Research Groups

BRU-Iscte is organized into 7 Research Groups spanning the various key Business areas in a way that mirrors our Unit’s multidisciplinary strengths: 

Given the great multidisciplinarity of the Unit’s research groups, collaboration across the different disciplines is encouraged. There are various examples of research activities for the period 2018-2023, where complementarity across BRU’s disciplines has been actively sought: 

• 18 projects, of which we highlight 

• •  ImAFUSA, a Horizon Europe-SESAR Joint Undertaking project, with a consortium coordinated by BRU-Iscte under the leadership of Sofia Kalakou, with the participation of others researchers from the Management group, as well as the Marketing and Data analytics groups 

• • SYNCLUSIVE, a Horizon Europe project with local coordination at Iscte by BRU, involving researchers from the OBHR and Economics group, as well as from other Iscte research units 

• 106 publications including 

• •  “Self-employment and eudaimonic well-being: Energized by meaning, enabled by societal legitimacy”, a collaboration between researchers from the Economics & OBHR groups (FT50/ABS4)” 

• • “Image, satisfaction, destination and product post-visit behaviours: How do they relate in emerging destinations?”, a collaboration between researchers from the Data Analytics & Marketing groups (ABS4) 

• 10 concluded joint PhD supervisions 

Moreover, BRU-Iscte commitment to interdisciplinary research has led to several collaborations with other Iscte research units: 

• Collaborations with the SocioDigital Lab, specifically in Thematic Lines (TL) 1 “Regenerative Territories for Carbon Neutrality”, TL3 “Societal Health” and TL5 “Digital Transformation”, including multiple applications to competitive funding, organisation of conferences and workshops 

• Multi-Unit projects such as: 

• • kNOwHATE and Blockchain.PT – with CIS-Iscte, CIES-Iscte and ISTAR-Iscte 

• • RESETTING – with ISTAR-Iscte and IT-Iscte 

• • Coop4Int – with CIES-Iscte and IT-Iscte 

• • SYNCLUSIVE – with CIES-Iscte and ISTAR-Iscte 

• • XpanDH, NEEM, AMR-EDUCare and Social_IoT – with CIS-Iscte and ISTAR-Iscte 

• • SmartVitiNet – with IT-Iscte 

• • INSPIRE – with Dinâmia’CET-Iscte and IT-Iscte 

• • Contrafactual-ML – with Dinâmia’CET-Iscte 

• • HumAct – with CIES-Iscte 

• • ATHENA and IA-Incentivos – with CIES-Iscte, Dinâmia’CET-Iscte, ISTAR-Iscte 

• • QUALENV – with ISTAR-Iscte 

• • INNOVEC’EAU – with CIS-Iscte 

• • EULA-GTEC – with CIS-Iscte and IT-Iscte 

Another commitment of BRU-Iscte is it achieve a higher degree of internationalisation. Indeed, in the period 2018-2023, our current researchers have reinforced their international collaborations at various levels: 

• 44,5% of international co-authorships for the 1180 indexed papers published in that period (525 publications in total) 

• 29 projects in collaboration with international universities 

• 68 international awards 

• Involvement in organising committees and scientific committees of 176 international conferences 

• Involvement in some 20 international research networks 

To learn more about each group, its coordinator and members, main publications and projects, please select a group in the scroll menu above.