Cosmin Nada

University of Porto | UP · Centre for Research and Intervention in Education

Este estudo pretende compreender de que forma a participação em contextos desportivos está associada ao desenvolvimento dos jovens atletas como cidadãos empenhados na construção de sociedades mais inclusivas. Procura-se: a) explorar o potencial do desporto para promover resultados socioeducativos ligados ao desenvolvimento de competências cívicas/políticas e cidadania democrática; b) instigar a participação de atletas no desenvolvimento de ações na/com a comunidade aumentando o sentido de pertença e os níveis de participação em ações individuais e coletivas. // This study aims to understand how participation in sports contexts is associated with the development of young athletes as citizens committed to building more inclusive societies. It seeks to: a) explore the potential of sport to promote socio-educational outcomes linked to the development of civic/political skills and democratic citizenship; b) instigate the participation of athletes in the development of actions in/with the community by increasing the sense of belonging and the levels of participation in individual and collective actions.

Over the past decades, international student mobility (ISM) in higher education has expanded rapidly. This growth has sparked a considerable interest in ISM within different disciplines, research communities, and circles of practitioners and policy makers. However, there is surprisingly little connection and exchange among researchers across these spheres. In addition, ISM scholarship remains strongly restricted to scientific circles, despite the relevance that scientific knowledge on ISM has for policy and daily practice. This COST Action responds to the pressing need for systematic interdisciplinary and international exchange of knowledge on theoretical frameworks, research methodologies, findings, and best practice examples, and for translating scientific findings into recommendations for ISM practice. It is organised around five working groups, four of them addressing themes in need of scientific development, and a fifth one bringing together recommendations for practice: (1) Global ISM flows and trends at the macro-level; (2) Social inequalities in access to and during ISM; (3) The social and cultural integration of international students in their host countries; (4) The impact of ISM on graduates’ careers; (5) Connecting research and practice. The COST Action brings together established researchers, early-career investigators (ECIs) and PhD students from different scientific disciplines, countries, and research communities as well as stakeholders from international offices, international student and study abroad organizations, and different policy levels. It will offer comparative and practical insights into ISM dynamics by bringing together fragmented knowledge. Its main aim is to generate new interdisciplinary and innovative empirical insights on ISM and to translate these insights into tangible recommendations for stakeholders.

This project proposes to carry out a study on democratic and the plurality of Portuguese public universities. For this, it intends to mobilize, as an analyzer, the processes of inclusion/exclusion of migrants from the Global South in academic careers. Highlights the Global South as a guiding concept because of the allusion and centrality that this term evokes in the issues of colonial heritage and coloniality, arguing the pertinence of this discussion to reflect on contemporary issues related to public universities. The research strategy consists conducting of a national case study, the Portuguese case, given the nature and the goals of understanding in depth the dimension of democracy and plurality of universities. Different data collection techniques will be used: semi-structured interviews, historical and documentary analysis, direct observation, and participating and conducting two workshops (as a technique inheriting from the traditional focus group discussion). Finally, this project intends to contribute to an updated portrait on the access to academic careers associated with the present the realization of this discussion intertwined with the reflection in relation to migratory flows as well as the increasingly strong call for decolonization of the University.