Ongoing Projects
The market for organic, fresh, healthy and fair-priced food, fortnightly, Thursdays, 16h-17h30, on level 2 next to the bar
This Good Food Hubs project aims to stimulate healthy, sustainable and local food in Porto, with the Asprela area as a pilot area.
We hope to contribute to this goal with these organic markets.
Our partners are Shii Coração – Shiitake Mushrooms and Quinta Terra Viva.
In September, the Reboot Project will kick off with the motto: Repair your computer. Change the world.
Recover, repair, update, share… there are many ways for your computer to have a second life, either with you or with someone who needs it. Get involved in ReBOOT and contribute to a circular, fair and responsible economy in Porto.
Projects already developed
RES-UPT, UPT’s Social Responsibility unit promoted, between May 2nd and 5th, the 1st Sustainability week, hoping to inspire the community to make choices that contribute to build a greener and healthier future!
In this context Education can and should play a key role. Thus, during this week there was several exhibitions/campaigns in the University forums, calling for saving resources (water, energy, paper, ….), reducing food waste, recycling, purchasing sustainable products, and disseminating research projects of researchers and students working on sustainability issues.
Within the scope of a protocol between Universidade Portucalense and U.Dream(https://www.udream.pt ) offered in 2022/23:
- A training to develop social leadership skills (programme description), to a group of students who apply and have been selected, as previously disclosed;
- A Social Leadership Bootcamp with direct intervention with the students, lasting 12 hours and up to 30 students;
- Collaboration in a Curricular Unit (CU) aiming at the development of Community Leadership skills in a harmonized way with the priority pedagogical objectives of the UC, with direct intervention with students, in articulation with the teacher in charge, and with a minimum duration of 9 hours.
