The habit of discarding cigarette butts on the ground is an old but still recurring problem around the world. Having noticed this problem at a higher education institution in Portugal, the aim was to use art as an environmental education activity to raise awareness among smokers. It is well known that art, in its many forms, can be used to raise awareness of environmental conservation. This work is more than ju...
O desenvolvimento, a aprendizagem e a qualidade do envolvimento físico das crianças são influenciados pela qualidade dos espaços físicos dos Jardins de Infância (JI). No contexto atual de “pós” pandemia, torna-se necessário identificar se alterações nos espaços influenciam positiva ou negativamente na qualidade de vida (QV) das crianças. O estudo tem como objetivo recolher a perceção de pais/encarregados de edu...
O consumo de energia está na origem de 80% das emissões de gases com efeito de estufa na União Europeia (UE). Consequentemente, reduzir as emissões de gases com efeito de estufa implica um menor consumo de energia e uma maior utilização de energia limpa. É nesta ótica que surge a denominada “Estratégia 20-20-20 para 2020” cujo objetivo é reduzir 20% do consumo de energia, reduzir 20% das emissões de GEE (Gases ...
Engineering education practices have evolved not only due to the natural changes in the contents of the curricula and skills but also, and more recently, due to the requirements imposed by the Bologna revision process. In addition, industry is becoming more demanding, as society is becoming more and more aware of the global needs and consequences of industrial practices. Under this scope, higher education needs...
O Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP) apresentou, no passado mês de Janeiro, o seu Plano de Acção para a Sustentabilidade (PASUS). Este documento resultou do trabalho de uma comissão de cinco docentes, nomeada para o efeito pela presidência do ISEP, os quais apresentam formações de base diferenciadas e actuam em áreas distintas, potenciando uma visão heterogénea mas, também por isso, global e integ...
Some of the main challenges in Incorporating Sustainable Development practices into Engineering Education reside in establishing the bridge between concept and application. In particular the relation between value creation and the knowledge economy, innovation and entrepreneurship, as the main vehicles to a relevant application of the sustainable development concept, is not yet part of the majority of the engin...
Porto Polytechnical Engineering School (ISEP), a Global Reporting Initiative training partner in Portugal, has just presented its Sustainable Development Action Plan (PASUS), which main objective is the formation of a new kind of engineers, with a Sustainable Development (SD) philosophy in the core of their academic curricula courses.
Nowadays, there is a growing environmental concern about were the energy that we use comes from, bringing the att ention on renewable energies. However, the use and trade of renewable e nergies in the market seem to be complicated because of the lack of guara ntees of generation, mainly in the wind farms. The lack of guarantees is usually addressed by using a reserve generation. The aggregation of DG p lants gi...
O novo sistema nacional de certificação energética e da qualidade do ar interior em edifícios (SCE), que decorre da publicação dos DL, 78 a 80, de 4 de Abril de 2006, vêm impor um novo enquadramento regulamentar para a utilização de energia em edifícios no território nacional. Em particular para o caso dos grandes edifícios de serviços e para aqueles, de serviços ou residenciais, cujos sistemas de climatização ...
The large increase of renewable energy sources and Distributed Generation (DG) of electricity gives place to the Virtual Power Producer (VPP) concept. VPPs may turn electricity generation by renewable sources valuable in electricity markets. Information availability and adequate decision-support tools are crucial for achieving VPPs’ goals. This involves information concerning associated producers and market ope...