About

The LusoGlobe works under the institutional guidance of Lusófona University, which aims to ensure the scientific, cultural, economic, and social development of Portugal and all countries where Portuguese is spoken. Lusófona owns several other universities and colleges in Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique and has a high percentage of international students, especially from these regions.

Against this backdrop, LusoGlobe is designed to promote scientific learning through advanced research and graduate training to better understand the impact of global challenges in our societies, states, and the international community.

The distinctiveness of LusoGlobe as a university organisation, as well as its academic project, requires a great deal of work to strengthen its institutional relations with sponsor institutions to allow for a more substantial commitment to the aims of the interdisciplinary research needed to understand social and international phenomena, in an increasingly complex world.

The academic project, ambitious from the beginning and inspired by the European Space for Higher Education, requires the creation of new singular alliances that encourage mobility and knowledge transmission. In a world of globalised knowledge, it is necessary to create and strengthen partnerships with other international institutions of renown. The mission includes a comprehensive approach to the analysis of the social phenomenon and consists of the most significant number of internal and international partners, individual and collective.

On the other hand, it is necessary to complement the project with the consolidation of an internal system of governance, strengthening all the elements that can promote fast and efficient decision-making and transparency.

Finally, the socialisation of knowledge in the social sciences, international relations, and politics cannot be isolated from the interests and needs of our immediate environment. We want to promote a more significant implication of the economic and social agents in the institutions’ goals and a closer and continuous collaboration that improves and adjusts our activities to the changing needs.

When it becomes imperative to link universities to the world, this centre reveals and dialectically takes advantage of research to civil society and the transfer of knowledge outside the university, whether in the political, economic, or social context.

AIMS

• To promote research based on criteria of high rigor and quality.
• To seek research support funds, setting feasible goals at the university level, organic, and individual unit.
• To promote knowledge exchange through the development of robust partnerships with the relevant scientific community and public and private institutions of the social sector, national and international.
• To foster the dissemination of the research carried out through publications in specialized journals and participation in relevant scientific events.
• To reinforce interdisciplinarity, favoring the debate and the study of themes and problems of a strongly interdisciplinary character.
• Investment in People, ensuring a strong culture of research, and providing a favorable environment for continuous individual and team development.
• Promote research-oriented teaching staff according to the increase in students.
• Increase the attraction of researchers with external funding (FCT, Marie Curie, NSF, European grants, etc.).
• Increase the number of researchers.
• Set up standard nets and projects among research centers and teaching staff from other universities.
• Increase the number of activities (such as seminars, conferences, and publication networks) to promote research.
• Encourage the creation of research lines for the configuration of the research nucleus.
• Promote a LusoGlobe publication (co-edition with international academic publishing institutions).
• Increase the number of stays of researchers of international renown at the centre.
• Promote research stays of Lusófona University professors on sabbatical.
• To promote postgraduate research, creating a community of students/researchers post-graduated dedicated to innovative and impact research.
• To create a culture of integrity, with a view to the development of good ethical practices in research, as a fundamental pillar of CISIS and its researchers and collaborators.

LusoGlobe is based on six essential pillars: Research excellence, Innovation, Excellence of intervention, Reach and significance, Integrity, and Inclusion.

Common ground: The global challenges for the 21st-century polities, namely the research areas.

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The Lusoglobe Centre for Global Challenges cooperates with several domestic and foreign scientific institutions. Its research fellows are active members of:

• ABRE – Associação de Brasilianistas na Europa 
• APCP – Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política
• APS – Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia
• AILPcsh – Associação Internacional de Ciências Sociais e Humanas de Língua Portuguesa
• EASR – European Association for the Study of Religions
• ECPR – European Consortium for Political Research
• EISA – European International Studies Association
• LASA – Latin American Studies Association
• IPSA – International Political Science Association
• ISA – International Studies Association.