Alternative Dispute Resolution Office – Training Course
Research Team: Conceição Gomes, Marina Pessoa Henriques, Élida Santos
Funding Body: Alternative Dispute Resolution Office
Duration: 12 months
Start date: September 2009
End date: September 2010
Keywords: training; justice of the peace; mediators
Abstract: This service provision consists on the elaboration and execution of a training program designed to justice of the peace officers, technicians and mediators. Among the training goals, there is the students’ technical qualification, development of good practices, patterns and procedures which may contribute to improving the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of the operational performance of Justice of the Peace courts.
Atlantic Waves: Brazilian Immigration in Portugal
Research Team: Elsa Beatriz Padilla, José Carlos Marques, Pedro Góis
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology)
Duration: 30 months
Start date: 01-11-2007
End date: 30-04-2010
Keywords: Brazilian immigration, Labour market, Social integration, Migration policy
Changes in the Portuguese employment system: the perspective of equality between men and women (1979 -2009)
Research Team: Virgínia Ferreira (Principal Investigator), Mónica Lopes
Funding Body: Committee for Equality in Labour and Employment (CITE)
Start date: 01-10-2009
End date: 30-09-2010
Abstract: This project, integrated in the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of CITE, makes a balance of the changes occurred in the employment system since the entry into force of the Law no. 392/79, of September 20th, the founding law of the Committee for Equality in Labour and Employment (CITE), in the perspective of equality between men and women, in order to express a multidisciplinary vision about the changes in the Portuguese society under the aegis of a new legislation regarding the economic activity framework, in general, and the salary ratio.
Compensations for personal injuries in law and court decisions
Research Team: Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Principal Investigator), Conceição Gomes, Madalena Duarte and Tiago Ribeiro Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology)
Duration: 30 months
Start date: 01/09/2007
End date: 28/02/2010
Keywords: Justice; Democracy; Bodily Harm; Compensation
Expected Results: Publication of books, papers in national and international journals, presentations in meetings and seminars, organization of seminars and conferences and final report.
Conflict, Violence and Fragility in West Africa
Research Team: Sílvia Roque
Funding Body: Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre
Duration: 3 months
Start date: 01-03-2010
End date: 15-05-2010
Keywords: Fragile states; conflict; Western Africa
Results: Publication of two briefs on the causes and impacts of current crises; production of recommendations
Abstract: The main goal of this project is to analyse the current fragility trends of States, violence and conflict in the context in Western Africa. In particular, we intend to understand the potential of destabilization that the international drug traffic can cause in the region, and identify opportunities for intervention of international donors in the prevention of conflict and promotion of development.
Court Management
Research Team: Conceição Gomes
Funding Body: Ministry of Justice
Start date: 20-11-2008
End date: 2010
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Evaluation of the Impact the Financial and Social Costs of Disability
Research Team: Sílvia Portugal, Bruno Sena Martins, Pedro Hespanha, Luís Moura Ramos, Joana Alves, João Fidalgo
Funding Body: National Institute for Rehabilitation
Duration: 9 months
Start date: 04/09/2009
End date: 30/07/2010
Keywords: Disability; Financial Costs; Families; Public Policies
Expected Results: Presentation of final report with conclusions and recommendations
Abstract: This project’s general goal is to evaluate the financial and social impacts of the existence of people with disabilities and handicaps in the family household. This general goal results in the following specific goals: to identify the social risks of disability; to analyse the social and financial costs of disability; to evaluate the impact of the costs related to disability in the family budgets; to evaluate the impact of support, assistance and cash benefits in the family budget; to evaluate the contribution of public policies for the reduction of disability social risks.
Evaluation of the National Plan Against Trafficking in Human Beings
Research Team: Conceição Gomes, Madalena Duarte, Marina Pessoa Henriques
Funding Body: Portuguese Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality
Duration: 15 months
Start date: 04/2009
End date: 31/07/2010
Keywords: Evaluation; Monitoring; National Plan Against Trafficking in Human Beings
Expected Results: Presentation of final report with conclusions and recommendations
Abstract: The project consists on the production of a study which allows monitoring and evaluating the measures of the 1st National Plan Against Trafficking in Human Beings and, therefore, promoting a greater efficiency and adequacy of public policies to combat this reality.
Evaluation of the statutory scheme and implementation of Family and Child Law in Portuguese Courts and reform proposals
Research Team: Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Conceição Gomes (coord.), Carla Soares, Catarina Trincão, Paula Fernando
Funding Body: Directorate-General for Social Reintegration – Ministry of Justice
Duration: 12 months
Start date: February 2009
End date: February 2010
Keywords: evaluation; courts; Family and Child Law; reform
Formal access to local political spaces in the local context: immigrant voters and elected in Portuguese municipalities and parishes
Research Team: Fernando Ruivo (Principal Investigator), Clemens Zobel, Giovanni Allegretti, Joana Lopes Martins, Carlos Barbosa, Ilda Fortes
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology)
Duration: 28 months
Start date: 01/01/2008
End date: 30/04/2010
Keywords: international migration, elections, local democracy, local government
Expected Results: organization of two workshops (publication of the CES); participation in international and national conferences; organization of a seminar on the auspices of the Observatory for Immigration; organization of a final public conference with the Observatory for Immigration, ANMP (Association of Portuguese Municipalities) and STAPE (Technical Secretariat of affairs to the electoral process); organization of public meetings with the support of local associations and CEFA (Centre for Municipal Studies and Training); publication of the preliminary and final results in a book, and national and international newspapers; presentation of data through the geographic information system.
International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe (IMISCOE)
Research Team: Maria Ioannis Baganha
Funding Body: European Commission
Duration: 2004 - 2010
Keywords: Immigration; integration; Europe
Abstract: IMISCOE is a multidisciplinary programme that includes over 500 researchers from 23 different research centres in Europe. The network’s goals are the creation of a joint research programme about immigration, integration and social cohesion, the organization of specialized training on these subjects; the dissemination of the research’s results to the general public and policy makers.
Webpage: www.imiscoe.org/
The mutations of access to law and justice in the European Union
Research Team: João Pedroso (Principal Investigator), Eliana Patrícia Branco and Carlos Nolasco
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology)
Duration: 30 months
Start date: 01/09/2007
End date: 28/02/2010
Keywords: Access to law and justice, conflict resolution, human rights, family law
Expected Results: The goal is, on one hand, to draw the scientific community’s attention to the importance of legal and socio-legal studies on the citizens’ access to law and justice, as this problematic has been neglected. On the other hand, we intend to reveal the collected data to every entity, formal and informal, that integrates the system of access to law and justice, as well as the conclusions/proposals resulting from their analysis.
Webpage: http://www.ces.uc.pt/projectos/mutacoes/
Participatory Budgeting in Sweden
Research Team: Giovanni Allegretti (Principal Investigator)
Funding Body: The Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR)
Duration: 48 months
Start date: 21/05/2008
End date: 20/05/2010
Keywords: Participatory Budget, network, participatory democracy, Sweden
Expected Results: brainstorming about Participatory Budgeting (PB); organization of a seminar on the relationship between government and municipalism in Sweden and democratic process in Sweden; organization of a study visit to Lisbon by elected members of Vara local government and SALAR; organization of a research seminar about PB; implementation of PB in Sweden; elaboration of “72 frequent questions about PB in Sweden”; translation and publication of documents; development of a PB network in Sweden; organization of the final meeting of the Swedish PB network; international promotion of the network its events, among others.
Plurality of legal and justice systems in Luanda, Angola
Research Team: Boaventura de Sousa Santos and José Octávio Serra Van Dúnen (Principal Investigators), Maria Paula Meneses, Conceição Gomes, Raúl Araújo and Júlio Lopes
Funding Body: School of Law/Agostinho de Neto de Angola University
Keywords: legal pluralism, legal systems, justice systems, stat, Angola
Duration: 24 months
Start date: 01/04/2007
End date: 31/07/2009
Expected Results: compilation of reliable information on the plurality of legal and justice systems; presentation of suggestions to promote a more virtuous and fruitful interaction between state structures and other authorities involved in conflict resolution; bibliographic collection of comparative experiences on the study thematic subjects, by strengthening the FDUAN’s scientific ability; extension of the research to other regions of Angola, as well as extending its object.
Survey and characterization analysis of the immigrant population – Braga and Guimarães
Research Team: José Carlos Marques, Pedro Góis
Funding Body: High Commission for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue - ACIDI
Duration: 7 months
Start date: 09-02-2010
End date: 31-07-2010
Abstract: The contract with ACIDI expects the elaboration of a survey and characterization analysis of the immigrant population and the identification of its problems and contributions for the development dynamics of Braga and Guimarães regions.
Reconstructing Human Rights through Transnational Legal Mobilization? Portugal and the European Court of Human Rights
Research Team: Cecília MacDowell Santos (Principal Investigator), Madalena Duarte, Ana Cristina Santos and Teresa Maneca Lima
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology)
Duration: 30 months
Start date: 01/10/2007
End date: 31/03/2010
Keywords: Human rights, Transnational legal mobilization, Global justice, Social Movements
Expected Results: Publication of a book and papers in national and international scientific journals, presentations at scientific meetings, elaboration of reports and organization of seminars
Webpage: http://www.ces.uc.pt/projectos/direitoshumanos/pages/en/project.php
Risk, Citizenship and the Role of the State in a Globalised World
Research Team: José Manuel Mendes (Principal Investigator), Alexandra Aragão, Márcio Nobre and Pedro Araújo
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology)
Duration: 42 months
Start date: 01/09/2007
End date: 28/02/2010
Keywords: Risk, Globalization, State and Citizenship, Risk Regulation
Understanding Domestic Violence in the Region of Castelo Branco
Research Team: Paulo Peixoto (Principal Investigator)
Funding Body: ADIBB (Integrated Development Association of Beira Baixa)
Duration: 4 months
Start date: February 2010
End date: May 2010
Expected Results: This study aims at collecting data from the eleven (11) municipalities in the region of Castelo Branco, through the conduction of street surveys, which allow identifying the perceptions of domestic violence of the region's population.
Violence and Small Arms: the Portuguese case
Research Team: José Manuel Pureza (Principal Investigator), Tatiana Moura, Rita Santos
Funding Body: FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology)
Duration: 30 months
Start date: 01/10/2007
End date: 28/02/2010
Keywords: urban violence; small arms; human safety; prevention
Expected Results: Assembling (with the partner institutions) an educational kit; Producing a documentary on small arms in Portugal, in partnership with the Brazilian NGO, Nós do Cinema; Publishing a book containing the results of the project.
Abstract: This project aims to contribute towards clear-cut knowledge of the proliferation and use of small arms in Portugal. The increasing media interest in this situation, public debates held on the subject and the reform of the relevant legislation (Law 5/2006, on Arms and Ammunition) indicate the social importance of this situation.
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