Fernandes, M., Neves, P., Araújo, P., Brás, I., Silva, M. E. (2022).
Carbon footprint of tourism sector in Portugal: Calculator self-validation.
Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, 39, 475-491.
https://doi.org/10.34624/rtd.v39i0.26494
Pereira, J. L. S., Perdigão, A., Tavares, A., Silva, M. E. F., Brás, I., Wessel, D. F. (2022).
Effects of the Addition of Different Additives before Mechanical Separation of Pig Slurry on Composition and Gaseous Emissions.
Agronomy, 12(7), 1618.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12071618
Catorze, C., Tavares, A. P., Cardão , P., Castro, A., Silva, M. E., Ferreira, D. W., Lopes, S., Brás, I. (2022).
Study of a solar energy drying system – Energy savings and effect in dried food quality.
Energy Reports, 8(Suppl. 3), 392-398.
Doi: 10.1016/j.egyr.2022.01.070
Duration: 2022 – 2023
Cised team members
António Pinto
Bruno Ferreira
Carlos Quental
Cristina Romão
Daniel Azevedo
Filipe Caldeira
Isabel Brás
Isabel Martins
Luísa Augusto
Maria Antunes
Steven Abrantes
Fernandes, M., Neves, P., Araújo, P., Brás, I., Silva, E. (2021).
Carbon Footprint of Tourism Sector in Portugal—Calculator Development.
Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Management, 9(6), 365-380.
DOI: 10.17265/2328-2169/2021.06.004
Silva, L., Silva, M., Bras, I., Domingos, I., Wessel, D., Ferreira, J. (2021).
A Cradle-to-Grave Life Cycle Assessment Study on a New Countertop Material.
Journal of Ecological Engineering, 22(11), 239-245.
DOI: 10.12911/22998993/142947
Fernandes, M., Neves, P., Araújo, P., Brás, I., Silva, E. (2021).
Carbon Footprint of Tourism Sector in Portugal – Study Case of a 3-Stars Hotel.
In C. Cobanoglu, E. Gunlu Kucukaltan, M. Tuna, A. Basoda, & S. Dogan (Eds.), Advances in managing tourism across continents (Vol. 1, pp. 600–614).
USF M3 Publishing.
https://www.doi.org/10.5038/9781955833004
Nóbrega, C., Aires Pereira, M., Coelho, C., Brás, I., Cristina Mega, A., Santos, C., Esteves, F., et al. (2021).
Virtual Physiology: A Tool for the 21st Century.
In Updates on Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology. IntechOpen.
DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.99671
Principal Researcher:
Maria Paula Carvalho
Duration: 2020 – 2022
Cised team members
Isabel Brás
Ricardo Gama
Funding
CGD; PV
The importance of science education is widely highlighted in the literature. There are national and international mechanisms that evaluate education systems and the scientific competences of students(1,2,3). The purpose of the Science Olympiads is to identify intrinsic problems in the teaching-learning process and to promote science education(4,5). In this competition the pupils perform 2 tests: theoretical and experimental. The experimental exam allows operational skills (know-how) that are not evaluated, e.g. in the PISA and TIMSS studies, to be assessed.
This project is motivated by a study(5) that shows that Portuguese students present a deficit in experimental skills at the International Olympiads at the end of secondary education. Although they undergo an intensive training in the months preceding the international competitions, these students cannot develop some of the skills required. It is necessary to promote science skills from the first years of schooling. Therefore, we designed a pilot study to implement the Experimental Mini-Olympics of Science within the scope of the subject of Estudo do Meio in primary school. The objectives of the study are: to evaluate the feasibility of the Mini-Olympics in the 4th year of primary school; to determine teachers’ needs to implement science activities; to investigate the potential for the Mini-Olympics so as to evaluate the theoretical and experimental science competences of pupils at the end of primary school; to investigate the potential of the Mini-Olympics to stimulate pupils’ autonomous learning and critical thinking; to motivate teachers for new scientific challenges and to increase pupils interest in science. This research will be carried out in the 5 School Groups in the municipality of Viseu, during the 2020/21 school year and will involve principals, teachers and pupils in the 4th year of schooling. Initially an inventory of each school’s resources available for science activities will be performed. The Olympic competitions will be developed and implemented and the results will be published after the data are analysed. Recommendations will be stated in order to improve science education in primary school.
Com as conclusões serão apresentadas sugestões para o ensino das ciências no 1ºCEB.
O estudo será realizado em cooperação com a Ciência Viva, as Sociedades Portuguesas da Física, da Química e da Geologia, a Ordem dos Biólogos, a Association of Polar Early Career Scientists e a International Association for Geoethics.
To sum up, the project is unique because there are no Experimental Science Mini-Olympiads in Portugal at the end of the primary school. The IPV will be a pioneer in implementing this competition, which it intends to expand soon to a national level.
1 http://www.oecd.org/pisa/
2 http://timssandpirls.bc.edu/timss2019/frameworks/
3 http://www.ige.min-edu.pt/upload/Relatorios/GC_EEC_2016_RELATORIO.pdf
4 https://www.dge.mec.pt/olimpiada-da-ciencia-da-uniao-europeia-euso
5 https://estudogeral.uc.pt/handle/10316/43058
Principal Researcher:
Carlos Albuquerque
Duration: 2020 – 2022
CISeD
Team Members
Isabel Paula Lopes Brás
Funding
CGD; PV
This transdisciplinary research and action project foresees the development of innovative health promotion strategies based on a salutogenic paradigm that seeks to empower people to manage their health resources and improve their health literacy. This study is also part of a local need which was identified and discussed by and with local stakeholders (health professionals and the academic community) in the absence of an inclusive, creative, dynamic and concerted strategy to promote salutogenic behaviours among the student of the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu (IPV – Instituto Politécnico de Viseu).
Attending to the experience of the research team in the conception and implementation of health promotion programs and technological solutions applied to health care, it becomes an opportunity to network and gather synergies between several partners among the clinical and teaching fields as well as in research, enhancing IPV in its social responsibilities.
The main objective of the "iPV with Health Plus" project is to develop, implement and evaluate an integrated and institutional health promotion program, creating the resources and organizational structures to support these processes along with the IPV students.
This project is structured with ten complementary tasks and it is aligned with the recommendations and challenges embodied in our current National Health Plan, based on the international guidelines, which emphasises a system of epidemiological surveillance of health determinants, reinforcing the organizational strategies and institutional culture in the field of health. Thus, the iPV Health+ project is supported by a strong networking among higher education institutions and primary health care institutions and it will monitor the health determinants of IPV students, assess their health needs, create an Observatory of the State of Health of the Students of the IPV and conceive a Group of Health Promotion with an integrated, multidisciplinary and multidimensional action in the field of health promotion among the students of the IPV. Considering this, the research team will also develop and evaluate an innovative and inclusive intervention program that, through the use of interactive technologies (app), will promote health literacy and healthy behaviours, according to a structured approach.
The impact expectations of this project clearly outperform issues related to the scientific production and dissemination of knowledge. Its intention is to contribute in a sustained, inclusive and lasting way to the conception and implementation of organizational responses, those focused on the promotion of salutogenic behaviours and also to create technological interfaces and structures that can streamline monitoring, intervention and follow-up procedures of the IPV students according to their health needs as levelling the institution into a national reference.
