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.

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

VOICES is a COST Action that aims to increase the visibility of inequalities faced by Young Researchers and Innovators (YRIs) from a gender perspective,  and to promote a sustainable dialogue between YRIs and stakeholders in the research ecosystem at the systemic level (European & national policy-makers) and at the institutional level (senior researchers, academic managers) by creating a community of gender equality practitioners composed of various stakeholders (YRIs, independent researchers, academic managers, organizations) across Europe.

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.

O Planet Politics Institute é uma comunidade virtual de académicos, escritores e juristas que investigam as inúmeras dimensões da política planetária. Dedicamo-nos a ligar a nossa investigação em política ecológica, ética e direito às lutas activas por mudanças políticas, governação melhorada e sobrevivência ecológica.

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.

The Ibero-American Network of Research in Communication and Feminism for Social Justice (IBERFEMCOM) is articulated as a space for meeting and interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge and cooperation, around feminist and gender studies in the field of communication, in its various theoretical, methodological and social transfer approaches. 

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).

A Rede Earth System Governance é uma rede de investigação global que visa promover o conhecimento na interface entre as alterações ambientais globais e a governação. A rede liga e mobiliza investigadores das ciências sociais e humanas que trabalham a escalas locais e globais.

Uma plataforma de partilha para consolidar redes de relacionamento e expansão partilhada entre pessoas que investigam em Artes, Educação Artística e Arte/Educação.

Fortes laços de colaboração se foram constituindo nos debates que um conjunto de eventos científicos partilhados proporcionou numa geografia que se alastra entre investigadoras, docentes e artistas de países que usam oficialmente as línguas castelhana e portuguesa (Argentina, Brasil, Cabo Verde, Espanha, Moçambique, Portugal), estando aberta a novas colaborações. 

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.