Collaboration with other institutions

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The PhD programme has two type of collaborations: with foreign institutions and with national institutions. These collaborations exist to supply student's competences. They are either scientific due to contact with other experienced experts, or through social competences needed to present and compare interim results between students and foreign researchers. The PhD programm has several collaborations with foreign institutions, such as:

  • -Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
  • -Univ Twente (Netherlands)
  • -Univ Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
  • -Goethe Univ Frankfurt-am-Main (Germany)
  • -Hochschule Furtwangen Univ (Germany)
  • -Univ Liège (Belgium)
  • -Sofia Univ (Bulgaria)
  • -Vilnius Institute of Public Policy and Management (Lithuania)
  • -Univ Bielefeld (Germany)
  • -Basque Country University (Spain)

The collaboration with the PACITA project on Parliaments and civil society in Technology Assessment (http://www.pacitaproject.eu/) widened the scope of the collaborations scheme. PACITA is a four-year EU financed project under FP7 aimed at increasing the capacity and enhancing the institutional foundation for knowledge-based policy-making on issues involving science, technology and innovation, mainly based upon the diversity of practices in Parliamentary Technology Assessment (PTA). Such practices involve a range of methods of cross-disciplinary expert studies, stakeholder involvement, citizen consultation and parliamentary discourse. PACITA has 15 European partners from national/regional parliamentary offices for science and technology, science academies, research institutions, universities and civil society organizations.
The PhD students attended already the PACITA Summer School 2012 at the Univ Liège (Belgium), the PACITA Practitioners International Workshop (ITQB-UNL, Oeiras) and several national workshops and conferences in other countries.
Furthermore, the PhD programme had students from foreign universities (such as Lithuania, Belgium, Germany and Bulgaria) attending and also willing to attend semesters of this PhD programme. Further collaboration process will also be developed with these student exchanges.
The programme has several collaborations with national institutions, such as:

  • - FCSH-UNL, Univ Nova Lisboa
  • - Univ Azores, Ponta Delgada
  • - ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon
  • - School of Economics and Management, Univ Lisbon (ISEG-UL)
  • - Institute of Sociology, Univ Porto (IS-UP)
  • - Faculty of Economics, Univ Coimbra (FEUC)
  • - Univ Évora
  • - Univ Algarve

Last, but not the least, students, researchers and professors of this PhD programme are also involved in the foundation and development of the Portuguese network on Technology Assessment (GrEAT-Grupo de Estudos em Avaliação de Tecnologia, http://avaliacaotecnologia.wordpress.com/). This network also established close contacts with the Portuguese parliament and with the PACITA project, and includes more than one hundred supporters and published several reports through its working groups (1-health technology assessment, 2-indicators, 3-transport and 4-foresight).

Collaboration with other institutions

The PhD programme has two type of collaborations: with foreign institutions and with national institutions. These collaborations exist to supply student's competences. They are either scientific due to contact with other experienced experts, or through social competences needed to present and compare interim results between students and foreign researchers. The PhD programm has several collaborations with foreign institutions, such as:

  • -Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
  • -Univ Twente (Netherlands)
  • -Univ Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
  • -Goethe Univ Frankfurt-am-Main (Germany)
  • -Hochschule Furtwangen Univ (Germany)
  • -Univ Liège (Belgium)
  • -Sofia Univ (Bulgaria)
  • -Vilnius Institute of Public Policy and Management (Lithuania)
  • -Univ Bielefeld (Germany)
  • -Basque Country University (Spain)

The collaboration with the PACITA project on Parliaments and civil society in Technology Assessment (http://www.pacitaproject.eu/) widened the scope of the collaborations scheme. PACITA is a four-year EU financed project under FP7 aimed at increasing the capacity and enhancing the institutional foundation for knowledge-based policy-making on issues involving science, technology and innovation, mainly based upon the diversity of practices in Parliamentary Technology Assessment (PTA). Such practices involve a range of methods of cross-disciplinary expert studies, stakeholder involvement, citizen consultation and parliamentary discourse. PACITA has 15 European partners from national/regional parliamentary offices for science and technology, science academies, research institutions, universities and civil society organizations.
The PhD students attended already the PACITA Summer School 2012 at the Univ Liège (Belgium), the PACITA Practitioners International Workshop (ITQB-UNL, Oeiras) and several national workshops and conferences in other countries.
Furthermore, the PhD programme had students from foreign universities (such as Lithuania, Belgium, Germany and Bulgaria) attending and also willing to attend semesters of this PhD programme. Further collaboration process will also be developed with these student exchanges.
The programme has several collaborations with national institutions, such as:

  • - FCSH-UNL, Univ Nova Lisboa
  • - Univ Azores, Ponta Delgada
  • - ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon
  • - School of Economics and Management, Univ Lisbon (ISEG-UL)
  • - Institute of Sociology, Univ Porto (IS-UP)
  • - Faculty of Economics, Univ Coimbra (FEUC)
  • - Univ Évora
  • - Univ Algarve

Last, but not the least, students, researchers and professors of this PhD programme are also involved in the foundation and development of the Portuguese network on Technology Assessment (GrEAT-Grupo de Estudos em Avaliação de Tecnologia, http://avaliacaotecnologia.wordpress.com/). This network also established close contacts with the Portuguese parliament and with the PACITA project, and includes more than one hundred supporters and published several reports through its working groups (1-health technology assessment, 2-indicators, 3-transport and 4-foresight).