Gender in Debate session, 13 October 2023. The event featured Beatriz Bagagli (PhD candidate at Unicamp), Gustavo Mariano (PhD candidate at CES-UC), Sandra Saleiro (CIES/ISCTE-IUL) and Sara Merlini (CIEG). The moderator of the debate was CIEG's Researcher Maria João Cunha.
Gender in Debate session, 23 November 2022. The event featured invited speakers Susana Peralta (NOVA SBE) and Pedro Perista (CESIS). The moderator of the debate was CIEG's Researcher Paula Campos Pinto.
It took place on 13 February, 2023, the final conference of the GE-HEI Project - Gender Equality in Higher Education Institutions, entitled "Gender Equality in Higher Education Institutions: Knowing the reality in order to transform it". The main aim of this conference was to disseminate the results of the project and create a space for sharing knowledge and reflecting on good practices in promoting Gender Equality in Higher Education.
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The GE-HEI project is promoted by the Directorate General for Higher Education (DGES) and funded by the EEA Grants Financial Mechanism, whose operating entity in Portugal is the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality (CIG). The scientific coordination is the responsibility of the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies (CIEG/ISCSP-ULisboa), and its partners are the Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES) and the Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference at the University of Iceland (RIKK).
Funded by the European Comission and co-funded by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme of the European Comission, the FEM_UnitED partnership, coordinated by the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (Cyprus), gathered entities from five EU countries: Malta, Cyprus, Germany, Portugal and Spain. The project aimed for improve systems-wide responses to IPV/DV by creating an evidence base for raised public awareness and the fostering of multi-disciplinary cooperation and capacity building, adopting a gender-specific victim-centred approach. In other words, FEM_UnitED is about creating evidence for collaborative policy change to prevent femicide. The FEM_UnitED team comprises of advisory board members and country focal points of the European Observatory of Femicide (EOF), having CIEG's research Maria José Magalhães as a member of the research team.
Funded by the CERV program of the European Commission, the project aims to provide an evidence-based analysis of how different types of victim support services can collaborate in responding to the needs of victims of gender-based violence. Promoted by the Victim Support Europe. Team member: Ana Forte.
Funded by CAPP/ISCSP-ULisboa, the project aims to understand the communication of health public policies in Portugal through a mixed method, including content analysis and rhetorical anlysis to the message of governmental communication of heath public policies, content and discourse analysis to news about these subjects, and quantative, semi-structured and in-depth interview to the actors involved. Research tem: Maria João Cunha and Carla Cruz.
Co-Funded by the CERV program of the European Commission, the project focuses on women and children with mental disabilities who are victims of violence in facilities and programmes desgined to serve them. Research team: Patrícia Neca.
Funded by FCT, Care (4) Housing is coordinated by Joana Pestana Lages (DINAMIA'CET/ISCTE-IUL and CIEG/ISCSP-ULisboa). In a close dialogue between theory and practice / research and action, the research aims to explore new housing concepts oriented to 'othered' groups and provide to architects, policy makers, specialists, and other concerned with housing inequalities, a tool for mapping, a full set on design applications, and in situ prototypes, the 'Atlas of Spacial Care'.
Funded by the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the study on the effects of a transformative gender education on teenagers in Portugal is the first of three stages of a four-year study funded by the European Union's programme Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values. The first stage consists on the designing of the methodology that will be applied in the base study, as well as in its subsequent phases. This study aims to assess the knowledge and attitudes on gender equality and gender violence of teenagers whose school curricular inclueded sex education. CIEG's researchers Sofia Neves, Joana Topa and Estefênia Silva were part of the research team.
This project is funded by the FARE network, and institutionally supported by both the State Secretary for Citizenship and Equality, and the State Secretary for Youth and Sport. It is coordinated by the Associação Plano i, and developed in partnership with the Matosinhos' City Council, SOS Racismo and the Portuguese Institute for Sport and Youth (IPDJ) , besides other various partners with different areas of interventio. Aiming to prevent racism in football through various activities, the project developed a website which has available not only data and news on racism in sport, but also allows for complaints to be filed, apart from the study that is being carried out. The project was coordinated by Sofia Neves, and had Joana Topa and Estefânia Silva as its team members.
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