Eventos

Respondendo ao convite do Papa Francisco, unir-nos-emos à cerimónia do ato de Consagração, dia 25 de março de 2022, com transmissão a partir das 16h00, no Auditório Carvalho Guerra.

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Understanding how neuroscience can help to promote police officers’ mental health in the International and Portuguese contexts

What is the Mental Health NeuroForce Project?
This project focuses on furthering the knowledge of mental health in police forces through the lens of Neurosciences, and it is being implemented in the Human Neurobehavioral Laboratory.

Who is supporting this project?
Our team of partners and consultants is composed of a group of national and international academic and health professionals interested in understanding what affects mental health and intervening in this population using Neuroscience techniques.

What is expected from this project?
We hope this fruitful cooperation among professionals from four different countries (Portugal, Spain, England, and the USA) lead us to develop and validate an innovative intervention program focusing on stress resilience facing emotionally challenging situations.

What are our expectations for this kickoff symposium?
We expect this kickoff symposium for the Mental Health NeuroForce will allow us to discuss possibilities outputs, task distribution, risks, and needs and give vital tips. In addition, this symposium presents an excellent opportunity to join an interdisciplinary team of researchers working across Psychology, Neuroscience, and other related areas.

Namely, we expect to:

• Disseminate the project and its goals
• Discuss the potential contribution from a Neuroscience approach
• Raise awareness to mental health-related issues, stress and burnout in the police officers
• Foster networking among professionals from different scientific fields
• Strengthen the relationship of the international team involved in this project

Who is invited to participate?

• Team, partners, and consultants involved in the Mental Health Neuroforce project;
• College faculties interested in neurosciences applied to police forces’ mental health.

This is a FREE event, but we need attendees to register in advance.

Program Here

Luís Miguel Alcalá will talk about his research on the 25th of March 2022 starting at 14:15.
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Abstract

The current landscape of environmental problems (climate change and resource scarcity) calls for optimisation of existing processes and careful planning of new ones under development. These actions share common points such as the reduction of energy consumption or any waste and generally more environmentally friendly processes. One of the strategies that can be implemented most quickly is precisely the reuse of any materials generated during industrial production. This idea is based on the fact that by-products still contain valuable molecules and, if provided that the recovery processes are energetically and economically viable, they represent a great opportunity in the food, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals sectors. All this becomes especially relevant in those processes where synthetic biology is involved, since in this case we are talking about biomolecules.

The Biomolecule Innovation Lab is one of the three laboratories of the CBQF thematic research group "Fermentation Solutions". Research activities focus on understanding and unleashing the potential of different sustainable biomolecules produced by fermentative processes, with the aim of creating new products and business opportunities in the fields of cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, nutrition and biomedicine. Dedicated to a multidisciplinary approach, the team members have extensive experience in the fields of molecular biology, in vitro models, microbiology, biochemistry and in the most recent branch of omics sciences, lipidomics.

The study of lipids and their role in biological processes has witnessed a radical shift in the way we understand these compounds: from molecules for biochemical energy storage, we have come to realize their relationship in cellular processes where they have functions on the same level as proteins. This has led to an exponential increase in the search for new sources of lipids with bioactive and functional capacity over the last 25 years thanks to the recent advances in analytics and high-resolution mass spectrometry.

Área Metropolitana do Porto
Planos Integrados e Inovadores de Combate ao Insucesso Escolar (PIICIE)

A Área Metropolitana do Porto e a Universidade Católica convidam V.ª Ex.ª a estar presente no encontro de trabalho no âmbito do Plano Integrado e Inovador de Combate ao Insucesso Escolar (PIICIE), no próximo dia 23 de março de 2022.

Este encontro tem como objetivo a partilha dos resultados, por parte de cada município da Área Metropolitana do Porto, no que diz respeito ao contributo para combater o abandono escolar e o insucesso e para gerar novas lógicas de construção local da educação.

Adicionalmente, será apresentado o projeto de estudo das mais-valias obtidas ao nível da qualidade educativa e da territorialização das políticas locais, desenvolvido por uma equipa da Faculdade de Educação e Psicologia da Universidade Católica Portuguesa e que decorrerá até setembro de 2022.

Programa
23 de março | 09h00 às 13h00
Auditório Carvalho Guerra, Universidade Católica Portuguesa no Porto

09h00 – Receção aos participantes
09h30 – Abertura:

• Doutor José Matias Alves – Professor Associado (FEP-UCP)

09h45 – Fórum com os Vereadores da Educação dos municípios da AMP
10h30 – Pausa para café
10h45 – Apresentações dos Municípios
12h15 – Debate
12h45 – Apresentação do projeto 2021/2022
13h00 – Encerramento