CfP: The Lisbon Early-Career Workshop in Urban Studies, 5th ed. ICS-ULisboa. 26-28 Nov. 2025

O primeiro evento Café com Luta de 2020 regressa ao tema do lobbying, mas desta vez sobre a perspectiva das ONGs que actuam juntas das instituições europeias. Bruxelas é uma das capitais mundiais do lobbying, mas não concentra apenas consultoras e grandes empresas. Milhares de ONGs estão aí sediadas e competem ou colaboram de forma … Continue reading Lobbying: o que podemos aprender com as ONGs de Bruxelas? – 23 Janeiro 2020

Opportunity for 30 scholarships funded by the programme INPhINIT-Retaining, Fundação "la Caixa", for PhDs in Spain or Portugal in all scientific areas - more details below and at this link (in Portuguese). UTH is open to supporting applications to the PhD in Development Studies of ULisboa - please contact Olivia Bina, Roberto Falanga or Simone … Continue reading PhD scholarships INPhINIT-Retaining / Fundação “la Caixa” / 26.02.2020

Hub members Jieling Liu (ed.), Luisa Schmidt (ed.) and Olivia Bina have contributed to a new report on Addressing the Nexus Challenge of Climate Change, Human Health and Urban Sustainability. The study, published on ICS-ULisboa's series Estudos e Relatórios and available here, summarises the core discussion points and essential outcomes of an Expert Meeting, which … Continue reading Climate Change, Human Health and Urban Sustainability. New report with Jieling Liu, Luisa Schmidt and Olivia Bina

The international seminar (Re)Scaling Networks in Portugal and Europe: Towards New Forms of Decision-Making? will take place at ICS-ULisboa on November 11, 2019. This international seminar, co-organised by UTH member Roberto Falanga, will gather local and international networks to discuss their role in Europe. How can local claims get more emphasis and be more effectively … Continue reading (Re)Scaling Networks in Portugal and Europe: Towards New Forms of Decision-Making? – November 11, 2019

New blog post by Olivia Bina and colleagues, introducing research arising from the INTREPID Cost Action. Urban research, the focus of UTH, is almost by definition both inter and transdisciplinary - this blog post reflects on the skills and dispositions needed, as well as the far reaching career implications of such research. If disciplines shape … Continue reading What motivates researchers to become transdisciplinary? Blog post by Olivia Bina et al.

INTREPID is a recently concluded Cost Action, a 32 country network, led by Olivia Bina, with the overall aim to better understand how to achieve more efficient and effective interdisciplinary research in Europe, in order to enhance our capacity to meet contemporary global (urban) challenges characterised by increasing complexity and uncertainty. INTREPID's latest publication is now available online. … Continue reading INTREPID Knowledge: Interdisciplinary & Transdisciplinary Research and Collaboration

project exPERts, based at the UTH, organises its final conference on October 29 and 30, in the Auditorium Sedas Nunes of ICS-ULisboa. On the 29th (starting at 16.45) the research team will present the results of the project. Day 30th will be opened (at 14.30) by a roundtable on the "state of housing" in Portugal … Continue reading exPERts project final conference (Oct 29-30)

The 10th Annual Small Cinemas Conference, co-organised by UTH members Mariana Liz and Pedro Neto, will take place at ICS-ULisboa in Lisbon, Portugal, between 25 and 27 September 2019. Tamara Falicov (Kansas, USA) and Philippe Meers (Antwerp, Belgium) are the confirmed keynote speakers. ‘Small Cinemas, Small Spaces’ aims to discuss matters of space in the … Continue reading Small Cinemas, Small Spaces, ICS-ULisboa, 25-27/09/2019

Three researchers from UTH (together with João Seixas, UNL) speak to journalist  Eduarda Maio  about 'Urban Futures': Olivia Bina,  Roberto Falanga, Marco Allegra. Here you can find the podcast (Portuguese only, sorry): episode 110 of the program Ponto de Partida, broadcasted by Antena1-RTP  (Portuguese national radio). Antena 1 contacted us after the 2019 edition of … Continue reading UTH members interviewed on Antena 1 – podcast

The ICS-ULisboa conference 2019 What Urban Futures? From Crisis to Hope, organised by the Urban Transitions Hub in cooperation with H2020 Project ROCK is now over (full program available here). After two days of movie screenings and debate the main conference sessions took place on June 5 and June 6. The two days were respectively … Continue reading What Urban Futures? From Crisis to Hope – available on streaming