PRME Principles for Responsible Management Education · 1759 Creation of the School of Commerce 1911 Foundation of the Higher Institute of Commerce, the current ISEG, originating

PRME | Principles for Responsible Management EducationREPORT 2014-2015

A | ISEG - KEY FACTS 4

B | ISEG and Responsible Management Education 8

C | “The Big Picture” 9

D | Principles 11 Principle I – Purpose

Principle II – Values

Principle III - Method

Formal Education

Boost Your Talent programme

Active citizenship by students

Seminars and conferences

Principle IV – Research

Principle V – Partnership

Principle VI – Dialogue

E | Assessment of Actions Outcomes in 2014/2015

F | Objectives 2016 /2017

G | Conclusions

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DEAN’S ADDRESSAt ISEG you will find a culture of excellence and achievement alongside a climate of Responsible Management, inclusiveness and cooperation. This is made possible by the mutual collaboration of students, faculty and support staff. It is this environment that has enabled our school to edu-cate a large number of business and political leaders and also to develop a strong academic reputation over its more than 100-year history.

Served by a faculty of recognized merit, ISEG has followed a strategy of fruitful interaction with the community, both in terms of research and teaching and it is well represented in international networks. Ethical is-sues and the problematic of sustainability are taught and discussed in our programs, and the PRME Principles are solidly represented in our mission.

We are proud to report on our PRME related activities and achievements, and you are very much welcome to get acquainted with them.

DeanProfessor Mário Caldeira

Vice-Deanfor Pedagogical Issues and

Social Responsibility

Professor Rosa Borges

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A| ISEG - KEY FACTS ISEG

• The First School of Economics and Management created in Portugal (1911).

• For more than a century ISEG has educated generations of leaders and successful professionals in Portugal and other Portuguese-speaking countries.

• Outstanding professors and research centres place ISEG at the forefront of Economics, Management and Finance, contrib-uting a significate number of publications in important academic journals in these fields.

• Located in Lisbon, Portugal, on the West Coast of Europe. This capital town is considered to be the “coolest city in Europe” by international media, such as CNN.

• Offers 7 Bachelors degrees, 20 Masters degrees, 8 PhD pro-grammes (including 2 joint degrees with other universities), 1 MBA, and 28 executive programmes.

• Has approximately 4,700 students, 10% of which are foreign students from more than 50 nationalities.

• Half of ISEG’s students are enrolled in Masters, PhD and other Postgraduate programmes.

• ISEG has the largest number of Economics and Management alumni in Portugal, among all the business schools.

• Boost your Talent – is a soft skills programme which runs for the duration of the three years of a Bachelors degree.

• Formerly part of Universidade Técnica de Lisboa became a school of Universidade de Lisboa, which is the biggest university in Portugal, following the merger of both Universities in 2013.

50Job offers in 2014, exclusively

for current students

8PhD Programmes, including

2 in partnership with other

universities

20Masters degrees in the fields of

Economics, Management, and

Quantitative Methods (4 taught

in English)

2Bachelors degrees exclusively

taught in English

144Exchange agreements with

other universities

6Research Centres

60Scholarships for students with an

application average grade of at least

16

94%An average Employability

of above

16Awards for top students

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Schools

441 Programmes

48 006 Students

(1) www.scimagoir.com/sir_iber.php; (2) www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings; (3) www.shanghairanking.com

1st Placein the SCIMAGO 2015 Universitys of

Portugal

240th PlaceBest Global Universities, US News and

World Report, 2015. (2)

201thIn the Academic Ranking of World

Universities (ARWU, 2015) (3)

UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA

3 422Teachers

19 Students Residences

1 300Outgoing Erasmus Students

2 268 Incoming Erasmus Students


1759

Creation of the School of Commerce

1911

Foundation of the Higher Institute of Commerce, the current ISEG, originating from the Industrial and Commercial Institute of Lisbon.

1918

Publication of the first edition of the Higher Institute of Commerce journal, which was the first Economics and Management academic journal to be produced in Portugal

1930

Foundation of the Technical Universi-ty of Lisbon (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa), comprised of: The School of Agriculture, The School of Technolo-gy, The School of Economic and Financial Sciences (the former School of Commerce), and The School of Veterinary Medicine.

1972

The School designation was changed to The School of Economics.

1990

The School adopt-ed its current designation: ISEG - the School of Economics and Management.

1991

Foundation of the Alumni Economics, the largest Student Association of any School of Economics and Management in the country.

1998

Inauguration of the new building of the ISEG library, named the Francisco Pereira de Moura Library.

2011

100 year anniversary of ISEG’s foundation. ISEG maintains its position as one of the main Schools in its scientific domain in Portugal.

In 2001, the President of the Republic awarded ISEG the title of Honorary Member of the Military Order of Santiago de Espada

2013

The merger of Universidade Técnica de Lisboa and Universidade de Lisboa.

With more than 100 years of history, ISEG now became part of the largest Portuguese university - the new Universidade de Lisboa.

TODAY

ISEG enjoys a solid reputation in the Portuguese market, asserting itself as a respected brand, at both a national and international level.

It has approximately 4,700 students, distributed over 7 Bachelors degrees, 20 Masters degrees, 8 PhD programmes (including 2 joint degrees with other universities), 1 MBA, and 28 executive programmes.

More than 10 of these programmes are entirely taught in English, covering all study cycles.

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For more than a century, ISEG has educated genera-tions of leaders, managers, and specialists, who have developed skills in business and economic decision making, some of whom have served in governments and as board members in leading companies. This commit-ment to teach students strong ethical principles and the capacity to contribute to the socio-economic devel-opment of society, has been a common denominator of ISEG’s mission throughout its history, resulting in one of the most distinctive features of its cultural make-up.

Over the years, ISEG and its student associations have organised and supported various activities in and out-side the School in the context of social responsibility, which mainly involve students, but also teachers and non-academic staff.

The aim is to promote and empower the ISEG commu-nity in general to reflect and promote social and envi-ronmental initiatives and to recognise and value the importance that this social consciousness has on the personal development of students, and also for educa-tion and research.

Through the involvement of the academic community in such initiatives, as well as the commitment to the School’s community and the local community with a spirit of complete openness and professionalism, ISEG provides the technical expertise for conferences and discussion forums and for the development of projects, campaigns, and volunteer work, as befits any university that prepares future decision-makers for the econom-ic and business world, respecting the values that the School taught them, whilst at the same time strength-ening the university’s identity.

B | ISEG and Responsible Management Education

C | “The Big Picture”

Over the past few years, ISEG has been working hard to incorporate the responsible management principles in its activity for formal education, workshops, volunteer-ing activities, seminars, etc. for the period of 2014-2016. Listed below are some of ISEG’s achievements.

Education• Almost 3,000 students registered in ethics-related courses• 6 courses were entirely devoted to Ethics• More than 17 courses included Ethics modules, such as Introduction to Management, Strategic Manage-ment, Corporate Strategy, Masters Final Project, etc.

Boost Your Talent• 29 workshops (with ECTS)

Social Activity• ISEG Alumni• ISEG + Solidarity• Junior Business Consulting• AEISEG Students Union • Office for Guidance on Consumer Debt (GOEC)• The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award • Banco Alimentar (Food Bank)• The Local Social Commitee of the Estrela neighbourhood• GRACE – Social Responsibility projects • Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa• Volunteering at GASTagus• And many others

Research• 154 Published Research articles• 36 Thesis Supervisors• 32 Ongoing ProjectsFrancesinhas Buildings

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ISEG’s Mission is to create and share knowledge and culture in the fields of Eco-nomics, Finance, and Business, and to en-hance its socio-economic value by using an approach of plurality, guaranteeing free-dom in intellectual and scientific expres-sion, and respect for ethical principles and social responsibility.

ISEG maintains a strong commitment to responsible education in Management and Research, and to the personal development of graduates and postgraduates who are committed to ethical principles and to carrying out active citizenship.

The commitment to responsible education in Manage-ment and Research and to developing graduates and postgraduates who are committed to ethical principles, constitutes one of the cornerstones of ISEG’s activity, which is incorporated in its current mission statement and values. ISEG’s mission is to contribute to the ad-vancement of scientific knowledge in the areas of Eco-nomics and Management and supporting fields, to aid in the social and economic development of the country, and to contribute to its international affirmation, by educating, training, and preparing the required human resources; by pursuing the path of scientific research; by providing services to the community, and; by facili-tating the scientific and cultural exchange of students, academic staff, and researchers.

By ensuring the accomplishment of its mission, ISEG promotes a pluralistic approach to teaching and re-search; encourages the development of synergies be-tween scientific areas; pursues a culture of leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship, and; develops com-mon activities with other national, foreign, and interna-tional universities and research entities, always based upon ethical principles and socially-responsible values.

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PRINCIPLE 1 | PURPOSE

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ISEG’s values are important guidelines that underpin all the University’s activities and decisions. These values are formally recorded and are communicated, not only internally, but also to its closest partners, and also to the community as a whole. This commitment to provid-ing education and research, which is governed by high ethical standards, is reflected in ISEG’S Mission State-ment and Values.ISEG currently has a set of values that are important for guiding its activities, which are listed below:

PRINCIPLE 2 | VALUES

• Integrity - ISEG takes the student and staff codes of ethics very seriously. Intellectual honesty and copy-right are valued and protected, fraud and plagiarism are prevented, and any attempt to infringe them are strongly punished;

• Individual Freedom - ISEG promotes freedom of thought, speech, teaching, learning, and academic orientation. ISEG promotes academic plurality, re-specting different schools of thought. This enhances opportunities for students’ critical thinking;

• Search for Excellence - merit and effort are essen-tial ingredients for excellence in education and re-search at ISEG, and incentives are used to promote assessment and continuous improvement;

• Solidarity - ISEG acknowledges that not all students share the same ability to master the Portuguese lan-guage, or benefit from the financial conditions or other social capitals that may contribute to success. Equal opportunities for all are valued, and this may involve some sort of positive discrimination for those who have some sort of disadvantage in the learning process;

• Cooperation and Reciprocity - Cooperation with-in the school (departments, research centres, and scholars) is a key to success. Reciprocal behaviour contributes to the evolution of cooperation, while my-opic competition destroys the inclusive social capital which is highly valued at ISEG;

• Efficiency and Good Governance - At ISEG, the ef-ficient use of scarce resources is valued. Additional-ly, we also value the organisation bodies (The Dean’s Office, The School Board, the Scientific and Pedagogic Boards, and the Departments), with a clear segrega-tion of powers and responsibilities, and a structured alignment towards good governance.

PRINCIPLE 3 | METHOD

As a means of guaranteeing a strong ethical component and a continuous focus on active citizenship, ISEG es-tablished various objectives, which are directly related to its ethical commitment and are cross sectional in the curricular plans of ISEGprograms (1st Cycle, 2nd Cycle, and 3rd Cycle).

From a strategic point of view, ISEG opted to reinforce the perspective of ethics, corporate responsibility, and sustainability in all of its curricular plans, and these val-ues are underlie its following objectives:

• Reinforce ethical consciousness and behaviour at both an individual and a professional level, by promot-ing and discussing ISEG’s mission and values, learning the codes of professional conduct of each Masters degree, promoting debate concerning the ethical im-plications of decision making, etc.;• Develop Social Responsibility and Sustainability, promoting debate regarding the challenges of soci-ety in terms of its sustainability (economic, social, and environmental)

The strategy pursued ensures a strong ethical component and a continuous fo-cus on active citizenship among students, which can be broken down into four main areas of intervention:

• Formal Education;• Boost Your Talent programme;• Active citizenship by students;• Seminars and conferences.ETHOD

Cistern, Quelhas Building

Executive Course


Between 2014 and 2015, ISEG’s objective of strengthening the component of education in Ethics in the various degrees had good results. Over the last year (2015-2016), all of the Bachelors and Masters degrees have integrat-ed Ethics into their curricula, either as individual disciplines, modules of various disciplines of the degrees, or as seminars and workshops.

3000

Students registered for ethic-re-lated disciplines

6 Disciplines focus entirely on

Ethics

+17

Disciplines contain Ethics modules, such as Introduction

to Management, Strategic Management, Corporate Strategy,

Masters Final Project,etc

“Sustainability Management “ (IDEFE/ISEG executive programme)

This executive programme, which is offered by ISEG, is a response to the growing need of public and private organisations for knowledge and skills which allow them to develop an integrated sustainability strate-gy, with practical tools for its operationalisation and monitoring. The ISEG degree in “Sustainability Man-agement” pretends to differentiate in its approach to this subject, treating the subject as being transversal to all company areas, ranging from financial manage-ment, to marketing and communication, quality, and human resources. The objective is to offer students an integrated perspective, in order that they can devel-op a sustainability strategy that is effective, and adds value to the company, workers, and community alike, rooted in a balance between the economic, social, and environmental dimensions.In this sense, the degree seeks to provide a balanced combination of the theoretical and practical compo-nents, focussing on the sharing of knowledges and best practices through the analysis of practical cases and studies, which provide a real-life approach to the more operational aspects of the concepts addressed.In 2015/2016, 12 students were enrolled for the 4th Edition.

FORMAL EDUCATION

Development Studies Programme

The Development Studies Programme of ISEG seeks to deepen the knowledge of development studies from a multidisciplinary perspective, as part of ISEG’s Masters in Development and International Cooper-ation (MDCI), and the PhD in Development Studies (DED).These post-graduate study programmes are based on participation in lecture modules, seminars, and work-shops, benefitting from both national and foreign visiting researchers, and they also promote academ-ic partnerships with other universities and research centres.

• 13 seminars/workshops;• 3 lecturing modules (3 days each);• 2 Summer School programmes.

https://www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/aquila/unidade/devstudies

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Seminars/Workshops

3Lecturing modules (3 days each)

2Summer School Programmes

Numbers (2015/2016)

Study Programmes


Boost Your Talent (BYT) is a programme developed by ISEG to provide students with social and behavioural skills (the so-called “soft skills”) in areas of knowledge complementary to their degrees. The BYT activities are organised through various programmes that are provided for both Bachelors and Masters degrees, and credited by ECTS.Below are some of the courses provided by ISEG for the BYT programme:

• Study and Research Methods – principles and meth-odological practices for the acquisition and develop-ment of study skills and introduction to research;• Oral/Written Communication Techniques – basic communication skills to prepare students for oral pre-sentations and the correct writing of documents;• Team Work and Creativity – to learn how to be more creative and how to resolve team work problems in a better way;• Preparing and Conducting Meetings – how to im-prove meeting productivity;• Ethics and Social Responsibility – critically reflect the challenges facing the planet in the 21st Cen-tury, and the implications for the management of organisations;• Work and Research Tools for the Web – how to make better use of IT research tools;• Excel (advanced) – the effective use of Excel tools, enhancing their use for scenario analysis, data simula-tion, dynamic charts, etc.;• Job Search – develop career management skills and active job search techniques;• Creative Problem Solving – increase proactivity for creative problem solving;• Entrepreneurship – stimulate the desire for entre-preneurship and enable students with skills to recog-nise/create business opportunities.

2013-2014Ethics and Social Responsibility• The UniNetwork project and Corporate Social Responsibility;• Love as a decision criteria.Creative Problem Solving• Social entrepreneurship: REMIX case study.

2014-2015Ethics and Social Responsibility• Corporate responsibility and volunteering;• Sustainable value creation: Delta World;• Social responsibility, as seen by a corporate foundation;• Amadeus - all companies;• The challenges of corporate social responsibility for Montepio Bank;• Thomson Reuters Eikon and Datastream;• Social Responsibility in companies: Resiquímica and its solidarity project.Topic of the Year: The Economy and the Environment• Climates, both neoclassical-approaches and others;• The economy of climate change: the adaptation and resilience of the economies of the 21st Century;• Climate change and social changes: complexities and emergencies;• Can we live in a planet of limited resources?• Electric mobility: promise or reality?• Less is more: consumption and ecology;• The imperfect lobbies of maritime law;• Green Marketing: new trends of marketing;• Valuation of ecosystem services: the challenge of the green economy;• Water and Sanitation: a global view;• Sustainable Development at Santander Totta Bank;• Sustainability, innovation and Entrepreneurship: the Herbpack case study;• How to prosper in business as unusual; • Sustainable Corporate Ecosystems: vision of the future.

2015-2016Ethics and Social Responsibility• Corporate social responsibility: the Everis case study.Topic of the Year: Global Markets and Cultural Diversity• Preparation for Intercultural Dialogue in Global Mar-kets – China and India;• Cultural Differences: respecting them is key to inter-national success.Creative Problem Solving• Challenges of Sustainable Development.DG• Gender Equality in Companies - Break Even.

This programme also includes several de-bates, for which ISEG invites keynote speak-ers from the economic and the business world, for topics such as:

• The Portuguese Economy;• The Young and Social Entrepreneurship;• The Economy and the Environment;• Leadership;• Success in Times of Crisis;• Corporate Social Responsibility;• Communication and Media;• Etc.


PWC DIÁRIO ECONOMICO UPSIDEUP MICROSOFT PORTUGAL JASON ASSOCIATES LUSA (A NEWS AGENCY) BANK OF PORTUGAL PORTUGAL TELECOM BUSSINESSUP INE INSTITUTO DE NEGOCIAÇÕES E VENDAS NOVABASE OPWAY UNIPLACES DELTA BUREAU VAN DIJK PWN - PROFESSIONAL WOMENS’ NETWORK THOMSON REUTERSMICROSOFT RFM DIÁRIO DE NOTÍCIAS EMEL QUERCUS AIESEC ASSOCIAÇÃO GRACE ASSOCIAÇÃO PORTUGUESA DOS PROFISSIONAIS DE MARKETING PRODUÇÕES FICTÍCIAS PORTUGAL

Some institutions/organisations/enterprises that collaborated with the ISEG BYT programme:

ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP BY STUDENTS

ISEG Solidarity Campaigns

Among the actions of reflection and voluntary and sol-idarity campaigns carried out by ISEG, we can highlight the following:

• Awareness for registering as a bone marrow donor;• Collection of toys and school supplies - 04-01-2016 to 16-01-2015 / ISEG / ULisboa, with the support of ISEG;• Fundraising for charitable institutions;• Voluntary action in the Medos Woods at Costa da Caparica, included in the GIRO – GRACE project (20 young volunteers from ISEG, together with volunteers from different companies, with a total of 200 volun-teers to clean and plant. This was the first action of the GIRO Project, with ISEG students being the ones chosen to volunteer);• ISEG Solidarity - Christmas 2014 – the collection of toys, games, and used books;• “Mãos à Horta” Project - 08-03-2016 / O Compan-heiro / ISEG / ULisboa;• Voluntary action at the Escola Básica Junior School of the 1º Ciclo Nº72, Lapa, Lisbon - at the beginning of the school year, new Bachelors students were chal-lenged to use their energy for the benefit of others. In this ISEG Students Association initiative, the new stu-dents helped renovate a school that had obvious signs of degradation, by cleaning various areas, painting walls and bannisters, and contributing to a significant improvement in school conditions.• Estrela Junior – Study Support - 27-02-2016 / Junta de Freguesia da Estrela / ISEG, with the support of ISEG Junior Business Consulting (JBC);• Colloquium: “A look at the welfare of children and young people” - 10-12-2015 to 16-01-2016 / ISEG / ULis-boa, with the support of EAPN – the European An-ti-Poverty Network;

• Charitable Campaign - ULisboa - 18 Schools, 18 Help-ers – the collection of clothes for Syrian children that have been displaced by war. A campaign promoted by Cáritas Portuguesa. - 22-02-2014 to 16-03-2014 / ISEG / ULisboa;• Charitable Campaign - ULisboa - 18 Schools, 18 Help-ers – Make a child smile as your best Christmas gift. – Collection of school supplies for Roots – Association for Support of Children and Youth. - 15-12-2014 to 16-01-2015 / ISEG / ULisboa;• Charitable concert sponsored by ISEG - ISEG host-ed several Portuguese musicians on the 29th Octo-ber 2015, for another charitable event, entitled “Lost Songs”. A part of the donations was destined to fi-nance the “Emotion Kids” project from the Vocal Emo-tion music teaching association. This project caters for children from disadvantage families, as a first con-tact with choral music and a basic musical training;• Refado – Singing against hunger - 16-10-2015 | Salão Nobre ISEG;• 3 regular ISEG campaigns;• 18 campaigns with ISEG + Solidarity and Junior Busi-ness Consulting (JBC);• 3 other campaigns;• 1st Lisbon Social Network Congress - “Ageing, from Social Isolation to Participation and Cohesion” | 29-30/01/2015 | CGD Auditorium – ISEG

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Economics Alumni Solidarity ProgrammeThe Alumni Economics Solidarity Programme was cre-ated in December 2011, with the aim of supporting 1st Cycle degree students who face economic difficulties.The programme is governed by a University regulation, which is monitored by a committee composed of rep-resentatives of ISEG, the ISEG Students Association, Universidade de Lisboa Social Services, and the Board of the Economics Alumni, which analyses students’ ap-plications and decides on the grant aid to be assigned.From January to July 2015 (the 2nd Semester of 2014/2015) the programme supported 13 students, and from September to December 2015 (1st Semester of 2015/2016), it supported 14 students. This support in-cluded tuition fees grants, and support for food, trans-portation, and study material.

Mentoring ProgrammeThe main goal of this Mentoring Programme is to pro-vide the best preparation possible for the employment market for ISEG graduates, creating the necessary con-ditions for a successful professional.The mentees are continuously accompanied by their mentor over this process of integration, in order that they can prepare themselves for the future, expand-ing their learning process, and acquiring and improving their skills.The mentor has the opportunity to sponsor a student with less experience, sharing their own experience, thus gaining a sense of self-realisation.The 6th Edition of the Mentoring Programme (2014/2015) ended in July 2015, with the participation of 18 mentors and 22 mentees. In 2015/2016, the 7th Edi-tion started in October 2015, and was attended by 24 mentors and 24 mentees.

3rd Fundraising DinnerThe 3rd Fundraising Dinner was held on 24 November, 2015, and was promoted by the Economics Alumni and the ISEG Students Association, in the Convento do Beato, Lisboa. The dinner was attended by 600 people, including students, former students, teachers, ISEG employees, and company representatives.After the dinner, a concert was held with many artists associated with this charitable cause, as well as an auc-tion of various items.

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ISEG + SOLIDARITY

The ISEG + Solidarity group was created with a mis-sion to promote and empower the ISEG community to reflect on, and to promote social and environmental initiatives.

This is an open group, which is geared towards ISEG stu-dents, in collaboration with civil society associations and the management bodies of the University, whose main activities are the organisation of open debate sessions, and voluntary work, including the following:

• Voluntary activities – reinforce existing voluntary activities, concentrating the majority of them into one dedicated day for voluntary service at ISEG;• Provide support to the community, through ISEG Ju-nior Business Consulting;• Promote the organisation of conferences in the ar-eas of Ethics, Social Responsibility, and Sustainability.

“Cleaner Lisbon” (Lisboa Mais Limpa)

As part of the Lisbon European Capital of Volunteering 2015 initiative, this event is sponsored by the Organising Committee and the Neighbourhood Councils, and aims to involve the whole community in elimi-nating tags and graffiti in the city, with the participation of ISEG students.

Childrens’ Day (JBC ISEG and ISEG + Solidarity)

All for a child’s smile!Delivery of books, games, and toys to the Fernando Castro School, and to the Centro Paroquial São Francisco Paula, in the Es-trela Neighbourhood.

THE ISEG CATHOLIC NUCLEUS

The ISEG Catholic Nucleus has a mission to inspire, transform, develop, and train students from the stand-point of Love and Truth, in order to maximize their val-ue and potential as young people striving for academic excellence and to be professionals in the presence and testimony of Jesus, always willing to serve others.

The ISEG Catholic Nucleus, which solely consists of ISEG students, develops activities in two areas. The first, be-ing internal, is for its members, with weekly discussions on various topics related to the business world and the Catholic faith. The second, which is external, is open to the entire School community, organising pilgrimages, masses, prayers, and a monthly conference. The ISEG Catholic Nucleus has a mission to inspire, transform, develop, and train students from the standpoint of Love and Truth, in order to maximize their value and potential as young people striving for academic excellence and to be professionals in the presence and testimony of Jesus, always willing to serve others.

ObjectivesIn this area, existing initiatives are reinforced and are organised more systematically, which is done in three ways: i) by stimulating voluntary work and communi-ty service; ii) by making students aware through their participation in conferences and seminars, and; iii) by reinforcing ISEG’s social responsibility, in its role as an organisation dedicated to teaching and research. Out-lined below are some of the activities that are in prog-ress and/or are being developed:

• Voluntary service day – Reinforce existing volun-tary activities and concentrate many of them into one dedicated day for voluntary service at ISEG;

• Provide support to the community through ISEG Junior Business Consulting;

• Create an internal improvement suggestions com-petition for students, called “A Thousand Ideas for Sustainability”;

• Participate in the “Award for Research in Social Responsibility” competition, which is organised by GRACE;

• Promote the organisation of scientific conferences in the areas of Ethics, Social Responsibility, and Sustainability;

• The Alumni Solidarity programme – ensure the continuity of this initiative, and reinforce the scope of the current programme;

• Implement environmental best practice at ISEG, by way of the analysis and assessment of environmen-tal impact studies, through to more structured initia-tives designed to reduce CO2 levels.

Volunteering


The promotion of seminars and conferences aims at the exchange of knowledge and practical experiences between students, teachers, researchers, and outside guests, regarding different topics, Including Respon-sible Management, Social Responsibility, Sustainable Development, Ethics, etc.ISEG organises and promotes many seminars and conferences in the areas of Management, Economics, Maths, and Social Sciences, including topics related to responsible management, some of which were:

SEMINARS ANDCONFERENCES

27 fev 2015 Topic

“Corporate Political Activity in Emerging Markets: De-ploying Reactive Political Capabilities under Weak In-stitutional Contexts”

SpeakerTazeeb Rajvani (Cranfield UK)

nov 2015

Topic“The Challenges of Sustainable Development and Com-panies’ Role”

05 june 2014

Topic “Sustainability, Innovation and Entrepreneurship”(as well as other conferences, under the “Sustainability Management” executive programme)

27 fev 2015 |international conference

Topic“The Welfare State in Portugal in the Age of Austerity”

• Reforming Southern European Welfare States un-der Austerity;• Migration and Mobility of high-skilled professionals;• Active ageing, citizenship, Welfare State, and the crisis;• Inequality, poverty, and social exclusion;• The housing crisis in European peripheral countries;• Southern Europe: interrupted convergence;• The impact of recession and austerity on child pov-erty and child well-being;• Welfare and Health in later life;• Social Assistance and the role of social work;• Welfare systems in the context of the EU: a Reform of the Pension System.

10 may 2016

Topic“Relationship between Corruption, Regulations, and In-ternational Entrepreneurship”

SpeakerFarzana Chowdhury (Institute for Development Strate-gies - School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indi-ana University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley)

04 may 2016

Topic“Environmental, Social and Governance Disclosure, In-tegrated Reporting, and the Analyst Forecasts”

SpeakerAndy Stark and Cristiana Bernardi (Manchester Busi-ness School and Roma Tre University)

22 june 2016

Topic“Payments for Ecosystem Services as Forest Conser-vation Tools”

SpeakerDario Belluomini (CEsA/CSG/ISEG-ULisboa Research-er and Master in Development Economy by Florence University)

23 june 2016

Topic“Finance and Income Inequality: A Review and New Evidence”

SpeakerJakob de Haan (Netherlands Central Bank; University of Groningen)

11-13 may 2016|international colloquiumTopic

“Post-2008 Global Dynamics and Structural Changes: Economic, Political and EcoSocietal TransitionsOrganised by CEsA, CSG, UECE Research Centres, and ISEG

CGD Auditorium


Scientific research is, along with undergraduate and post-graduate education and other services to the community, one of the fundamental functions of any university. For this reason, scientific research plays an integral part in the life of ISEG, and promoting research is one of the main concerns of the Scientific Board.ISEG´s Faculty includes 150 professors with PhD de-grees from outstanding international universities, the majority of whom belong to research centres that are highly distinguished by the Foundation of Science and Technology (FCT), in the fields of Economics, Manage-ment, Applied Mathematics, Economic and Social His-tory, Economic Sociology of Organisations, and Law.The CSG/Research Centre for Social Sciences and Management, a new research unit of ISEG, was creat-ed by merging four existing research centres into one consortium: SOCIUS (Research Centre in Economic and Organisational Sociology), ADVANCE (Advanced Re-search Centre in Management), CEsA (Research Cen-tre for African, Asian and Latin America Studies), and GHES (the Social and Economic History Research Unit). The purpose of this consortium is to bring together a group of researchers with complementary approaches and interests regarding the study of the socio-econom-ic and organisational reality, and thus increase their critical mass and enhance their complementarities.It comprises various fields of research, one of the most important being Sustainability and Scientific Policy. Furthermore, it has as its objective to be a leading group for carrying out timely research on fundamental questions, and the practical real-life problem solving of economic and social processes, leading to a more sustainable and balanced future, which is aligned with its core values of independency and transparency. Research priorities are primarily concentrated in seven main fields, namely:

PRINCIPLE 4 | RESEARCH

• Welfare studies and Social Policy analysis;• Population and Ageing;• Local Development and Urban Studies;• Third Sector and Social Networks;• Natural resources and the Environment;• Corporate Social Responsibility;• Sustainability Assessment.

The ISEG Research Fund (FIISEG)

The ISEG Research Fund (FIISEG) has been created with the main goal of increasing the quantity and quali-ty of research produced in the scientific study areas of the School, such as: Economics, Management, Applied Mathematics, Economic and Social History, Sociology, and Law.

In the context of limited support for university re-search, ISEG decided to launch a pioneering experience in the university framework in Portugal, whose success depends on the ability to provide services and its rela-tionship with the economic and business world, togeth-er with the reaction of teachers and researchers to this stimulus.

One of the financing sources of FIISEG are research grants awarded by Services Provision Centres (UIPS) to ISEG, based on the resources obtained by the provi-sion of services.

Annually, FIISEG promotes a contest which rewards papers written by ISEG professors and researchers, which are published in the best international economics and business management journals. We have achieved a quantitative increase and a qualitative improvement in our publications over the years, and this is reflected in the results of the FIISEG contests.In 2015/16 the 19th Contest will take place, for which 46 articles have already been submitted. In the previous contest (18th, 2014/2015), 81 articles were submitted, 51 of which, from 35 ISEG teachers, were given awards.

Research Centres

ISEG is home to several centres for scientific research and the provision of services. Their activity reflects the scientific areas which are the focus of the School.The majority of these are regularly evaluated, and re-ceive funding from the Portuguese Foundation of Sci-ence and Technology (FCT).


Research Units

CEMAPRE - Centre for Applied Mathematics and Economics.CEMAPRE received a Very Good classification during the last evaluation by FCT.

CSG - Research in Social Sciences and Management.CSG received an Excellent classification during the last evaluation by FCT.CSG is a consortium constituted by four ISEG research units, which are indicated below:

• ADVANCE - Centre for Advanced Research in Management • CEsA - Centre of African, Asian and Latin American Studies • GHES – Centre for Economic and Social History • SOCIUS - Research Centre in Economic and Organi-sational Sociology

UECE - Research Unit in Complexity and Economics. UECE received a Very Good classification during the last evaluation by FCT.CISEP - Portuguese Economy Research Centre. Funds raised through providing services to the wider community are partially used towards ISEG’s Research Fund (FIISEG). In particular, they are used to promote an annual contest that recognises the publication of papers in international journals by ISEG faculty and researchers.It also notes, with satisfaction, the quantitative in-crease and qualitative improvement of such publica-tions over the past few years, which is a reflection of the results of successive FIISEG contests.

Active International Networks/Platforms/Partnerships within the Activities of the ISEG Research Centres

European Commission - 7th Framework Programme: Marie Curie Multi-ITN and STRIKE - Novel Methods in Computational Finance; Transnational Agreement - Portugal and Slovakia: Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Mathematical Finance; Sanaf: stochastic analysis and numerical approximations in mathematical finance.

• CEsA: IMAF - Institut des Mondes Africains (ex- CE-MAf– Centre d’Études des Mondes Africains); Cen-tre Émile Durkheim – Science Politique et Sociologie Comparatives; CODESRIA – Council for the Devel-opment of Social Science Research in Africa; EADI - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes; EHESS – L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Kapuscinski Develop-ment Lectures; KIEP - Korea Institute for International Economic Policy; AILPcsh – International Association of Social Human Sciences of Portuguese Language; “Inter-university cooperation in the field of post-grad-uate training in Economics and Management”, Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG/ULis-boa), Economics Faculty / Eduardo Mondlane Univer-sity (FE/UEM); • Observatory of Rights, Guinea Bissau; Centre for Postcolonial and Gender Studies - Universitá degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’; CESAC - Centro di Stu-di sul’Africa Contemporanea - Universitá degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’; DSP - Department of Spanish

and Portuguese - College of Letters and Sciences - University of Wisconsin-Madison;NPPS - Network in Portuguese Postcolonial Studies; PCI - PostColonial Studies Initiative - Centre for Humanities - Univer-siteit Utrecht; CEAM UnB - Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Brasilia; Ca-thedra Agostinho da Silva UnB – University of Brasília; Post-graduate Programme on Vernacular Languages of UFRJ - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro;• GHES: ESTER Network, as well as participations in collective research projects financed by other enti-ties, such as Copenhagen Business School; the Insti-tute of International Business, University of Central Lancashire; the Social Science Institute, Universidade de Lisboa; University of Muenster; Utrecht University; Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; and the Center of Overseas History, FCSH-UNL;• SOCIUS: Charisma: Consumer Market Studies; IRENE - Responsible Restructuring; SSMEnetUK Service Science Management and Engineering; EERA - European Education Research Association; COST Action IS1409: Gender and Health impacts of policies extending working life in Western countries; Research Network Gender Relations in the Labour Market and the Welfare State, the European Sociological Associ-ation; Microeconomics of Competitiveness Network - MOC; ACP Observatory on Migration; CRITEOS - In-ternational Network on Work and Health; ESST – the European Inter University Association on Society, Sci-ence and Technology - Network; Scientific Network on Water Resources Management, Development and Participation - NWRMDP; European MoC Chapter; Eu-ropean Sociological Associations - Research Network 9 - Economic Sociology; GOVINT - Forum for Integrat-ed Governance; Solidarity Network Of Fishery.

AEGIS - Advancing knowledge - intensive entrepreneur-ship and innovation for growth and social well-being in Europe; ICC - Institute for Complexity Sciences; Arrábi-da Meetings.


9 Published Research Articles

38 Published Research Articles12 Thesis Supervisions10 Ongoing Projects

17 Published Research Articles3 Thesis Supervisions

7 Published Research Articles

83 Published Research Articles21 Thesis Supervisions22 Ongoing Projects

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Centre for Applied Mathematics and Economics9 Published Research Articles

Most of the activity of this centre for research on Social Responsibility, Environment, and Sustainable Develop-ment was published in 2014, with 7 of the 9 research projects. The topics were as diverse as gender equality, poverty, urban studies, and education.

Published Research articles

POPULATION AND AGEINGTotal: 3

• Ageing and Poverty: how older Portuguese adults became less poor in the nineties. C. Farinha Rodrigues and I. Andrade. European Journal of Ageing 11, 285-292 (2014);• A global optimisation approach based on adaptive populations. T. A. Silva, A. Loja, A. Carvalho, N. M. Maia, and J. I. Barbosa in Proc. of the 2nd ECCOMAS Themat-ic International Conference on Numerical and Sym-bolic Computation: Developments and Applications (SYMCOMP 2015), UAlg, Faro, Portugal, (2015).

LOCAL DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN STUDIESTotal: 3

• Applications of solar mapping in the urban environ-ment. T. Santos, N. Gomes, S. Freire, M. C. Brito, L. Sil-veira Santos and J. A. Tenedório. Applied Geography 51, 48-57 (2014);• Urban Metabolism of Six Asian Cities. P. Ferrão, J. Fumega, N. Gomes, S. Niza, A. Pina and L. Silveira San-tos. Asian Development Bank, (2014).

THIRD SECTOR AND SOCIAL NETWORKSTotal: 1• Human Capital, Social Capital and Organisational Performance. A. Felício, E. Couto and J. Caiado. Man-agement Decision 52, 350-364 (2014).LOC

OTHERSTotal: 2

• School effectiveness research findings in Portu-guese-speaking countries: Brazil and Portugal. M. E. Ferrão. Educational Research for Policy and Practice 13, 3-24 (2014).

Centre for Advanced Research in Management7 Published Research ArticlesThe research of this centre is mainly focussed on cor-porate management challenges, such as Corporate So-cial Responsibility (3 publications) and Sustainability Assessment of Corporate Activity and Customer Be-haviour (4 projects).


CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSABILITYTotal: 3

• Felício, J., Ivashkovskaya, I., Rodrigues, R., and Ste-panova, A. (2014), “Corporate Governance and Per-formance in the Largest European Listed Banks during the Financial Crisis”, Innovar, 24 (53), 83-98. doi: 10.15446/innovar.v24n53.43914.• Proença, J. e Branco, M. (2014), “Corporate Social Responsibility - Practices and Motivations in a Pe-ripheral Country: Two Portuguese Illustrative Cases”, Corporate Governance, 14 (2): 252-264. DOI 10.1108/CG-07-2011-0052 (ISSN 1472-0701). http://www.emer-aldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/CG-07-2011-0052

SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENTTotal: 4

• Issa, T. and Isaias, P. (2015). “Sustainable Design HCI, Us-ability and Environmental Concerns”. New York: Springer. ISBN: 9781447167525 – DOI: 10.1007/9781447167532;• Gonçalves, H., Lourenço, T. and Silva G. (2015) “Green buying behavior and the theory of consumption values: A fuzzyset approach”, Journal of Business Research, 69 (4): 1484-1481. doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.10.129.

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Centre for African, Asian and Latin American Studies38 Published Research Articles12 Thesis Supervisions10 Ongoing ProjectsThe CEsA research centre focusses its activity on in-ternational cooperation. Accordingly, the research of this centre about the items in analysis in this report is also from a very international perspective, with studies in such diverse countries as: Angola, Cape Verde, Mo-zambique, China, and many others. Most of its activity, in the scope of this report, was published in 2015 (30 of 38 published research articles).

The research subjects of the published projects were as varied as: migrations (4); peasants (1); urban mobil-ity and social exclusion (4); environment and ecology (2); human rights (3); development cooperation (8), and; gender equality (5).

With regards to the Masters and PhD thesis supervi-sion activity, CEsA researchers supervised 12 students to complete their thesis on subjects such as: migrations (1); development policies (6); water management (1), and; human rights (1).

The CEsA research centre also has a relevant activity in ongoing projects, mainly those working on cooperation development (7 of 10 projects), supporting, for example, Portuguese NGOs on developing cooperation projects. Most of the projects also have external funding, in or-der to develop this activity (7 of 10).



• VARELA, Odair B.; BARBOSA, Carlos Elias (2014), “Migration in the Cape Verde Islands. Legal and Policy Framework”, European Scientific Journal, Special Edi-tion (May), pp. 449-466;• BARROS, C. P., Wanke, P. and Figueiredo, O. (2015). “Peasants’ Poverty and Inequality in Angola”. So-cial Indicators Research. ISI impact factor: 1.395 (forthcoming).


• BARROS, C.P., CHIVANGUE, Andes and SAMAGAIO, António (2014), “Urban dynamics in Maputo, Mozam-bique”. Cities 36 (2014) 74–82. Impact factor: 1.836;• Udelsmann Rodrigues, Cristina and FRIAS, Sónia (04 December 2015), “Between the City Lights and the Shade of Exclusion: Post-War Accelerated Urban Transformation of Luanda, Angola”, Urban Forum, June 2016, Volume 27, Issue 2, pp 129-147. DOI: 10.1007/s12132-015-9271-7.

NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENTTotal: 4• FRIAS, Sónia (2014), “De Visita aos San¡ no Deser-to do Kalahari: notas sobre subsistência e ecolo-gia social”, in CASANOVA, Catarina e FRIAS, Sónia (coords.), “Memória: Número Especial Dedicado à Antropologia do Ambiente”, col. MEMÓRIAS, (16), Lis-boa, Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, 2014, ISBN 978-989-96308-6-4;

• GENTILI, Davide. O acesso à água e ao saneamento nos países em desenvolvimento - a União Europeia, as ONGDs e o caso de Bafatá na Guiné-Bissau, CEsA, Lisboa, Setembro/2015


• SARMENTO, Eduardo e Loureiro, Sandra (2015), Exploring the perception of the millennial generation about corporate social responsibility in fashion luxu-ry brands, TMS Algarve 2014 – Management Studies International Conference (26-29 November 2014) (Awaiting publication).


• MENDONÇA, António, (co-author with Fonseca, M. and Passos, J.). “Outward FDI and Sustainable Trade Balance Path: Evidence from the Portuguese Econo-my, 1996-2011”, XII International Colloquium “Visions of Sustainable Development: Theory and Action”, Uni-versity of Florida, Levin College of Law, Universidade de Brasília, World Academy of Art and Science, Loca-tion: University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA, from the 20 to 22 May, 2015..

OTHERSTotal: 22

• RAMOS SILVA, Joaquim e SOUSA GALITO, Maria (2014), “China’s approach to economic diplomacy and hu-man rights”, International Journal of Diplomacy and Econ-omy, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 2(1/2), pp. 23-41;• SANGREMAN, Carlos; Martins, Luísa (2015), “Volun-tary Society: Motivation and Characteristics of Portu-guese”, International Journal of Business, Humanities and Technology, Vol. 5 No. 5, Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI), Los Angeles, USA;• WIESER, Doris (2015): “Masculinidad y violencia de género en la novela negrocriminal nicaragüense”. In: Badebec, v. 4, n. 8, 205-232.

THESIS SUPERVISIONSTotal: 12

• Alexandra dos Santos Copeto (2014), “Corrupção e desenvolvimento: compreender o sucesso das es-tratégias anticorrupção”, ISEG – Lisbon School of Eco-nomics and Management, Universidade de Lisboa, “As contrapartidas do Programme a Bolsa Família”. Mas-ters in Development and Inernational Development. ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management, 2015.

ONGOING PROJECTSTotal: 10

• “COM.INT Comunicar | Internacionalizar”• Objective: Support for Portuguese NGOs in the pre-sentation and dissemination of their work to potential funders and partners outside the traditional space of its intervention – the PALOP and the CPLP.Partners: CEsA-ISEG/UL, Fundação CaFunded by: Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua

• “Observatório dos Direitos, na Guiné-Bissau”Objectives: This action aims to contribute to the de-velopment of a culture of human rights and civic ac-tion in the country, in the context of the infringement of all types of rights (social, civil and political, eco-nomic, cultural, environmental). This should result in access to such quality and quantity of information, so as to allow the monitoring of the exercise of rights and its violations by the Civil Society Organisations. Partners: CEsA, ACEP, Liga Guineense dos Direitos Humanos (LGDH)Funded by: União Europeia, Camões - Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, PNUD – Programme of the United Nations Fund for Development


Research Centre in Economic and Organisational Sociology

83 Published Research Articles21Thesis Supervisions22 Ongoing Projects

This was the most active research centre during the pe-riod of 2014-2015, in the subjects included in this report, with 83 published research articles, 21 completed the-sis supervisions, and 22 ongoing projects, with most of the research published in 2015 (52 out of 83).

The item with the most research projects (14) was “Natural Resources and The Environment”, research-ing on issues such as fisheries and water management. “Corporate social Responsibility” (12) and “Sustainabil-ity Assessment” (11) were also items that had a good number of research projects, with subjects such as “Work-Family Conciliation” (2); Corporate Social Re-sponsibility Theoretical Studies (5) and case studies (4); Sustainable Development Theoretical Studies (7) and case studies (3).

In the other research areas, it is possible to find re-search studies on a variety of issues, such as: Public Pol-icies (4); Ageing (5); Migrations (mainly regarding Brasil) (3); Gender Equality (8), and; Social Innovation (6).Most of the supervised Masters and PhD thesis were about “Corporate Social Responsibility” (6); Migrations (4), and; Ageing (3), with most of them (13 of 21) being completed in 2014.

SOCIUS Research Centre has 22 ongoing projects, 17 of which have external funding, carrying out research on issues such as “Environment and Natural Resources” (8) and Migrations (4).


WELFARE STUDIES AND SOCIAL POLICY ANALYSIS

Total: 5• Ferreira, J.M. Carvalho and Ronconi, Luciana (2014), “A gestão pública da economia social em Portugal”, in Responsabilidade Social, Coimbra, Almedina, pp. 235-249;• Graça, João Carlos and Rita Gomes Correia (2015). “Welfare State”, in the SAGE Encyclopedia of Econom-ics and Society, Frederick F. Wherry and Juliet Schor (Edit.), Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Vol 4, pp. 1686-1690. ISBN: 9781452226439. Peer reviewed.


• Lopes, J.C. e Albuquerque, P. C. (2014). “The charac-teristics and regional distribution of older workers in Portugal”. Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais, Vol. 35, 1º quadrimestre, pp. 39-57;• Santos, M. J.; with Catarina, M. and Amaral, M. (2015). Empreender após os 50 anos. Um Estudo sobre Portu-gal. Lisboa: RH Editora, 142 págs.


• Serrano, Maria Manuel; Santos, Anabela and Neto, Paulo (2015). “Análise da eficácia, eficiência e valor acrescentado de políticas públicas place-based – uma aplicação a territórios rurais”. Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural, Vol. 53, Supl. 1, pp. S033-S048;

• Coelho, M. (2015). “Co-management and Rural Sustainable Development: The Case of Tamera (South-Portugal)”, International Conference Meanings of the Rural (Between Social Representations, Con-sumptions and Rural Development Strategies), Uni-versity of Aveiro, peer-reviewed.

THIRD SECTOR AND SOCIAL NETWORKSTotal: 2• Barbosa, Allan C.Q.; with VIEIRA, N. S. ; PARENTE, C. (2015). As abordagens do “Terceiro Setor”, da “Econo-mia Social” e da “Economia Solidária” e suas vincu-lações com a inovação social. IS Working Papers, 2ª série, N.º 12, p. 01-21, 2015. ISSN: 1647-9424.

NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENTTotal: 14• Bento, S., Varanda, M., Teixeira, E., Cupeto, C., Pio, C., Neto, S. and Stigter, T. (2014). Governação da água: uma parceria Estado-Sociedade (Relatório Participa-tion Water Net, 2014 - www.participationwater.net);• Coelho, M., Filipe, J. and Ferreira, M. (2014), “The ben-efits of cooperation - a study for sardine stocks re-cover in Peniche (Portugal)”, Journal of Economics and Engineering, Vol. 5 (1), pp. 23-30;• Varanda, M.; with Stigter, T., Bento, S. Nunes, J. P., Hugman, R. (2015). Combined Assessment of Climate Change and Socio-Economic Development as Drivers of Freshwater Availability in the South of Portugal, Water Resources Management, Springer, pp. 1-20. ISSN: 0920-4741 (Print) 1573-1650 (Online).

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• Santos, M. (2014), “Theoretical contributions to-wards rethinking Corporate Social Responsability”, Management Research: The Journal of the Ibero-amer-ican Academy of Management, Vol. 12, n. 3, pp. 288-307;• Santos, Maria João; Seabra, Miguel; Jorge, Fátima; Costa, Alice (Editores) (2014), Responsabilidade So-cial na Governação, nas Empresas e nas Organizações não Empresariais: Do Diagnóstico à Acção, Coimbra, Almedina, pp. 75-85 (ISBN:978-972-40-5328-8);• Casaca, Sara Falcão (2015). “Natalidade: a urgência do compromisso do mundo empresarial”, Actas da Conferência A(s) Problemática(s) da Natalidade em Portugal: uma questão social, económica e política, Lisboa, Associação para o Planeamento da Família, ICS/Observatório das Famílias e das Políticas de Família e Institute of Public Policies;• Santos, Maria João; Breda, Ana Carolina (2014), “Gestão ética através de programas de compliance”, in “Responsabilidade Social na Governação, nas Em-presas e nas Organizações não Empresariais: Do Diagnóstico à Acção”, Coimbra, Almedina, pp. 75-85 (ISBN:978-972-40-5328-8).


• Gonçalves, Carlos Alberto; Chaves, Rosana Silva; Ramos Silva, Joaquim; Pereira, Maurício Fernandes (2014). “Grow or Grow: Determinant factors for contin-uous and sustainable growth, the UNIMED-BH”. Asian Journal of Business and Management Sciences, Vol. 3, n. 8, pp. 1-17;• Loureiro, S.M.C., Bilro, R.G. and Koo, DongMo (2015). Committing Consumers to Sustainability: Portugal and South Korea Outlooks. In Ivo Pereira (ed.). Confer-ence book of proceedings of the 4th (MESD) Interna-tional Conference on Multinational Enterprises and Sustainable Development (track: Technology and sus-tainability), 13-15 of December, Lisbon, Portugal;• Santos, M. and Jacques, C. (2015). Global Value Chains and Sustainable Development: linking corpo-rate social responsibility and decent work research.

In the 4th International Conference on Multinational Enterprises and Sustainable Development (MESD), ISCTE/ IUL, 13-15/12/2015.

OTHERSTotal: 27

• Casaca, Sara Falcão (2014). Report on Portugal - Ex-change of Good Practices on Gender Equality - Female Entrepreneurship, European Commission;• Verdasca, A. (2014). “Assédio moral no trabalho: uma realidade contemporânea”, in Neto, E.V., A., J. and Arez-es, P. Edições. Civery Publishing, Várzea da Rainha Im-pressoras, SA. ISBN: 978-989-97762-9-6;• Coelho, M., Filipe, J. and Ferreira, M. (2014), “Cor-ruption and political risks in Latin America countries. A general view.”, Statistical Review, Vol. 8, n. 1-2, pp. 83-96.


• Maria João Braga de Melo, “Contributos do Design para uma Estratégia de Inovação Sustentável: O Papel dos Centros Tecnológicos em Portugal”, PhD thesis, PhD programme in Design (Faculdade de Arquitectura - ULisboa). Finished in April, 2014;• Lucia Joffrice, “A Responsabilidade Social Corpo-rativa: O papel das empresas transnacionais para o desenvolvimento local - O caso de Moçambique (2009-2014)”. Masters in Development and Interna-tional Cooperation (ISEG/UL), 2014;• Aline Camila Luz Ferreira. Social Emancipation and Popular Participation: convergences from the study of Solidarity Enterprises. Dissertation (Masters in Ad-ministration), Universidade Federal Fluminense. Coor-dinator: Professor Júlio César de Andrade Abreu, PhD. Carolina Leão, Supervisor.

ONGOING PROJECTSTotal: 22

• F3 College - Food, Farming and Forest, Universidade de LisboaPartnership: Schools of Sciences (FC), Pharmacy (FF), Humanities (FL), Medicine and Nutrition (FM), Veterinary Medicine (FMV), Human Mobility (FMH), Economic and Management (ISEG), Agronomy (FA), Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), Institute of Geography and Territorial Planning (IGOT);

• “The experience of regional hydrographic commit-tees: which impact for the knowledge and water man-agement in Portugal”, 2013-ongoingPartners: ICS, SOCIUS, UFCG (Paraíba, Brasil)Funded by: ICS and SOCIUS;

• “Promoting Gender Equality in Business. Promoção da igualdade de género nos lugares de decisão e re-dução das assimetrias salariais nas empresas: do di-agnóstico à ação” (November, 2014 - April 2016). PT07 Programme for Gender Equality and Promoting Bal-ance between Work and Private Life;• Partners: A project led by ISEG, but developed in partnmership with CESIS (Centre for Social Interven-tion Studies), CIEG (Inter-disciplinary Centre for Gen-der Equality of ISCSP, ULisboa), and the Centre for Gender Research of the University of Oslo.Funded by: EEA Grants, Financial Mechanism for the European Economic Area 2009-2014;• “O Estado Por Dentro” – 2015-2017Partners: SOCIUS/CSG/ISEG-UL and Agência do AmbienteFunded by: Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

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Research Unit on Complexity and Economics17 Published Research Articles3 Thesis Supervisions

UECE researchers published 17 articles on the subjects included in this report over the period of 2014-2015, en-compassing a variety of subjects, such as: wages (2); social security (3); ageing (3); natural resources man-agement (2); economic education (1), and; microcredit (1). Most of the research was published in 2014 (10 out of 17).

The 3 Masters theses supervised by UECE researchers addressed issues such as EU development strategies, pensions, and social security.


WELFARE STUDIES AND SOCIAL POLICY ANALYSIS

Total: 7• Centeno, M., Novo, A. (2014) “Do Low-Wage Work-ers React Less to Longer Unemployment Benefits? Quasi-Experimental Evidence”, Oxford Bulletin of Eco-nomics and Statistics, 76(2), April 2014, 185-207;• Garcia, M.T. (2014) “An Appraisal of Public Pension Reserve Funds Management - Evidence from Portu-gal”, Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 5(3), 333-341;• Centeno, M. e Novo, A. (2015) “Mercado de Trabalho: Actores e Políticas para o Século XXI”, in ed.V. Soro-menho-Marques and P. Trigo Pereira (Eds), “Afirmar o Futuro Políticas Públicas para Portugal”, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Volume II.


• Lopes, J., Albuquerque, P. (2014) “The characteristics and regional distribution of older workers in Portugal”, Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais, 35, 2014, 1.º Quadrimestre, pp. 39-57;

• Santos, S. (2014) “The Social Accounting Matrix and the Socio-Demographic Matrix-Based Approaches for Studying the Socioeconomics of Ageing”, Theoret-ical and Practical Research in Economic Fields, 1, July 2014. 57-63.

NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENTTotal: 2• Barros, C., Gil-Alana, L., Wanke, P. (2014) “Ethanol consumption in Brazil: Empirical facts based on per-sistence, seasonality and breaks”, Biomass and Bioen-ergy, Vol. 63, April 2014, Pages 313–320.

OTHERSTotal: 5

• Pina, A., Boris, C. and Goujard, A. (2014) “Reconciling fiscal consolidation with growth and equity”, OECD Journal: Economic Studies, Vol. 2013/1. 7-89;• Lopes, J.C., Graça, J. C., Correia, R. (2015) “Effects of economic education on social and political values, beliefs and attitudes: Results from a survey in Portu-gal”. Proceeding Economics and Finance Journal, 30 (1), 468-475.


• Pagaimo, Joana (2014) “Um Ensaio sobre as Es-tratégias de Desenvolvimento da União Europeia: da Agenda de Lisboa à Estratégia Europa 2020”. M. Sc. in International Economics and European Studies. ISEG/University of Lisbon, Portugal. Supervisor: Lopes, J.;• Rodrigues, Pedro (2015). “Does social security re-duce private saving? A time-series analysis to the Portuguese case”. M.Sc. in Finance. ISEG/Technical University of Lisbon. Portugal. Supervisor: Garcia, M.

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This area involves the commitment to principles and the implementation of partnership agreements that have already been negotiated, or are in the process of being so:

• Proposal for adopting the PRME principles;• Membership of the European Business Ethics Net-work (EBEN); • Membership of the Portuguese Social Responsibil-ity Network - RSO.pt;• The participation in the Inter-Universities Project – Organised by GRACE – “Grupo de Reflexão e Apoio à Cidadania Empresarial”;• Continue the existing cooperation with WBCSD Portugal (BCSD) and enable new partnerships.

ISEG has established several partnerships with various business and civic organisations, examples of which are given below:

PRINCIPLE 5 | PARTNERSHIP

Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (Prémio Infante D. Henrique)

An international programme that promotes the person-al and social development of voluntary and non-com-petitive activities, which is intended for all young peo-ple from 14 to 25 years, recognising them for what they actually do. Through the Award, young people acquire essential characteristics throughout their life path, such as: self-confidence, self-esteem, responsibility, active citizenship, leadership, teamwork, motivation, communication, consideration, and learning ability.

As a nucleus of the Prize at ISEG, 2 training actions were carried out outside ISEG for monitors and evaluators of secondary schools and universities in the country, as well as 2 programme dissemination activities at ISEG for undergraduate students, with the support of the JBC and AEISEG.

Banco Alimentar(Food Bank)

Support by volunteers (students and ISEG staff) for several campaigns.

Volunteer Bank for the City of Lisbon

Volunteer Management Guide with the CML (Munici-pality), ICS, Pista Mágica, and ISEG.

Local Social Commissiob of the Estrela Neighbourhood

ISEG is a member of the executive board of the social committee which includes more than 80 institutions/schools/ONGs based in Estrela, the administrative neighbourhood where ISEG is physically located.

• Executive Board meetings and plenaries – 8 meetings;• DLBC Project – Local Development Community Based Lisbon– 4 meetings;• PICs – Community Innovation Projects like Evalua-tor – 2 meetings.

PRME | Principles for Responsible Management Education

ISEG joined PRME in July 2014, and is included in an Iberian work group with ESADE (the PMRE Iberian Emerging Chapter). In this context, ISEG has shared information, participated in various initiatives, and or-ganised one event.

• Organised one Conference – PRME in Portugal: present and future.• Participation in the 3rd Annual Meeting of PRME Iberian Emerging Chapter - 1 February 2016.

GRACE | Reflection, promotion and development of Corporate Social Responsability initiatives

Development of activities of corporate and social re-sponsibility and volunteering, such as participation in the voluntary action in the Medos Woods at Costa da Caparica, included in Project GIRO.

• Agreement signed in May 2014.• 1 Event at ISEG: 15th Anniversary of GRACE

• Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa

Interaction with the boards of UDIP Tejo/Tagus (UDIP – Units of Development and Proximity Intervention).

• Workshop on the requalification of the UDIP Tejo Day Centres – 2 meetings.• Invited member of the Advisory Council of SCML UDIP Tejo from 24 June 2015– 2 meetings.

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GASTagus, Volunteering ONGD• The Group for Social Action of the Tagus (GASTagus) is a non-profit youth organization, whose vision is to alert and encourage youth for the discovery and promotion of human dignity by carrying out voluntary activities in Portugal and Africa.

The GASTagus volunteers develop field projects in the areas of education and development cooperation, and also provides training and mentoring for ISEG volunteers.

The group started its activities in 2008, and was found-ed in partnership with the IST LAGE2 Taguspark. It has sent six teams to volunteer missions in Africa during the month of August in 2009 and 2010. In both years, three volunteer teams GASTagus were present in An-gola, Cape Verde, and Sao Tomé.

During the rest of the year, volunteers receive an in-tense training and perform volunteer work in different institutions in Portugal.

This organisation’s mission is to prepare and encourage youth for the discovery and promotion of human digni-ty, by carrying out voluntary activities.The Lisbon headquarter is located in ISEG, and it had 5 groups, both in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Re-food Estrela

Receives volunteers from ISEG + Solidarity and GAST-

agus, and, at the end of each day, goes to collect the

leftovers of meals from the ISEG restaurant, operated

by the Narest company.GASTagus, Volunteering ONGD

Other National Paternships under the scope of Social Responsability

• Lisbon Social Network (integrates all the local social committees of Lisbon);• CML (CML in general, and some departments in par-ticular: Economy and Innovation, Urbanism, Social De-velopment, Cultural Heritage);• Estrela Neighbourhood Centre.

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ISEG is a member of the Social Committee of the San-tos-o-Velho neighbourhood since 2012, which has now become the Estrela neighbourhood. In this social net-work, which is comprised of more than 80 entities, the scope for partnerships, joint events, and the use of syn-ergies has been constant.

It has hosted and participated in numerous seminars, workshops, and working groups held at ISEG, and out-side ISEG, all of which had a social concern, which is one of ISEG’s values, and more and more students, teach-ers, and researchers have become interested in the var-ious issues addressed.

Our students carry out regular and one-off volunteer work, focussed on, and acting locally in the neighbour-hood where ISEG is located, such as: Re-food; helping children and the elderly at the Santos-o-Velho Parish Centre, , and the Institute of the Immaculate for People with Special Needs.

The AEISEG, AIESEC, JBC and Economic TUNA associa-tions of ISEG have participated in numerous initiatives, marked by the enthusiasm, energy, and creativity of the same young people who want to make a difference in society.The JBC has always collaborated with the School in var-ious campaigns for the collection of toys, books, and food instigated by ISEG, and with the campaigns which ISEG supports, such as the Food Bank or the LPCC – the Portuguese League against Cancer. The JBC also has a two year-old project for tutoring the youth of the neighbourhood.ISEG hosted GASTagus Lisboa, a NGO composed of young people, with the aim of promoting young national and international volunteering, which has done a fan-tastic job. This organization has been ISEG’s consultant, trainer, and partner in the creation of the ISEG Volun-teer Centre - ISEG + Solidarity.

ISEG + Solidarity, although still in its infancy, has already gained volunteers from within the student population, and ISEG aims to go much further.

Currently 29 ISEG volunteers are working in the Estrela neighbourhood:

4| are integrated as part of the the educa-tional support of the BIP /Possidónio ZIP + Ativa project;

4| provide tutoring support for PASE – Programme to Support School Success, promoted by the neighbourhood at the Jo-sefa D’Obidos high school, and the BIP/Pos-sidónio ZIP + Ativa project (students regu-larly participate in both projects);

21| are part of the PASE tutoring support.

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Contacts wih GOEC

600 Support Cases

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Activities (18 were Training Sessions, 6 were Conferences,

and 24 were Educational Games wich were entitled “Saving Games

2“(Jogo do Poupinhas 2))

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Contacts wih GOEC

600 Support Cases

67

Activities (33 in schools, 11 with local organisations, and 2 with

Bank of Portugal, among others)

Office for Guidance on Consumer Debt (GOEC)

Launched in October 2006, this is the result of an agree-ment signed between ISEG and the former Consumers Institute, now the Directorate-General for Consumer Affairs (Direcção-Geral do Consumidor). The mission of this entity is to: inform and educate families about personal credit and household budget management; assist and advise families about resorting to the use of credit as an option for managing household budgets, and; provide families who approach GOEC with techni-cal, professional, and documented support in all mat-ters of family budget management. Free training and follow-up support is provided to families in all parts of the country.

GOEC Numbers (2014/2015)

The evaluation of this project for educational support has been extremely positive, highlighting the availabil-ity, involvement, interest, and responsibility that ISEG

students have shown for this mission.Amongst the multiple activities that ISEG provides to the community, by way of example, the following stand out:


Project “Junior Tutoring / Júnior Explicações”, ISEG and JBC 2014.This tutoring project is carried out by ISEG Bachelors and Masters students with the objective of reducing the drop-out rate in secondary schools in the surround-ing community.The pilot project began in January 2014 and took place between January and June this year, with the support of ISEG and the local town council.The JBC recruited volunteers and obtained between 80 and 90 enrolments, and, as a result of recruitment interviews, 52 volunteers were chosen, to whom were assigned 52 children.

As well as representing the students in all their activi-ties within ISEG, AEISEG also promotes continuous in-teraction with the surrounding community.

“Volunteer Bank”

One of the most recent project is the “Volunteer Bank” platform, which was launched in September 2015. The main goal of this portal is to expand the network of contacts and to implement the official partner status of AEISEG in different areas within the field of Social Solidarity: environmental; victim support; support for disadvantaged families; support for children with dis-abilities; monitoring the elderly, and; support for home-less, among others.

Support to Refugee Families

Collection of essential items.9-10-2015

Voluntary action at the Escola Básica Junior School of the 1º Ciclo Nº72, Lapa, Lisbon

At the beginning of the Academic Year, new Bachelor students were challenged to use their energy for the benefit of others. In this ISEG Students Association initiative, the new students helped renovate a school that had obvious signs of degradation, by cleaning various spaces and painting walls and bannisters, which contributed to a significant improvement of the school’s conditions.

Dream, Do It, and It Happens (“Sonha, faz e acontece”)

Volunteering for the Prince Project

Overall, as described above, ISEG has pursued system-atic efforts to incorporate Responsible Management Principles in its activities both in the School itself and in joint activities with part of its constituencies – the executive School (IDEFE), the Students Union, etc.An important consequence of the School´s decision to introduce AOL (Assurance of Learning) on Ethics, including Ethical Decision Making, Social Responsibil-ity and Sustainability in its courses, was the need to teach with the preoccupation that students actually learn and only then to assess. As a consequence those topics have already been incorporated in the content of several courses in the great majority of graduate and masters programs. In each of these programs the learning of these issues is currently assessed, usual-ly twice, embedded in a first year course and again in a final year course. This required changes in curricula, awareness assessment and teaching methods that became current in the school. In fact, this has been the LG with better performance since the beginning of the Assessment of Learning process. This has been a con-tinuous improvement process with new actions being adopted each year following the annual assessments of the process:

• New specifically tailored seminars, created and of-fered last year, were consolidated this year and the syllabi were also readjusted in various courses.• The contact hours were increased in the two Sem-inars created last academic year for the MSc in Quantitative Methods for Economic and Manage-ment Decision, and the MSc in Mathematical Finance respectively.• In the MSc in Actuarial Science, efforts were made to strengthen the partnership with the Portuguese Insti-tute of Actuaries in offering a short course on “Ethics and Professionalism”, which shows a sure engagement to society. This course is offered every other year.

E | Assessment of Actions Outcomes in 2014/2015

• The MSc in Finance will now offer a full compulsory course unit named “Ethics and Research Methods in Finance” (replacing “Seminar”) from 2016/17 onwards, including collaboration with the Chartered Finan-cial Analysts Society, on professional standards of conduct.• More care and attention has been given in introduc-ing the students in class to the mission and values of ISEG and discussing the contents of the “learning con-tract” that students sign when enrolling to the school. These topics are also discussed in some formative courses in the programs, such as “Introduction to Man-agement” in the all bachelor programs.• Topics about ethics were introduced in the syllabi of several courses, and external lecturers have been requested to give special attention to this matter, for instance, in “Cost Accounting”, for the BSc in Mathe-matics Applied to Economics and Management.

Following last year’s assessment results for the Learn-ing Goal Ethical Perspective, the new seminars created and offered last year, were consolidated this year in the MSc in Finance, the MSc in Actuarial Science, the MSc in Mathematical Finance and the MSc in Economic and Corporate Decision. All the other improvements intro-duced last year were maintained and bettered.

In particular, the school offers a Post-Graduation Pro-gram in Sustainability Management and a master’s pro-gram in Development Studies, and a “Boost Your Talent” set of elective modules where Responsible Manage-ment, Ethics and Social Responsibility are taught and assessed as important components of learning behav-ioral capabilities, having in mind, better assess to jobs, upon leaving the school.For each of the graduation programs offered, semi-nars involving students, alumni and major employer´s


representatives were held to assess the curricula and the graduate’s capabilities upon graduation which pro-vided advice for improvement of programs contents and learning outcomes beyond technical capabilities with special emphasis to ethical attitudes, sustainabili-ty and social responsibility. Next we present a table that synthetizes the activities, the principles to which they refer and their outcomes.

Activities

Activities

Related PRME Principles

Related PRME Principles

Results

Results

Reinforce the perspective of ethics, corporate responsibility and sustainability in all of its curricular plans

To carry on assessing and improv-ing the teaching and learning of Ethics, Sustainability and Social Responsibility in appropriate classes of Business Programs

To implement the recommenda-tions that resulted from the semi-nars with stakeholders in 2015

To research the availability of pub-lic funds for research in this areas and disseminate the information to faculty

To further promote the PG Pro-gram on Sustainability and the Master Program on Development Studies

Develop Social Responsibility and Sustainability, promoting debate regarding the challenges of society in terms of its sustainability (economic, social, and environmental).

Implementation of the “Learning Contract” for the all study levels

Introductions of Codes of Conduct, encoded in the school’s procedures and routines

All of the Bachelors and Masters degrees have integrated Ethics into their curricula, either as individual disciplines (6 disciplines focus entirely on Ethics), modules of various disciplines of the degrees (17 disciplines), or as seminars and workshops (13). 3000 students registered for ethic related disciplines.

In assessments, more than 75% of students should meet or exceed learning expectations.

Course coordinators will report on accomplishments and their reports will be presented and discussed in a new round of seminars, due to take place in two years’ time

Teaching staff will be encouraged to deliver a quantitative Increase and quality improvement in publications on these areas (Welfare studies and Social Policy analysis, third Sector and Social Networks, Corporate social Responsibility and Sustain-ability Assessment).Improvements will be measured and reported annually.

Especial help will be required from the School’s Institutional Marketing Division in promoting these pro-grams. Statistics about students recruitment, academic success and employability will be collect-ed, analyzed and submitted to the programs’ Coordinators and the Deanship for corrective actions if deemed necessary

Creation of an executive program on “Sustainability Management”, a master’s program on “Development and International Cooperation” and a Ph.D. program on “Development Studies”.

Creation of a “learning contract” that is now ‘signed’ between the new students and the school, which formalizes the rights and obliga-tions of students and diffuses the norms of conduct that the ISEG expects of its students and staff

Learning the codes of professional conduct of each Master’s degree

1,2,3

1,2,3

1,2,3

4,5, 6

1,2,3

1,2,3, 4

1,2,3

2,3

F | Objectives 2016 /2017


To increase the catchment number of students attending Boost Your Talent

To pursue with the Students Union the promotion of social solidarity initiatives

To pursue joint initiatives with the Alumni Association to help stu-dents in hardships by finding them jobs or providing funds for grants

Voluntary service day

Provide support to the communi-ty through ISEG Junior Business Consulting

Promote the organization of scientific conferences in the areas of Ethics, Social Responsibility and Sustainability

To at least double the number of students participating in these ac-tions, by increasing the HR dedicat-ed to this project;To increase awareness in the school and among its stakeholders of the importance of this initiative;To seek external funding for it.

To increase the number of students involved

Number of students helped. Mon-etary values made available per student;Develop further the existing men-torship program addressed to final year students

Reinforce existing voluntary activi-ties and concentrate many of them into one dedicated day for volun-tary service at ISEG

Number of companies createdNumber of projects and amounts involved

Number of articlesNumber of participantsOrigin of participants

1,2,3

3,5,6

5,6

5,6

5,6

4,5,6

ISEG aims to continue to support and promote social responsibility initiatives, and, together with its student associations, to lead the ISEG community in a greater awareness of the social and environmental needs of our society.

Through initiatives and interdisciplinary approaches in partnership with institutions of the surrounding com-munity, the School is the interface between these insti-tutions and its students, demonstrating in practice the importance of their role in the community.

The young put the technical knowledge learned at School to use for community service and for those who need it, enlarging their knowledge of the social reality of the country, and preparing themselves to be future decision makers in the economic and business world, demonstrating ethical behaviour and practices which contribute to preserving and improving the common good, and which improve the quality of life of all in the building of a more just and egalitarian society.

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