Projects

Isabel Henriques | PHorestALL aims to develop guidelines for identifying and evaluating forest areas with therapeutic potential, promote green prescriptions, and enhance environmental literacy, with expected scientific, social, and policy impact at an international level.

Filipe Martinho | This project pioneers a novel approach to seagrass restoration, using seagrass mariculture to meet plant and seed requirements for large-scale restoration while minimising impacts on existing natural meadows. A transdisciplinary strategy involving academia, authorities, local administration, and citizens guides the co-design, prioritisation, and implementation of restoration actions.

Catarina Silva | This project aims to gather efforts of all sectors involved in this issue and to apply the most innovative interdisciplinary scientific approaches to reduce marine megafauna bycatch in the East Central Atlantic, where the search to understand megafauna bycatch rates, the causes, their impact and ways to mitigate them has been underdeveloped when compared to other areas where the EU fishing fleet operates.

João Loureiro & Sílvia Castro | ARCADE targets a key component for the development of pollinator’s taxonomy – reference collections – through indexing, revision and improvement of reference collections from Portugal.

Helena Freitas | Aims to develop an EU-wide legume ecosystem to identify barriers and enablers of legume adoption and provide services on the economic and environmental benefits of their widespread inclusion into EU agricultural systems to promote biodiversity.

Helena Freitas GOOD is a 4-year project adopting multidisciplinary approach, aspired to create and evaluate Agroecological Weed Management (AWM) systems, and demonstrate that AWM adoption reduces herbicide use and enhances sustainability and resilience of cropping systems.

Helena Freitas GOOD is a 4-year project adopting multidisciplinary approach, aspired to create and evaluate Agroecological Weed Management (AWM) systems, and demonstrate that AWM adoption reduces herbicide use and enhances sustainability and resilience of cropping systems.

José Paulo Sousa & Luís Cunha | BENCHMARKS aims to provide a clear soil health index for benchmarking, using indicators that are pertinent to the objective of assessment, applicable to the land use and logistically feasible.

José Paulo Sousa | The overall aim of this 4-year Better-B project is to improve the resilience of beekeeping to abiotic stresses such as climate change, habitat loss and hazardous chemicals.

Fátima Alves & Helena Freitas | Promote biodiversity and sustainability, rely on local knowledge (traditional and indigenous), and strengthen the diversity of cultures through interdisciplinary and participatory approaches. This will help develop conservation strategies and participatory public policies suited to the specificities of these territories.

Helena Freitas GOOD is a 4-year project adopting multidisciplinary approach, aspired to create and evaluate Agroecological Weed Management (AWM) systems, and demonstrate that AWM adoption reduces herbicide use and enhances sustainability and resilience of cropping systems.

Paulo Rocha | The EU-funded GREEN project aims to establish a world-leading research centre focussed on the development of radical new ways to generate ecologically safe energy from algae. The project plans to introduce a self-sustainable bioenergy generator with a power output much higher than most current state-of-art bioenergy generators, thus bringing the EU one step closer to its green goals

Helena Freitas & Fátima Alves | PHOENIX aims to study, enrich, and test participatory and deliberative practices to improve the European Green Deal pathway and build a better, greener future for all.

José Paulo Sousa | The ApisRAM project provides a model of a bee colony, following individual bees through their life cycle and recreating their behaviour and decision-making.

Sílvia Castro | The project will support preparation for the implementation of the EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (EU PoMS) for wild bees, butterflies, hoverflies and moths using volunteer and professional recorders, building on the work of the ABLE project on citizen science butterfly monitoring.

José Paulo Sousa | B-GOOD is committed to find solutions and to develop innovative technologies in order to help beekeepers keeping their colonies healthy and to ensure sustainable beekeeping practices.

Sílvia Castro | The main aim of this Action is to improve plant conservation in Europe through the establishment of a network of scientists and other stakeholders who deal with different aspects of plant conservation, from plant taxonomy, conservation genetics, conservation physiology and reproductive biology to protected area's managers, not forgetting social scientists, who are crucial when dealing with the general public.

Helena Freitas | The project “Biosphere Reserves: sustainable territories, resilient communities” aims to enhance Portuguese Biosphere Reserves, encompassing their territories and communities, by promoting heritage assets and ecosystem services.

Eugénia Cunha & Maria Teresa Ferreira | Bakeng se Afrika has the main goal of developing a digital repository of human skeletal remains.

António Gouveia | The ultimate aim of this COST Action is to build up a cooperative, inclusive, bottom-up and responsive network with active involvement of European stakeholders to support research for biodiversity and geodiversity informatics.

José Paulo Sousa | The overall objective of EcoStack is to develop and support ecologically, economically and socially sustainable crop production via stacking and protection of functional biodiversity.

Maria do Céu Madureira & Susana C. Gonçalves Implementation of Agroforestry Systems (AFS) in S. Tomé and Príncipe degraded lands, and development of non-wood forest products (NWFP) in Angola and S. Tomé e Príncipe to improve income-generation and food security

National Herbarium of São Tomé e Principe - António Gouveia (2017-2019)

The project aims to support diagnostic activities and characterise the commonly occurring European Pratylenchusspecies

Interreg SUDOE SOE1/P5/E0129 - José Paulo Sousa (2016-2019)

Susana Rodríguez Echeverría | This project aims to establish a climate and biological monitoring network in Serra da Estrela that allows an understanding of the spatial heterogeneity of climatic conditions, biodiversity, and the functioning and regeneration of ecosystems.

Projeto de envolvimento e participação das populações na gestão e manutenção de áreas florestais multifuncionais, com recurso à implementação de viveiros comunitários, na formação e valorização do conhecimento das populações dos usos tradicionais da floresta, promovendo a definição de boas práticas na gestão participada do território, incluindo produtos de comunicação de conhecimento e modelos de envolvimento.

Helena Freitas & Joana Costa | The Integrated Program CULTIVAR aims to respond to the challenges faced by the sectors of the Agri-food sector in the Centro Region, namely to characterize, conserve and valorize endogenous regional genetic resources in low density areas, through a strategy of territorial development, promoting and consolidating collaboration between science, technology and higher education institutions and the Agri-food cluster.

Helena Freitas & Maria Fernanda Rollo | The TREASURING project aims to enhance the natural and cultural-historical heritage associated with the Gorongosa National Park, involving the training and qualification of technicians and local communities, reinforcing their role in the conservation, benefits and sustainable uses of environmental resources in a methodological approach based on research transdisciplinary science with a strong communication and dissemination component.

Filipa Bessa and Helena Freitas | This project aims to inform, raise awareness, and involve the community in general on the issue of plastic and microplastic pollution in the environment.

Maria Fernanda Rollo | Has as main objectives the promotion of knowledge, preservation, enhancement and dissemination of the legacy of the PSP, namely the promotion of the organization and musealization of the heritage associated with the history of the police, namely what constitutes property of the PSP.

Isabel Abrantes | Promote the control of pine wilt disease caused by the pine wood nematode through the development of operational strategies that overcome the identified constraints in accordance with national and community regulations and guidelines, making management of these forest spaces more efficiently.

Joana Alves & José Paulo Sousa | MultiForest aims to encourage an economy based on valuing the forest by identifying goods and services and promoting the sustainable use of natural resources through multidisciplinary scientific knowledge and knowledge transfer.

Valorisation of marine resources by researching, developing and demonstrating new products and improving production processes through the development of new technologies. The ValorMar project proposes innovative solutions for the creation of new healthy food products, using sustainable and efficient technologies.

Susana Rodríguez Echeverría | The objective is to study the effect of global warming on the functioning and diversity of ecosystems in the upper plateau of Serra da Estrela.