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Speaker: Dr. Henrique Moura, XPM Consulting
As project managers, we often have an ambiguous attitude towards projects with problems. On the one hand, these projects are demanding on a personal level, with unmet expectations, pressure, conflict and a lot of work. On the other hand, these projects require us to practice the best of project management: setting direction, prioritizing problems, bringing people together around a common vision, negotiating objectives and solving problems. This seminar suggests an approach to identifying and managing projects in difficulty, with confidence and control. The approach includes negotiating and stabilizing project objectives until they prove to be systematically acceptable and feasible. The approach also includes identifying and solving problems along the dimensions of people, processes and product. |
This seminar is part of the preparation of the 2013 network conference Economy with a Future which will take place on February 16 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.
Economy with a Future is a network of researchers and teachers of economics and other social sciences who seek to contribute to the renewal of economic thought and discourse, to improve knowledge about the Portuguese economy and its problems, and to participate in the discovery of solutions with a future in dialog in the public space.
Several current and retired ISEG professors participate in this network, such as Prof. Manuela Silva, Prof. Brandão Alves, Prof. Margarida Chagas Lopes, among others.
Improving students' learning experiences and student retention
Speaker: Prof. Lars Ulriksen - Institut for Naturfagenes Didaktik, University of Copenhagen
Panellists :
Margarida Chagas Lopes
Graça Leão Fernandes
"Improving students' learning experiences and student retention
Whether students complete the university program they enter or if they leave before completion is both related to the students' prior knowledge and experiences and to what they experience after having entered the university programs. The workshop will focus on the importance of the students' first-year experience in relation to student completion. However, since some of the issues that are important as to whether students complete or not also affect the quality of students' learning in general the topic of the workshop is student success in a broader sense.
A particular emphasis will be put on the importance of the students' difficulties with decoding the expectations and requirements of the programs and how they try to make sense and coherence of what they experience.
The workshop is based on results from a three-year longitudinal research project."
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On January 21, DECO will debate the implications for Portuguese consumers of the proposed directive that gives the European Central Bank the role of sole supervisor of 6,000 Eurozone banks. The seminar will take place between
9:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. at ISEG's CGD AuditoriumThe event will take place in Lisbon and will be attended by the Deputy Secretary of State for the Economy and Regional Development, António Almeida Henriques, Pedro Duarte Neves, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Portugal, and Vasco Colaço and Pedro Moreira, from DECO, among other experts.
Given the implications for a sector that is vital to the proper functioning of the economy, such as banking, DECO considers it important to debate the significance of these decisions for Portuguese and European consumers. What benefits does this new regulatory and supervisory architecture bring to the Portuguese banking system and to national depositors? What changes can be expected for consumers? What role do national regulators have? Can consumers expect better services and better competition as a result of any improvement in regulation and supervision? |
Seminar Management Department/ADVANCE
Title:
Internal Quality Management Systems in Universities
Speaker:
Maria João Manatos (SPG/ISEG)
Advisor:
Cláudia Sarrico
January 4, 2013
16:30 in room 104 of Miguel Lupi
This seminar aims to debate the effects of the current economic crisis and the impact of austerity measures on poverty.
The following axes will be debated:
The current economic climate and the austerity measures in force will have consequences for the at-risk-of-poverty rate and social inequalities. According to a report made available by the European Commission, which compares the distribution of the effects of austerity policies in six countries in the European Union, the measures taken by the Portuguese government, in addition to being unevenly distributed between rich and poor, have increased the risk of poverty, particularly among the elderly and young people. The Brussels Report reveals that "Portugal is the only country with a clearly regressive distribution", i.e. where the poor are paying more than the rich when austerity is applied. The data shows that Portugal is the only country analyzed in which "the percentage of the cut (due to austerity measures) is greater in the two poorest brackets of society than in the rest.
Admission to the Seminar is FREE for all interested parties, however, registration is mandatory and must be made by December 14th to the following email address: mj.vicente@eapn.pt.
PROGRAMME
I part
9H00 > Opening
ISEG, João Duque
SOCIUS, José Maria Carvalho Ferreira
CGD, Humberto Casanova
Diplomatic Institute, Manuela Franco
AIP Foundation, Jorge Rocha de Matos
AICEP, Pedro Pessoa e Costa
9H30 > Opening Speech
Renata Ramalhosa, Director UK Trade and Investment Portugal, Embassy of the United Kingdom
10H00 > Coffee Break
10H30 > Strategic Cooperation and Economic Diplomacy Actors
Moderator: Manuela Franco, Diplomatic Institute
The financial system
Humberto Casanova, Director of the Strategy and Commercial Offer/Business Intelligence Area in CGD's International Business Department
The business vision
José Dias Miranda, Institute of Welding and Quality (ISQ)
Universities
Joaquim Ramos Silva, SOCIUS/ISEG
The state and the new model of economic diplomacy
Pedro Pessoa e Costa, Executive Director of AICEP Portugal Global
Network dynamics and the economic value of the Portuguese language
José Paulo Esperança, ISCTE and Instituto Camões da Cooperação e da Língua
Debate
Part II
14H30 > Economic Diplomacy and Business and Competitive Intelligence
Moderator: Joaquim Ramos Silva, SOCIUS/ISEG
Economic intelligence: Challenges for companies and the State André Magrinho, AIP Foundation
Portugal-Germany economic relations and economic diplomacy networks Mathias Fischer, Economic Counselor at the German Embassy in Lisbon
Business and competitive intelligence toolbox Ruben Eiras, GALP Energia
The importance of the Business Intelligence Unit (BIU) in Knowledge Management Joana Neves, AICEP
Debate
16H15 > Coffee Break
16H45 > The University in the face of Economic Diplomacy Research
Moderator: Sónia Sousa, George Mason University, Washington, DC
Contemporary economic diplomacy
Manuel Farto, Autonomous University of Lisbon
Export Promotion Agencies - Ireland and Portugal
Aurora Teixeira, Faculty of Economics, University of Porto
The experience of economic diplomacy in Africa
Manuel Ennes Ferreira, SOCIUS/ISEG
Advantages and disadvantages of economic diplomacy
Maria Sousa Galito, PhD in Political Science and International Relations (IEP-UCP)
Debate
18H30 > Conclusion
Free entry subject to email confirmation sociuseventos@iseg.utl.pt
INTELLIGENCE AND ECONOMIC DIPLOMACY:
A reflection on the subject of "economic intelligence and diplomacy" is necessary for two reasons. Firstly, because these are instruments with great potential for meeting the Portuguese economy's growth and internationalization objectives, such as promoting exports and attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). Secondly, because it emphasizes the importance of good management of information resources, which are often dispersed among various organizations (companies, the state, research centers, among others), including knowledge networks and influence mechanisms, in order to make external action proactive. The operationalization of economic diplomacy involves various actors, requiring forms of coordination, information sharing and the dynamization of knowledge networks with a view to its effectiveness and strategic scope. There is a need to create spaces for strategic cooperation at the level of
business and competitive intelligence
(or economic intelligence) between the business community, universities (and other centers of knowledge associated with R&D) and the state (government and its institutions) in order to optimize the knowledge available when connecting to foreign markets in the most varied forms. When it comes to the effectiveness and strategic dimension of economic diplomacy, it is important not only to consider the role of each of the actors, but above all the result of the interactions between the different stakeholders. It is therefore essential that economic diplomacy is based on networks of knowledge, influence and intervention, associating the diplomatic apparatus, whose importance in recent decades has grown enormously from this perspective, with companies and their reference associative structures, as well as universities and research centers. In Portugal's case, the economic value of the Portuguese language within a logic of network dynamics is obviously a valuable part of this equation, which is a potential that has been little explored from the point of view of internationalization.
For these reasons, this seminar is intended to be an up-to-date expression of the points of view of three key players in economic diplomacy and the
business intelligence companies, universities and the state. What's more, at the academic level, there is still little research and few consistent, in-depth approaches to the subject. This is also why ISEG, through SOCIUS, and with the collaboration of the institutions promoting the Economic Diplomacy Conference, is proposing to organize an electronic edition of the speakers' speeches, and also to include a set of papers
and research work on diplomacy and economic intelligence from academia.
As part of the PhD in Economic and Social History. Speaker: Ana Carina Azevedo - IHC, FCSH-UNL
Summary:
In this communication, we intend to raise debate about the role of the state in the process of developing the Scientific Organization of Work in Portugal, by comparing it with other national realities.
In fact, among the various aspects that are usually part of the analysis of the issue at international level, the impact of state measures is perhaps one of the most considered. But to what extent can we say that in some countries the state has been a driving force behind the process? The answer will necessarily have to take into account the characteristics of each country, as well as the political changes that took place there over the period under study. As such, we propose a necessarily brief comparison of the process of development of the Scientific Organization of Work in Portugal, Spain and France, by identifying some of its main milestones and linking them to some aspects of the political and economic situation of the decades between the beginning of the 20th century and World War II.
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The Embassies of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, the Secretary of State for Employment and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation have the honor of inviting you to this seminar: Portugal's Labor Market: Towards the Nordic Flexicurity Model? which will be held at Wednesday , November 28, 2012 on Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Auditorium 2. PROGRAMME:
14:30 - Registration
To more information contact Patrícia Roque via careermanagement@iseg.utl.pt or 213925802. Register here . |