This study explores the curriculum of Nursing Bachelor’s degrees across 15 European countries, aiming to describe nursing course curricula and admission requirements and to identify differences and similarities in the implementation of the Bologna Process. The research employs a qualitative and documentary methodology, analyzing curricula from selected higher education institutions involved in the Erasmus+ “Inn...
The rise of radical right parties (RRPs) across democracies has raised pressing questions, particularly as they gain parliamentary representation even in contexts previously considered resistant to their influence. Typically adopting confrontational and polarizing approaches, RRPs challenge not only government policies but also foundational political norms, creating significant uncertainty within legislative bo...
As exigências com que a escola se depara vão muito para além das questões pedagógicas. Cada vez mais é solicitado que esta instituição responda a exigências sociais, sejam elas por questões étnicas, raciais, linguísticas, religiosas, deficiência ou outras. Pelo que acabámos de referir percebemos que a escola está perante muitos desafios, desafios que não são apenas para a instituição, são alargados ao trabalho ...
The European Union (EU) epitomizes the most ambitious and successful regional integration endeavor in contemporary history. As the EU's authority expanded, so did concerns over its democratic legitimacy. Criticisms of the EU's democratic nature center on the perceived remoteness of its institutions from citizens and the inadequacy of mechanisms for effective scrutiny and opposition within its polity. Considerin...
Despite the low mobilization of citizenry, the lack of any strong electoral competition and consequently the expected re-election of the incumbent, the 2021 Portuguese Presidential elections gained particular interest for two main reasons. Firstly, this election took place in extraordinary circumstances amid the Covid-19 pandemic. At the time, Portugal was experiencing the world’s highest number of new cases an...
The ERC Project MAPLE (Consolidator Grant nº 682125) investigates the salience and polarisation of the European issue, in the media, during electoral campaigns, and in parliamentary debates, in Belgium, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain and its importance for voting behaviour. The MAPLE II set of surveys were carried out in five countries during each country's legislative elections from 2019-2021. Th...
This paper focuses on the study of the high frequency transformer incorporated in solid- state transformers, specifically on the development of the steps that enable the design of an optimized high frequency transformer and its equivalent model based on the desired characteristics. The impact of operating a transformer at high frequency and the respective solutions that allow this impact to be reduced are analy...