Secondary Projects

Promotes research and training in Didactics of Classical Studies and has the pivotal role of equipping teachers and preuniversity students with skills and updated knowledge on Classical Languages and Cultures. The Ludi Conimbrigenses are its main laboratory activity.

Places CECH’s research and expertise in philology, translation, and multilingual studies at the forefront of the production of new knowledge and tools for research and dissemination in Open Science. It is tasked with the development of the new European collaborative translation platform, MONDAECUS.

Promotes R&D on the Heritage, History and Cultures of Food, Environment, and Wellbeing, in close liaison with European and Lusophone networks. Articulating with the European project CONVIVIUM, it will develop the first online database for citizens to safeguard their Family Food Heritage. It is responsible for a book series (DIAITA:Scripta&Realia) and a journal (DIAITA: Food&Heritage).

Centred around the study and interpretation of 16^th and 17^th-century Iberian musical heritage, its practice-as-research methodology promotes R&D with intense laboratory activity, framed by the PhD programme on Artistic Studies (branch: Music). It has well-established relations with the Cultural Creative Industries sector.

Develops research in the fields of hermeneutics, dialectics, phenomenology, and rationality (including its ethical, social, and political applications). It promotes an interdisciplinary and open discussion on societal issues within its Laboratory of Rationality and Applied Ethics. Idea and Ricoeuriana are its two associated book series.

Focuses on researching and exploring the connections between the myths of Classical Antiquity and their reception across fields such as literature, philosophy, theatre, cinema, visual arts, and music. It manages the THESPIS database on Ancient Greek and Latin performances in Portugal and manages the book series (Re)writing Myth.

Promotes R&D on Humanism through the lens of Jesuit History. Besides the translation and study of the Cursus Aristotelicus Conimbricensis, it will also manage the new Thespis database collection on Neo-Latin Jesuit Theatre in Portugal and will make available an unpublished documentary collection (from the 16^th-18^th centuries) from the former College of Jesus in Coimbra.