A comunicação eficaz entre cuidadores formais e idosos é essencial no atendimento de qualidade. Este estudo, transversal, exploratório e descritivo, investigou a perceção das barreiras e uso estratégias de comunicação percecionadas e usadas por cuidadores formais de idosos em Residências Senior do Norte de Portugal. Foi aplicado um questionário estruturado, com perguntas fechadas, abordando as principais barrei...
In a context where social, environmental and economic challenges require innovative and collaborative responses, Challenge-Based Innovation emerges as an approach that promotes the development of concrete solutions through co-creation processes between multiple local and institutional agents. Within this framework, the Working Envisioning (WE) project fostered the implementation of challenge-based innovation pr...
Complexity theory investigates complex systems made up of parts that mutually interact in a non-linear way, producing unpredictable results. Inspired by this theoretical approach, ECOLAH - Embracing a Complexity-Orientated Learning Approach in Health is an Erasmus+ project (https://ecolah.eu/about/) whose mission is to develop a better understanding of how the complex societal challenge of building a healthy so...
This paper explores a strategic co-design process undertaken in the rural municipality of Miranda do Douro, Portugal, aimed at formulating locally grounded innovation challenges. Situated within the framework of a broader initiative [blinded for peer-review], the study highlights the preparatory phase prior to student involvement, emphasizing how collaborative methodologies shaped a community responsive innovat...
Higher Education faces significant challenges, including internationalization (Msomphora, 2025), digital transformation - in particular the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into traditional methods and cybersecurity (Parambil et al., 2024), students increasing expectations (Amanzhol et al., 2024), pressure for higher alumni employability rates (Schueller, 2023), the increased need of interdisciplinar...
Bragança Polytechnic University | Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, in the third edition of In2CoP, under the title “Conference on International Cooperation in Higher Education – Multicultural Co-creation for Future Societies”, focused this year on multicultural co-creation to develop skills for the societies of the future, particularly entrepreneurial and creative skills enriched by cross-cultural perspective...
This presentation explores co-creation as a transformative pedagogical approach in the education of health professionals. Rooted in student-centered educational approach, co-creation represents a shift in educational culture, where students, educators, and other stakeholders collaborate in the design and development of meaningful learning experiences. Co-creation also draws on critical pedagogy (Freire), socio-...
This chapter presents the results of a qualitative study carried out as part of the European project ECOLAH - Embracing a Complexity-Oriented Learning Approach in Health, which evaluated the health student’s perspective an intensive, immersive and co-creation training programme. The programme took place in April 2024 in The Netherlands, involving 46 students and 15 professors from five European countries. The t...
Neste artigo investigamos os desafios enfrentados por profissionais de serviços sociais, numa sociedade em mudança, cada vez mais complexa e incerta. Analisando situações específicas ocorridas num estudo etnográfico de curta duração, procuramos descrever e interpretar os vários saberes expressos por profissionais na interação social quotidiana com os seus interlocutores e desta- camos a crescente relevância da ...
A transição demográfica é um processo complexo que afeta profundamente a estrutura populacional de um país. Esta comunicação tem como objetivo explorar o papel crucial da saúde pública e da família nesse contexto, fornecendo uma visão abrangente sobre como esses dois pilares podem moldar e influenciar a transição demográfica de um país. A população angolana encontra-se na fase inicial da transição demográfica (...