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| The solidarity mural allows, through scholarships, support for students in a more vulnerable economic context, and who, through access to education, can break the vicious cycle of poverty and begin a virtuous cycle. |
Education is the foundation of sustainable development: access to education empowers individuals to break the cycle of poverty, promotes peace by fostering tolerance between cultures and promotes gender equality. As a relevant development actor, Iscte works to create open and innovative learning opportunities, capable of contributing to global development. The solidarity mural allows, through scholarships, support for students in a more vulnerable economic context, and who, through access to education, can break the vicious cycle of poverty and begin a virtuous cycle. As we noted, the link between the education SDG and the poverty SDG becomes evident in this context. A word for the Social Action Service (SAS) and the Teaching Management Services (SGE) of Iscte. Social support is crucial for greater equality of opportunities, access and attendance for all students. As on the agenda, the motto “Leave no one behind”, at Iscte we also seek to ensure that no student is excluded from higher education due to financial incapacity, functional diversity or otherwise. Curiosities: The Iscte Solidarity Mural, currently promoted by the Alumni Clube Iscte, was created in 2012 (celebration of Iscte's 40th anniversary) with the aim of raising scholarships of study for Iscte students. Since then, former Iscte students have contributed to a fund intended to support students who, due to various circumstances, face difficulties in completing their courses. By the end of 2021, around 60 students had been supported, and in 2022, through the Solidarity Mural, 12 scholarships will be awarded with a unit value of €886.40. €1,349,422.07, which translated into an increase of more than 100 thousand euros compared to the previous academic year. |
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| Iscte seeks to ensure the best working conditions, access to health services and support for sporting activities, but also the training of the academic community. This contributes to increasing the motivation, productivity and well-being of employees, to the academic success of students, to the prevention of workplace accidents and to the reduction of absenteeism rates. |
| The gymnasium is just the visible phase of a broad commitment to the academic community. For those who like to exercise, you can even download our playlist dedicated to the SDGs (coming soon). We also have the Iscte University Sports with multiple offers and initiatives in its program, promoted by University Culture and Sports Unit (UCDU).Also, the Student Support Office offers activities to support student integration and prevention work. Develops workshops and activities to promote healthy lifestyles. Evaluates requests for support from students and forwards them, whenever justified. Aimed at the entire academic community, the event "Iscte you Well: well-being of the body and mind" is held annually, with a set of actions linked to health and physical and mental well-being. Promotes health literacy and healthy lifestyles. Iscte is more present in this SDG in terms of mental health and public health policies, two important areas of teaching and research. The teaching of psychology and research into CIS_Iscte are some of the most visible aspects of this SDG at Iscte. More recently, Iscte has been developing a strategic project in this area: Iscte Saúde. The Iscte Saúde is a transversal initiative across the entire Iscte, developed with the purpose of contributing to a better response to health challenges in today's society, through the combination of the research, training and intervention of the Iscte in its areas of social, management and technological sciences. The initiative is taken from a societal health perspective, which is new and broadens the horizons of citizen participation and the role of public policies. We remind you that the numbering assigned to the SDGs is a mere identification, since all SDGs are equally important, complementary and oriented in the same direction. We continue to explore the theme of SDG 9. |
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| Does anyone remember the color, name or even the number associated with this SDG 9? |
SDG 9 - Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation, color Orange. Vitruvius FabLab was founded in 2012, is managed by ISTA, with the aim of enhancing the development of innovative methods in manufacturing and creative design. The aim is to participate in the development of automated techniques for the production of architectural models, explore modular construction systems, innovative material applications, interventions in the area of product design, urban equipment, computer graphics and multimedia, in a transdisciplinary and participatory context. href="https://www.it.pt/ITSites/Index/8">Telecommunications Institute (Iscte hub), with diverse research in the area of technology. A recent area at Iscte, fundamental for innovation in the most diverse areas, is data science, which arises from a partnership between ISTA and IBS, and has research activity also at BRU_Iscte. Let's enter VFabLab and, through the voice of Architect João Sousa, get to know FabLab very briefly. Do you know that we are open to welcome you? |
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| Sustainable production and consumption means doing more, with less and better: building sustainable infrastructure, ensuring the efficient use of natural resources and generating cleaner energy and wasting less. By involving diverse stakeholders, you will generate lasting solutions that promote healthier ecosystems, economies and safer livelihoods. |
In addition to former students, true Instagram stars who took advantage of their academic journey to develop creative and innovative projects – Anna Massielo from " R-Coat", or the project " Old Fashioned Fruit: Reactivate to Reuse" - which highlight the impact of small “large” actions in promoting more sustainable consumption patterns, Iscteimplementa, with its partners, a set of initiatives and activities that address this topic. Because we believe that learning along the way, a non-formal education methodology, is also important in academic contexts and even valued, one of the initiatives we want to highlight in this route is the “Vai Vem” initiative. Through reflection and sharing it is possible to awaken the educational community to the adoption of new consumption patterns, giving a second chance to items that are no longer used. An initiative that we know will be well received by the Iscte educational community and can be widely replicated by other communities. An important area of Iscte's action in this SDG is the management and maintenance of our campus, in which the entire academic community plays a role. Iscte has made a great effort in recent years to implement more efficient and sustainable management of resources and waste, seeking to avoid waste and integrate best practices into more responsible consumption. We have an accessible campus, where hours of sustainability training and work with services and suppliers have increased, as has waste recycling, and energy, water and paper consumption has fallen. This and other information is present in our Sustainability Report. |
| Curiosities: Is it raining and your umbrella broke? Don't throw it in the trash can, bring it to Iscte! We collect broken umbrellas for the R-Coat project @shoprcoat, developed by a former Iscte student, who transforms them into new waterproofs, hats and shorts. Look for the container (made of umbrellas) at the entrance to Floor 2, building II. |
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| Library - A window to the World. Here we again have to reinforce the ambitious goals that are expressed in SDG 4 - Quality Education. |
The Selfie Point - Before visiting the library, we invite you to take a photo to raise awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals, and, if you wish, share it on social media #50anosIscte #UmEspacoParaCrescer #SustentabilidadeIscte. Education is the foundation of sustainable development: access to education empowers individuals to break the cycle of poverty, promotes peace by fostering tolerance between cultures and promotes gender equality. As a relevant development actor, Iscte works to create open and innovative learning opportunities, capable of contributing to global development. The Iscte Library 's mission is to manage access and use of resources bibliographic and informative documents necessary to carry out teaching, learning and research functions and promote the carrying out of cultural extension activities. Participates in national and international networks and projects and develops user training initiatives in the field of information literacy. It specializes in the areas of Social and Human Sciences, Sociology and Public Policies, Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies, Architecture and Urbanism and Management. This structure is a support to the 4 Iscte Schools: School of Social and Human Sciences (ECSH), School of Sociology and Public Policies (ESPP), School of Technologies and Architecture (ISTA) and the School of Management (IBS). |
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| Diversity and inclusion are essential factors for a fairer society and more dignified work. An inclusive university constitutes a continuous challenge, as there is an increasingly greater diversity of audiences, in terms of gender, age, nationality, physical condition, religion, among others. Iscte is an inclusive teaching and learning space, with the application of innovative pedagogical methods. In addition to support for students, there are additional measures for students with SEN. |
The Iscte campus is an inclusive teaching and learning space, with the application of innovative pedagogical methods. In addition to support for students, there are additional measures for students with Special Educational Needs (SEN): | student autonomy and meetings with tutors, particularly blind or visually impaired students. There is the possibility of converting documents to adapted formats and printing in Braille;Provision of guides in the Library for the production of accessible content;Awareness-raising initiatives and workshops on diversity and inclusion (e.g. the International Day of Persons with Disabilities). With regard to the integration of foreign students, International Relations Unit in conjunction with schools, promote initiatives for welcoming and integration and promoting multiculturalism. |
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| Having arrived at the Rectory, we cannot leave out SDG 16 - promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, responsible and inclusive institutions at all levels. |
With this route, above all we seek to create a differentiated vision of analyzing the Sustainable Development Goals, using the work we have developed over the years and which we will continue to develop. A work that needs everyone and all of us, because only then will it be possible to guarantee that no one is left behind and that we can achieve a fairer, more dignified and more inclusive world. Sustainability is evaluated not only in its results, but also in its construction processes, which are democratic, participatory and free. The governance of institutions is fundamental in these processes. At Iscte there are regular elections for the Rectory. There is also the General Council, as a governing body, the Senate and the Ethics Committee, as consultative bodies, and the Pedagogical and Scientific Councils, as coordinating bodies. Several of these bodies must include representatives of the academic community – students, teachers, researchers and technicians – and also external participation The Rectory has the support of the Quality Unit (UQ), the Research Support Office (GAI), and the Communication Office (GC). Iscte's Integrated Quality Assurance System (SIGQ_Iscte), which transversally integrates Sustainability, promotes and guarantees the intervention of multiple actors at different organizational levels and with different degrees of responsibility. This also involves the participation of various internal actors (students, teachers, researchers and technicians) and external actors (former students, employers, other civil society figures). In terms of research and teaching, Iscte is also present in this SDG, with research and teaching in various areas of social and human sciences, namely through the activities of the research center CEI_Iscte and the recently developed training in the area of humanitarian action. |
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| Beyond the community educational whose value is inestimable, we cannot fail to mention the role that Iscte also plays in promoting Inclusive, Safe, Resilient and Sustainable Cities and Communities. |
Iscte's multidisciplinary action directly and indirectly reinforces the promotion of inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable communities. Public Policies (IPPS). We highlight the Iscte Public Policies Award which aims to recognize the most relevant public policies adopted in the last year in Portugal, namely those aimed at combating the COVID-19 pandemic and its social, economic and educational effects and cultural. Also noteworthy is the role of AUDAX, the Iscte Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center. There are also a number of important projects and initiatives that directly contribute to the pursuit of this objective and which are duly identified in Iscte Sustainability Report. One of the most active research centers in terms of this SDG is Dinâmia’Cet_Iscte, bringing together research from the areas of economics, architecture and sociology, with the necessary interdisciplinarity that the territories require. And we would not be a sustainable community without giving an assertive response to one of the biggest current challenges: sustainable production and consumption... Without moralizing behaviors or lifestyles, we know that our current lifestyle has a direct impact on a social and environmental level. |
| Curiosities: Iscte participates in four entities dedicated to transferring knowledge society through the promotion of entrepreneurship, consultancy and staff training in private companies, public entities and non-profit organizations: |
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| Equality is enshrined in access to education, working conditions and opportunities and professional career development, among others. Led by a Rector, we believe, defend and practice gender equality in all its dimensions. |
Iscte encourages participation and appreciation of the role that women and men play in society (in the work, economic, political, personal and family domains). Both at the level of students and teachers, there is a balance between the number of people in the feminine and masculine gender. Although in higher education women are often underrepresented in senior positions, at Iscte the opposite is true. As for the salary and remuneration ratio, this is approximately equivalent between women and men (above 0.9), with a greater difference (ratio of 0.87) observed among researchers. noreferrer">SAGE research project, Iscte approved its Iscte's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Plane. Iscte tracks the percentages of female students and graduates, and in 2018/19 began monitoring male and female completion rates. Globally, women represent around half of students and graduates, although there are some variations depending on the course. |
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| Does anyone know how many liters of water the average Portuguese citizen consumes? |
Access to drinking water and basic sanitation is essential for the achievement of many of the SDGs (health, gender equality and education). 2.2 billion people still do not have access to toilets, 1.8 billion drink contaminated water and water scarcity affects more than 40% of the global population. In addition to the water that is visible to us, we cannot forget the invisible water. The water present in our clothing, food... (Source: UN). In fact, each Portuguese person uses an average of 187 liters of water per day, for domestic consumption, when the recommended amount is around 50 liters per person for basic human needs. As an example, the equivalent of 20 5-liter bottles of water. (Source: https://www.portaldaagua.pt/valor-da-agua.html). |
| Curiosities: Iscte exclusively uses water from the public network. Water consumption results from the use of toilets, taps, fountains and irrigation. To minimize consumption, Iscte has a monitoring system. In 2021, the consumption of drinking water, coming from the supply network on the Iscte Campus, is in the order of 11,898 m 3 of water, which corresponds on average to around 2.5 liters per member of the academic community. With the measures provided for in the Eco.AP Efficiency Plan By 2030, Iscte is expected to reduce water consumption by around 40%, that is, 11,545 m 3 of water, which is equivalent to around 6 Olympic swimming pools of water saved in 4 years. |
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| Combating climate change It is one of humanity’s greatest challenges. With an academic community that has more people than some small cities, Iscte is committed to reducing energy consumption (electricity and gas) and greenhouse gas emissions. |
Iscte's Sustainability reflects this commitment: "reducing the use of resources and the production of waste and emissions, preventing pollution and improving the quality of life on campus". of the Application submitted by Iscte in 2022 to the NextGeneration EU Fund, within the scope of the Recovery and Resilience Program, Iscte expects to implement the measures in order to lead to a 34.3% reduction in primary energy consumption in the intervened buildings and contribute to a 40% reduction in water supply consumption in these buildings, by 2024. This application involved extensive group work, involving GM.ARC, designers, the Energy and Resources Manager (GER), GER support distributed by the SIE/Buildings and Resources Unit, the Purchasing Unit, the Financial Unit, Sustainability Manager of the Studies, Planning and Quality Office, among others. |
Curiosities: With the ECO.AP Efficiency and Resources Plan 2030 is intended to contribute to:
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| Reduction of Inequalities are at the heart of the SDGs. More than 75% of families in Developing Countries live in societies with greater income inequality than in the 1990s. But balancing income levels must be addressed together with other inequalities, such as those based on disability, gender, ethnicity and religion. |
| The Iscte Pedagogical Council in conjunction with the State Secretariat for Social Security established the prémio Silva Leal, whose main purpose is to reduce inequalities in the educational field. The annual prize, worth €2,500, is intended for work of relevance to the study of policies and practices in the fields of social security, solidarity and the social economy. Professor António da Silva Leal distinguished himself in the field of solidarity policies. In 2018, he is the author of the doctoral thesis “Informal social support networks in Social Service: the personal social networks of Portuguese elderly people in the processes of diagnostic assessment in social responses”. SDG 10 is one of the SDGs in which Iscte is most present through teaching and research activities, including work on policy evaluation and deconstructing myths and stereotypes. Not only through the teaching of social and human sciences, but also through the activities of CIES_ Iscte or Cria_Iscte, but also of observatories, such as the Observatory of Inequalities, the Observatory of Migrations, or even participation in the associated Laboratory CoLABOR, which works on the topics of work and employment, social protection and the social and solidarity economy. For this and other reasons, it was the SDG in which Iscte obtained the best score in the THE Impact ranking, ranking at the top nationally. It is important to mention the work of Laboratório de Competências Transversais (LCT) at Iscte, which, with a view to improving academic reception, offers a set of free Curricular Units and preparatory Modules for the entire Iscte community. – PALOP’S. |
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| The Issuance of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) from human activities are drivers of climate change. The Paris Agreement will drive this action, but achieving its objective of limiting the increase in global temperature to less than 2º Celsius will depend on transforming climate knowledge into policy. |
Many of you have probably already wondered why these Olive Trees in Pátio do Iscte. In addition to the symbolism (peace, progress, abundance, wisdom, justice) these Olive trees were planted in 2011. And despite this magnificent story, we cannot help but reflect on the consequences of the intensive exploitation of olive groves, especially in the south of the country. The impacts are worrying in the loss of biodiversity and the strengthening of pest resistance. Worse: sometimes plants absorb these harmful products and they end up in the olives - ending up on our plates. And that is why it is essential to promote the sustainable use of ecosystems and protect and rethink the forest, also in Portugal. Recognizing the multiple constraints associated with deforestation, which has increased year after year, we know that it is necessary to do more and better. Forests are home to 80% of all terrestrial species of animals, plants and insects (UN source). Forests sustain air, water and food. Extreme deforestation and land degradation threaten biodiversity and the 1 billion people who depend on the land to sustain themselves. We don't have a forest, but we have a pilot garden. Once again and associating with the theme of the SDGs, the idea is to establish a link with SDG 1 - Eradicate Hunger, Achieve Food Security, Improve Nutrition and Promote Sustainable Agriculture. |
| Curiosities: BioBlitz at Iscte is a "Citizen Science" activity at Iscte! BioBlitz at Iscte, is an activity that normally takes place in preparation for the European Researchers' Night, with the aim of raising awareness of the importance of protecting and measuring biodiversity, by counting existing species. This is a “citizen science” activity, involving the public in scientific research activities. |
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| We don't have a forest, but we have a vegetable garden. Once again and associating with the theme of the SDGs, the idea is to establish a link with SDG 2 Eradicate Hunger, Achieve Food Security, Improve Nutrition and Promote Sustainable Agriculture. |
We know that it is not from this garden that we will achieve what is the biggest solvable problem in the world, but we want to draw attention to this problem that affects more than 811 million people (Source: UN) , a number that has increased in the last 2 years as a result of Covid-19. We also draw attention to the most invisible issues related to food, that is, the journey from farm to plate. We talk, of course, about environmental factors, but also about working conditions that we know have a direct impact on the lives of thousands of workers. If we are in fact what we eat, then we must guarantee an ethical and fair diet. |
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| We move on to the end of this route, noting that Iscte seeks whenever possible to work in partnership, for development, in which it works with different development actors on a multitude of themes. Thanks to Instituto Marquês de Valle Flôrand Intermunicipal Cooperation Network for Development, in support of the creation of the SDG Route and in the loan of the "Global Sustainable Development Goals" Exhibition, respectively. And of course, thank you to everyone who participated in this trip! You can find a lot of information about our work on our website and also on our social networks. active citizenship in the field of sustainable development can and must participate! Send us a message to: sustainability@iscte.ptYour opinion is important to us. Please rate here the SDG route! |
