanisms;\nCommunity governance frameworks and citizen engagement strategies;\nPartnerships and implementation roadmaps involving municipalities\, universities\, businesses\, cooperatives and civil society.\n\n\nAn opportunity for students from all fields \nThe hackathon gives students the chance to apply their knowledge to a real-world challenge\, collaborate with other students and develop their problem-solving\, teamwork and pitching skills. The organisers welcome participants with interests in technology\, business\, public policy\, design or social innovation. Each of these perspectives can contribute to a more inclusive energy future. \n  \nPrizes \n\nAll participants will receive a Certificate of Participation and a FNAC/El Corte Inglês voucher.\nThe winning team of INITIATE Hackathon Portugal will travel abroad for the Final Pitching\, with Iscte covering travel and accommodation expenses.\nThe grand-prize-winning team is offered a bootcamp experience at Climate KIC in the Netherlands.\nLunch will be provided for all participants on both days of the Local Competition.\n\nEVENT WEBSITEregistration EVENT WEBSITEregistration
URL:https://bru.iscte-iul.pt/event/initiate-hackathon-portugal/
LOCATION:Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
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