Henriques, J., Caldeira, F., Cruz, T., Simões, P. (2024).
A Survey on Forensics and Compliance Auditing for Critical Infrastructure Protection.
IEEE Access, 12: 2409-2444.
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3348552
Gonçalves, M. P., Reis, P. M. N., Pinto, A. P. (2024).
Bank Market Power, Firm Performance, Financing Costs and Capital Structure.
International Journal Financial Studies, 12(1), 7.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijfs12010007
call for abstracts: until April 15th, 2024
acceptance communication: May 6th, 2024
delivery of the review by the authors: May 22nd, 2024
registration: until May 22th, 2024
presentation: June 3nd, 2024
submit abstract to: amb@estgv.ipv.pt
The European Green Week is an annual event organized by the European Commission to highlight and discuss environmental issues and promote sustainable initiatives. It serves as a platform for stakeholders to come together, exchange ideas, and showcase best practices related to environmental sustainability.
In Green Week IPV 2024 – Decarbonization and Sustainability, it will address these two key components of the European Green Week, reflecting the European Union’s commitment to promote the climate change and environmentally best practices. The European Union has set ambitious targets to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. Participants will share experiences and insights on transitioning to low-carbon technologies, renewable energy sources, and energy-efficient practices. An important collaboration will be held by IAPMEI-Viseu in joining companies and decision makers.
The 4th Workshop – Towards Zero Pollution, an international event at IPV, is part of the activities of Green Week IPV 2024, which will take place on June 3, 2024, in the auditorium of ESTGV (Superior School of Technology and Management of the Polytechnic University of Viseu). Call for abstracts to select for oral or poster presentation until April 15th 2024. All accepted abstracts will be published in the Abstract book, which will be available on the event website.
Principal Researcher:
Elisabete Silva
Duration: 2023 – 2025
Cised team members
Isabel Brás
Filipe Caldeira
João Menoita Henriques
Ana Matos
The protection and conservation of burned forest areas requires specific actions that must be developed with a strong awareness of the local reality regarding climate, hydrogeology, social expectations and economy. Recent studies show that the ecological effects of post-fire rehabilitation treatments need to be determined and taken into account when defining forest management models, since some options may increase the level of soil degradation.
Consequently, it is urgent to assess the effects of the options taken and ensure that they are included in the decision-making process. The main objective of R-FOREST project is to work on recent forest areas burned to be more resistant to fires and erosion, and thereby increase the resilience of forest ecosystems. The specific objectives intended to be achieved are: 1- Assess the effect of fire on the physical and chemical dynamics of the burned soil; 2 – Assess the soil restoration using mulching with different organic additives and its effect on ecosystem recovery, and use satellite images to improve the characterization and prediction of its constituents; 3- Modell and validate of the observed effects to predict the evolution of soil properties; and 4 - Envelop all stakeholders, including landowners and authorities, on the importance of soil protection in order to have a resilient ecosystem.
First, the characterization of the burned area will be made, evaluating the effects of fire on the physical and chemical properties of the soil. Then, 2 areas with about 0,5 hectare each (0,5 ha burned and 0,5 ha unburned) will be used to develop different soil recovery options through mulching, using urban waste composts and agro-forestry waste. The criteria for choosing the best additives will be based on soil recovery capacity, measuring environmental indicators. Sampling campaigns will be carried out to evaluate the soil physical and chemical properties, soil quality indices through the content of humic substances and bioindicators. Using univariate and multivariate statistical techniques, comparations will be made between the studied areas to highlight the effects of the intervention. Predictive models and their validation will allow describing structural patterns and comparing the effect of climate and soil restoration techniques on their quality. The success of the selected measures implementation will depend mainly on the involvement of landowners who should be aware for the crucial idiosyncrasies of sustainable forest management in the region, combined with voluntary conservation efforts, to maintain biodiversity, increasing the intrinsic value of the forest. All purposes will be integrated the involvement of researchers, landowners, companies and local associations in a participatory community panel.
A comemoração da Semana da Ciência e da Tecnologia irá decorrer a nível nacional entre 20 a 26 de novembro, para celebrar a ciência, a comunidade científica e o trabalho que se desenvolve para a sociedade.
Acolhendo esta iniciativa, e querendo deixar a nossa pegada, o IPV juntamente com os seus Centros de Investigação também irão promover uma ação, o Café Ciência “A Investigação científica: do IPV para o mundo”, pelas 17:30h no dia 21 de novembro, num evento híbrido, com duração previsível de 1 hora.
Duration: 2023 – 2025
Funding
IAPMEI
CISeD Team Members:
Carlos Quental
Duration: 2023-2025
Funding:
European Comission
1. Context
According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees’ report “Too Much Pain” (2018), 66.000 women and girls coming from FGM-practising countries applied for asylum in Europe and over 24.000 of them could potentially have already been affected by FGM. UNHCR also estimates that over 600,000 women are living with the consequences of FGM in Europe and that a further 180,000
girls and women are at risk of undergoing the harmful practice in 13 European countries.
1. General Objective
The general objective of the project is to provide online and face-to-face intercultural mediation training on prevention of harmful practices (HP) targeted at first line practitioners and migrant and refugee women, for (1) early detection, prevention, and response to HP crimes, such as female genital mutilation, early forced marriage and honor crimes and (2) to guarantee agility and adequacy of support to potential migrant victims.
2. Activities
2.1. Development of an intercultural digital toolbox to prevent HP on migrant women, with a Reference Framework for Intercultural Dialogue. (WP2)
2.2. Training of 720 first-line practitioners from the health sector, NGOs, police and teachers to adjust their HP prevention tools to intercultural scenarios. (WP3)
2.3. Awareness-Sessions targeted at 800 migrant women, which aim to support them in identifying early signs of possible aggression, based on human and women’s rights contemplated in international instruments, by acknowledging, expressing and acting on these situations. (WP3) Type and number of persons benefiting from the project
Toolkit Platform – 500 000 online users reached
Training – 800 migrant women and 720 practitioners on health, education and law enforcement.
Expected results:
1. Practitioners who know how to prepare and adapt HP services for intercultural frameworks, with regards to legal and psychological support.
2. Migrant women who know how to identify and prevent HP, including how to legally report.
Coordinator: INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DE VISEU-Portugal;
Partners: PRAKSIS ASSOCIATION-Grécia; ASSOCIACAO PORTUGUESA DE APOIO A VITIMA-Portugal; VICTIM SUPPORT EUROPE AISBL-Belgium; COMISSÃO PARA A CIDADANIA E A IGUALDADE DE GENERO-Portugal; FONDAZIONE INIZIATIVE E STUDIO SULLA MULTIETNICITA-Italy; COMMUNITY IMPACT UNIPESSOAL LDA-Portugal.
Principal Researcher:
Eduardo Miguel Teixeira Mendonça Gouveia
Duration: 2023 – 2025
Cised team members
Filipe Manuel Simões Caldeira
Vasco Eduardo Graça Santos
Maria Elisabete Ferreira Silva
José Luis Mendes Loureiro Abrantes
Paulo Joaquim Antunes Vaz
The dynamics imposed on the electric mobility market and environmental and technological issues lead to a paradigm involving various energy chain agents, from producers, consumers, traders, and network operators.
From the outset, private users and entities are faced with various mobility solutions, including vehicles with a thermal engine, hybrid, or purely electric. In the case of EV (Electric Vehicles), decision-making includes choices that are covered with different levels of sophistication, from charging an electric vehicle from a simple single-phase 16 A socket to more complex solutions that fit the assembly of Wallbox.
Other variables, such as the type of charging (fast/slow) and battery life, are also important. The most appropriate tariff option for each case and the maintenance inherent to each type of mobility solution make the decision denser.
Concerning energy production (self-consumption) and considering the user profile, it will be essential to reflect on mobility solutions that think of renewable energy production (solar photovoltaic, other) in which the EV can be a storage point for that energy with the consequent assessment of the potential economic benefit and the resultant minimization of the ecological footprint, highlighting the carbon footprint.
On the other hand, all these dynamics of sustainable mobility will impact the electrical grids. The network operator will now have to deal with these “new” realities, minimizing the impact on the network, namely in terms of power flow and in terms of the quality of the voltage wave. Also, at the end customer level, there are reports of situations in which inverters “withdraw” photovoltaic production from the grid in the face of disturbances in the quality of the voltage wave. These situations must be assessed at the level of the network operator when they have external causes at their origin or at the level of the consumer when the source of the disturbance is internal.
The present project proposal intends to contribute at several levels in several agents: users, energy producers (self-consumption), network operators, general public due to possible ascertainable environmental benefits.
The intended results include the guidance of dissertations, digital platforms, and publication in scientific journals and communications. Protocols for the study of sustainable mobility solutions within the scope of local agents may also be framed. In terms of results, it will also be essential to organize dissemination activities to disseminate the results obtained within the community and improve the visibility of research and development work in the mobility and transport sector.
