Knowledge Tranfer Projects
Access to Higher Education
Expert support related to the OECD-led project "Making Higher Education in Portugal more Inclusive"
Description: This work includes co-developing (together with the OECD), distributing, and collecting responses from a survey that the project team plans to distribute among local stakeholders in Consultation Communities (CCs) being established by the project in different locations in Portugal. It will also involve organising and co-ordinating (together with the OECD) and holding (largely independently) interviews with key informants and focus groups in Portuguese involving members of the CCs.
Project under technical assistance of Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support (DG REFORM)
Duration: 12 months
Start Date: 01 Feb 2024
Team: Pedro Luís Silva (coordinator), Maria João Rosa (Senior Researcher, expert in qualitative research), Teresa Carvalho (Senior Researcher, expert in qualitative research)
Transition to the Labour Market
Co-Investigator at the European Graduate Tracking Initiative, 2022-2024
(member of the national team in charge of implementing the Eurograduate Survey 2022 - Graduate Tracking Portugal)
Funded by European Comission, European Education and Culture Executive Agency
Reference: ERASMUS-EDU-2021-GRADU-TRACKING-IBA-2
Acronym: GTPortugal
Number: 101074069
Duration: 24 months
Start Date: 01 Feb 2022
EU Contribution: 68,500.00 euros (Erasmus Plus funding)
Team: Nuno Rodrigues (Coordinator, DGEEC) ; Filomena Oliveira (DGEEC), Carlos Malaca (DGEEC), Rute Nunes (DGEEC), Hugo Figueiredo (CIPES and U. Aveiro), Pedro Luis Silva (CIPES and U. Porto), and Ricardo Biscaia (Coordinator, CIPES and U. Porto)
Output: Eurograduate Report 2022
Financial Support to Higher Education Students
Co-Investigator the evaluation of two scholarship programs: “Mérito no Ensino Superior” (Merit in Higher Education) and “Novos Talentos na Investigação” (New Talents in Research)
Funded by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Duration: 24 months
Start Date: 01 Feb 2024
Research team (from CIPES): Ricardo Biscaia (coordinator), Pedro Luis Silva, Maria José Sá, Pedro Videira and Cl´audia Sarrico (consultant)
Co-Investigator in the study Apoios à Formação Avançada e à Investigação: Mapeamento, Benchmarking e Opções Estratégicas (Support for Advanced Training and Research: Mapping, Benchmarking and Strategic Options), February to April 2022
Funded by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Grant: 10,000 euros
Research team: Pedro Luis Silva (CIPES and U. Porto), Ricardo Biscaia (CIPES and U. Porto), and Cláudia Sarrico (CIPES and U. Minho)
Transition from High School to Higher Education
Country Expert (together with Pedro N. Teixeira), Key competences for all: Policy design and implementation for education systems in Europe, recommendations for policy makers, 2021-2022
European Commission, Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (1,100 euros)
(Final report available here)
