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4 1. Identification of the R&D Unit 1.0. Reference: Name of the R&D Unit: Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa 1.2. Acronym: ICS-ULisboa 1.3. Coordinator: Jorge Manuel Vala Salvador 1.4. Multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary R&D Unit No Scientific Areas Sociology (Main Scientific Area) Anthropology Political Science History 1.5. Profile of the R&D Unit 100% Basic Research 1.6. Keywords: Changing Societies Citizenship Inclusion Sustainability 1.7. Link to the R&D Unit s page on the Internet: Unit registration options: Keep 1

5 2. Institutions and their roles 2.1. Main Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa 2.2. Other Host Institution: N/A 2.3. Participation Institution: N/A 2.4. Institutional Commitment ICS is a research unit of the University of Lisbon with permanent members assuring its current functioning: 83 researchers (26 with tenure), 22 technical staff. ICS offers appropriate institutional conditions for research development. The following aspects are highlighted in terms of the quality and adequacy of the research environment at ICS: Workplace. The premises are located in a modern 5-storey building, opened in 2003, specially designed to meet the needs of research and graduate teaching activities. Located on the ULisbon campus, the building has 3 meeting rooms (6 seats each), 3 classrooms used for seminars or research meetings (25 seats), a large room for seminars and conferences (80 seats), an auditorium (120 seats), a room for PhD students (16 seats), a computer room used by students and research assistants (10 seats), a cafeteria and comfortable relaxation areas, especially on the 5th floor, with a terrace for conference events. At the ground level, there is a display and sales point for books published by Imprensa de Ciências Sociais and an area used for small exhibitions. Each researcher's workplace is equipped with a spacious desk, a table for meetings with 1 or 2 visitors, storage space, a telephone, and internet access in offices for individual use or shared by two or three researchers (total number of offices: 48). Research assistants and collaborators share larger rooms (7 rooms with 8 workplaces). Visiting scholars are welcomed in a room with 5 workplaces. Library and electronic resources. The ICS has a library with 40,000 books and access to about 25,000 periodicals. The Library also houses the Social History Archive. The library has a main reading room with 28 seats and a study area with 6 seats for consulting journals. All the documentation is on open-shelf access. The electronic resources include subscriptions to the main disciplinary journals and scientific search engines and databases such as J-Store, Elsevier, SAGE, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Web of Knowledge, Érudit, b-on, and more. Team of project officers. The ICS has a skilled team of 5 officers, who provide both administrative and technical support to its researchers and to the ongoing projects for which they are responsible, including support for financial management. Currently, these officers are responsible for the management of 100 projects with national and international funding (ERANETs, FP 7, among others); Internet access. The ICS is equipped with wi-fi and LAN internet connections. The researchers have personal s and access to electronic resources both in-house and via the VPN network. Printing, photocopying, scanning. On each floor of the building, multifunction printers are available to researchers through code verification. The technical office also has medium format scanners that can be used on request. 2

6 PART A 3. R&D Unit Description and Achievements 3.1. Description of the R&D Unit History and Mission The history of ICS began in 1962 with the creation of GIS-Gabinete de Investigações Sociais, the first Portuguese Research Centre in Social Sciences. In 1963, GIS began to publish Análise Social, the academic journal that paved the way for studying the dynamics of Portuguese society in a comparative context. In 1982, GIS became part of the University of Lisbon, and was renamed the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS- UL). In 2002, ICS became an Associate Laboratory. Our mission is to study contemporary societies with a special emphasis on Portugal and the societies and cultures with which it has a historical relationship. This Mission has been accomplished through: a) Innovative research into contemporary societies in the form of books and articles published in nationally and internationally renowned journals; b) Graduate teaching, mainly PhD programmes, directly linked to the research undertaken at ICS; c) Outreach activities, mainly the transfer and dissemination of knowledge to the wider community, through Observatories of Portuguese Society. These activities result from the collaboration between the different disciplinary areas at ICS: Social and Cultural Anthropology, Economics, History, Human Geography, Political Science, Social Psychology, and Sociology. ICS has always been rated as an Institution of Excellence (the highest rating) by international FCT panels (1996, 1999, 2005 and 2008). These evaluations have provided a stimulus for innovative and interdisciplinary research, for high-quality teaching and for enhancing the social relevance of knowledge produced by ICS. Over fifty years, the driving force behind ICS has been the combination of researchers and the ideas they investigate with a scientific culture characterised by methodological and theoretical diversity. Objectives for The objectives and activities of the ICS Strategic Plan during the period had three main vectors: research into contemporary societies, graduate teaching and outreach services. Five core themes were defined: 1) The study of public regulation and agency-driven mechanisms underpinning the dynamics of families, schools and life styles; 2) The relationship between modern risk society, environmental issues and technoscientific culture; 3) Human mobility and its relationship with such issues as consumption and work, person and identity, religion, social categories and prejudice, transnationalism and cultural globalisation; 4) Macro, meso and micro aspects of democracy and citizenship, with special emphasis on political regimes and institutions, political parties and social movements, social and political attitudes and behaviours; 5) The relevance of historical processes for analysing the long-term social, economic, political and institutional mechanisms that have shaped the 3

7 contemporary world. This research agenda arose from an interdisciplinary, comparative and longitudinal approach, promoting the diversification of methodological and theoretical approaches. Linked with this research agenda, ICS planned to: 1) increase intra-institutional methodological and theoretical exchanges about research topics and disciplines, mainly through the creation of the Biennial ICS Research General Meeting; 2) extend the number of international publications, while simultaneously raising publication standards; and 3) improve the number of international networks, not only in Europe but also with Brazilian and Latin-American scholars. In order to train young researchers, ICS decided to focus on Doctoral Programmes designed to progressively build a Doctoral School of Social Sciences. This project will be implemented in collaboration with other departments of the University of Lisbon and other national or foreign universities. The integration of students into ICS research projects and international networks, as well as close involvement with students work, have been defined as key features for the training of PHD students. In view of the high demand, Summer Schools were also planned in the area of advanced methods in social sciences. The ICS Observatories of Portuguese Society focusing on families, young people, ageing, environment, and the quality of democracy are crucial for ICS scientific research with non-academic constituencies. Accordingly, the Observatories and their programmes of activities were restructured, leading to an increase in the number and frequency of reports and briefings for non-specialist audiences and the media. Similarly, encouragement was given to initiatives aimed at public organisations and stakeholders and to the monitoring of public policies. The following objectives were also part of the Strategic Plan: 1) to continue with the internationalisation of Análise Social, and to support Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, currently the main Portuguese publisher in social sciences; 2) to contribute to the integration of Portugal into the European knowledge infrastructures ESS (European Social Survey) and CESSDA (Council of European Social Science Data Archives); 3) to increase the number of visiting students and researchers in order to consolidate the international recognition of ICS. Organisational Structure and staff ICS is an organic unit of the University of Lisbon dedicated to innovative research and graduate teaching. Its basic organisational structure conforms to the laws regulating Portuguese Universities. To pursue its aims and to meet the demand for excellent research: - ICS research activities were organised into 5 Research Lines (RL) directly linked to the five main research topics previously mentioned; - Appointed by the Director, the RL coordinators largely contributed to the Annual Reports submitted to FCT; - An Internal Scientific Council (SC) and an External Advisory Committee (EAC) supervised the achievement of the ICS scientific objectives; - Institutional performance was evaluated by the ICS Assembly and by the EAC; - Researchers submitted an Activities Report annually to the SC; - A Graduate Studies Commission coordinated training activities and promoted quality in combination with research projects. - In order to facilitate the achievement of the Observatories objectives, a Council of Observatories was planned. 4

8 In 2012, the Institute had 83 researchers (26 with tenure), 22 technical staff, 125 PhD students and 51 research assistants, and was engaged in 81 research projects (a total of 149 during the period under evaluation, representing 12,440,937.33). In 2007, the ICS state budget amounted to roughly 40% of total funding. The remainder came from competitive projects awarded by public and private national and international institutions, including FCT. In view of the current uncertainty and the reduction of national funding for science, ICS established as its objective, for the period , to diversify funding sources, mainly through competitive tenders submitted to the 7th EU FP, ERC and ESF Major Achievements Research and main publications The total number of articles authored or co-authored by ICS members published in peer-reviewed journals throughout the period is 233. This figure corresponds to the sum of 227 of articles listed in SCIMAGO Search (SJR) plus 6 articles only listed in ISI Search (JCR). The list of ICS 233 articles is available at It should be noted that the list of articles uploaded through the platform ORCID is 180, the difference to SCIMAGO + ISI being explained by: a) inconsistency in data collection and missing records already reported by ICS to SCOPUS that wait for clarification; and b) slight differences between team membership through and registered members in the current application. The ten publications presented in the section of Key Publications below reflect the main research topics developed at ICS and their international impact. All papers were published in top ten international journals. Books were published by renowned companies. Some papers and books selected received significant awards or were widely cited (GScholar Cit). Despite the diversity of topics addressed, these publications do not show the full publication record and the research carried out by the 5 Research Lines that have organised ICS activities in the last 5 years: Citizenship and Democratic Institutions (DEMOLINE) The Making of the Contemporary World (MACO) Identity, Migrations and Religion (PERMOB) Families, Lifestyles and Education (SOLINC) Sustainability: Environment, Risk and Spaces (SUSTAIN) In all these areas, ICS has regularly been invited to be an institutional partner for networking and research projects, both nationally and internationally. The awards made to 14 ICS researchers in the last 5 years underline the merit of the research carried out at ICS. Internationalisation According to the bibliometric study of the FCT/Univ. of Leiden ICS was the Research Centre (RC) with most ISI publications between 2007 and 2010 with the exception of 3 Economics RC. This trend was maintained in 2011 and Similarly ICS was the best RC in the Social Sciences as far as Q1 (61) and TOP TEN (39) ISI/SCIMAGO journals are concerned. 5

9 The number of books or chapters published by international publishers rose significantly from 45 in 2008 to 81 in 2012 (see Table 5 and comments), as did co-authored national (36 in 2008 to 59 in 2012, N= 256) and international (14 in 2008 to 46 in 2012, N=176) publications. Membership of academic networks also grew mainly in Europe (50, 6%), Brazil (17, 2%) and the USA (5, 7%). ICS researchers are members of the boards of national and international journals and scientific associations, and most of them have already been visiting professors in foreign universities. ICS is also a host institution for foreign scholars. Annually, an average of 32 foreign researchers (20 in ) visited ICS (for periods ranging from a few weeks up to a year); foreign students represent 33% of PhDs (22% in 2008), while 40% of Postdocs and 22% of ICS senior researchers are also foreign. Graduate teaching ICS expanded its PhD Programmes: 3 PhDs Programmes exclusively coordinated by ICS (Anthropology, Comparative Politics, and Sociology), 3 PhDs organised in partnership with other units of the ULisbon (Migration Studies, Social Psychology and Nursing), and 2 PhDs in inter-university partnerships: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies and History, the latter being a FCT PhD Programme under the coordination of ICS. ICS is also a partner of another FCT PhD Programme: Philosophy of Science and Society. PhD programmes have increased the number of registered students (60 in 2008, 125 in 2012), 70% of whom were awarded competitive grants. During this period, ICS researchers successfully supervised 83 PhD theses (an impressive achievement, since only 26 ICS researchers are qualified to be principal supervisors and trained 209 research assistants. Since 2010, ICS has organised 13 Summer Schools on advanced research methods, involving 583 graduate students. Outreach Knowledge transfer and outreach activities increased mainly through the Observatories of Portuguese Society, which cover the following areas: Family Policies (OFAP), Youth (OPJ), Ageing (IE), Environment (OBSERVA), and Quality of Democracy (BQD). The number of reports and briefs, seminars involving stakeholders, and posts on the OPS sites increased. Participation in actions to promote scientific culture among young students also expresses the ICS involvement with society. ICS researchers also served on national and international boards for science and the definition of public policies. Finally we would highlight the contracts with Portuguese industry. The long list of references in the press (about 3,000 in the last 5 years) and participation in TV broadcasts (see the ICS website) show the public impact of ICS research. The ICS website was visited by academics and non-academics (circa 700,000 views in the last 5 years) from Portugal and other European countries, Brazil and the USA. University Commitment During members of ICS faculty participated actively in governance bodies of the University of Lisbon (the Conselho Geral and the Rector s Team), namely in functions regarding Quality Assurance and Scientific Management. ICS scholars have also served in important capacities within the recent process of merging and restructuring that resulted in the present ULisbon. 6

10 Research infrastructures The creation of research infrastructures for the larger community of the social sciences is also part of the ICS mission. The journal Análise Social was recently indexed on Scielo CI/WoK (in 2012, there were 49,534 downloads - Scielo) and Imprensa de Ciências Sociais published 92 books during 2008/12. Our library is the most important Portuguese library in Social Sciences (roughly 18,000 visitors and an increase of 25% in its collections), with important digital collections complemented by the Archive of Social History (now with 31 collections). ICS also contributed to Portugal becoming a founding member of the ESS-ESFRI, an European infrastructure largely used by Portuguese scientists and students (1,048, including 234 PhD students) and non-scientists (227). Through the ICS/APIS-Social Sciences Archive, with more than 10,000 visits, Portugal is now an associate member of CESSDA. Implications for the future As can be deduced from our track record, ICS has the scientific and institutional conditions to achieve its new Strategic Programme designed to respond to the major social challenges in coming years. The next 6 years will be crucial for ICS, both in its quest to consolidate its process of internationalisation, and to set a contained but solid foundation for its leadership role in shaping research and graduate teaching in the social sciences within the ULisbon, promoting interdisciplinarity and social relevance. Key Publications Aboim, S. (2009). Men between worlds: changing asculinities in urban Maputo. Men and Masculinities, 12, Cit 13 Aguiar-Conraria, L., Magalhães, P. C.& Soares, M. J. (2012). Cycles in Politics: Wavelet analysis of political time series. American J. of Political Science. 56, ; Cit 11 Bina, O. & La Camera, F. (2011). Promise and shortcomings of a green turn in recent policy responses to the double crises`. Ecological Economics 70, ; Cit 8 Cardoso, J. L. & Lains, P. (eds.) (2010). Paying for the Liberal State: the rise of public finance in nineteenthcentury Europe. N.Y.: Cambridge Univ. Press; Cit 54 Lewis-Beck, M. S., Lobo, M. C., & Bellucci, P. (eds.) (2012). Economic crisis and elections: the European periphery. Electoral Studies, 31; Cit 55 Pereira, C., Vala, J. & Leyens, J. (2009). From infra-humanization to discrimination: The mediation of symbolic threat needs egalitarian norms. J. of Experimental Social Psychology 45, ; Cit 40 Ramos, R., Sousa, B. & Monteiro, N. (2009). História de Portugal. Lisboa: Esfera dos Livros; Cit 23; D. Diniz Award Silva, F. C. da (2008). Mead and Modernity. Lanham: Lexington Books; Cit 4; American Sociological Association Award; Truninger, M. (2011). Cooking with Bimby in a moment of recruitment: exploring conventions and practice perspectives. J. of Consumer Culture 11, 37-59; Cit 14 West, H. G. & Domingos, N. (2012). Gourmandizing poverty food: the Serpa Cheese Slow Food presidium. J. of Agrarian Change 12, ; Cit 2 7

11 3.3. External Advisory Committee Reports 3.4. Composition of the External Advisory Committee Albert Carreras, Former Dean, School of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Secretary of Economy and Finances, Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain Catherine Lutz, Former Chair, Department of Anthropology, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, USA Glynis Breakwell, Vice-Chancellor, The University of Bath, UK Jean Kellerhals, Former Vice-Chancellor l Université de Genève, Switzerland Yves Mény, Former President, European University Institute, Italy 3.5. Brief description of the output indicators 2008/2012 of the research team of the new unit that support the vision and objectives of the strategic program (N/A) ICS keeps the activity developed during the period ICS is NOT a new R&D Unit and therefore the activities and the main achievements of its members who will support the vision and objectives of the strategic programme for have been described in the previous sections of this form (3.1 and 3.2) 8

12 4. Funding 2008/2012 Description Total ( ) Pluriannual Programme/Strategic project FCT-funded projects European Commission-funded projects Other international projects Other national projects National industry projects International industry projects Total ( )

13 5. General Indicators General Indicators Description Total ( ) No. of researchers No. of integrated researchers No. of technicians and administrative staff PhD theses under the supervision of integrated members Publications in international peer reviewed journals Books and chapters of international distribution Models Patents Prototypes Industry research contracts Research contracts with national or international bodies Other indexed academic articles Other non indexed articles National books and books chapters Journal's special issues Reports and Working Papers Oral presentations in academic meetings Academic meetings organized by ICS

14 5.2. Overall description of indicators and research outputs/highlights The improvement of the ICS performance in terms of both funding applications and research output is shown in Tables 4 and 5. Funding 2008/12 Due to the financial crisis, funding for science (institutional funding, funding for research projects and for the recruitment of researchers) declined significantly over the last three years. Requests for academic consulting have also decreased. Despite this, ICS improved the number of projects financed by FCT (from 24 in 2008 to 45 in 2012), and also increased the total amount of funding involved (from 740k to 2,5m; total of FCT projects during 2008/2012= 6,5m). ICS also significantly increased the amount of EU funding from 386k in 2008 to 900k in 2012, including the first payment of a Hera project (total funding of this project 1,0m). Already in 2013 one of ICS researchers was awarded with an ERC Consolidator Grant. The increase in both national and international projects was achieved irrespective of the decrease in FCT funding, which prevented the replacement of researchers who had finished their short-term contracts (69% of ICS researchers do not have tenure), causing a significant brain drain in In order to guarantee and enhance the quality of its research, ICS needs stable institutional funding, accompanied by regular, predefined and independent evaluations. Research contracts and projects indicated in table 5.1 refer to ongoing contracts and projects in the initial year of 2008 and to newly submitted contracts and projects in the following years. Publications ICS maintained the number of publications in Portuguese outlets while significantly increasing the number of international publications. Of 233 articles published between 2008 and 2012 in international outlets, 61 articles were published in ISI/Scimago Q1 journals and 39 in TOP TEN journals in their respective domains including: American J. of Political Science, Public Choice, Ecological Economics, J. of Experimental Social Psychology, J. of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Explorations in Economic History, J. of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Public Understanding of Science, J. of Consumer Culture, J. of Agrarian Change, J. of Social Issues, etc. Other articles published in academic journals not covered in SCIMAGO/ISI especially due to linguistic constraints - are also an important part of ICS scientific performance. Throughout the period a total of 97 articles have been indexed in other databases, namely: Brazilian CAPES, European Science Foundation Humanities list. A distinctive feature of social science outputs is their publication in book format. In terms of the total research outcomes published by ICS members in books and book chapters, 486 were published by Portuguese publishers, mainly by the Social Sciences Press, and 304 by non-portuguese publishers. Most of these books and chapters were published by renowned international publishers, including: Ashgate; Brill; Cambridge UP, Columbia UP; Lexington; L'Harmattan; Oxford UP; Palgrave MacMillan; Polity Press, Routledge; Stanford UP; Univ. of California Press. The quality of the research published in top journals and by top publishers was acknowledged by the scientific community and funding institutions. Fourteen awards were made during 2008/2012 to ICS researchers. Some of the awards distinguished articles in peer reviewed journals: four winners of the "Gulbenkian Prize for the Internationalisation of Social Sciences in Portugal"; one award by the Brazilian 11

15 Association of Political Science. In the case of books, ICS researchers won awards from the American Sociological Association, the Royal Anthropological Institute, Fundação Casa de Mateus (D. Diniz Prize, 2009), and the annual Prize of the Portuguese Museology Association. Career awards were also made to ICS researchers: Jean-Paul Codol Award 2010 (European Association of Social Psychology); Sociological Intervention Prize (International Sociological Association); and the Quercus Award 2010, which recognises work on environmental issues. ICS itself distinguished 39 researchers with the ERICS Prize financed by the CGD Bank, which fosters internationalisation in social sciences. Graduate Teaching The increased number of PhD students between 2008 and 2012, as well as the award of the FCT quality label to one of the PhD programmes coordinated by ICS (History), show that important steps have been taken to consolidate the ICS capacity to contribute to the development of a Doctoral School in Social Sciences. ICS : Facts and Figures - Awarded researchers: 14 - Q1 articles in peer reviewed journals SCIMAGO/ISI: 61 - Co-authored international publications: Articles in SCIMAGO/ISI databases: Books Author: 90 - Indexed journals that have ICS researchers on the editorial boards: 17 - National/international Scientific Associations that have ICS members on Boards: 25 - Ongoing projects: International networking projects: 30 - Enrolled PhD students: Foreign students enrolled PhD courses: 32% - FCT PhD grants: 96 - Visiting PhD students: 96 - Participants in Summer Schools: PhD thesis concluded: 83 - Visiting researchers: 64 - ICS researchers as visiting professors in foreign Universities: 40 - Total amount of competitive & non-competitive projects: 12,440,937 - ICS website visits: circa 700,000 - ICS Observatories website visits: 125,176 - ICS & researchers press references: 3,000 12

16 - Exhibitions & cultural events: 15 - Library Visitors: circa 18,000 Future aims Over the next five years, we intend to further expand both the scientific impact and the social relevance research. The outputs of research carried out over the past five years have largely contributed to ICS being ranked, along with some other RC in Economics, as the most important RC in social sciences in Portugal. But our aim is to compare ourselves with European centres of excellence and to implement an organisational agenda to attain this objective. 13

17 PART B 6. Scientific Component Strategic Programme 2015/ Abstract in Portuguese for publication O programa estratégico do ICS para 2015/2020 intitula-se Sociedades em Mudança: Legados e Desafios. Propõe uma agenda de pesquisa que procura dar continuidade à investigação desenvolvida pelo ICS ao longo dos seus 50 anos de existência, com abertura para uma nova etapa institucional, enquanto unidade de investigação que integra a Universidade de Lisboa (ULisboa). O programa estratégico visa a produção de conhecimento inovador sobre problemas e desafios societais do mundo contemporâneo, discutindo os seus fundamentos históricos e tendências futuras. Organiza-se em torno de cinco objectivos fundamentais: O primeiro e principal objectivo refere-se ao desenvolvimento de projectos de investigação de excelência, com o intuito de reforçar a internacionalização do ICS e a centralidade das ciências sociais na articulação dos variados interesses científicos da ULisboa. A investigação privilegiará três grandes áreas temáticas - inclusão, cidadania e sustentabilidade - e dela decorrerão publicações em revistas e livros de âmbito internacional, na revista e na editora do ICS - Análise Social e Imprensa de Ciências Sociais bem como noutros suportes nacionais. Estas áreas temáticas servem de enquadramento global da pesquisa a desenvolver pelos 7 Grupos de Investigação em que os membros do ICS se inserem. O tema INCLUSÃO diz respeito ao estudo: 1) das múltiplas formas de desigualdade e sua expressão económica, social, demográfica ou territorial; 2) dos problemas do bem-estar e formas de participação na sociedade civil; e 3) dos processos de integração de indivíduos e instituições em redes globais, nos planos material e simbólico. O tema CIDADANIA congrega dois objectivos e perspectivas de pesquisa: 1) ao nível micro, o estudo das atitudes socio-políticas, valores e comportamentos, incluindo os que se referem a questões de identidade e participação social e política; 2) ao nível macro, o estudo dos regimes e instituições políticas, incluindo os factores que determinam a estabilidade e a mudança de regime, assim como o papel dos partidos políticos e eleições. O tema SUSTENTABILIDADE procura discutir e compreender: 1) as dinâmicas socio-económicas, tecno-científicas e de governance que afectam a transição para sociedades mais sustentáveis; e 2) as práticas sociais, os mecanismos de governance e as políticas públicas que facilitam ou impedem processos de transição de indivíduos, grupos e instituições para patamares superiores de adaptação, resiliência e bem-estar. O segundo objectivo consiste na promoção da internacionalização do conhecimento em ciências sociais produzido em Portugal, afirmando o ICS como unidade de I&D reconhecida internacionalmente. O acréscimo da produção e disseminação de resultados de pesquisa a nível internacional, o alargamento da esfera de abrangência dos programas de pós-graduação, a busca crescente de oportunidades de financiamento internacional, são orientações estratégicas a privilegiar. Neste sentido, merece destaque a aposta prioritária de se dotar o ICS das condições que permitam valorizar o seu estatuto de Centro de Estudos Avançados em Ciências Sociais, designadamente através de iniciativas do seguinte tipo: acolhimento de investigadores nacionais e estrangeiros para permanências de curta e média duração; promoção de parcerias com unidades de I&D estrangeiras, visando a construção de consórcios para concursos a projectos internacionais; incentivos e estímulo aos investigadores do ICS para concursos 14

18 individuais ou de equipas a programas de financiamento europeu (ERC, ESF, Acções Marie Curie e COST); desenvolvimento de programas de pós-graduação através de parcerias europeias e internacionais; e acolhimento de conferências de associações científicas internacionais. O terceiro objectivo é a intensificação dos programas de formação pós-graduada, em estreita articulação com o programa estratégico centrado no estudo das Sociedades em Mudança. Em termos concretos, o ICS procurará alargar o âmbito internacional e reforçar a qualidade e atractividade dos seus programas de doutoramento, participando em candidaturas Erasmus Mundus e Marie Curie. Esta aposta visa afirmar as potencialidades do ICS para servir a ULisboa com ensino qualificado de pós-graduação, com expressão efectiva no estabelecimento e liderança de uma Escola Doutoral em Ciências Sociais. A concretização deste objectivo pressupõe a disponibilidade do ICS para: apresentar novas candidaturas aos Programas de Doutoramento FCT, através de parcerias com outras escolas da ULisboa e de outras universidades portuguesas; garantir a participação dos seus investigadores em actividades de ensino pós-graduado de outras escolas da ULisboa; melhorar e diversificar as iniciativas de formação avançada (escolas de verão e cursos de especialização) que reforcem os atributos do ICS ao nível do ensino altamente qualificado em ciências sociais. O quarto objectivo refere-se à transmissão e disseminação pública do conhecimento científico produzido pelo ICS. Demonstrar a relevância social da ciência, apostar na valorização da relação ciência-sociedade e empenhar-se na utilização do conhecimento científico como factor determinante de escolhas e decisões em matérias relativas a políticas públicas, são elementos constitutivos do programa estratégico do ICS. Por isso, será dada atenção especial à publicação anual de um Relatório Social e à publicação regular de Textos de Consultoria para um auditório amplo e diversificado de destinatários interessados em colher produção científica actualizada relacionada com o programa Sociedades em Mudança: Legados e Desafios e as áreas temáticas que lhe estão associadas. O quinto e último objectivo reveste um sentido instrumental e consiste na melhoria de infraestruturas e recursos técnicos qualificados, no que se refere ao apoio bibliográfico (biblioteca digital), ao suporte bibliométrico (indicadores de produção) e ao apoio a candidaturas e gestão de projectos internacionais. 6.2 Abstract in English for evaluation The ICS strategic research programme for 2015/2020 is entitled Changing Societies: Legacies and Challenges proposing a research agenda that seeks to build on the Institute s fifty years of excellence and paves the way for a new era as a research unit within the newly-merged University of Lisbon (ULisbon). This strategy seeks to promote fresh knowledge on critical societal issues, addressing not only their historical background, but also their contemporary and likely future trends. The programme has five main objectives. The first and foremost objective is to develop high quality research projects in the social sciences, securing the internationalisation of ICS and defining a major role for the social sciences as a binding unit of many diverse interests in the ULisbon. Research activities will focus on three themes inclusion, citizenship and sustainability, leading to publications in international peer-reviewed journals and with academic publishers. ICS has its own journal Análise Social and its academic press Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, which will also play a significant role in the production and dissemination of research in each of these three thematic axes. The three themes provide the framework within which seven newly-structured Research Groups will develop their activities. INCLUSION accounts for: 1) economic inequalities and other disparities, whether social, cultural, demographic or territorial; 2) welfare regimes and participation in civil society; and 3) integration in global networks of material and symbolic circulation at micro and macro levels. CITIZENSHIP brings together two sets of research goals looking at citizenship from a micro and macro perspective, respectively: 1) the study of socio-political attitudes, values and behaviours, including those 15

19 related to social and political identity and political membership; and 2) the study of regimes and political institutions, including the factors determining regime change and stability, namely the role of political parties and electoral institutions. SUSTAINABILITY aims: 1) to understand the socio-economic, technoscientific and governance dynamics that affect the transition to more sustainable societies; and 2) to study social practices, governance mechanisms and public policies that facilitate (or impede) the transition of individuals, social groups and institutions towards greater adaptation, resilience and well-being. The second objective is to contribute further to the internationalisation of Portuguese social sciences. ICS aims to consolidate its role as a major international research centre. This strategy involves: 1) the production and transfer of knowledge; 2) graduate teaching; and 3) exploring international funding opportunities. Strengthening its position as a Centre for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences is instrumental for developing this strategy. To achieve this, ICS seeks: to host an increasing number of international and national scholars, promoting partnerships with other European centres and R&D units with successful track records in international competitive funding; to provide its researchers with competitive conditions, allowing them to apply, individually or in partnership, for funding in schemes such as the ERC, ESF, Marie- Curie and COST Actions; to establish graduate teaching networks, involving both European and non- European institutions; and, finally, to host meetings of the major professional associations, including ISA, IPSA, ECPR, EASA and ESA. The third objective is to foster graduate training, which is to be developed in close association with the research programme on Changing Societies. In concrete terms, ICS involvement in the organisation of Marie-Curie and Erasmus Mundus doctoral programmes with recognised international universities will reinforce the high-quality, international profile of the teaching component of the ICS research programme. At the national level, ICS proposes to contribute to the effective launch and development of a Doctoral School in Social Sciences within the ULisbon context. This involves submitting applications to new calls for FCT Doctoral Programmes, in partnership with other ULisbon unit members or through wider networking with other universities; participation of ICS researchers in graduate courses promoted by other ULisbon schools; and the improvement of ICS capacities to attract new audiences for training activities offered through the organisation of Summer Schools and specialised lifelong learning programmes. The fourth objective is to disseminate social-scientific knowledge. Bridging the gap between science, society and policymaking is an important aim of the ICS strategic plan. Our observatories already produce policy-oriented technical and scientific knowledge directed at central and local public administration. In the future, we propose to reinforce this dimension of our activities by: publishing an annual Social Report on the topic Changing Societies: Legacies and Challenges aimed at a wider audience; producing specialised papers offering advice on ICS research topics relevant to further engagement with public expectations and needs; broadening the scope of the External Advisory Committee and the Council for Institutional Development, which will help ICS to engage more actively with civil society; and, finally, promoting regular meetings between researchers and members of civil society, the business world and the media, in order to become more sensitive to public issues that are relevant for producing better social science. The fifth and final objective is to improve the ICS infrastructure and technical resources. The main aims here include the creation of a digital library in social sciences, the training of qualified technical support staff (mainly for research funding applications and project management), and the delivery of data on research outcomes, productivity indicators and bibliometric measuring. 16

20 6.3 Strategy and vision of the unit and future management Over the next six years, ICS will be contributing to Changing Societies: Legacies and Challenges a research agenda that seeks to build on the Institute s fifty years of excellence, paving the way for a new era as a research unit within the newly-merged University of Lisbon (ULisbon). This strategy is shaped by the need to respond to emerging societal trends and social issues in a changing and unstable world, taking into account both its structural underpinnings and short-term dynamics. The choice of its overarching theme is the outcome of four distinctive traits that make the ICS unique within the national academic landscape: Its capacity to improve collaboration on scientific projects that link the social sciences to life and health, engineering and the environmental sciences, thus building a potential for interdisciplinary inquiry that is imperative when addressing contemporary societal challenges, and that will contribute to shaping the new role of ICS within ULisbon; Its ability to work with a wide range of social science disciplines in which it has developed a history of excellence and leadership, firstly within Portugal, and then internationally; Its search for interpretation and meanings that link the past, present and future, with a view to creating an in-depth multidimensional understanding of contemporary Changing Societies and their grand societal challenges (social and cultural identities and historical legacies, inequalities, migrations and minority groups, family and kinship structures, individual and collective agency, youth and ageing groups, political regimes and institutions and the quality of democracy, urban structures, environmental policies and climate change); and Its capacity to bring the perspective and diversity of non-european countries to Europe s research and policy agendas, enriching the debate around Changing Societies by linking different histories, places and research contexts. Acknowledging the institution s internationalisation over the last decade, ULisbon has granted ICS autonomy and specificity as a member unit devoted to research and advanced teaching in the social sciences. Thus, ICS will play a key role in contributing to the University s ambition of significantly enhancing Portugal s research performance. To achieve this, ICS envisages three main tasks. Firstly, having set itself the goal of strengthening its position of leadership in the social sciences, ICS will reinforce its attributes as an international Centre for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, seizing the opportunity to build new alliances at ULisbon and internationally (From Lisbon to the World, is ULisbon s new motto), creating strong and lasting ties with the city of Lisbon and contributing to Lisbon s Regional Strategy. Thus, the main aim is to improve scholarship in the ICS research agenda and to increase the quality of theoretical analysis and research methods. An increase is planned in the number of visiting scholars from other national and international universities, with guest researchers from faculty departments of ULisbon also being incorporated for short periods. Secondly, ICS will help to create and lead a Doctoral School in Social Sciences within ULisbon, providing a qualified framework for PhD students enrolled in existing or forthcoming doctoral programmes. Thirdly, ICS will develop the practice of producing social reports and advice papers, in order to bridge the gap between science, society and policymakers and raise the profile of ULisbon nationally and internationally. This task will benefit from the data collected by observatories and other infrastructures created through international research networking. By setting Changing Societies: Legacies and Challenges as its broad theme, ICS reveals its interest in the conditions that explain the shaping of contemporary societies and their processes of change, resulting from both short-term external shocks and longstanding inner dynamics. Indeed, there is a clear awareness of the relevance of historical, cultural, institutional, economic and social variables explaining complex phenomena that have traditionally been seen as pertaining to a single scientific enterprise. Given the complex nature of 17

21 societal challenges, the European research agenda assigns a special role to the social sciences in order to frame problems and solutions in ways that reach beyond disciplinary (and, at times, reductionist) interpretations. The strategy proposed by ICS endorses the responsibility to contribute to understanding and addressing key issues involving Changing Societies, namely those related with Inclusion, Citizenship and Sustainability. These issues call for the continued development of a consistent research agenda within single disciplines, but also and chiefly for a combination of research approaches and methods resulting from interdisciplinary, and increasingly transdisciplinary, inquiries. ICS has a unique position at ULisbon regarding the new scientific convergences emerging from the wider collaboration between different scientific domains, from the life and health sciences to the arts and humanities. Its institutional track record offers evidence of disciplinary diversity and convergence, both in the choice of themes, theoretical approaches and methods and in the advancement of graduate teaching activities. Thanks to the plurality of social sciences developed within its research groups, ICS has substantial experience with such issues as historical changes and cultural identity, the performance of political institutions, the quality of democracy, citizens behaviour in a risk context, and the well-being and effectiveness of welfare systems, or new family structures to name just a few. Similarly, ICS is currently responding to global challenges related to people s lives (fertility, ageing and health), living in modern cities (energy and transport) and ensuring resilient societies (green resources and climate change), which requires a collaboration between social sciences and life and health, engineering and environmental sciences. Finally, in addition to its overarching theme, the ICS strategy includes another important attribute. Its internationalisation has always included dialogue and collaboration with the Portuguese-speaking community of social scientists. Being in the company of scholars from Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking countries and communities will continue to give ICS the possibility of engaging in research networking on a worldwide scale, thus reinforcing the pivotal position of Portuguese R&D units and ICS in particular in the European research arena. ICS members, considered individually and in the framework of research groups, have proven their capacity and potential to respond to innovative challenges and are therefore fundamental in putting forward this global strategy for research development. 6.4 Laboratory intensity level of the unit and Laboratory intensity level Justification Most of the research carried out at ICS is based on the development and analysis of large databases. Moreover the ICS research programme is based on the principle that the sharing of data through common use of knowledge infrastructures is fundamental for research. On this premise, the following activities explain and justify the qualification of research at ICS as medium level laboratorial intensity. DATA COLLECTION. IASP is an inter-institutional infrastructure financed by FCT and located at ICS. ICS is the National Coordinator of the most acknowledged international social and political attitudes surveys (ESS- ERIC, ISSP, EVS,CSES, CNEP). Data collection (CATI techniques) follows rigorous standards and involves computer programmes for verification of data quality and its format according to the demands of data archive. IASP also provide data analysis and training in advanced quantitative methods using tools like STATA, AMOS, Mplus, HLM etc, stimulating research in a comparative and longitudinal perspective. DATA ARCHIVE. APIS, is the single digital archive that stores and provides the open access to academic survey data about Portugal. APIS, an inter-institutional infrastructure financed by FCT and located at ICS, uses standardized methods for data processing and for metadata construction and 18

22 verification. Appropriate technological tools ensure the safe use of data archived in research or in higher education. APIS is now an observer member CESSDA. DATA DISSEMINATION. POP (Public Opinion Portal) is an open access digital archive relating to trends in public opinion and covering a wide range of issues in society (project coordinated by ICS in partnership with Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos). LIBRARY. ICS has the best equipped Portuguese Library specialising in the social sciences, with 40,000 books and access to about 25,000 periodicals. The Library and its electronic resources are used by a wide academic community of PhD students and researchers from ULisbon and other Portuguese universities. SOCIAL HISTORY ARCHIVE. ICS is also home to the Social History Archive, with important collections for the study of working-class and corporatist organisations throughout the 20th century, as well as student revolts and nationalist African movements (late 1960s and early 1970s). The Archive provides invaluable electronic and non-electronic sources for innovative research on Portuguese social history. EXPERIMENTAL LAB for the study of human behaviour. ICS seeks to contribute to the creation of a social science experimental laboratory, counting on the collaboration of other ULisbon units that have a similar purpose. This will help to promote collaboration between scholars in economics, social psychology, political science, anthropology, sociology and health sciences. The lab will provide a large pool of respondents and electronic systems of collecting experimental data individually and in group. 6.5 General objectives The importance of social sciences as a critical element in the fabric and understanding of contemporary societies is at the core of ICS programme since its foundation. The vision and strategy outlined in the previous section will be supported by five main objectives. The strategic programme will be implemented through the activity of research groups (RGs see section 9), addressing a common research agenda. Objective 1: To enhance scholarly excellence and innovation This overriding and primary objective relates to the development of the research agenda entitled Changing Societies: Legacies and Challenges, which takes into account processes of change in contemporary societies occurring at two levels. Legacies relates to the analysis of long-term structural problems, through a perspective that gives special emphasis to the elements of continuity, permanence and persistence in social phenomena. What is the role of underlying conditions, such as cultural identity, historical processes, institutional resilience or path dependency in the shaping of contemporary societies? Challenges focuses on the impact of the present (financial, economic, environmental, cultural and political) crisis on contemporary societies. What solutions can be found to the emerging social and political problems, such as fast-growing unemployment, instability of the social welfare system, the efficiency and/or lack of public services, the effectiveness and quality of political institutions, etc.? What transition pathways will lead to more sustainable societies? To answer these questions, research conducted at ICS will privilege three analytical dimensions Inclusion, Citizenship and Sustainability. A brief outline of each research axis follows: A) Inclusion: uses the concepts of social inclusion and exclusion as a principle for reflecting upon and explaining the stratification of societies. ICS follows an interdisciplinary notion of inclusion, encompassing both institutional and cultural aspects, which considers three dimensions of research: 1) economic inequalities and other disparities, whether social, cultural, demographic or territorial; 2) welfare regimes and participation in civil society; 3) integration in global networks of material and symbolic circulation at micro and macro levels. 19