António Brandão Moniz

Verified

António verified their affiliation via an institutional email.

Learn more

Verified

António verified their affiliation via an institutional email.

Learn more

• PhD, Habilitation
• Professor at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Approaching the topic of robotics-work relation in a general and international context enables the possibility to know more about the impacts in different sectors. In this book the main discussion themes are followed in order to understand which the main dimensions are included in such debate. In that way, it becomes possible to understand the poss...

Workers and organised labour are being challenged by the increasing expansion of digital labour platforms in most countries worldwide. Such digital platforms and their algorithms create controversial forms of work relationships and undermine traditional labour organisation, leading to extensive public and scientific debate. […] Through our empirica...

In Portugal, digital transition was structured with national public policies since 2003. In 2017, initiatives for the adoption of Industry 4.0 concepts are implemented in Portugal. We analysed the diffusion and implementation of these technologies, in Portugal. Some questions were raised: has the interplay between public policies, state agencies an...

1 Artificial intelligence in political campaigning and public debate 2 Artificial intelligence in parliaments and the public sector Policies and guidelines for a trustworthy AI 3 Democratic control and governance of artificial intelligence Initiatives to develop AI

Este relatório pretende descrever e analisar o trabalho de campo realizado no âmbito do projeto CERP. O projeto pretende compreender o estado da arte em Portugal da negociação coletiva portuguesa com referências à transição sustentável e justa no setor dos transportes e no setor público.

Dirigir & Formar, IEFP nº 41, pp. 24-29 https://www.iefp.pt/publicacoes-iefp

The introduction of exoskeletons by many companies has often resulted in potential users not wanting to wear them. Evaluations of the exoskeleton reveal benefits of use, including ergonomic advantages and a reduction of work-related musculoskeletal disorders. How can this contradiction be explained? By searching the available literature, we can ide...

What can challenge the automotive industry in a country with relevance for vehicle production in Europe, but without the capacity to intervene in the design of the automotive systems? Are just the larger automotive players (Germany, France, Italy, Spain) able to define the driven elements of the CASE paradigm (connected, autonomous, shared, electri...

Os partidos políticos deveriam ter a capacidade e a vontade de intervir neste tipo de decisão, trazendo para o debate parlamentar os temas relacionados com tecnologias emergentes. Para isso, há que ter uma posição própria sobre os riscos e as vantagens que essas tecnologias podem trazer. O parlamento é ainda a principal câmara onde se pode fazer ec...

In our research for the MobilEurope project we have found some main outcomes on the labour market changes related with the migrant work during Covid19 pandemic, and the role of social dialogue to mitigate the challenges to the labour markets raised by migrant work. According to these outcomes it is possible to establish some policy recommendations....

Este relatório pretende fazer uma revisão da literatura sobre a negociação coletiva portuguesa com referências à transição sustentável e justa no setor dos transportes e no setor público. Portugal tem sido dos países que iniciou já o seu caminho de transição e encerrou as centrais a carvão. Mas em países do Leste europeu, por exemplo, existe muita...

A melhoria das condições de vida teve particular influência no aumento de escolaridade e, por conseguinte, na diminuição do analfabetismo. Contrariamente a muitos preconceitos sociais, a migração não produziu alterações nessas tendências: Nem a emigração fez baixar a escolaridade média, nem a imigração aumentou o analfabetismo. Apresentam-se 15 rec...

The possible scenarios of posting workers in Europe are based on the national reports issued for the project “Posting prospects”. The calculations provided for the four scenarios are not based on quantitative calculations. They are assumptions of qualitative trends that we could acknowledge from the national reports and literature. They are also ju...

We wanted to understand the specificities in these countries and not necessarily the whole characteristics of posted work and the general legislation applied to it. It was intended to collect qualitative information from manufacturing cases and not from the construction sector, where better knowledge exists in several comparative and national studi...

Controversy over Artificial Intelligence development has intensified European concerns over the powers and influence of US, Big Tech corporations. Understandably: platforms, their social media channels and applications control a gamut of public and civil society roles and functions. These include transportation, logistics, information sources, civi...

This report on the possible scenarios of posting workers in Europe is based on the national reports issued for the project “Posting prospects”. The Portuguese report on literature review, remembered that “one of the main challenges to ensuring the effectiveness of compliance with the legislation applicable to the posting of workers is the identific...

This summative report is based on the national reports (country specific analytical reports) elaborated by the national teams for the European project “Posting prospectives”, funded by the DG Employment of the European Commission. The aim of this report is to retrieve the main features of use of posting work in the countries that were involved in t...

This summative report is based on the national reports produced on the literature review and data sets done by the teams of the European project “Posting Prospects” supported by DG EMP. We pretend to present here a summary of the common problems that were identified in participating EU Member states and in other selected non-EU countries.

The adoption of I4.0’s technologies in the work cells accompanied by societal changes calls for new approaches to manage the current production systems. Nevertheless, the current models simulating the behavior of the work cells limit the representation of the operators to the average human, without regard for their individual characteristics, cogni...

In 2015 there were 2.05 million posted workers in the EU, according to the (European Commission, 2022). This number of posted workers has increased by 41.3% between 2010 and 2015. It is possible that the figures are even bigger, but the Covid19 changed severely the conditions for these working contracts. The percentage of posted workers in the work...

Jornal "Público", Lisboa/Porto, Portugal https://www.publico.pt/2023/11/23/ciencia/opiniao/opcoes-politica-tecnologica-importancia-avaliacao-transparencia-debate-democratico-2070959

EPTA report 2023

O conceito de Indústria 5.0 pretende colocar o bem-estar do trabalhador no centro do processo de produção. E está centrada neste conceito de tecnologia antropocêntrica, o que implica que a tecnologia, as organizações e os locais de trabalho devem ser adaptados às necessidades humanas e sociais. Existem, no entanto, problemas ainda não claros acerca...

The main goal of our work is to propose a simulation of the human-workstation interactions in a collaborative and reconfigurable work cell based on a behavioral model which includes cognitive organizational factors. With that in mind, the purpose of this study is to gather enough data to propose the most relevant criteria for the integration of hum...

La irrupción de la economía de plataformas constituye el modelo más reciente de prácticas de externalización y flexibilización de la organización de la producción, apoyadas en el desarrollo de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación. La difusión de este modelo de negocio ha ahondado en la expansión de diferentes figuras laborales precar...

A 3 de abril foram aprovadas alterações ao Código de Trabalho. A nova versão conta agora com elementos relativos à utilização da inteligência artificial em ambientes de trabalho. Algumas implicações vão ser decisivas para as organizações representativas dos trabalhadores.

A 3 de abril foram aprovadas alterações ao Código de Trabalho através da publicação da Lei n.º 13/2023 de 3 de abril que "altera o Código do Trabalho e legislação conexa, no âmbito da agenda do trabalho digno". http://basefut.pt/institucional/inteligencia-artificial-no-codigo-do-trabalho-portugues/

The use of digital platforms for managing work grew considerably in Portugal, especially in the aftermath of the Great Recession. This new form of digital and platform work intensified the use of an on-demand workforce, not involved in the bargaining process, subject to indecent working conditions, social control and surveillance and the possibilit...

Changes in the powertrain and the introduction of batteries are likely to lead to new platforms in the short to mid-term. OEMs will aim to relocate plants to avoid geo-political instabilities and bottlenecks in their supply chains resulting from location pressures, industrial protectionism, pandemic-related hazards, etc. Given the increasing labour...

• Digitalisation changes in the Automotive Sector • Framing the problem • Effects on the supply chain • Methodology • Cases of Industry 4.0 and AI in Portuguese industry • Preliminary conclusions • Recommendations 2023

When an assessment of public policies related to the implementation concept of Industry 4.0 in each economy is possible, we can underline some major factors: The existance or absense of social actors agreements towards such implementation A training restructured policy towards Industry 4.0 The application of national foresight and roadmapping ex...

This report summarizes the scientific and grey literature reviewed to the project Posting Prospects. The main feature about the topic is that with the Portuguese word “Destacamento” does not exist in literature in the database of ScienceDirect. However, it was possible to find a few papers and dissertations concerning posted workers in Web of Scien...

Recent developments in automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are leading to a wave of innovation in organizational design and changes in the workplace. Techno-optimists even named it the 'second machine age', arguing that it now involves the substitution of the human brain. Other authors see this as just a continuation of previous ICT develop...

1. Introduction 2. Challenges for Industry 4.0 3. Methodology 4. Results i. Employment ii. Qualifications iii. Industry 4.0 iv. Electric powertrains 5. Preliminary findings

The new book edited by Rodríguez and colleagues focuses on the topic of forecasting and responsible innovation. The original title is “Anticipación e Innovación Responsible: La construcción de futuros alternativos para la ciencia y la tecnologia” (Forecasting and Responsible Innovation: The construction of alternative futures for science and techno...

Presentation at GERPISA 2022

The convergence of nano-, bio-, information, and cognitive sciences and technologies (NBIC) is advancing continuously in many societal spheres. This also applies to the manufacturing sector, where technological transformations in robotics push the boundaries of human–machine interaction (HMI). Here, current technological advances in micro- and nano...

Desafios e opções de governação: o trabalho e o emprego como novos temas de debate político O trabalho e o emprego serão temas que virão a ter um papel mais central no debate político. Todavia, durante o debate eleitoral, este não foi o tema central. Mas, agora o debate político vai ter de encontrar soluções para problemas que a realidade coloca a...

Partilho a ideia de que a maioria absoluta obtida pelo PS nas recentes eleições se deve ao receio que muitos eleitores, em particular os indecisos, teriam de que o PSD pudesse vir a ter uma maioria de deputados na Assembleia da República. As causas desse receio já foram muito analisadas e apontam sobretudo para o papel que as sondagens de opinião p...

New technologies, sustainability policies, protectionism and consumers preferences are pushing for the reorganisation of the automotive cluster. The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to create disruptive effects in the employment systems across the world. The future deployment of broad-spectrum algorithms capable of being...

New technologies, sustainability policies, protectionism and consumers preferences are pushing for the reorganisation of the automotive cluster. The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to create disruptive effects in the employment systems across the world. The future deployment of broad-spectrum algorithms capable of being...

Working on digital platforms is a new form of work that, in Portugal, has not yet defined a regulated model of labour relations. This article analyses the worker profiles of various digital work platforms and their collective representation in Portugal. The diversity found in the case studies of worker profiles from each platform explains, in part,...

Abstract Portugal has been referred to as one example of lower levels of integration of social partners in the governance of education and training systems (Sanz de Miguel, 2017). There is a lack of research about the effectiveness of the governance of the only program close to the Dual VET concept: the Apprenticeship system. A pilot project of Dua...

This report is the 3 rd and final report elaborated for the project CrowdWork by the Portuguese team. The text provides the context in which digital platforms operate, as well as the main governmental initiatives in some of the sectors. Five case studies provide a description of each sector and an analysis of the existing / emerging collective orga...

The EU unveiled a stimulus package as part of the multiannual financial framework (MFF) for 2021–2027 and the temporary instrument designed to boost the economic recovery. This countercyclical response is aimed at avoiding a decline in the EU economy and protecting employment, vulnerable companies and necessity-driven entrepreneurs; however, it sho...

Since the 1970s, the application of microprocessor in industrial machinery and the development of computer systems have transformed the manufacturing landscape. The rapid integration and automation of production systems have outpaced the development of suitable human design criteria, creating a deepening gap between humans and systems in which huma...

Since the 1970s, the application of microprocessor in industrial machinery and the development of computer systems have transformed the manufacturing landscape. The rapid integration and automation of production systems have outpaced the development of suitable human design criteria, creating a deepening gap where human factor was seen as an import...

The so called “crowd work” is an employment form that uses a digital platform to enable organisations or individuals to access other organisations or individuals to solve specific problems or to provide specific services in exchange for payment (Valenduc and Vendramin, 2016). There are many alternative terms for crowd work used in European member s...

Introduction The automotive sector in Portugal Energy transition in the automotive sector The implications of electrification for Portugal Concluding notes

Due to the innovative possibilities of digital technologies, the issue of increasing automation is once again on the agenda – and not only in the industry, but also in other branches and sectors of contemporary societies. Although public and scientific discussions about automation seem to raise relevant questions of the “old” debate, such as the re...

Será muito difícil voltarmos à situação de pré-pandemia, mas teremos de aprender bastante mais como estas formas de trabalho poderão contribuir para a melhoria da qualidade de vida no trabalho.

We can regard the decade preceding the pandemic as the first period of the gig economy in Portugal, starting in 2009 with the arrival of Airbnb. From the point of view of investors in digital labour platforms, it appears that unfolding events in Portugal represent an experiment that will mark the future of ‘digital capitalism’ nationally and, perha...

This paper intended to provide a vision on the potential consequences of the introduction of emerging air transportation system which was based on a section of the thesis to contribute to the forming of public and policy opinion.Especially this paper tried to understand whether there were enough positive social and environmental impacts in terms of...

Battery storage systems (BESS) are considered as an option to enable a decarbonized electricity system, allowing to integrate higher shares of renewable energy sources (RES). There are several technologies available, and the choice of the best option is based on the requirements of a given application field. At the same time, stakeholder expectatio...

Será que esta pandemia está a dar velocidade à transição digital, nomeadamente com o teletrabalho? Ou será que, apesar do confinamento durante cerca de 3 meses, o recurso ao teletrabalho foi feito sem grande regulamentação, cuidado ou negociação?

Despite having been one of the first countries in Europe to introduce provisions in the labour law to promote virtual work and having made strong investments in ICT infrastructure, the adoption of virtual work in Portugal lags significantly behind most European countries. This paper examines the literature, official documents and databases to under...

O teletrabalho, entendido como uma forma de trabalho em que este é realizado em casa, nos escritórios dos clientes, em espaços públicos ou em ambientes de trabalho não tradicionais usando a Internet, computadores ou outras ferramentas baseadas em tecnologias de informação, não constitui ainda o núcleo dos debates recentes entre os parceiros sociais...

Final report of DeepView EN

O Orçamento 2020, recentemente aprovado na generalidade, oferece quase nenhumas medidas para o desenvolvimento de uma economia digital.

VS/2018/0047 DEEP VIEW (DEcEnt and Productive VIrtual Work): Exploring the contribution of social dialogue and collective bargaining in the promotion of decent and productive virtual work FINAL CONFERENCE Madrid, January 17th, 2020 LOCATION: Comisión Europea, Representación en España. Paseo de la Castellana, 46, 28046 Madrid

O Orçamento 2020 oferece quase nenhumas medidas para o desenvolvimento de uma economia digital. O Governo percebe que é necessário inovar e investir em investigação e desenvolvimento (I&D), e refere a necessidade de existir um forte aumento da componente empresarial nesse investimento.

In this national report, we first present some facts and figures about Portuguese demography and its relation to the institutional organisation of long-term care system. Hereby, the focus lies on “Digital Competence among long-term care system” where we present some elements of the current status of the use of technology and social innovations in e...

O crowdworking usa uma plataforma para ligar organizações ou indivíduos a outros em troca de pagamento. Um recente projeto europeu de investigação quer analisar estratégias de sindicatos ou movimentos alternativos que representem “crowdworkers”

Muito se tem escrito sobre a relação entre automatização e mercado de trabalho e sobre o conceito de indústria 4.0 e as suas implicações na reorganização das empresas e nas políticas de emprego. No entanto, este debate tem sido feito sobretudo no seio da comunidade académica, e de um modo ainda muito limitado em Portugal. Apenas nos últimos meses a...

Energy storage systems (ESS) are seen as one of the main pillars for a renewable-based energy system. Selecting the most suitable and sustainable ESS for a given project is a problem that involves multiple stakeholders with quite often diverging objectives that cannot all be fulfilled by a single technology. Several studies are available that tackl...

To address the objectives and research questions, the DEEP VIEW project is conducting desk research and field work (semi-structured interviews and company case studies). This preliminary report presents the outcomes of desk research, which was oriented to obtain a clear picture of the ‘state of the art’ in the involved countries and sectors. The r...

As principais preocupações relacionadas com o aumento da automatização e introdução de sistemas com tecnologias de informação na esfera do trabalho desde os anos de 1970 e, mais tarde, de robôs (desde os anos de 1980) diziam respeito à potencial substituição direta de postos de trabalho. A criação de desemprego pelo efeito de intensificação da tecn...

O que fazer com a iniciativa Indústria 4.0? O Governo tem em implementação a iniciativa Indústria 4.0. Todavia não se conhecem medidas novas, ou sequer a programação da implementação desta iniciativa. No Relatório OE2019 Políticas Sectoriais para 2019 e Recursos Financeiros é referido que "Portugal deverá continuar a mobilizar a sociedade e a acele...

No Relatório OE2019 Políticas Sectoriais para 2019 e Recursos Financeiros é referido que "Portugal deverá continuar a mobilizar a sociedade e a acelerar a introdução das transformações necessárias para a digitalização da economia. Para apoiar esta transição, o Governo tem em implementação a iniciativa Indústria 4.0." Todavia não se conhecem medidas...

Since industrialization, the relationship between technological change and work structures has been a complex one whose implications have been frequently described and interpreted. With regard to the deep influence of technology on work structures, the discussion is still characterized by the work of Karl Marx, who studied the emergence of industri...

The first International Joint Meeting on Digitalization and the Future of Work was organised by the Research Group on Technology and Work of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), by the Observatory of Technology Assessment, CICS.NOVA, University NOVA Lisbon (Portugal), and by coll...

Conhece-se muito pouco acerca das atividades de trabalho com robôs. Sobretudo em Portugal. Fala-se muito acerca disso, recentemente publicam-se vários artigos de opinião, mas não existem dados fundamentais. Por exemplo, quantos robôs estão operacionais em Portugal? Não sabemos qual é a verdadeira dimensão da aplicação desta tecnologia. Não sabemos...

O Professor António Brandão Moniz publicou recentemente o livro «Robótica e Trabalho», obra aqui referida por nós, dada a importância da temática abordada. O conhecido investigador aceitou responder a uma questão que se foi formando no nosso espírito ao lermos o referido livro e que formulamos da seguinte maneira: «No seu livro Robótica e Trabalho...

Additive bio-manufacturing (bio-AM) is defined here as the use of 3D printing for medical purposes or non-therapeutic "human enhancement", whether they involve the production of biological material or not. It includes any application for rehabilitating, supporting or augmenting biological functionality. The impacts of bio-AM are uncertain, and it i...

3D bio-printing is defined here as the use of 3D printing technology for applications related to the body, whether the products themselves include biological material or not, and whether their purpose is medical or not. It includes any application for rehabilitating, supporting or augmenting any kind of biological functionality. The impacts of 3D b...

In the study on the working procedures with micro- and nano-robots we will have at least one case in the metal sector. There are a growing number of new processes that enable nanomanufacturing. Among these are: - Dip pen lithography is a process in which the tip of an atomic force microscope is "dipped" into a chemical fluid and then used to "write...

Application of micro-robots for micro-electronics material assembly and production. For example, SRI’s patented Diamagnetic Micro Manipulation (DM3) technology uses printed circuit boards (PCBs) to drive and control micro-robots built from simple, low-cost magnets that are propelled electromagnetically (https://walterfarah.wordpress.com/tag/micro-r...

Potential applications include: - Rapid prototyping of high-quality parts for medical applications - Electronics manufacturing, such as optoelectronics and hybrid circuits for medical applications - Biotechnology, such as microfluidics, lab on a chip, and tissue manufacturing A variety of micro-automation applications outside of manufacturing, such...

Die Ausweitung von Robotertechnologien nicht nur in der Industrie, sondern zunehmend auch in Dienstleistungsbereiche, stellt große Herausforderungen an die Mensch-Roboter-Kollaboration. Der Artikel beleuchtet psychologische, soziologische, arbeitswissenschaftliche und berufspädagogische Gesichtspunkte bei der Gestaltung und dem Einsatz von Robotern...

In Europe, the technology development of high-speed trains is increasingly exposed to societal needs, driven by ICT advancements, external to traditional design. Together with the liberalisation of the rail markets and increase pressures from other transport modes leads to an unprecedented situation where planers, operators and suppliers of high-sp...

link to the full text: http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/6/4/31

The last decades have shown an increasing amount of research into expectations of science and technology. Especially for emerging technologies, expectations held by different stakeholder are guiding the direction of research and development. In this article the results of an investigation into the expectations of specific actors regarding the devel...

The focus of the following article is on the use of new robotic systems in the manufacturing industry with respect to the social dimension. Since “intuitive” human–machine interaction (HMI) in robotic systems becomes a significant objective of technical progress, new models of work organization are needed. This hypothesis will be investigated throu...

The goal of technology assessment (TA) is to lend support to society and policy making by promoting understanding of the problems related to the grand sociotechnical challenges of our time, as well as to assess the available options for managing them. Researchers from Japan and Europe reflected together in this book on country-specific developments...