ISEG student wins Mário Quartin Graça Scientific Prize 2016

Daniele dos Santos Fontoura, who has a PhD from ISEG in Economic and Organizational Sociology, won the Mário Quartin Graça Scientific Prize 2016, in the category of  Economic and Business Sciences.

This award was set up by Banco Santander Totta and Casa de América Latina,  honors doctoral theses carried out at universities in Portugal or Latin America, by Portuguese or Latin American researchers, and is aimed at works approved up to three years before the deadline for applications.

Daniele Fontoura won the prize with her thesis "Aging and the Labor Market in the Brazilian and Portuguese Hotel Sector: A Gender Perspective", co-supervised by the School of Administration of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and the Higher Institute of Economics and Management of the University of Lisbon. The researcher carried out a qualitative and comparative study between Portugal and Brazil on the constraints imposed by age and gender on the working experiences of workers in the hospitality market.

This was the 7th edition of the Mário Quartin Graça Scientific Prize, which received 86 applications from doctoral students from various countries, including Portugal, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Panama and Paraguay.

The works were assessed by a jury made up of Luís Bento dos Santos, Director of Banco Santander Totta; Arlindo Oliveira, President of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST); Manuela Júdice, Secretary General of Casa da América Latina; João Proença, Rector of the European University; and Pedro Cardim, Professor at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

The award ceremony will take place in December this year, at a date and place to be announced.

This initiative is part of Santander Totta's Social Responsibility policy, namely in support of Education and Knowledge, and aims to stimulate the training of Latin American and Portuguese students in subjects of any nature of mutual interest to Portugal and Latin America.

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