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: