Centro de Investigação em Inovação Empresarial e do Trabalho (IET)

IET develops its activities in the fields of industrial sociology, ergonomics, management systems, prospective analysis in innovation, economics, and organizational studies. This interdisciplinary skill allows the unit to develop different kinds of studies, but the common technical characteristic is related to the innovative systems, at the company (networks, management, mergers and competition frameworks, quality systems, strategy), and the labour systems level (organization, labour relations, ergonomics and safety, telework. Part of the Economy and Management group develops its research activity at INOVA, the research centre of the Faculdade de Economia.

Unidade de Investigação em Educação e Desenvolvimento (UIED)

UIED has as its main purpose to research issues related to education, training and development. The broad focus of its work lies on researching themes and problems related to educational change in formal and informal settings and its implications on social, economical, and technological dynamics. More specifically, this general objective impacts on the study of the dynamics of teaching and learning — ranging from those of specific school disciplines to those of informal learning communities —, research and development of educational technologies, investigation of programmes for the development of citizenship and its relation to science, the study of professional careers and lifelong learning, including those of teachers, and inquiry of educational policies.

Centro de Estudos de Geografia e Planeamento Regional (e-GEO)

The main objectives of e-GEO are:

• To produce knowledge on concepts, methods, instruments and techniques in Geography and Spatial Planning and Development;

• To integrate senior undergraduate and graduate students in scientific activities;

• To promote the discussion and diffusion of research results;

• To offer extension services.

Research lines:
Spatial Planning and Geographic Modelling:

• EURMET - Urban Sprawl of the Metropoles (SO/1.1/F4)

• Geographical Minimal Elements for Environmental and Territorial Analysis

• Lakes Classification in the Azores and Watercatchment Management

• GEOCOMP Geocomputation in the Analysis of Socio-Spatial Phenomena

• RECONFAL - Reconfigurations in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area: Spaces, Actors and Strategies

• AVUSOLO - Evaluation of the Conditioning Factors of Land Use Management: Recent Dynamics in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area

Territory, Environment and Development:

• SEARUSYN - Seeking Synergy between Urban Growth, Horticulture and the Environment in Asian Metropolises

• Development of an Information System for the Environmental and Economic Management of the "Dehesa/Montado" Ecosystem in Estremadura (Spain) and Alentejo (Portugal)

• EADS and Territorial Strategies of South-western Europe (INTERREG III Programme, EU CSF III)

• South Atlantic Network: Public Policies and Territory

• Family Farming, Employment and Income in North-eastern Brazil, Central-South Portugal and on the Santiago Island, Cape Verde

• Identification and Diffusion of Family Farming Livelihood Strategies in North-eastern Brazil, Central-South Portugal and on the Santiago Island, Cape Verde

• IDENTERRA - Territorial Identity in Local and Regional Development: The Oeste Region of Portugal (FCT/POCTI/GEO/48266/2002)

• SUSTENREGIO - Development Sustainability of Portuguese Regions

• GABI - Guide of Organic Farming Units: a Development Strategy for Portuguese Rural Areas

• Vale Formoso Erosion Experimental Research Centre

Centro de Estudos de Sociologia da UNL (CESNOVA)

CESNOVA merged five former research centres: Gabinete de Investigação em Sociologia Aplicada (SOCINOVA), Investigações Sociológicas (CEOS), Instituto de Sociologia Histórica, Forum Sociológico and Faces de Eva, with the goal of joining efforts and connecting strategies for the development of basic and applied sociological and interdisciplinary research on Portuguese society.

Research groups:

• Portuguese Modernity – Compared Historical Sociology

• Public Policies and Social Responsibility

• Social Worlds, Trajectories and Mobilities

• Dynamics, Identities and Social Action

Centro de Estudos de Migrações e Minorias Étnicas (CEMME)

CEMME was recently merged with research units belonging to other Portuguese universities to form CRIA, an inter-institutional centre for social and cultural anthropology. This national platform in anthropology provides scientific research leadership and is organized to optimize intellectual and material resources, while promoting new research opportunities at both national and international levels. CRIA assembles researchers from various institutions, many of whom have had a pre-existing relationship in cooperation on the given thematic networks, projects and activities. CRIA’s scientific resources will focus on research groups linked to four thematic lines, each one headed by a senior scholar.

Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CLUNL)

CLUNL is a research unit that has as its main objectives the advancement of research in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, the development of advanced training of researchers and the promotion of the publication of scientific data in those domains concerned with the nature and functioning of human language and in the areas of description and functioning of individual languages.
Research Groups:

• Comparative Linguistics

• Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology

• Grammar and Text

• Discourse Interaction

• Psycholinguistics and Clinical Linguistics

INOVA

INOVA is the research unit of the Faculldade de Economia (School of Economics). Most of INOVA’s researchers are simultaneously faculty members of the School, but INOVA’s affiliated researchers also include holders of post-doc grants and members of institutions involved in joint projects. The research interests cover, among other fields, accounting, econometrics, economic history, finance, human resource management, macroeconomics, marketing, microeconomics, operations research and strategy.

INOVA’s aim is to offer its members means to produce research publishable in top-ranked international journals in the aforementioned areas. By financing short visits of foreign scholars, summer schools, travelling to congresses and similar scientific meetings for presentation of on-going work, a weekly-meeting seminar series, a brown-bag seminar series, bibliography acquisitions, journals and database subscriptions and other researchers’ needs, INOVA has been instrumental in enhancing the Department’s research output. To its success attest the top grade (excellent) repeatedly awarded to INOVA by international external scientific panels of evaluation.

INOVA seeks to produce research publishable in top-quality outlets. The unit would like to strengthen its output in the very top journals, at the moment still limited, and to increase its research output in management. Moreover, the unit—and the department of which it is an integral part—are currently putting effort into attracting top researchers to strengthen its research output.

Centro de Estudos do Direito em Sociedade (CEDIS)

This centre is hosted by the Faculdade de Direito:

• Was expressly labelled as a Centre for the study of law in society;

• Was organized according to an array of strategic goals to be carried out by research projects;

• Promotes collective, interdisciplinary and internationally linked research, leaving however enough space for individual initiatives, corresponding to the classical style of legal research, and prizing them as a valuable element of scientific personal realization;

• Aims to connect research activities and educational goals, fundamental in a school;

• Takes into account the fact that it serves a new and small academic community, assuming the goal of bettering its general working conditions of scientific and academic work.

Centro de Estatística e Gestão de Informação (CEGI)

CEGI is an interdisciplinary research centre created in 1994. Its mission is to promote internationally recognized excellence in multidisciplinary and applied research in the scientific domains of statistics, economics and management, education science and policies, environmental science and technologies, and geography.

CEGI develops R&D projects establishing strong relationships with companies and other universities. It also organises international and national conferences and seminars. Many of the projects are developed in collaboration with public and private entities of diverse areas such as finance, utilities, insurance, transportation, environment, pharmaceutical, energy and telecommunications industries. International contacts include the interchange of researchers, participation in research and teaching networks and the organization and participation in EU funding projects. CEGI’s research team is composed of 12 PhD members with different but complementary backgrounds which enables the centre to have an interdisciplinary approach to a constantly evolving information society in accordance to CEGI’s mission. This multidisciplinary nature is well evident in the type of publications and projects (both for R&D and applied research). CEGI’s management is mainly conducted by a Scientific Coordinator (that is simultaneously the Chairman of the Scientific Committee of ISEGI) and a R&D manager who is responsible by operational management. ISEGI (host institution) provides the necessary physical facilities and services to the prosecution of CEGI activities.