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PROJ/IPV/ID&I/018 • Avaliação Ambiental de Produtos Sustentáveis na Indústria Transformadora de Granitos (AAPSITG)

[DDSS] Digital Decision Support Systems, competitivo, concluído, interno, nacional, viseu /

Principal Researcher:
Maria Elisabete Silva
Duration: 2019 – 2022

Cised team members
Maria Elisabete Silva
Isabel Brás
José Vicente
Idalina Domingos

Funding
CGD; PV

The industry associated to construction sector have an important environmental impact, mainly associated with exhaustion of natural resources and waste production. Is a fact that mineral and others material will have an announced end in the nature in a near future. One industry related with this sector is the worktop production for integral part of kitchen and bathrooms furniture that uses minerals as raw materials. Thus, the development of sustainable products related with this production is necessary and very important for minimize environmental impact. Product sustainability (PS) looks at how products can provide economic benefits to companies while at the same time providing environmental and social benefits to society in general. The PS aims at balancing the contributions of products to the triple benefit (economy, society and environment), thereby creating multiple and shared values for different stakeholders. A general definition of a PS could be: a product designed, manufactured, used and disposed of according to criteria of economic, environmental and social efficiency, which maximize net benefits across generations by minimize the impact during the life cycle. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is one of the most important analytical tools to provide the scientific background for engineering solutions to sustainability, both during the design phase (eco-design) and during life cycle management. By applying LCA it is possible to optimize the aspects from the extraction of raw materials to the final disposal of waste materials. The application of LCA, not only meets consumer demands for environmentally friendly products, but also increase the productivity and competitiveness of the sustainable products. In summary, it can be stated that the application of LCA is fundamental to sustainability and improvement the sustainable products in the worktop industrial activities. This sector will be the focus of the present study and it will be done the LCA of a new worktop product, produced with wastes from traditional worktop production and compare to the traditional product. In attempting to certificate it sustainability it will be done the environmental product declaration. This product may be considered as an Eco-Product once it incorporates of wastes or subproducts in its composition. The 4 main phases of LCA methodology will be implemented, such as the goal and scope definition, inventory analysis, impact assessment and interpretation for this new material comparing with the product traditionally produced in the collaborative factories.

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LIFE18 ENV/PT/000361 • LIFE LANDSCAPE FIRE – New methodologies

[CDS] Connected Digital Society, [DDSS] Digital Decision Support Systems, competitivo, concluído, internacional, projetos, viseu /

Duration: 2019 – 2024

Cised team members
António Figueiredo
Carlos Pereira
Elisabete Silva
Isabel Brás
Rui Duarte
Serafim Oliveira

Funding
UE through the LIFE program

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This project aims to develop large-scale measures to prevent forest fires, conserve biodiversity, increase forest resilience, train decision-makers on the benefits of prevention, as well as identify a set of of options and measures for local adaptation that will make it possible to identify and propose actions to reduce the current and future territorial vulnerability of the region.

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591998-EPP-1-2017-1-CZ-EPPKA2-SSA-B • DRIVES – Development and research on innovative vocational educational skills

[DAI] Digital Automotive Industry, competitivo, concluído, internacional, projetos, viseu /

Duration: 2018 – 2022

Cised team members
Carlos Pereira
Daniel Gaspar
Paulo Moisés Costa
Serafim Oliveira

Funding
FCT

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The project investigates the types of decarbonization strategies that comply with the Paris Agreement, the implementation of which requires the transformation of several sectors beyond energy, such as mobility, construction, agri-food and industry. This sectoral transformation poses challenges for the development of countries and regions, which have become particularly pressing at a time when states have to accelerate the low-carbon transition with more fragile finances and the need for economic recovery, after the pandemic crisis. . The research combines theories from socio-technical transitions and economic geography to identify the low-carbon transition strategies with the greatest transformative potential and investigate how countries and regions prepare for that transformation. The focus of this research is on the type of transition strategies that are most beneficial to the economy, that is, that have the capacity to generate change in other sectors. The project studies the possible directions of the transition and its transformative capacity, assesses the extent to which the system is preparing for this transition mode, and identifies areas that are leading or holding back the change. This research will also identify transformation patterns for emerging sustainable consumption and production modes at the corporate level, and compare them with the decarbonization strategies prescribed in the literature. The results will contribute to the discussion on the processes and ways of conducting sustainable transitions associated with different economic characteristics of the regions. The project will also contribute to the discussion on the influence of context as a facilitator or constraint of some types of decarbonization strategies, as well as identifying key dimensions on which policies can intervene in order to amplify the effect of transitions in structural transformation to national and regional level

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PTDC/GES-GCE/32259/2017-POCI-01-0145-FEDER-032259 • TWINE – Co-creating sustainable Tourism & Wine Experiences in rural areas

[SWACES] Social Web Applied to Culture, Economy and Society, competitivo, concluído, nacional, projetos, viseu /

Cised team members
Carla Silva
Cristina Barroco

Funding
FCT
COMPETE2020
PORTUGAL2020
Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional

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The TWINE project aims to study the co-creation of tourist experiences in rural wine tourism destinations, focusing on the Bairrada do Dão and Beira Interior routes, located between the coast and the interior of the Central region. With a view to deepening the methodologies and results of a previous project on the integral experience in rural areas in Portugal, the project is led by the University of Aveiro (ORTE project –PTDC/CS-GEO/104894/2008), also integrating the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu and the University of Beira Interior, as well as experts (from the UK, Germany and Portugal) in wine tourism, sustainable rural tourism and regional development. Action research promotes the exchange of information between researchers, communities, development agents and stakeholders in the tourism and wine sector.

The tourist experience will be studied in the following dimensions: cognitive, sensorial, behavioral, emotional, relational, economic and spatial. Emphasis will be given to the physical, social and cultural contexts of the wine tourism experience, as well as complementary tourist experiences (cultural, nature, well-being tourism). For the analysis of the integral tourist experience (before, during and after the trip), innovative methodologies will be used (reaction to promotional material with eye tracking and psychophysiological feedback, in the pre-visit; tracking of tourist movements and photo-elicitation during the visit; and analysis of content generated by tourists on social networks, in the post-visit period), aiming at the identification of central elements for the design and promotion of appealing experiential tourism products.

The composition and functioning of the wine “ecosystem”, partly defined by the routes, will be explored in terms of: a) motivations, attitudes and actions of supply agents; b) attitudes and actions of local communities; c) articulation and management of networks of actors, resources, attractions and equipment. Attention will be given to the dynamic context of the international market and the specific territorial context, especially coastal-inland differences.

The multidisciplinary research team (with specialization in geography, rural sociology, regional development, network analysis, management, entrepreneurship, innovation, consumer behavior, psychology, marketing and tourism) will contribute to a comprehensive understanding of the opportunities for co-creation of experiences in appealing and sustainable wine tourism as well as the conditions for the success of the wine tourism ecosystem. In global terms, the project aims to promote sustainable rural development in the studied enodestinations based on new forms of business based on endogenous resources, generating greater wealth and creating new jobs. It also intends to design a local development model that can be replicated in other wine regions, promoting wine tourism routes that benefit economies, communities and visitors.

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CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-017011 • CITYACTION Plataforma Tecnológica Integrada para Operação de Cidades Inteligentes

[CDS] Connected Digital Society, competitivo, concluído, nacional, projetos, viseu /

CISeD Team Members:
Filipe Caldeira
Cristina Wanzeller
Paulo Tomé
Daniel Albuquerque

Duration: 2017 – 2020

Funding
FEDER

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Exatronic, Altice Labs, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Allbesmart, Evox Technologies, Instituto Politécnico de Viseu

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