This project explores how arts-based methods and community-based research principles can strengthen civic engagement among young people and enhance the digital participation of older adults. Positioned at the intersection of sociology of childhood/youth, ageing and cultural sociology, the study focuses on youthful narratives to facilitate two-way knowledge transfer through intergenerational communication, using a life course perspective. The main objectives are: exploring children's digital citizenship experiences by understanding the interaction between analog and digital realms; strengthening intergenerational relations through arts-based methods to foster solidarity; and enhancing civic participation and participatory culture among young people as a crucial democratic heritage. The first two objectives are interconnected through arts-based methods, while the second and third are linked through intergenerational communication and collaboration. The first and third objectives promote democratization through digitalization and use art as a tool for emancipation. Art and literature aim to evolve perspectives on childhood and empower participatory culture by sharing reciprocal youthful narratives. GENARTMENT targets small communities, including children, youth, and older adults, engaging them in the research process through co-design and co-implementation with a citizen science approach. The project involves several stages: creative data collection, integrating participatory and arts-based research methods, enhancing methodology through collaboration with children, conducting interviews to explore their digital experiences, and story collection with children and their elders through creative workshops. These stages aim to develop tools for building connections between people of various ages, exploring their past and present childhood experiences, memories, and adult imaginaries of the present and the future.

HYLOGLOB aims to reconstruct a long-neglected yet crucial debate among Scholastic philosophers on the ontological constitution of natural bodies. This debate took place in Europe during the 16th c., but its consequences had a global, cross-cultural impact. In their struggle to find a balance among opposite claims about matter, form, and the elements, 16th-c. Scholastic philosophers produced influential ontologies of nature. Their theories, in turn, became the lenses through which European thinkers in China and New Spain engaged with metaphysical and cosmological doctrines that were completely alien to them. The reconstruction of the 16th-c. Scholastic debate on the constitution of natural substances is key to understand the processes of philosophical accommodation and reinterpretation of non-European systems of thoughts that took place in early modern Asia and America. By using a multi-levelled methodology, HYLOGLOB will reconstruct the Scholastic debate on the ontology of nature and its global impact. On the one hand, it will analyse how historical actors addressed apparently unsolvable questions on prime matter, substantial forms, and the elements. On the other, it will assess how these theories were used as influential interpretative tools to grasp sophisticated metaphysical doctrines that utterly diverged from the European tradition. HYLOGLOB’s results will produce, for the first time, a thorough, comprehensive understanding of how 16th-c. thinkers envisioned the constitution of the physical world. It will provide meaningful insights on the tensions between metaphysical and physical considerations of nature, the Jesuits materialistic interpretations of Chinese philosophy, and the foundation of an independent philosophical tradition in New Spain. At the crossroad of different traditions and disciplines, HYLOGLOB will contribute to foster a new, more nuanced understanding of a central aspect of the constitution of European identity in a globalising world.

Urogenital neoplasms, common in middle-aged patients, cause pelvic pain and sexual dysfunction. limited access to specialized services for urogenital cancer survivors (UGCS), necessitating alternative ways. Using a mixed-methods design and participatory design approach, this project will integrate 3 studies and aim to develop a web-based sexual health support program (WBSHP) based on survivors’ unmet psychosexual needs and to determine its acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary efficacy in managing pelvic pain and sexual function difficulties, ultimately intended to promote pelvic, mental, and sexual health and QoL in UGCS and their partners. Study 1 is a systematic literature review, following PRISMA guidelines, and will inform studies 2 and 3. Aims to summarize existing literature on online and e-mental and sexual health care services for promoting pelvic, mental, and sexual health of UGCS. Study 2 is a qualitative thematic analysis, conducted via in-depth interviews with a group of UGCS and their partners with maximum variation and focus groups with health care providers to explore the impact of UG cancers on survivors’ QoL and their unmet psychosexual care needs and to develop an evidence-based intervention program, integrated with the systematic literature review results, tailored to their needs. Study 3 is a pilot study assessing the acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary efficacy of a co-developed WBSHP intervention (AURORAS) among UGCS and their partners. Eligible participants, recruited from 3 research sites in Iran, after ethical approval, informed consent, and pre-test assessment will be randomized to either the experimental group receiving intervention (N = 30) or the waiting list group receiving treatment as usual (N = 30). Mid-test, post-test assessments, and follow-up at 3 months after program completion will be conducted. The waiting list group will receive AURORAS access and the same treatment protocol after 8 weeks of randomization.

The cultural heritage associated with India and Bangladesh’s Christian minorities remains understudied and its historical significance is often contested. Many of the countries’ medieval and early modern churches were built primarily for communities of newly converted Christians that came from different regions and caste backgrounds and therefore carried corresponding identities. Even today, many of South Asia’s churches reflect these local identities and traditions, with factors such as caste, “indigenous” agency, and cultural “accommodation” playing a role in their social and architectural history. These contexts originated distinct regional architectural expressions in the countries’ six main Christian ethnolinguistic communities (East Indians, Goans, Mangaloreans, Keralites, Tamils and Bengalis) However, most scholarly work has addressed the design of these churches against the background of European artistic tendencies - such as mannerism or baroque - while local contexts and traditions have remained overlooked. Today, as dominant groups assert hegemonic policies across South Asia, religious minorities face increasing challenges, and their cultural heritage is oftentimes at risk. Many of South Asia’s churches founded before ca. 1800 have disappeared, are in ruins or have been deeply transformed, and there is a sense of urgency in documenting the churches that remain. ID-SCAPES will produce a Social History of the Built Environment of India and Bangladesh’s medieval and early modern churches and sacral landscapes, uncovering the influences of diverse agencies, identities and traditions on their overall design. By producing knowledge on this body of architecture, with in-depth analysis providing vision for contested and/or endangered sites, the project will ascertain how churches are vital in framing the collective identities of Christian minorities today, thereby nurturing their resilience and contributing towards the diversity of South Asia’s cultural heritage

The project aims to analyze the social space of nature conservation in the Gerêz-Xurés Transboundary Biosphere Reserve at the borders of Portugal and Spain. To do so, it will be necessary to incorporate an entirely new methodology into classical social space studies in order to account for the environmental dimensions of social dynamics. Specifically, advanced geo-spatial analysis combined with ethnographic approaches, will be added to geometric data analysis (mainly, the established methodology for the social space construction). This contribution is based on the parameters of a non-intrusive approach to living conditions proposed by Virgilio Borges' research team at the Institute of Sociology in the University of Porto (Ramos et al, 2021) . The inclusion of the environment into the social space of nature conservation will lead to the development of a new approach to current ecological problems. As a result, the research findings will provide alternatives to understand, prevent, and manage the main conflicts facing sustainable development in the Gerêz-Xurés Transboundary Biosphere Reserve. In sumary, the social space of nature conservation aims to model the social-environmental interdependencies surrounding a biosphere reserve by a strong synergy of spatial, statistical, and ethnographic methodologies. This social space can be replicated, compared, and improved in its operation in other biosphere reserves of the world.