The PhD programme on TA will start a cooperation with the PhD programme on Sociology from next year. In 2015-16, the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH) will become the coordinator of the inter-university programme on Sociology together the Universities of Lisbon, Évora and Algarve.
The members are the TA community involved in the PhD programme, and also all the other interested people as scholars, supervisors, members of the parliament,and so forth.
The PhD Programme on "Technology Assessment" is organised over a 4 year structure, and the training courses take place during the first 2 years, although during that period is supposed to start the research process leading to the final thesis.