The event is a partnership with the 35th International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development, CPES – Universidade Lusofona, GOVCOPP – Universidade de Aveiro, University North and Faculty of Management University of Warsaw. The Conference is funded by national ressources through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P., the project «UID/CPO/4563/2016».
The first call for papers is open until September 5th. Abstract submissions must be in English and it should have between 250 and 300 words.
Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings, but a selection of the best papers about Sustainability from an Economic and Social Perspective will be published on CPES Journal, Fluxos & Riscos.
CICPRIS hosted an International Conference on New Political Movements in Portugal and Europe, on the 21st of May, at 9h30, at Agostinho da Silva Auditorium, at ULHT Campus, in Lisbon. Moderated by João de Almeida Santos, dean of FCSEA and Researcher in charge of CICPRIS, the panel counted with Manuel Anselmi, Perugia University, José Manuel Sánchez Duarte, King Juan Carlos University-Madrid, Bernardo Ivo Cruz, True Bridge Consultancy, and José Filipe Pinto, Lusófona University.
Framed as part of the research program about New Political Movements, this conference represented a further step in the process on the public debate about this important and current issue, with specialists form Portugal and abroad. These political movements are an alternative to the traditional political models, currently in crisis, serving as the critical response to the system. Also, they are based on self-organizing and self-mobilizing citizenship movements that have appeared after the development of new Information and communication technology (ICT), and social networks.
The Centre for Research in Political Science, International Relations and Security (CICPRIS) is a Research Unit constituted by about fifty researchers of the Departments of «Political Science, Security and International Relations» of the FCSEA of the Humanities and Technologies Lusophone University and of the Faculty of Law and Political Science of Oporto Lusophone University.
