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Between June 29th and July 3rd, Iscte hosted the Ciência Viva 2026 Summer Internship, dedicated to social sciences and technology in responding to the challenges of the future. For five days, a group of high school students went from being on the side of those learning science to doing it.
Throughout the program, the guiding thread was always the same: showing that research can help understand and face everyday challenges. This idea took the form of a game at LAPSO-Laboratório de Psicologia, where students explored how to build sustainable behaviors, and became an ethnography exercise across the campus, looking for clues about social housing and archival memory. At Fablab, it became a digital manufacturing challenge, with 3D printing and modeling techniques, and, in conversation with researchers, it was also an excuse to discuss ethics in online games and the importance of communicating science to those who have never read a scientific article.
The program culminated in a science workshop citizen, integrated into the Scientific Occupation of Young People on Holidays initiative, by Ciência Viva, which challenged young people to look at their own city as a source of scientific data, and to see themselves not only as recipients of knowledge, but also as potential producers of it.
The initiative, organized by SocioDigital Lab at Iscte, involved researchers from several centers, at the intersection between social sciences and technology that spanned the entire week.
