CEI-Iscte has been selected as a partner of the Digital Innovation Summit Bucharest (DISB), one of Europe’s largest events dedicated to digital innovation, which will take place between 10 and 12 March in Bucharest, Romania. Organised by the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics – ICI Bucharest, the event brings together decision-makers, experts […]
The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) has published the Call for Applications and the Evaluation Guide for the 2026 PhD Scholarships in All Scientific Domains, namely under the General Application Track and the Specific Application Track in a Non-Academic Environment. Applications will be open from 12:00 pm on March 2 to 5:00 pm on March 31, 2026. To apply, candidates must indicate a host institution and should contact their […]
Researcher João Ferreira Dias recently published two new works that address key challenges facing contemporary democracies. In the policy paper Opening the Political Pipeline: Transparency and Civic Access to Party Lists as an Antidote to Populist Distrust, published by the European Centre for Populism Studies (2026), the author analyses the erosion of trust in liberal […]
Professor Franz-Wilhelm Heimer, an undisputed pioneer of African Studies in Portugal and one of the main architects of its institutionalisation in Portuguese higher education, has passed away. Arriving in Portugal in 1980, after an academic and political career that took him to Brazil and Germany, where he obtained his doctorate at the University of Freiburg […]
CEI-Iscte researcher Raquel da Silva recently published the scientific article ‘Care and counterterrorism: a scoping review’ in Critical Studies on Terrorism, an international scientific journal published by Taylor & Francis. The article analyses the intersection between counterterrorism practices and ethics of care, exploring how security policies have been instrumentalising care relationships and institutions — such […]
Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon will host the IPSA RC04 Workshop: Visual Politics of Protest, a three-day international workshop dedicated to analysing the visual politics of contemporary protests, which will take place between 14 and 16 July 2026, in Lisbon. Organised by the Research Committee on Visual Politics (RC04) of the International Political Science […]
Researcher Ana Margarida Esteves is one of the featured authors in issue no. 11 of Entrecampus Magazine (only available in portuguese), with a reflection on how major social transformations emerge from the margins and gradually infiltrate the mainstream. In the article, the researcher explores the transformative potential of the knowledge developed in the ecovillage movement […]
The article “Mapping PALOP student mobility and institutional responses in Portuguese higher education”, written by Clara Carvalho and Maria Antónia Barreto, was published in the scientific journal Studies in Higher Education, edited by Taylor & Francis. The article analyses the presence and inclusion processes of students from Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP) in Portuguese higher education. […]