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.

Rede global de investigadores dedicados à música independente e outras manifestações artísticas.

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.

O objectivo central da nova rede é potenciar a internacionalização da investigação sobre juventude.

A Rede de Etnografia Urbana começou formalmente a sua atividade em 2016 no âmbito do convénio FCT/CAPES «Cidades em mudança: processos participativos em Portugal e no Brasil» (2016, UFF e Iscte, coordenação Graça Cordeiro e Renata de Sá Gonçalves).

Envolve sociólogos da educação portugueses e brasileiros das mais relevantes instituições universitárias de ambos os países. Promove uma análise comparada dos fenómenos educativos. Tem já um património vasto de livros e de artigos publicados. Organiza um congresso de 2 em 2 anos (ora no Brasil, ora em Portugal)

Plataforma de proteção e promoção dos Direitos dos Meninos e das Meninas. Visa enfatizar o debate democrático entre estruturas públicas e movimentos sociais atuantes, identificando possibilidades de atuação nos respectivos sistemas de proteção social.

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

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.

Le CR32 place au cœur de sa réflexion la question des formes de production, de transmission et de mise en œuvre des savoirs dans le monde professionnel.

A SMEL Network (Socio Management & Economic Lusophone Network) constituiu-se como grupo de investigação, no âmbito do convénio interinstitucional assinado, pela primeira vez em 2010, por iniciativa da professora Cristina Parente (Universidade do Porto) e do professor Allan Barbosa (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) que, desde então, têm assegurado o trabalho de coordenação e dinamização do projeto de investigação e ensino “Desenvolvimento socioeconómico numa perspetiva comparada en

Parceria entre Escolas de Serviço Social para desenvolvimento de projetos de investigação multilaterais ou bilaterais e para organização se Seminários, Worhshops, Conferências ou Palestras temáticas a partir das diferentes realidades nacionais. 

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.

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.