Completed projects

Porto Town Halls (1820-2010)

This Project aims at presenting the history of the several buildings which served as Town Hall for the city of Porto since the establishment of Liberalism, the reasons that explain their construction and location, and their architectural and artistic characterization.

The Economics of Corruption in Portugal

This multidisciplinary project aimed at analysing the economics of the corruption phenomenon in the contemporary Portuguese society.

Bragança in the Contemporary Age (1820-2012)

The project “Bragança in the Contemporary Age (1820-2012)” aimed at analysing the administrative evolution and the demographic, economic, social and cultural structures of that city, as well as the political reality, heritage and the transformations of the urban space, from the liberal revolution of 1820 up to present time.

The Franciscan Third Order in Northern Portugal

With this project we intended to study the importance of the Venerable Franciscan Third Order in northern Portugal as promoters of almost always remarkable artistic activities associated with the construction of structures fit for their organization (church or chapel, dispatch house and hospital) and significantly supporting First Orders, to which they are linked.

The Mayors of Porto (1822-2013)

Following a previous Project, it was intended with this new project to review and update the information on the biographies of the Mayors of Porto, from the first one directly elected by the population to the current Mayor.

Touristic Porto: Studies on Porto as a Tourism Destination

This Project relies on the participation of researchers from multidisciplinary scientific fields related to tourism, with the aim of publishing a reference work covering Porto as a tourist destination of choice

History of Agência Abreu (1840-2010)

This Project aims at describing the history of Agência Abreu, one of the oldest travel agencies in the world, in order to establish the origins of the above mentioned company within the context of the Portuguese emigration to Brazil and make a comprehensive collection of relevant documents on the activity of Agência Abreu, in all its different perspectives.

The Mayors of Ponte de Lima (1822-2012)

This project proposes to trace the biographies of the Mayors of the Municipality of Ponte de Lima between the beginning of Liberalism in Portugal and the present time

Emigration from Portugal to Brazil. Demographic Dynamics and Political Speech

This Research Project, funded by the FCT, follows the Project “Emigration from Northern Portugal to Brazil”, and its aims are the construction of a database that will include the individual records of Portuguese who emigrated to Brazil; it already counts with over 400 thousand individual records.

Século XXI – Uma Nova Era Energética? Energia e Ambiente como Vectores de Transformação das Relações Internacionais no Século XXI

Este Projecto pretende caracterizar possíveis evoluções da envolvente geoeconómica e geopolítica nas regiões fornecedoras de petróleo e gás natural a Portugal - avaliar questões de segurança de abastecimento - e proceder a um exercício de cenarização sobre possíveis estratégias de segurança energética nacional.

Artistas e Artífices no Mundo de Expressão Portuguesa (séculos XVI a XIX)

Na sequência do Projecto "Artistas e Artífices do Norte de Portugal (séculos XII-XX)", apoiado pela FCT, este novo Projecto propõe-se alargar o âmbito geográfico, passando a abarcar não só outras regiões de Portugal, mas incluir também o Brasil e outros Estados da América Latina.

Political and Economic Relations of Portugal with Russia (1779-1834)

This project aims at studying the political, diplomatic and economic relations of Portugal with Russia since the beginning of the establishment of diplomatic relations with Russia until the definite establishment of Liberalism in Portugal (1779-1834).

Hispanic Medieval Nobility: 8th to 16th centuries

This Project aims at compiling a database that allows ascertaining the relations between Northern Portugal and Galicia from the respective nobility groups, during the Middle Ages (8th to 16th centuries).

Commendation of Military Orders: National Profile and International Integration

The aim of this Project, which is funded by the FCT, is to study the Commendations of Noudar, the Order of Avis, the Order of Vera Cruz de Marmelar, the Order of Hospital, both in the Portuguese and international contexts, highlighting its conception of border and projection in different political spaces.

Cuius Regio. An analysis of the cohesive and disruptive forces destining the attachment of groups of persons to and the cohesion within regions as a historical phenomenon [CURE]

The Cuius Regio project aims at presenting an historical analysis of a group of seven European regions, in order to establish a comparison of the disruptive and cohesive dynamics.

The Mayors of Vila Nova de Gaia (1834-2010)

The Mayors of the City Hall of Vila Nova de Gaia (1834-2010), which counted with the support of that Municipality, aims at writing the biographies of the Mayors of the City Hall of Vila Nova de Gaia between 1834 and 2010, to describe their actions while running the Municipality and to present the evolution of the legislative framework regarding the local power in Contemporary Portugal, under which the different Mayors of the City Hall of Vila Nova de Gaia performed their duties.

Portuguese society and ageing diseases: the Alzheimer Project

The aim of this project is to contribute to the development of a National Alzheimer Plan that still does not exist in Portugal, which requires carrying out scientific research in the context of the Portuguese society.

Ageing and Health in Portugal. Policies and practices

The project Ageing and Health in Portugal. Policies and Practices aims at measuring the relationships between the health status of the Portuguese population and the expected increase of education levels over the next decades, assessing the range and implications of this co-relationship, through the combination of demographic and econometric analysis techniques that allow a systemic view of this phenomenon, in order to support the decision making process within the scope of the health public policies.

LANDYN – Changes of Land Use and Occupation in Mainland Portugal: Characterization, driving Forces and Future Scenarios

This project aims at providing an accurate image of the changes regarding land use and occupation - to identify and understand the main forces driving these changes and to build the main scenarios for those changes until 2040.

AZULEJAR – Conservation of Tiles on Façades

This Project aims at characterizing façade elements in several buildings in need of conservation actions involving their historical context, taking into consideration the production methods, their composition and the factors for the degradation of tiles.