Highlights

CIS-IUL Welcome Guide 2019-2020

The SOS Pain project concluded that the representations health professionals have of people from different social classes influence their expectations about how they live and deal with chronic pain, having implications in their evaluation and treatment.

The AMIGOS project developed social robots for group situations. The recently concluded project addressed the hard problem of creating mechanisms for social modeling and adaptation for robots in group scenarios, focusing on computational modeling of emotions.

The working group dedicated to “Inclusive Education” helps develop the platform “Educar melhor em Cascais”, a pre-school network that aims to innovate educational practices and create synergies between public, private and solidary education.

The project “Justice for Children” aims to ensure improvements in judicial and administrative processes where children are directly involved and to promote the protection of children’s rights in the judicial system.

PhD student Bernardo Cavalheiro is one of the Gorilla Grants 2019 winners, with his project about the role of Emoji in communication.

The Innovec'EAU project, focused on reducing the pollution caused by drug residues, was featured in the first issue of Iscte's new magazine “entre campus".

CIS-IUL is a partner in the research project “Child Development in the Context of Early Adversity”, which studies the environmental and individual predictors of the executive functioning and social cognition of children in residential care.

CIS-IUL is responsible for the evaluation of the project “Circles of Citizenship”, coordinated by the association Between, which aims to promote active citizenship and the knowledge and understanding of children's rights.

CIS-IUL is the coordinator of the European Project “PARTICIPA”, that includes the professional development tools to support participation rights in early childhood education, as reinforcement for the ECE teachers, assistants, and coordinators /managers’ involved