On the 24th October, the Launch of the clothing campaign , with the participation of Ana Luísa Silva. The event is organised by Oficina Global, an initiative comprising researchers from CEsA (ISEG's Centre for African and Development Studies) and faculty from ISEG's Masters in Development and International Cooperation.  

The event will take place from 12:30 to 13:00 in the Student Association's lounge (Kasino).

This session is part of the various activities scheduled as part of the ISEG Sustainability Week 2023.

Free admission.

The presentation of the A mini-forest for ISEG" projectwill take place on the 24th October, when Oriana Brás (SOCIUS researcher) and António Alexandre (FCUL) will present the Miyawaki method for creating urban forests.

The talk will take place on the 24th October, from 11.00 and 12.00, in the Student Association's lounge (Kasino).

This session is part of the various activities scheduled as part of the ISEG Sustainability Week 2023.

Free admission.

The entire academic community is invited to the Presentation of the ISEG 2022 sustainability report, which will take place on the 24th October, from 10:30 to 11:00, in the Student Association's lounge (Kasino).

The presentation, which is an integral part of the ISEG Sustainability Week 2023, is coordinated by Professor Winnie Picoto, a Vice-Dean of ISEG.

Free admission.

The ISEG Sustainability Week 2023 starts with a talk on "Can temperature lead to lower GDP? How can climate finance avoid a future global recession?", with Sofia Santos, who is a professor from ISEG Executive Education and an ESG Analyst certified by the European Federation of Financial Analysts.

The talk will take place on the 23rd October, from 14.00 to 15.00, in Lecture theatre 21 (Francesinhas 1).

Free admission.

From the 23rd to 27th October, 2023, we will be celebrating Sustainability Week at ISEG.

This edition will feature activities on topics such as sustainable finance, social entrepreneurship and conscious consumption patterns. There will also be a workshop on ISEG's mini urban forest, a photographic exhibition of the Agora Risk project in the Library atrium and training on the carbon market with Carbon Literacy.

Program (pdf)

23rd October

24th October

25th October

26th and 27th October

From the 23rd to 27th October2023, we will be celebrating Sustainability Week at ISEG. This edition will feature activities on topics such as sustainable finance, social entrepreneurship, and conscious consumption patterns. There will also be a workshop on ISEG's mini-urban forest, a photographic exhibition of the Agora Risk project, and training on the carbon market with Carbon Literacy.

This initiative reflects ISEG's commitment to promoting and bringing sustainability issues closer to our community.

ISEG invites all members of the community to take part!

Further information, programme and registration HERE.

Would you like to take part in the first practical mini-forest workshop? Registration is now open HERE.

The participatory process for the creation and maintenance of an urban mini-forest at ISEG has been launched. This process is part of the TERRARE research project: action-research for eco-social regeneration, coordinated by Oriana Rainho Brás, a researcher at SOCIUS/CSG. The project is supported by ISEG Sustainability. FCUL, a pioneer in the creation of urban mini-forests in Portugal, which is a partner in this project. Valorsul - Valorização e Tratamento de Resíduos Sólidos das Regiões de Lisboa e do Oeste, SA. is also a partner in this project, providing organic compost to enrich the soil.

The TERRARE research project aims to reflect on the eco-social processes involved in the creation of an urban mini-forest and involves the participation of the university community. It also reflects the dynamics of research on soil regeneration through reforestation and community involvement.

Eco-social workshops will be held throughout the autumn and winter months of 2023, to involve the university community and develop the necessary knowledge to create and maintain a forest according to the "tiny forest" method proposed by biologist Akira Miyawaki. This method follows the principles of natural succession, through the intense planting of native species that allows their rapid growth in small spaces of up to 300m2. The model of tiny forest brings several benefits such as the diversification of local fauna and flora, carbon absorption, water fixation, thermal regulation and soil regeneration. Members of the ISEG community are invited to participate in the creation of this forest, which aims to be a living and participatory laboratory, ranging from planning, design, implementation, and care, through to enjoyment.

Learn more about the project HERE.

This sustainability action, unprecedented on this scale in Portuguese universities, is part of the week to welcome new undergraduate students.

ISEG, in collaboration with IPP (Institute of Public Policy) and Transitar, organized a major event to raise awareness about climate change, with the participation of around 200 first-year students from ISEG's undergraduate programs. This action involved training our teachers, staff and second and third year students as Climate Mural facilitators.

The new students were invited to take part in the Climate Mural, an initiative to raise awareness of the causes, consequences and side-effects of climate change, based on the work of the UN's IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. A set of letters leads to the creation of a mural through cause-effect connections between each letter, deepening or uncovering new knowledge, focused on climate awareness.

An initiative that attests to ISEG's commitment to educating, raising awareness and encouraging students to change their behavior and practices, as Winnie Picoto, ISEG's Vice President for Sustainability, says: "At ISEG, we recognize that the quality of life of future generations depends on how we deal with current challenges and we are very committed to the challenges of sustainability. By participating in this action, our students gain a greater awareness of their role in society and propose individual and collective actions for the climate transition.”

The Climate Mural workshop was created in France in 2018 and has already raised awareness of climate challenges among more than 1.1 million people around the world. Through this collaborative workshop, ISEG students were able to discover, sometimes with surprise, how major current issues are interlinked with climate change. For example, the extent to which rising temperatures and the resulting migration of insects could be responsible for the spread of disease.

With the start of the academic year at ISEG very much focused on Sustainability, the following day the students also had the opportunity to move from theory to practice and take part in an environmental volunteer action with the Monsanto Interpretation Center, in partnership with the Lisbon City Council, to collect invasive species in the Monsanto Forest Park.

The ISEG's Cultural Committee Is hosting a photography exhibitionas part of the Hi-BicLab - Laboratório de História para Mobilidades Urbanas Sustentáveis: Políticas cicláveis de Lisboa research project, a nationally-funded exploratory project fund that researces Lisbon's historical cycling experience as well as those factors that have prevented or promoted its use, arguing that history is important for bringing about a more sustainable and fair urban mobility.

The exhibition will be on display in the Atrium of the Francisco Pereira de Moura Library at ISEG from the 12th September to the 20th October.

This initiative to rethink Lisbon's contemporary and past daily scenes through a comparative lens is the result of the work of the interdisciplinary team of researchers and their respective institutions and research units participating in the Hi-BicLab, namely the Faculty of Science and Technology of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (FCT NOVA), the Faculty of Architecture of Universidade de Lisboa (FAUL), and the Lisbon School of Economics and Management of Universidade de Lisboa (ISEG), through Professor Patricia Meloand the Faculty of Science of the Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL). The work for this exhibition was based on ten photographs of streets in the city of Lisbon, between the beginning of the 20th century and the end of the 1960s, selected from the collection of the Lisbon Municipal Archive (Fotográfico) and whose places were re-photographed in 2022 by the anthropologist and filmmaker Charlotte Seegers.

The mission of Hi-BicLab is to link historical thinking with today's "great challenges" of sustainable mobility and fair mobility for varying spatial scales, ranging from the street to the city on a global scale, which are issues directly related to SDG 11 - "Make cities and communities more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable", in particular the goals of "providing access to safe, accessible, sustainable and affordable transport systems for all, improving road safety" and "providing universal access to safe, inclusive, accessible and green public spaces".

Next September we are going to launch the participatory process for the creation and maintenance of an urban mini-forest at ISEG.

This process is part of the TERRARE research project: action-research for eco-social regeneration, coordinated by Oriana Rainho Brás, a researcher at SOCIUS/CSGThe project is supported by ISEG Sustainability. FCUL, a pioneer in the creation of urban mini-forests in Portugal, is a partner of the project.

Eco-social workshops will be held throughout the autumn and winter months of 2023, to involve the university community and develop the necessary knowledge to create and maintain a forest according to the "tiny forest" method proposed by biologist Akira Miyawaki. This method follows the principles of natural succession, through the intense planting of native species that allows their rapid growth in small spaces of up to 300m2. The model of tiny forest brings several benefits such as the diversification of local fauna and flora, carbon absorption, water fixation, thermal regulation and soil regeneration. Members of the ISEG community are invited to participate in the creation of this forest, which aims to be a living and participatory laboratory, ranging from planning, design, implementation, and care, through to enjoyment.

The project starts this summer by completely covering all the land chosen for the mini-forest, next to the Francisco Pereira de Moura library, at the back of the Francesinhas I building. This methodology will be applied to eliminate invasive weeds without damaging the topsoil, to make it suitable for planting. The project also has the partnership of Valorsul - Valorização e Tratamento de Resíduos Sólidos das Regiões de Lisboa e do Oeste, SA., which will provide the organic compost required to enrich the soil.

The TERRARE research project aims to reflect on the eco-social processes involved in the creation of an urban mini-forest and involves the participation of the university community. It also reflects the dynamics of research on soil regeneration through reforestation and community involvement.

Would you like to receive more information about the project? Please click HERE.

Would you like to take part in the first practical mini-forest workshop? Please sign up HERE.

A forest for the university, a university for the forest. Positive values and actions in the present and for the future.