SocioDigital Lab Seminar Join us on April 16th  for a seminar featuring Teresa Pina  (CML), former Director of Amnesty International Portugal (2012-2016), to learn more about how European policies on Migration and Asylum shape the EU-Africa relationship. From the Arab Spring to the refugee crisis, and from EU migratory deals to the most recent reforms in the EU system, gain insights into the developments of the past decade. Speaker:  Teresa Pina CML, Diretora da Aministia Internacional Portugal 2012-16 Date: April 16th, 4-5.30 Venue:  Iscte, Building 2, Auditorium B2.03

The SocioDigital Lab invites you to attend the Brown Bag Seminars on Technical Data, which will take place at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon. The sessions take place from October 2023 to March 2024, in an informal setting between 1pm and 2pm. Each session lasts an hour: 30 minutes of presentation and 30 minutes of discussion. Past Sessions 26 February 2024 | LAPSO LAPSO (Psychology Laboratory) is a support structure for the School of Social Sciences (ECSH), the Centre for Psychological Research and Social Intervention (CIS-Iscte), as well as the entire Iscte community. The laboratory supports research and training in Psychology at Iscte, in its most varied areas of study and levels of education. LAPSO encompasses specialized rooms for human behavior research, and a wide range of equipment, resources and services. Marília Prada (CIS-Iscte), director of the Psychology Laboratory, presented this brown bag seminar. 29 January 2024 | Laboratório de Inovação Metodológica The Methodological Innovation Laboratory (Laboratório de Inovação Metodológica) brings together the resources and skills in the field of social sciences that enable significant advances in the development of innovative social research methods. In addition, it seeks to disseminate and develop methodological innovation practices among researchers, as well as to strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration between Iscte’s research centers. In addition to being part of the coordination team of the Methodological Innovation Laboratory, Nuno de Almeida Alves is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Research Methods and a Researcher at the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology, where he coordinates the Family, Generations and Health Research Group at CIES-Iscte. 15 January 2024 | nascer.pt Dulce Morgado Neves, a researcher at CIES-Iscte, where she researches birth, gender, parenthood and social movements, presented the Laboratory of Social Studies on Birth, nascer.pt , a platform that contributes to knowledge about the conditions and characteristics of birth in Portugal. 11 December 2023 | LXhabidata Sandra Marques Pereira, researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, presented LXhabidata , a continuously updated housing data platform for the municipalities of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. 2 October 2023 | Instituto de Telecomunicações The first Brown Bag Seminar on Technical Data welcomed the researcher Octavian Postolache that presented the resources and projects developed at Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT-Iscte). IT -Iscte explores the scientific areas of: wireless communications, optical communications, networks and multimedia, and basic sciences to support technologies.

The new Iscte building houses 8 research units, 13 laboratories, including the SDLab, 9 observatories and several rooms for sharing and collaborative work. It is a space of infinite possibilities, which nurtures the idea that “together we change the future”. Iscte – Knowledge and Innovation is a bright building, clad in brick and wood, located at 40 Avenida das Forças Armadas in Lisbon, which is the result of the sustainable refurbishment of a former IMT headquarters. According to Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues, Iscte Rector, over the course of 50 years, “new paths have been opened up at Iscte and we have innovated in a focused way in those areas of work”. But what truly “sets Iscte apart is the way it fully fulfils its mission as a university: teaching, knowledge and innovation, which it does with multidisciplinarity, collaborative work, openness to the social and territorial context in which it operates, generating opportunities for teachers, researchers and students, efficiently achieving sustainability and inclusion. Its difference also lies in the way it continues to anticipate the future.” The Prime Minister António Costa, the Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education, Elvira Fortunato, the Minister for Cohesion, Ana Abrunhosa, the Minister for Culture, Pedro Adão e Silva and two Secretaries of State took part at the official inauguration of the new Iscte_Conhecimento e Inovação.