In 2021, following the approval of a smoking-free policy the Rectorate removed all the ashtrays from the entry hall.

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NOVA Medical School takes care of the community through a broad set of interventions.

The students’ union promotes health education and training at a national and international level by developing programs as free hypertension, diabetes and obesity screenings for the general population, including several parish councils in Portugal (some examples below). Lectures as “Physical activity in oncological disease” make the community aware of the role of physical activity, from prevention to survival, in patients with oncological pathology, and “Inequalities in Health” provide an understanding of the main challenges of exercising medicine in developing countries. Another example is the informative minutes spot (Research4U) about scientific research, to promote health improvement and healthy behaviors, for students and the general public. Also, open workshops held by Nutrition team raise awareness of the population to the adoption of healthy eating habits and encourage the consumption of legumes, associated with greater environmental sustainability.

Some examples of such activities are:

• Within the scope of the “Marca Mundos” Program, AEFCM organized, with students from the Integrated Masters in Medicine and the Degree in Sciences, free hypertension, diabetes and obesity screenings for the general population with the Parish Council of Samora Correia (24th and 25th April )
• As part of the Health Fair initiative, organized by the Arroios Parish Council, the NMS Nutrition team held the Workshop The importance of Legumes. The objective was to sensitize the population and the Fair participants to the adoption of healthy eating habits and encourage the consumption of legumes as a healthy food, associated with greater environmental sustainability (16th April)

An European project, led by Professor José Ferreira (NOVA FCT), which aims to improve policies and practices for the prevention of marine litter from tourist, recreational, and coastal activities.

Continue reading “CAPONLITTER”

This research project was carried out during the pandemic period, assessing the impacts of this special context on the lives of the population of Amadora, in particular immigrants. Continue reading “Impact of the pandemic in the families of Amadora”

The royal building of Mafra, declared a world heritage site by UNESCO, has its highest expression in music, communicating with the world through its magnificent 18th century chimes. Continue reading “Mafra carillons”

Social Data is an access free data platform on work, social inequality and sustainability, created by the Observatory for Working and Living Conditions (OCVT). Continue reading “Social Data”

A monitoring centre that links several areas of knowledge – arts, philosophy, sciences – in order to study work, health, education, housing, the social state, social security, and population dynamics. The Observatory for Working and Living Conditions brings together researchers from the NOVA University Lisbon, the Higher Technical Institute, the University of Paris, and the Ricardo Jorge National Institute, among others.
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The preservation of buildings is part of NOVA’s environmental commitment and NOVA’s Organic Units have facilities’ teams dedicated to each building, working together to increase their Environmental Sustainability. The growing perception of a financial positive impact from preventive maintenance of buildings has facilitated this decision making process. The user experience is improved and its negative impact on the planet is reduced. Continue reading “NOVA’s sustainable buildings”

NOVA School of Law is replacing old personal computer stations by brand new remote working environments, reducing hardware costs and energy consumption. Continue reading “Replacing old personal computer stations”

Understanding the movements established in the Western Sahara region, from the end of the French colonization to the contemporary period – this is the main challenge of the CAPSAHARA project, promoted by CRIA – Research Network Centre in Anthropology at NOVA FCSH. Continue reading “Analysing the Western Sahara”

NOVA FCSH has been actively promoting mobility with low environmental impact, with multiple initiatives.

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ITQB NOVA has implemented a waste management strategy addressing metal. From damaged furniture to obsolete materials, everything is collected and sent for recycling.

Continue reading “Materials Recycling”

When research projects terminate, a small percentage of the materials bought by ITQB’s Labs (reagents, for example) remain in stock and inventories tend to accumulate.

Continue reading “Reuse of Chemicals”

It aims to research, develop and validate at pilot-scale a smart cities digital platform for urban modelling and planning that will ultimately empower local authorities to identify and effectively address specific environmental issues in order to promote the reduction of the carbon footprint. Continue reading “Climate Driven Technologies for Low Carbon Cities”

High prevalence, chronicity and interference with patients’ quality of life – asthma is a disease with great personal and socio-economic impact. In Portugal, an estimated 20,000 people suffer from severe asthma, a condition characterised by difficulty in controlling symptoms even with high doses of treatment. There is a gap in credible and available information for both patients and doctors to make informed decisions and sharing information about severe asthma. Continue reading “Attack Asthma Together”

Motivating consumers to plan the replacement of their current heating systems – which use fossil fuels and are often in poor condition and inefficient – with more efficient alternatives. This was the main aim of HARP – Heating Appliances Retrofit Planning project that counted with the participation of NOVA IMS.

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This is the challenge launched by NOVA IMS to students from the 7th to 12th grade, in order to stimulate the creative and entrepreneurial spirit of young people. The Apply yourself! challenge is to describe in detail an App that fulfils a single purpose: contribute to achieving one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Continue reading “Apply yourself!”

Lithium is becoming an essential metal in the global energy economy due to its applications in electric car batteries; however, its recovery from land resources is geographically limited and not environmentally friendly. Although lithium can be extracted from seawater, the so far proposed processes have limited efficiency. Continue reading “Recovery of lithium from saline streams”

Waste management and the adoption of strategies to increase recycling rates are under the radar of NOVA School of Science and Technology | FCT NOVA in order to develop an increasingly sustainable campus. Continue reading “Recycling at FCT NOVA”

Energy transition is essential to mitigate the effects of climate change and alleviate energy poverty in which more than 34 million Europeans find themselves. The European Commission has highlighted the importance of actively involving citizens in these issues.
Continue reading “Supporting citizens on green housing renovation”

Road transport is now a $5 trillion industry. Almost any goods that move passes through the back of a truck. Road transport today moves more than 16 billion ton-km of goods and it will triple in the next 30 years, to 44 billion ton-km. Currently, trucks represent only 2% of road vehicles but are responsible for 22% of greenhouse gas emissions on roads, making them one of the biggest polluters in the world.
Continue reading “Meight Technologies”

Lithium is becoming an essential metal in the global energy economy due to its applications in batteries, including those for electric cars; however, its recovery from the land resources is geographically limited and not environmentally friendly. Continue reading “LAQV REQUIMTE – Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde Investigação e desenvolvimento”

Students at FCT NOVA must be aware of sustainability and digital transformation challenges. Therefore, the Society, Sustainability and Digital Transformation course is compulsory for all FCT students. The course includes three modules, taught by professors from the department of Applied Social Sciences, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, and Computer Science.
Continue reading “Sustainability and Digital Transformation”

According to the United Nations, food production will need to double by 2050 to meet the needs of a growing global population. Moreover, there is an increasing pressure on the Planet’s resources, due to the expansion of urban areas and climate change impacts.
Continue reading “Photoboost”

ConCO2rde is a research project focused on one of the biggest environmental problems today: carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. The objective is to capture CO2 into the economy, ensuring sustainable sources of energy and materials for future generations. The project, with the participation of ITQB NOVA, uses the so-called autotrophic bacteria (ie those that, using an energy source, are able to transform inorganic substances into organic ones) to transform CO2 into biomass and other high-value organic compounds.
Continue reading “Training network on CO2 conversion”

Science dissemination is a top priority for ITQB NOVA, being the youngest a central audience. Some examples include: the webseries “Cientistas em casa”, with several suggestions for science activities, aimed at primary and preschool education, the “Lab demo” series, with researchers making demonstrations aimed at secondary school teachers.
Continue reading “Science clubs”

The Gate is a project on a global scale that aims to find innovative solutions for humanity’s current and future challenges – as innovation is part of the DNA of ENSP-NOVA, an institution that has contributed for over 50 years to improving the health of populations, health systems and society and is now taking on a project on a global scale. Continue reading “The Gate Digital”

Raising awareness on public health challenges is a priority for ENSP-NOVA, which is embodied in the PAFSE education project, started in 2022. The project involves schools, universities, companies and education providers, non-formal at home and abroad. Funded by the Horizon 2020 Program, PAFSE – Partnership for Science Education, includes nine institutions from four countries (Portugal, Cyprus, Greece and Poland) in a partnership coordinated by ENSP-NOVA.
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Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women, and in many countries, populations with difficult access to screening are at greater risk of developing the disease. Prevention programs that can screen and vaccinate against human papillomavirus (HPV) effectively result in a reduction in cancer incidence and mortality.
Continue reading “Early detection of cervical cancer”

An initiative led by NOVA SBE Leadership for Impact Knowledge Center, dedicated to the lives of people with disabilities and promoting inclusive community living.
Continue reading “Inclusive Community Forum”

Social Leapfrog is a pioneer program on knowledge transfer, from a partnership between Fundação “la Caixa”, BPI and Nova SBE, coordinated by the Nova SBE Leadership for Impact Knowledge Center.
Continue reading “Social Leapfrog”

Information on tourism in Africa is dispersed or incomplete, which make difficult to access data to help strategic decision-making on that continent. To fill that gap, Nova SBE launched, through the Westmont Institute for Tourism and Hospitality and the Data Science Knowledge Center, a platform called With Africa. It aims to develop tools to monitor the tourism sector, to disseminate useful knowledge to business policies and strategies, and also to stimulate a space for active collaboration between organizations.
Continue reading “WiTH Africa”

Recent evidence shows human contamination of coastal waters has a significant impact on marine life. As a large part of communities depend on fisheries, it is likely that this problem is already having a negative impact on the local socio-economic development of these countries. However, knowledge about this phenomenon is still very limited.
Continue reading “Impact of coastal contamination”

Launched at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic that has shaken the world in recent years, the Role to Play platform is a challenge to anyone who wants to create innovative projects that help mitigate the consequences of the disease in the community. Continue reading “Role To Play”

The IANDA Guinea Saúde project is a broad and ambitious cooperation between the European Union and Guinea-Bissau in which NOVA IHMT actively participates.
Continue reading “Health coverage in Guinea-Bissau”

Approved for European funding, CLIMOS: Climate Monitoring and Decision Support Framework for Sand Fly-borne Diseases Detection and Mitigation with COST-benefit and Climate-policy Measures is the first Horizon Europe project led by the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at Nova University Lisbon (IHMT NOVA) and one of the first in Portugal. Continue reading “Sand Fly-borne Diseases Detection and Mitigation”

Four NOVA schools have already been recognised for their good environmental practices in the scope of the Eco-Campus, the new programme of the European Blue Flag Association (ABAE) that promotes sustainability in higher education institutions. After NOVA Medical School, an Eco-School since 2015, and NOVA FCSH, already distinguished for the third time with such an award, the FCT NOVA Caparica campus and Nova SBE joined in the latest edition. Continue reading “Projecto Eco Escolas/Eco Campus”

In order to be able to properly act, it is necessary to understand. This is the purpose of this research project: in a critical approach to the movements established in the Western Sahara region, it sets out to analyse the reconfigurations established from the end of Spanish colonisation to the contemporary period. Continue reading “CAPSAHARA – Critical approaches to politics, social activism and islamic militancy in the western sahara region”

Created to respond to situations caused by the covid pandemic, the Lisbon City Council’s helpline relies on the collaboration of the National Observatory of Gender Violence hosted at NOVA FCSH, which integrate researchers from all NOVA schools.
Continue reading “Observatory on Gender Violence”

Supported by NOVA IMS, the Platform of the National Desertification Observatory is an instrument to respond to the current challenges in Portugal. Currently, more than 54% of the country’s area is susceptible to desertification, and 46% of the Portuguese population lives in these areas.
Continue reading “Desertification Observatory”

The development of the blue economy is considered one of the pillars for the Portuguese economic recovery, which may provide the country with higher resilience to face future crises.
Continue reading “MARia”

Coordinated by NOVA Information Management School (NOVA IMS), Sensing Campolide aims to engage the surrounding community around data science. The project seeks to demonstrate how data science and information management can contribute to manage environmental issues, while raising awareness about the impact of water quality, air, noise, and green areas on health.

Conducted by the research and innovation laboratory in smart and sustainable cities of NOVA IMS, the project places several sensors, whose information is later shared through a wireless network of low consumption. The collection of soil and water samples is done by a group of students from the Professional School of Geographic Sciences.

Sensing Campolide also plans to encourage citizen science, as it is preparing – with the support of the parish council of Campolide and Liga para a Proteção da Natureza, an environmental NGO – to integrate about 40 students from Secondary School Marquesa de Alorna, in the neighbourhood, who will collect data during their journey home to school, and from classroom to playground.

Training doctors with human skills and knowledgeable of the world around them is the concern of NOVA Medical School and its students. The Student Association launched the MarcaMundos project in 2016, which promotes, on a voluntary basis, missions in the country and worldwide, in vulnerable populations, guaranteeing access to health care.
Continue reading “MarcaMundos”

This multidisciplinary academic centre aims to foster responsible and sustainable business conduct in Portugal, in Europe and beyond, combining human rights, decent work and environmental standards on all global value chains.   Continue reading “THE NOVA Centre on Business, Human Rights and the Environment”

Years of research on the faecal microbiota at NOVA Medical School have shown that an imbalance of these microorganisms can be associated with several diseases. Therefore, restoring this balance can help treat the conditions to support life itself or its quality.
Continue reading “YourBiome”

In 2011, Pedro A. Lima from in the Physiology laboratory of NOVA Medical School (NMS) identified certain compounds of marine origin with high potential of use in the treatment of chronic pain.
Continue reading “Sea 4US”

The new knowledge centre of NOVA School of Law, which will operate within CEDIS – Center for R&D on Law and Society – and will be naturally focused on Law, but born with a holistic vision and with the interdisciplinary vocation that is in the DNA of our Faculty, contributing to the fulfilment of major global goals, in particular Sustainable Development Goal 14 – Life under water -, in line with NOVA School of Law’s adherence to the United Nations Global Compact, the Blue Agenda of the European Union and the National Strategy for the Sea 2021-2030. Continue reading “NOVA OCEAN”

This multidisciplinary academic centre aims to foster responsible and sustainable business conduct in Portugal, in Europe and beyond, combining human rights, decent work and environmental standards on all global value chains. Continue reading “Refugee Clinic”