Description for supporting research centres in Portugal
MobileWorlds
Project Title: MobileWorlds: empowering third cultures for sustainable and inclusive mobility.
Programme: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action Post-Doctoral Fellowship, based at HVL (Bergen, Norway)
Role of the Centre:Support for photographer and researcher who will contribute to the photographic exhibition at the MobileWorlds Festival, and dissemination of the MobileWorlds Festival
Period: 2023-2026
Abstract:
Mobile Worlds is a research, networking, and action project, seeking to understand how various cultural backgrounds help shape how people think, and how ‘we’ might ‘change our minds’ – starting with how ‘we’ think about sustainable mobility. It includes fieldwork in Porto, Portugal, and Bergen, Norway. More information about the project as a whole can be found on: https://mobileworlds.online/ The project is coordinated and executed by Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld, in close collaboration with Wendy Tan, both based at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. The EU website of the project can be found here.
As part of this project, a Festival is being organized. The MobileWorlds Festival is about stepping outside the box, challenging old ideas, and imagining new ways of moving, connecting, and living together. It draws inspiration from third cultures—the rich, layered experiences of people shaped by migration, travel, and globalization. Through a mix of art, discussion, and creative workshops, MobileWorlds invites participants to reflect, share, and rethink how mobility is intertwined with identity, relationships, and the world around us.
The Festival will take place on the following dates and locations:
Bergen, Norway – September 26+27 –Litteraturhuset
Global – October 10+11 – Online
Porto, Portugal – October 24+25 –Maus Hábitos
+ Unbox the Festival – 4 and 18 October and 1 November
The Festival includes a photographic exhibition, interviews with planners and artists, individual and family workshops, and more. All other information and registration can be done via:
https://mobileworlds.online/pt/the-festival/
Session Hall of the Concello de A Guarda, explanatory session of the Rehabita Plan for the population of A Guarda.
Rehabita Plan
Project Title: Rehabita Plan
Programme: Residential Rehabilitation Program of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan (PRTR). NextGenerationEU funds
Role of the Centre: Collaborator in the team of specialists responsible for managing and advising on the plan.
Period: 2023 – 2026
Abstract:
This program, promoted by the Concello de A Guarda, Pontevedra (Galicia), aims to mitigate the housing shortage, improve the energy efficiency of buildings, and enhance urban aesthetics, aligning with the PACES (Action Plan for Climate and Sustainable Energy).
The program includes a set of financial support measures, tax benefits, and technical assistance for the rehabilitation of properties in A Guarda:
- Direct grants for structural works, façade rehabilitation, interior modernization, and energy efficiency improvements.
- Reduction or exemption from municipal taxes, such as IMI (Municipal Property Tax) and IMT (Municipal Tax on Property Transfers), as well as exemption from administrative fees related to construction and rehabilitation permits.
- Free technical support, ensuring that projects comply with regulatory and heritage requirements.
- Easier access to financing, through partnerships with banking institutions offering favorable conditions for renovation work.
The program is intended for property owners in A Guarda, including both individuals and businesses, provided that their rehabilitation projects meet the established requirements. The Rehabita Plan seeks to drive the recovery and modernization of the real estate stock, promoting its availability for rental, sale, or upgrading, always under sustainability and energy efficiency criteria.
Archethics
Project Title: ARCHETHICS. Dissonant European heritage as labs of democracy.
Programme: URBACT
Role of the Centre: Collaborator in the Vila Nova de Cerveira Local Action Group
Period: 01/06/2023 – 31/12/2025
Abstract:
The ARCHETHICS network brings together nine European cities that share the presence of heritage linked to a complex and controversial historical past (totalitarian regimes, disputed borders, etc.). Architecture, People, History and Ethics will be the four dimensions of the project to activate urban community laboratories with a view to transforming this heritage, made up of previously abandoned spaces, into places for locals and visitors to share knowledge and come to a multi-perspective understanding of the past and new visions for the future.
EU Urban Regeneration
Project Title: EU Urban Regeneration to achieve the Green Deal Objectives.
Programme: Jean Monnet RegenEU
Role of CIAUD-UPT: Teaching – didactic activity
Period: 2024-2027
Abstract:
EU urban regeneration is an essential policy for achieving the multidimensional transition demanded by the European Green Deal (EGD), without leaving anyone behind. However, its relevance collides with insufficient knowledge of its potential among relevant stakeholders and EU citizens. In addition, there is a shortage of bachelor’s and master’s degree courses on this topic, and there is also little interrelated discussion between academia and policymakers.
In this context, the Jean Monnet RegenEU Chair focuses on promoting studies, research and awareness-raising on the transformative potential of urban regeneration by:
Emphasising the relevance of urban regeneration for resilient cities and a prosperous EU, targeting a wide range of urban stakeholders and looking ‘beyond sustainability’ in a time of ‘polycrisis’.
Stimulate discussion on how EU regeneration policy should evolve to achieve the ambitious social and environmental objectives of the EGD and tackle pressing urban challenges from a people-centred approach.
Inform debates and decision-making on Cohesion Policy in order to strengthen the EU’s leading role in realising a resilient and cohesive urban system, as outlined in the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Urban Agenda for the European Union and the EGD.
Promoting EU values and, in particular, defending a European urban system that prioritises the ‘common good’ (as set out in the New Leipzig Charter).