Rede Luso-Afro-Brasileira de Sociologia da Cultura e das Artes -  Grupo de pesquisa do CNPq - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

ATINER’s mission is to serve as a forum where academics and researchers from around the world can come together to exchange ideas on their research and discuss the future developments in their respective fields.

The main challenge of this Cost Action is to create a transnational network that gathers European researchers carrying studies on Middle-Class Mass Housing (MCMH) built in Europe since the 1950s. This network will allow the development new scientific approaches by discussing, testing and assessing case studies and their different methodologies and perspectives.

“Comparing social classes and inequalities in France and Portugal” is a project part of the international scientific cooperation programme (PICS) of the Centre Nacional de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the largest public research body in France and a world reference institution in the field of scientific research.

Critical perspectives on career and career guidance (COCAG) will gather scholars across Europe and beyond to explore how careers are changing in the contemporary world and consider what response is required from public policy and practice. It will explore the following research questions. (1) How can the challenges and changes that are happening to careers in the contemporary world be understood? (2) How can policymakers respond to contemporary challenges to individual’s careers?

The EIT’s first Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) for the cultural and creative industries (ICCs), which aims to strengthen the competitiveness of the cultural and creative industries and consolidate their position as one of Europe’s innovation drivers.

The European Network of Observatories in the Field of Arts and Cultural Education (ENO) connects knowledge centres in European countries. It aims to facilitate the exchange of research findings and innovative practice, to stimulate new research in arts and cultural education and to support the development of arts education within the framework of global UNESCO-policies and guidelines for education, culture and sustainable development.

FUNDING ENTITY: UNESCO

The Urban Ethnography Network formally started its activity in 2016 under the FCT/CAPES agreement “Cidades em mudança: processos participativos em Portugal e no Brasil” (Changing cities: participatory processes in Portugal and Brazil) (2016, UFF and ISCTE, coordinated by Graça Cordeiro and Renata de Sá Gonç

The European University Alliance for Global Health (EUGLOH) brings together nine universities from across Europe with outstanding expertise in Global Health.

Within the EUGLOH alliance, a balanced interfaculty consortium of researchers and students are developing interdisciplinary activities, particularly in education and training, related to Global Health. Combining expertise and scientific infrastructure in fields such as biomedicine, life sciences and social sciences, our inter-campus initiative will tackle a variety of challenges related to well-being and public health.

EUREL rests on an important international network of specialists (Law and Social Sciences researchers and scholars) who provide and validate, regularly and based on scientific research, accurate and updated sociological and legal information on the social and legal status of religion in Europe in an interdisciplinary perspective.

The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically driven cross-national survey that has been conducted across Europe every two years since 2001. It is part of the National Roadmap of Research Infrastructures of Strategic Relevance supported by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and was established through a partnership involving research units and centres of the University of Lisbon, ISCTE-IUL, University of Coimbra, and University of Porto.

FUNDING ENTITIES: European Commission; European Science Foundation; FCT

GRUA is a research group dedicated to designing and creating artistic and audiovisual narratives in the social sciences. We propose to reflect and produce images, sounds and other forms of expression in different media, forms and formats – technological, aesthetic, political and poetic.

The group brings together Master’s and Doctoral students and professors from the Postgraduate Programme in Sociology of the Federal University of Ceará, in collaboration with researchers from national and international research groups in the field, such as the Culture, Memory and Development Group, within the Postgraduate Programme in Sociology of the UnB.

The Harmony with Nature Knowledge Network an online platform of practitioners, academics and researchers dedicated to strengthening interdisciplinary collaborations to advance a non-anthropocentric, or Earth-centered worldview also called Earth Jurisprudence. At the core of this worldview, is the recognition of the intrinsic value of Nature and of human-Earth relationships that are symbiotic, interconnected and subject to the natural laws of the Universe.

Research and technical advisory assistance in the area of solidarity economy.

Style-based subcultures, scenes and tribes - along with their music genres - have pulsated through the history of social, economic and political change.

The International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) is an international organization established to promote inquiry, scholarship and analysis in the area of popular music. Founded in 1981, IASPM has grown into an international network. On national and international levels, the organization’s activities include conferences, publications and research projects designed to advance an understanding of popular music and the processes involved in its production and consumption.

INWARD Urban Creativity Observatory is an international network of experts that works for the enhancement of urban creativity, through research and development, in the areas of public affairs, private companies, no-profit organizations. It promotes the culture of the phenomenon in seminars, workshops, events, projects, studies and programs, and talks on its aspects for years with sociologists, anthropologists, architects, planners, designers, art critics, artists, communicators.

Global network of researchers dedicated to independent music and other artistic expressions.