• Director - Prof. Dr. Lara Gomez
• Secretariat - Ms. Dilma Fortes
• Internationalization Assistant - Prof. Dr. Lara Gomez

Projects in Progress

Project Valorisation of French Cultural Presence Sites in Cape Verde. Santiago Island, the Forgotten Heritage. This project, in partnership with the French Embassy and the non-governmental organization Cabo Verde Ecotourism Association ECOCV, aims to enhance three sites of historical and cultural interest to Cape Verde and France through the installation of signage and informational panels. These sites are located in three municipalities on Santiago Island: Hell or Santa Clara Bay in Santa Catarina municipality, the East Point Lighthouse in São Domingos municipality, and the Aéropostale Hydrobase Bay in Calheta de São Martinho municipality of Ribeira Grande.

International Comparative Study on the Direct and Indirect Mortality Burden of COVID-19 This project, part of the international consortium C-MOR, is coordinated nationally by UniPiaget and aims to analyze the direct and indirect mortality burden of COVID-19 since the beginning of the epidemic. The hosting institution for the consortium is the School of Medicine at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. Jean Piaget University of Cape Verde collaborates with the National Institute of Public Health and the Ministry of Health of Cape Verde.

Link to project: https://www.unic.ac.cy/coronavirus/mortality/

ERASMUS+ Mobility

The KA1 action projects are mobility projects for learning purposes involving students, teaching staff, and staff from higher education institutions.

UniPiaget is currently engaged in several mobility projects with partner universities:

1. University Hradec Kralové, CZECH REPUBLIC - for students and professors
2. University of Sophia, BULGÁRIA - focused on Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts Unit
3. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, SPAIN - for students, professors, and staff
4. Autonomous University of Madrid, SPAIN

              a - Jean Monnet Network PROJECT, AMENET Program Grant Agreement Nr-2018-2030/001-001, "The                      European Union, Mediterranean and Africa Integration in the Global Age". AMENET website:                                          English: https://www.amenet.eu/ ; French: https://www.amenet.eu/fr/

              b - Mobility for students, professors, and staff

Completed Projects

 Atlantic Pearl Project of Cape Verde: Baía do Inferno, funded through the 1st Call of the Science and Technology Service of the Higher Education, Science, and Technology Office, promoted by the Ministry of Education of Cape Verde. The project was led by UniPiaget and had the partnership of the Cape Verdean NGO Lantuna, the University of Algarve, and the University of Cape Verde. The main results of this project were:

• Mapping of marine and terrestrial biodiversity and relevant geological events, disclosed to the public through the Baía do Inferno or Santa Clara Exhibition - Genius Loci, A Place with a Soul.
• Preparation of the proposal for the definition of the Baía do Inferno and Monte Angra Natural Park, submitted to the Cape Verde Ministry of Environment.

Important Links:

Report on TV5Monde

(https://www.tv5monde.com/emissions/episode/destination-francophonie-destination-cap-vert-1).

Hell Bay and Monte Angra Page: 

https://www.baiadoinferno.org/

RULES AND PROCEDURES

The Scientific Committee evaluated the abstracts and informed the main authors of the accepted scientific communications by email and phone by May 16, 2022.

The communications were submitted by filling out the registration form available on the UniPiaget website.

The abstracts submitted to the 1st Scientific Research Symposium must result from original scientific work and will only be accepted for review if they meet the presentation criteria. The theme is diverse and comprehensive, allowing for any scientific work by students, teachers, researchers from various courses, and university research groups.

The abstracts were sent to the Symposium's Scientific Committee without any reference to their authors.

The abstracts of the communications were evaluated based on four criteria:

Novelty and originality: The work makes an intellectual advancement contributing innovatively to knowledge, whether through new methods, new empirical results, or new theoretical interpretations.

Significance and importance: The work adds something to the corpus of knowledge, producing an impact that enhances understanding or practice.

Relevance: The topic is within the interest of the scientific community and/or the challenges of the country.

Soundness and rigor (technical or scientific rigor) related to methodological accuracy, coherence and integrity, quality of argumentation, and logic in data interpretation.

Each of these items was rated from 0 to 5 points, with the final rating expressed by their sum (corresponding to a scale of 0 to 20).

The proposal from the Scientific Committee will award the Best Scientific Communication Prize. The prize has no financial endowment, only scientific recognition.

The Oral Communications Exhibition will be held in a hybrid format, both in person and online. Presentations can be made in Portuguese or English, with a maximum presentation time of 10 minutes and 5 minutes for questions and discussion with the audience.

All authors of the presented scientific communications will receive a participation certificate.

Organizing and Scientific Committee of the Symposium

Program - 1st Scientific Research Symposium

Proceedings - Scientific Research Symposium