Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Rita Maria Assunção Serra
Citation names
- Serra, Rita
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 921C-3D1F-034F
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-7751-9172
- Scopus Author Id
- 7006478420
Email addresses
- ritaserra@ces.uc.pt (Professional)
Telephones
- Telephone
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- 239 855 57 (Professional)
Addresses
- Colégio de S. Jerónimo, Largo D. Dinis, Apartado 3087, 3000-995 , Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
Knowledge fields
- Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences - Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Mycology
- Engineering and Technology - Industrial Biotechnology
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Spanish; Castilian | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Elementary (A2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2005
Concluded
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Doutoramento em Engenharia Química e Biológica [PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering] (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
"Micoflora das uvas Portuguesas e seu potencial para a contaminação das uvas com micotoxinas, com destaque para a ocratoxina
A" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Aprovada |
1995 - 1999
Concluded
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Biologia [Degree in Biology] (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2008/03/01 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal | ||
2016 - 2017 | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
2008 - 2013 | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
2012/04/01 - 2012/05/31 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil |
Positions / Appointments
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2011/10/01 - 2014/05/31 | Co-coordinator Research Group on Science, Economy and Society (NECES) | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2017/09/01 - 2018/03/01 | Co-Coordinator of the seminar "Thesis Project" of the Doctoral Programme "Democracy in the XXI Century" | Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal |
2012/03/01 - 2012/06/30 | Coordinator of the seminar "Ciência, Tecnologia e Conhecimento em Sociedade" (Science, Technology and Knowledge in Society) of the Doctoral Programme "Governance, Knowledge, Innovation" | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
2011/11/01 - 2012/01/31 | Coordinator of the seminar "Governação, Conhecimentos e Participação Pública" (Governance, Knowledge and Public Participation) of the Doctoral Programme "Governance, Knowledge, Innovation" and Doctora | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
2011/10/08 - 2011/12/16 | Coordinator of the seminar "Antropologia da Biomedicina e das Biotecnologias" (Anthropology of Biomedicine and Biotechnology), at the Master in Medical Anthropology | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
2005/06/01 - 2008/03/01 | Pos-Doc schollarship of FCT | Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
2007 - 2007 | Pos-Doc schollarship of FCT | Instituto de Biotecnologia e Bioengenharia, Portugal |
2000/09/01 - 2004/09/01 | PhD schollarship of FCT | Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
Projects
Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2024/03/01 - 2024/12/31 | AUTICORPOS 2.0 - Melhorar a saúde e bem-estar das pessoas autistas
Principal investigator
APVA - Associação Portuguesa Voz do Autista, Portugal
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INR, I.P - Instituto Nacional para a Reabilitação
Ongoing
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2023/01/01 - 2023/12/31 | AUTICORPOS - Dar corpo à saúde mental no autismo
Principal investigator
APVA - Associação Portuguesa Voz do Autista, Portugal
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INR, I.P - Instituto Nacional para a Reabilitação
Concluded
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2022/03/15 - 2023/03/15 | BioD'Agro - Agricultura 4.0 no Parque Natural do Douro Internacional: monitorização e promoção da agrobiodiversidade
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
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Fundação 'la Caixa' Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. BPI Concluded
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2019/09/01 - 2021/01/31 | PARENT - Promotion, Awareness Raising and Engagement of men in Nurture Transformations
Other
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra, Portugal |
European Union
Concluded
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2017/01/01 - 2017/12/31 | COMUNIX - Active Youth Participation in Governance in Community Areas
2016-2-PT02-KA205-003611
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
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European Commission
Concluded
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2012/05/01 - 2016/04/30 | ENTITLE. European Network of Political Ecology
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain The University of Manchester, United Kingdom Lunds universitet Institutionen för laboratoriemedicin Lund, Sweden Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Bogaziçi Üniversitesi, Turkey Charokopeio Panepistemio, Greece Universidad de Chile, Chile |
European Commission
Concluded
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2010/04/01 - 2013/09/30 | SCRAM - Crises, risk management and new socio-ecological arrangements for forests: a perspective from science and technology
studies
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
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2010/04/01 - 2013/09/30 | Choice beyond (in)commensurability: controversies and public decision making on territorial sustainable development (BECOM)
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
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2010/04/01 - 2013/09/30 | Science Engaging Society: Life Sciences, Social Sciences and Publics (BIOSENSE)
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
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2010/06/01 - 2013/05/31 | Evaluating the state of public knowledge on health and health information in Portugal
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book |
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Book chapter |
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Book review |
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Conference paper |
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Dictionary entry |
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Journal article |
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Newspaper article |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Working paper |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2020/01/29 | Governação Comunitária das Florestas - onde param as mulheres? [Community Forest Governance - where do women stop?] | Escola de Inverno Ecologias Feministas de Saberes II - Saberes e Práticas para a C[u]idadania
Centro de Estudos Sociais (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2019/03/15 | El concepto de Comunidad en los Comunales [The concept of Community in the Commons] | III Seminario sobre Conservación Comunal / III Seminar on Communal Conservation
CENEAM - Iniciativa Comunales. (Valsaín, Spain)
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2018/11/24 | Debater os sistemas alimentares [Discuss food systems] | IV International Ecosocialist Meetings
Several civil and academic organizations (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2018/11/22 | Panel "Another World Is Possible" and It Has to Be Made Visible: The role of the urban and rural commons and regenerative communities". | Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons: Envisioning sustainable and post-capitalist futures
ISCTE (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2018/11/07 | Unclaimed common rights: the hidden history of "baldios" in Portugal (with Giovanni Allegretti) | A imaginação do futuro. Saberes, experiências, alternativas. COLÓQUIO DE HOMENAGEM A BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS NOS 40 ANOS
DO CENTRO DE ESTUDOS SOCIAIS.
Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra. (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2018/07/16 | 17º Encontro C&T Re INVENTAR o TERRITÓRIO – O papel da sociedade civil | 17º Encontro C&T Re INVENTAR o TERRITÓRIO – O papel da sociedade civil
Activar, ADSCCL, Dueceira e ADIBER - Biblioteca Municipal da Lousã (Lousã, Portugal)
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2017/11/17 | Fórum do desenvolvimento: viver, refletir, agir e desenvolver [Development forum: live, reflect, act and develop] | Development forum: live, reflect, act and develop
ANIMAR (Covilhã, Portugal)
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2017/11/11 | Incêndios em Portugal: autogestão e solidariedade contra o negócio do fogo [Fires in Portugal: self-management and solidarity against the fire business] |
Neighborhood Association of Celas (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2017/11/02 | III Fórum da Floresta [III Forest Forum] | III Forest Forum
Bloco de Esquerda (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2017/07/15 | 21º encontro solidário dos povos da serra da Lousã [21st solidarity meeting of the peoples of the Serra da Lousã] | 21st solidarity meeting of the peoples of the Serra da Lousã
Santo António da Neve (Santo António da Neve, Portugal)
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2017/07/10 | Practitioners' Lab: What can customary landowners around the world learn from commons in modern Portugal? | Practicing the commons: self-governance, cooperation and institutional change
International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) (Utrecht, Netherlands)
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2017/07/02 | Presentation of COMUNIX project | VI Conferência Nacional dos Baldios
BALADI - Federação Nacional dos Baldios (Vila Real, Portugal)
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2017/05/01 | Apresentação do COMUNIX e Debate do Filme "En todas as Mans" [presentation of COMUNIX and Debate of the film "En todas as Mans"] | Festa da Floresta
Benfeita (Benfeita, Portugal)
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2017/04/08 | Atitude De Gestão Valorativa Dos Ativos Nas Áreas Comunitária [Attitude of Valuable Asset Management in Community Areas] | BALADI Seminar
BALADI - Federação Nacional dos Baldios (Vilarinho, Portugal)
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2017/03/04 | Conversa "Baldios: nas mãos de todos?" [Conversation "Baldios: in everyone's hands?"] |
Casa da Achada - Centro Mário Dionísio (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2017/03/03 | Áreas comunitárias na Galiza, em Portugal e na Itália: Apresentação de projeto COMUNIX e livro "Governação comunitária de florestas para crianças - kit pedagógico" [Community areas in Galicia, Portugal and Italy: Presentation of the COMUNIX project and book "Community forest governance for children - educational kit"] |
Centro de Estudos Galegos - FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2017 | Baldios: escolas de eco-cidadania? [Baldios: schools of eco-citizenship?] | Festival de Ecologia, Arte e Tradições Populares SONS & RURALIDADES (XII edição)
EPGA - Associação para o Estudo e Protecção do Gado Asinino e do Município de Vimioso (Vimioso, Portugal)
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2016/05/21 | Baldios: passado e futuro [Common lands: past and future] | I Seminário Comunidades locais e os baldios (First seminar on local communities and common lands)
Community of Commoners of Vilarinho, Lousã (CCLEFVL) (Vilarinho, Lousã, Portugal)
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2016/05/21 | I Seminário "Comunidades locais e os baldios" | I Seminário "Comunidades locais e os baldios", Vilarinho,
Compartesd de Vilarinho (Vilarinho, Portugal)
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2014/10/16 | Re-Commoning the Commons | Re-Commoning Democracy. A workshop with scholars/activists
Centro de Estudos Sociais (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2014/01/28 | Democratizar o Território, a superação da dicotomia urbano/rural [Democratizing the Territory, overcoming the urban / rural dichotomy] | 25 de Abril, 40 anos de Futuro'
Centro de Estudos Sociais (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2013/07/02 | Academic-community collaborations: what kind of hybrid institutions for knowledge production and decisions on collective management? | 4th EMES Conference on Social Enterprise Research
Univ. of Liege (Liege, Belgium)
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2012/11/08 | Playing with fire. A political ecology of risk in the Portuguese forests | Entitle Intensive Workshops "Violence and the Environment. Resources, conflicts and resistance"
Centro de Estudos Sociais (Coimbra, Portugal)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2013/05/10 - Current | What is a genetically modified seed? Implications for Science, Seeds and Cyborgs
Co-supervisor of Bela Irina Passos Natário de Castro
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Governance, Knowledge and Innovation (Sociology) (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
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Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2017/10/23 - 2017/10/25 | Europe and Middle East Workshop on the Commons: a) Improved the common knowledge, networking capacity and communication tools
between 20 organizations, from 12 countries, working on the support and recognition of common governance of natural resources
in European and the Middle East; b) Identification of the key threats and opportunities for the commons in Europe and the
Middle East; c) A Strategic Plan was developed to prioritize and tackle the identified threats and respond to the identified
opportunities at supra-national level.
Workshop
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Europe and Middle East Workshop on the Commons
ICCA Consortium - Territories and Areas Conserved by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, Switzerland
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2016/11/15 - 2016/11/17 | The First Meeting of the European Commons Assembly took place in Brussels from November 15 to 17. Roughly 150 diverse commons
activists from 21 countries across Europe participated in this historic event. Building on collective work on policy proposals
in the preceding weeks, on November 16 we came together in Parliament for a 3.5 hour session exploring the ECA as a platform
and the commons as a powerful paradigm for policymaking.
Meeting
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First meeting of the European Commons Assembly - European Parlament
European Commons Assembly, Belgium
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Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2019/10/19 - 2019/10/19 | Research-Action with local communities (baldios). Oportunities and challenges for rural regeneration (Worlds Commons Week) | Community of Commoners of Ansiães, Portugal. |
Consulting
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2018/09/15 - 2019/08/31 | Baldios as ICCAs in Portugal. | ICCA Consortium - Territories and Areas Conserved by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, Switzerland |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2017/09/01 - 2018/07/31 | 2017/2018 Doctoral Programme in Democracy in the 21st Century | Doctoral Programme in Democracy in the 21st Century (Doutoramento) | Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
2011/08/01 - 2012/07/31 | 2011/2012 Doctoral Program "Governance, Knowledge, Innovation" | Doctoral Program "Governance, Knowledge, Innovation" (Doutoramento) | Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
2011/10/08 - 2011/12/16 | 2011/2012 Anthropology of Biomedicine and Biotechnologies | Master in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Mestrado) | Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal |
Evaluation committee
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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2012/10/01 - 2015/04/30 |
Member of the editorial staff of the Revista Crítica das Ciências Sociais (Critical review of social sciences)
Member
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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2017/08/31 | Interview regarding the Youth school organized in Portugal within the project COMUNIX - Active Youth Participation in Governance in Community Areas, funded under the programme ERASMUS + | Trevim |
2017/07/27 | Interview regardind Baladi (Portuguese National Federation of Common Lands) seminar on the contribution of forests for combating climate change | Trevim |
2017/04/08 | Interview regarding common lands in Azores, and the project COMUNIX - Active Youth Participation in Governance in Community Areas, project funded by ERASMUS + | Diário Insular |
2016/02/16 | Interview regarding the award of the Erasmus + funding for the development of th project COMUNIX - Active Youth Participation in Governance in Community Areas | Several |
2015/07/01 | Interview regarding the Common Lands in Vilarinho and the joint research between them and CES under the project SCRAM - Crises, risk management and new socio-ecological arrangements for forests: a perspective from science and technology studies, funded by FCT | Mapa - Jornal de Informação Crítica |
2015/03/19 | Interview regarding the new Portuguese Law n.º 75/2017 on Common Lands. | Diário de Coimbra |
2013/09/23 | Interview regarding the results of the project SCRAM - Crises, risk management and new socio-ecological arrangements for forests: a perspective from science and technology studies, funded by FCT. The interview also focuses on the established relationships between CES and Vilarinho Common Lands. | Público [Revista 2] |
2013/07/28 | Interview regarding the common project between the Centre of Social Studies and Vilarinho Common Lands | Diário de Coimbra |
2011 | Interview regarding wild mushrooms and their contribution for sustainble socio-ecological arrangements for forests. The interview resulted from the joint research, and colaboration, of CES and Vilarinho Common Lands. | As Beiras |
Interview (tv / radio show)
Program | Topic | |
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2017/03/07 - Current | Programa "Portugal em Direto" [Live Portugal] | COMUNIX - Active Youth Participation in Governance in Community Areas Project |
Mentoring / Tutoring
Topic | Student name | |
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2011 - 2020 | Science in society | Patrícia Ferreira |
Distinctions
Award
1999 | Prémio Doutor Manuel Ferreira
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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1999 | Prémio Engº António de Almeida
Fundação Engenheiro António de Almeida, Portugal
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Title
2019 | Honorary member of the ICCA Consortium - Territories and Areas Conserved by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
ICCA Consortium - Territories and Areas Conserved by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, Switzerland
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