POLOBS completes its mapping of the metropolitan cultural and creative sector and reinforces the development of the future Metropolitan Platform for Culture
POLOBS, the Observatory for Science, Communication and Culture Policies at the University of Minho, has completed the Mapping of the Metropolitan Cultural and Creative Sector in the Porto Metropolitan Area (AMP), a project that identified 7,319 cultural assets spread across the region’s 17 municipalities, constituting the most comprehensive survey ever carried out on the metropolitan cultural ecosystem.
UMinho Theatre Improvisation Group performs at the Recomeço festival
ITUM, the Theatre Improvisation Group at UMinho, led by Fabiano Assis, will be performing on 19 September at the Recomeço Festival. The performance, taking place at the Salão Medieval (Larço do Paço, Braga), entitled “As mulheres de Quem Viemos”, forms part of the CECS research group on Cultures, Arts and Communities. Fabiano Assis is a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Social Sciences at UMinho, whose work focuses on theatrical practices.
5th CIMDAB 2026 Congress and 2nd EDUMIGRA 2026
Between 13 and 17 July 2026, the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Minho (Gualtar Campus), in Braga, Portugal, will host the 5th CIMDAB 2026 — International Congress on Migration and the Brazilian Academic Diaspora and the 2nd EDUMIGRA 2026 — International Conference on Education and Migration.
Start of the 19th IBERCOM conference
The 19th IBERCOM, the Congress of Ibero-American Communication Studies, gets underway today, 6 July, with the theme ‘Tensions, global reconfigurations and counter-hegemonic activism’. The four-day the event, which brings together around 300 participants, is organised by CECS in partnership with ASSIBERCOM and SOPCOM, centring on a proposal for debate regarding conflicts between theoretical paradigms, centre-periphery relations in the production of knowledge, and the role of the media and communication practices in the (re)configuration of the public, political and cultural spheres of Ibero-American countries.
New publication by Cristiane Venancio, visiting researcher at CECS
Cristiane Venancio is a lecturer and researcher at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). She has just completed her postdoctoral research in Communication Sciences at CECS and recently published the book "Organisational Communication Policy: a theoretical and practical proposal – For those who wish to build trusting relationships with their organisation’s stakeholders". The book reflects on the possibility of contemporary organisations structuring their strategic relationships on the basis of a document – the Organisational Communication Policy (OCP).
2nd Luso-Brazilian Summer School: Culture, Heritage and Territory
The second edition of the Luso-Brazilian Summer School will take place between 1 and 17 July 2026 at the University of Minho (Braga) and at cultural venues in the city, notably the Biscainhos Museum and the Roman Theatre of Braga. The initiative is organised by the Department of History, Lab2PT/IN2PAST, CECS and CIEC at the University of Minho, in partnership with the ATRIVM/RECMA Laboratory at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), under Cooperation Agreement No. 20/2025-UFMS, and also benefits from the collaboration of Braga City Council and the Biscainhos Museum.
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