Highlights

CIS is a partner of Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa in the FCT funded Project “Awareness while experiencing and surfing on movies through emotions”, which seeks to investigate the emotional dimension of movies and its classification.

The study “Sustainable practices at Iscte” aims to explore the views of the student community on issues related to sustainability and environmental practices at Iscte.

The project “Cross-cultural research in psychology for replication of previous findings and investigate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic” aims to investigate effective strategies that may contribute to increase precautious behaviors

COST Action “Rural NEET Youth Network”, coordinated by CIS researcher Francisco Simões, recently launched its website rnyobservatory.eu/web

CIS has presented 28 proposals for FCT 2020 SR&TD Project Grants as proponent or participant institution.

The INHERIT project has formulated scenarios for a more sustainable future and has designed, implemented and tested intersectoral initiatives to restore the environment and simultaneously promote health and health equity.

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.