2021-2024
Migrações, media e ativismos em língua portuguesa: descolonizar paisagens mediáticas e imaginar futuros alternativos . CECS/UM. Financiado pela FCT
Abordagens sustentáveis para a reabilitação e revitalização do património cultural construído no Parque Natural do Montesinho. ISIEE/UM. Financiado pela FCT.
2018-2023
Memories, cultures and identities: how the past weights on the present-day intercultural relations in Mozambique and Portugal? Financiado pela FCT & Aga Khan Development Network. (AKDN) Link
2020
Summer School 27.7 - 26.10
Áfricas: mobilidade, violência, memória e criatividade
2019-
Member of Passeio - Plataforma de Arte e Cultura Urbana
Member of Museu Virtual da Lusofonia
Since 2016
Member of the Team RECEB - Reforma Curricular do Ensino Básico da Guine Bissau – 2º ciclo, University of Minho, F.C.Gulbenkian & UNICEF
2016-2019
NoVOID, Ruins and vacant lands in the Portuguese cities: exploring hidden life in urban derelicts and alternative planning proposals for the perforated city, PTDC/ATP-EUR/1108/2014 [Funded by FCT (Portuguese national funding agency for science, research and technology)]
2019 Living Within. Exploring the hidden life of urban ruins (João Sarmento & Rui Pereira, 34:53) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3dTRcdPxt8&feature=youtu.be
2018 A Vida nas Ruínas (João Sarmento & Rui Pereira, 6:20) https://vimeo.com/290125252
2017 Caldeiroa Quarter (João Sarmento & Rui Pereira, 3:17) https://vimeo.com/233624822
2016-2019
AGORA, Encontros entre a cidade e as artes: explorando novas urbanidades, PTDC/ATP-GEO/3208/2014 [Funded by FCT]
2014-2015
Relational Space, Material and Affective Geographies: Ruins and Ruination in Postcolonial Africa. SFRH/BSAB/1430/2014, Funded by FCT
2009-2013
Cultural life in provincial towns: public space, sociability and representations (1840-1926), Funded by FCT - PTDC/CS-GEO/100726/2008
2007 & 2008
Culture in space: postcolonial readings in the intersection between the global and the local. SFRH/BSAB/731/2007, funded by FCT
CONSULTANCY
2013-2014
'Structural Funds and Culture in the period 2014-2020', IGOT, Funded by Culture Secretary for State
2008 & 2011
External reviewer in Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (University of Turku and Turku School of Economics), Finland
2006-2008
Perito Relator Externo do projecto ‘VALE DO AVE 2015, Região de Conhecimento e Inovação, Território de Responsabilidade Social, Financiado pelo Programa Operacional da Região Norte, Medida 1.4 – Valorização e Promoção Regional e Local.
2008
United Nations consultant on Ecotourism in the Integrated Management Project of Malagueta Natural Park, Cape Verde