This partnership explores opportunities for collaborative research, joint teaching initiatives and strategic knowledge exchange, staff development and student recruitment. Under this agreement, all faculties, departments, centres and units of the two partner institutions are able to explore potential areas for collaboration that will be of mutual benefit.
NOVA-Lancaster for Sustainability invites both communities to join this virtual space for collaboration. Under each theme, a set of regular events are organized every year. An opportunity to discuss ongoing collaborative research, explore funding opportunities and promote joint teaching initiatives that both ecosystems offer to their faculty.
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General Contacts:
UNL: Joao Loureiro Rodrigues
LU: Anyka Webb
This partnership is structured around a mutual concern around global challenges, and under the branding NOVA-Lancaster for Sustainability, three main drivers of action have been defined:
Each Collaboration Theme is coordinated by faculty from both institutions, the NOVA-Lancaster Champions. They develop the annual agenda and engage both communities in a series of research events and other joint initiatives (please click the buttons below for more details).
Lancaster University is a research intensive university ranked in the UK’s top ten. Around 16,000 students from more than 100 countries choose to study at Lancaster because of our excellent reputation for research, teaching and student satisfaction. Lancaster is a truly global community with international collaborations all over the world and teaching partnerships in China, Malaysia, Ghana and Germany. Lancaster is committed to being carbon-neutral by 2035 and is highly regarded for its teaching, research and student engagement on climate change.
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Since 2018, three themes have emerged as being particularly relevant to the partnership – global health, sustainability, and digital futures. Directed by these three themes, Nova and Lancaster co-host a regular seminar series to continue growing our community of researchers and consider what both universities can do to further facilitate cross-disciplinary. The seminars are a starting point to establish an ongoing dialogue to discover what type of support could facilitate future collaborations and cross-institutional connections. They are open to anyone with an interest in a specific theme or the partnership in general.
Presenter: Professor Mireia Jofre-Bonet (OHE, UK)
Presenters: Daniel Alves (NOVA), Ian Gregory (Lancaster), and Patricia Murrieta-Flores (Lancaster).
Presenter: Professor Stavros Petrou (University of Oxford, UK)
Presenter: Dr Laure de Preux (Imperial College, UK)
Presenter: Dr Osea Giuntella (Pittsburgh University, USA)
The University aims to be carbon net zero for carbon emissions from electricity and heating by 2030 and net zero from all other emissions by 2035. Lancaster University is the highest producer of renewable energy of all UK universities according to figures published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency and already has reduced its electricity and heating emissions by 50% since 2005.
Twenty five people joined the first seminar hosted by NOVA-Lancaster Seminar Series. The seminar focused on Global Health as a theme and attendees enjoyed presentations from Professor Sonia Dias (NOVA, ENSP) and Professor Nancy Preston (Lancaster, FHM).
Good Health and Wellbeing is the United Nations’ third Sustainable Development Goal and one strategic pillar of the partnership. It brings together NOVA Medical School and Lancaster Faculty of Health and Medicine, both research intensive and pride themselves on their engagement with their respective national health sectors.
“Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development. Currently, the world is facing a global health crisis unlike any other — COVID-19 is spreading human suffering, destabilizing the global economy and upending the lives of billions of people around the globe.” UN, 2021
NOVA - Lancaster Champions
NOVA | Judite Gonçalves
Judite Gonçalves is a researcher with the Nova SBE Health Economics and Management Knowledge Center, with various research interests in the fields of Health Economics and Economics of Aging. Previously, she held research positions at Queen Mary University of London (2017-2019) and at the Geneva School of Economics and Management, where she got obtained her PhD in 2015.
Lancaster | Céu Mateus
Professor of Health Economics in the Division of Health Research at Lancaster University, United Kingdom. She holds a PhD in Public Health-Health Economics from the National School of Public Health, Nova University of Lisbon in Portugal, an MSc in European Social Policy Analysis from Bath University in the UK, and graduated in Economics from ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Lisbon University in Portugal. Between 2001 and 2014 she was Assistant Professor of Health Economics at the National School of Public Health at University Nova of Lisbon. She worked for the Institute of Management and IT (Ministry of Health) in the Department of Information Systems Development from 1995 until 2000, where she was the Executive responsible for the Financing System/Classification System in Diagnoses Related Groups. She has over 25 years of experience in research and has developed her expertise around economic evaluation of health technologies and interventions, efficiency measurement, equity and quality of life. She has been involved in several scientific associations in the field of health care such as PCSI, EuHEA and the Portuguese Chapter of ISPOR. She is the current President of the Portuguese Health Economics Association.
Developments in the use of digital technologies are transforming the ways we live and work, though of course not at an equal pace or level of access. Opportunities and threats are emerging all the time: Transformation of business models and geopolitics; creation and management of vast amounts of data; design of new cultural experiences and artefacts. This theme brings together Lancaster and NOVA’s expertise in the areas of digital humanities, information management and security, human-computer interaction, corpus linguistics, and data science among others.
NOVA - Lancaster Champions
NOVA | Rute Costa
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Lancaster | Patrick Rebuschat
Patrick Rebuschat is Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science and Director of Internationalization, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University. Patrick is also Director of the Heritage Language 2 Consortium (HL2C) and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of PARSUK, the Portuguese scientific diaspora association in the UK. Patrick received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and his BA from the University of Lisbon. His research focuses on bilingualism, language learning and technology.
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Since the partnership was established in 2018, NOVA and Lancaster have promoted collaborative research among some faculty members of both institutions. While several research conferences played an important role to foster a collective agenda, parallel meetings took place, fine tuning the extent of this partnership.
Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding
On 19th June a new strategic partnership was been established between Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA) and Lancaster University. Delegations from the two universities met at the Rectorate of NOVA in Lisbon to sign a Memorandum of Understanding.
2019 was an extremely active year for the partnership with multiple visits between the two institutions and three significant research conferences. In December (16 and 17), both NOVA’s Rector, João Sàágua, and the Vice-Rector, João Amaro de Matos, visited Lancaster.
Research Conference | Research in Europe | 10&11/01/2019
On January 10 and 11, the Campolide campus hosted the "Research in Europe" event, organized by NOVA University Lisbon in partnership with Lancaster University.
Over the two-day event, participants and speakers from academia, business and politics shared their insights regarding potential scientific projects, the European research agenda and the future of collaborations between British and continental universities.
More than 60 researchers of NOVA and Lancaster worked together to either identify or stimulate the development of ideas for collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects. The researchers were distributed in five thematic sessions - Industry and Competitiveness, Innovative Solutions, Health Challenges & Policies, Societal Impact and Sustainability.
In his intervention, the Minister of Science Technology and Higher Education, Professor Manuel Heitor, stressed the desirable continuity of the joint work between Portugal and the United Kingdom, as well as its universities, regardless of the trajectory of the Brexit process.
Research Conference | Research in Latin America | 16/04/2019
On April 16, NOVA University Lisbon organized the conference Research in Latin America, in partnership with the University of Cambridge. The conference, promoted by the NOVA In the Globe initiative, brought together researchers from Cambridge, NOVA and Lancaster, from different research fields and schools, who conduct applied research focused in Latin America. The event aimed to foster collaborations between researchers from different backgrounds, enabling them to share knowledge and work together in projects with impact in Latin America.
Research Conference | Research in Asia | 23/07/2019
On July 23, NOVA University Lisbon organized the conference “Research in Asia”, in partnership with the Lancaster University. The conference, promoted by the NOVA In the Globe initiative, brought together researchers from Lancaster and NOVA, from different research fields and schools, who conduct applied research focused in Asia.
Research in Asia fostered collaborations between researchers from different scientific backgrounds, enabling them to share knowledge and collaborate on large-scale research projects with ties to Asia. The event featured a session on NOVA’s capacity-building projects in Asia and two-panel discussions, “Research-driven innovation: Challenges and opportunities” and “Cultural heritage and scientific diplomacy” with both external speakers and leading researchers from NOVA and Lancaster University.
In addition to the researchers from NOVA and Lancaster, the event was attended by the Vice-Rector of NOVA, Professor Elvira Fortunato, by the President of the Portuguese-Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry, João Marques da Cruz, by the President of the Camões - Institute for Cooperation and Language, Ambassador Luís Faro Ramos, by the Oriente Foundation and by Professor Robert Geyer from Lancaster University.
As was the case for the whole world, the NOVA-Lancaster partnership was hindered by the COVID-19 pandemic; the majority of the activities planned were postponed. However, both parties made an effort to continue working together, as many collaborative research meetings took place in an online format.
British council webinar | 24/06/2020
In partnership with the British Council's Going Global 2020 Live Events series, NOVA University Lisbon organised a live webinar on Social Impact as a Strategic Driver in Higher Education.
In this session, specialists from Portugal, Israel and the United Kingdom considered social impact as a genuine strategic driver for higher education. Speakers spoke about key themes in order to highlight and share best practice in improved social outcomes through higher education, forge and strengthen partnerships and collaboration for improved social impact across the sector, and inform government policy on the vital role of higher education in creating and ensuring societal good.
The event included the following contributors:
João Amaro de Matos - Vice Rector of Nova University Lisbon
Peretz Lavie - former President of the Technion University in Israel
Rachel Sandison - Executive Director External Relations and Vice Principal at the University of Glasgow
Simon Guy - Global Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Lancaster University
Successful launch for NOVA-Lancaster for Sustainability Seminar Series
Twenty five people joined the first seminar hosted by NOVA-Lancaster Seminar Series. The seminar focused on Global Health as a theme and attendees enjoyed presentations from Professor Sonia Dias (NOVA, ENSP) and Professor Nancy Preston (Lancaster, FHM).