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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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”