Happy – Health Awareness and Prevention Personalized for You

Happy is a cancer prevention mobile app that uses personal information data and instant contextual data to tailor the contents provided to the user in the form of daily suggestions (notifications/short messages). This app acts in real-life settings in terms of behaviour change and cancer prevention knowledge as it aims to persuade users to change their behaviour, making healthier choices, thus reducing their personal risk of developing several types of cancer. The main focus is based in the persuasive power of triggers, and several strategies based on different behaviour change techniques such as barrier identification, prompting, social support, social comparison, and behaviour modelling.

September 2014 – May 2018

Research Grant: FCT grant number SFRH/BD/92996/2013;

Project Grant: Project HYPE (Private funding: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation)

KMCC

Nuno Ribeiro (Team UA – PhD Researcher);

Ana Margarida Almeida (Team UA – PhD Supervisor)

Filipe Santos-Silva (Team i3S – PhD Supervisor )

Ipatimup – Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto

i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, UP

More info available at: http://happy-app.eu

Mind Safety – Safety Matters (MS-SM)

The Mind Safety – Safety Matters (MS-SM) project aims to improve and innovate methods of teaching safety and health issues in the classroom, motivating and preparing young people to work in safe conditions and to live and learn to be responsible citizens after leaving school.

http://mindsafety.web.ua.pt/

September 2015 – August 2018

Project Grant: Public International: Erasmus+ – Key Action 2: Cooperation for Innovation and Exchange of Good Practices

Project Code: 2015-1-PT01-KA201-012921

Funding Value: 434.181,00€

KMCC

Luís Pedro (Team Member)

Margarida Almeida (Team Member)

Global Portuguese Scientists

The GPS project pretends to map the paths of Portuguese scientists around the world and to foster collaboration between Portuguese scientists working in different countries, bringing the scientific diaspora closer to Portuguese society, in order to increase its visibility and recognition in Portugal.

http://gps.pt

September 2015 – April 2016

Project Grant: Private National: Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos

Funding Value: €30.000, 00 €

KMCC

Carlos Santos (Project coordinator)

Luís Pedro (Team Member)

Games for Media and Information Literacy

The Games for Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Learning project (GAMILearning) aims to develop the critical and participative dimensions of media literacy of tweens, through the gamification of the learning experience. Working with cohorts of youth aged 9 to 12 in Portugal and Austin, Texas, the project builds on field-tested research to address the need for student awareness and skill in managing their digital identities with game play and production.

http://gamilearning.ulusofona.pt

May 2015 – April 2018

Project Grant: Public National: FCT- UT Austin Portugal Program;

Project Code: UTAP-ICDT/IVC-ESCT/0020/2014;

Funding Value: €199.937,00 €

KMCC

Carlos Santos (Team Member)

João Batista (Team Member)

Luís Pedro (Team Member)

Distance Education Quality Reference Framework in Mozambique

In this project the quality reference framework for the evaluation and accreditation of Distance Education institutions and programs in Mozambique was developed and implemented. The project also included the definition of the procedures related with the evaluation and accreditation of institutions and programs.

January 2014-December 2015

Project Grant:  Private: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Funding Value: 64.715€

KMCC

Fernando Ramos (Project Coordinator)

INED-Distance Education Institute of Mozambique