As a higher education institution, ESCS is actively engaged in research and the collaboration with civil society with ongoing policies to assess its social engagement. With this background, we aim to 1) organize and participate in meetings to share scientific knowledge; 2) to promote the development of research projects; and 3) to provide open access resources that contribute to build sustainable and democratic societies, with well-informed citizens who are capable of critically understanding the world we live in.
Research
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R&D Projects
Digital museum dedicated to raising awareness and training for landscape citizenship, seeking to awaken the critical and participatory sense of all citizens.
MOOC – Introduction to Data Journalism
Online course for communication students and professionals to develop technical skills for rigorous analysis of large amounts of data and communication of this information through clear and efficient visual narratives.
PES_CE – Entre Serras Project, a network of contemporary art in mountain areas
PES_CE explores the articulation of images with artistic expressions and practices developed in mountain landscapes, through artistic residencies and walks, workshops, exhibitions, actions with communities, among other activities.
Communication Professions Oral Memory Archive
Repository of oral memories of communication professionals. Reference register of an intangible heritage, open to the society at large, as well as to the academic community.
Conception and development of an audiovisual work of the documentary type that presents a reflection on the process of initiation to reading and writing.
CoLab Games, digital platform for the customisation of analogue games
Development of a collaborative platform that facilitates the custom creation of analogue games incorporating digital content. These games are intended for use in communication, literacy, and citizenship contexts.
Development of a theoretical framework taking into account the current challenges of tourism such as sustainability, digitization, and post-pandemic consumer behavior, for a new paradigm of collaborative digital marketing in tourism.
Seniors in networking, engagement, and digital literacy
This project aims to strengthen scientific production in the area of digital literacy and communication for seniors.
Digital Communication and Digital Marketing: a cross-cultural learning experience between PT and USA
Project developed in partnership with the University of Southern California, USC Marshall, aiming at the adoption and utilization of technology through the creation of a COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) program in Digital Communication and Digital Marketing; training and professional development of faculty; and joint research on cross-cultural communication.
Jornalismo climático na universidade: um projeto transfronteiriço
This project, developed in partnership with Oslo Metropolitan University, aimed to support, promote and strengthen climate journalism education, to create a constructive influence on forthcoming generations of journalists and newsrooms.
World Reading Academy: Journalism, communication and the self
This project enabled youngsters with tools to decode the news, the capability to question passive news consumption, and it stimulated a critical and constructive attitude in face of the contemporary media culture.
Borders&Rails – Narrating & Sharing the Borderland Landscape
This project aimed to build the nature gaming prototype, narrative and sharing of Raia, opening up to practical experimentation and landscape narratology, generating a repository of landscape experience, promoting inclusion and environmental awareness.
This project seeks to study the use of artificial intelligence in artistic higher education and contribute to pedagogical innovation in the same context.
The main objective of this project is to understand how coopetition can contribute to radical and/or incremental innovation by small and medium-sized companies inserted in sectoral clusters.
SEAside LANDscapes, Tourism representations in the Oeiras – Cascais coastal axis
The SEALAND project proposed innovative mediation strategies between audiences and the landscape through multimedia solutions to promote a reflection about the transformation of the touristic coastal landscapes.
SocialHate – I Love to Hate!: Network Hate Cartography
The goal of the project was to map and characterize racial hate speeches that proliferate in social media in Portugal, and to develop a Hate Speech Barometer with a research-action approach.
Narratives and Experience of the Place: Basis for a Landscape Museum
The project aimed to find solutions to communicate the theme “landscape” to different audiences through a dialogue between the several territorial actors while developing a digital museographic platform.
Communication on Climate: from the concept of Change to the concept of Crisis
Documenting the change in climate communication in recent years – from “change” to “crisis” – and understanding its importance in the communication/action of 10 Portuguese companies.
SWOT Analysis of Mentori@IPL Program Communication. Contributions for Greater Student Adherence
Project dedicated to analyzing the most efficient communication strategies in the Mentori@IPL Program – Peer Mentoring Program of the Polytechnic of Lisbon to increase student engagement and commitment.
This project’s aim was to understand how Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) promote, through their communication, the well-being of students, as well as their literacy about it.
Project to understand the response of the consumer advocacy activist movement to the excessive market power of large technology-based companies.
IMAGE Researching the City: Mapping Imaginaries
Based on a new approach, this project used mapping tools to bring attention to the peripheral, often neglected, areas of our cities and maps them as enclaves of dynamism and creativity.
