NECS aims are to foster high-level and innovative research in film and media theory, history and practice, to provide a forum for communication, exchange and scholarly debate, to support young and early-career researchers, and to establish film and media studies as a dynamic and important part of the arts and humanities research in Europe.

The Punk Scholars Network (PSN) is an academic platform that fosters a rigorous, scholarly approach to the study of punk and post-punk. With a global and academically diverse membership, the PSN encourages, and embraces methodological approaches towards punk from a myriad of academic disciplines, including film studies, history, cultural studies, sociology, musicology, art and design and religious studies.

The main aim of this network is to promote the internationalization of research on youth.

The network engages Portuguese and Brazilian sociologists of education from the most relevant university institutions of both countries and promotes a comparative analysis of educational phenomena. It has a vast collection of books and published articles and organises a congress every 2 years (in Brazil and in Portugal, alternatively).

Platform for the protection and promotion of the Rights of Boys and Girls. It aims to emphasize the democratic debate between public structures and active social movements, identifying possibilities for action in the respective social protection systems.

The purpose of the Research Committee on Family Research (CFR) is to encourage family research of high quality within and between countries.

Reserch group of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Research group of the CNPq - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Aesthetics, consumer society and globalisation. A study on the interactions between the art worlds and creative economy (visual arts, fashion, design, and gastronomy). A historical and sociological perspective.

Research group of the CNPq – National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The OCCA Observatory was officially launched on 30 May 2017 with the aim of boosting the field of food culture in Ceará, with an emphasis on regional, traditional and popular cuisine. Lines of action: Training, Research, Intervention.

Research group of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
 

Research group of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Research group of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The Research Network Sociology of the Arts aims to advance sociological and interdisciplinary research providing contexts for understanding the multifaceted and interwoven factors that characterize the arts in society, in the past, present, and potential futures. RN02 promotes collaboration and scholarly exchange between European-based scholars of the arts and non-European scholars whose work encompasses the arts in Europe.

The SMEL Network (Socio Management & Economic Lusophone) was established as a research group, under the inter-institutional agreement signed for the first time in 2010, by the initiative of Professor Cristina Parente (University of Porto) and Professor Allan Barbosa (Federal University of Minas Gerais) who, since then, have ensured the coordination and promotion of the research and teaching project "Socio-economic development in a comparative perspective between Portugal and Brazil".

Partnership between Social Service Schools for the development of multilateral and bilateral research projects and for the organisation of seminars, workshops, conferences and lectures on different topics based on the different national realities. 

The Urban Music Studies Blog is a multi- and transdisciplinary network of researchers regarding the different relationships between musical forms, actors, institutions and the city. Our aim is to institutionalize all kinds of academic and applied work in the field in order to connect the rather coexisting and loose linkages between results and publications within different academic discourses.

The Research Network Urban Sociology aims to stimulate scientific debate within the area of Urban Sociology, by creating a cross-disciplinary space of exchange open to sociologists and scientists from other disciplines interested in creating knowledge about, but also intervening in, urban space and urban life.

Women on the Move is a transdisciplinary network of European researchers who focus on historic and contemporary female labour mobility spanning six centuries to the present. The objective is to show the presence and economic contribution of female migrants in European history by revealing women as active migrants and builders of Europe - with economic means, belongings, assets and social networks - capable to overcome gendered obstacles. This will contradict macro-narratives that present women as vulnerable migrants and economic burdens.

“Cive Morum” stems from Latin, meaning “a moral citizen”. Its designation mirrors its objectives: calling for a participatory citizenship governed by ethical principles, coordinating them to advocate more environmentally sustainable and participatory lifestyles and mobilising greater shared integrity.