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- Rede Alumni : uma estratégia responsável ao serviço do desenvolvimento do turismo localPublication . Ferraz, Francisco António Vaz Guedes Delgado; Seco, Graça Maria dos Santos Batista; Beato, Isabel Maria de Sousa Henriques; Rafael, Célia Maria da Conceição Salmim; Schön, Michael; Fernandes, Isabel BarretoOrganizations including higher education institutions need to enhance the relationships with their stakeholders, especially with their alumni, in order to promote a set of long term mutual competitive advantages. In this way, organizational sustainability is gaining new ground and plays a fundamental role as a way of attaining a broad goal in terms of sustainable development. Higher education institutions should develop relationship and transparency strategies of corporate actions in order to create trust and also to leverage synergies by using alumni networks. This can be achieved through Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), especially the web, and the most recent and globalized platforms like Facebook and Linkedin as privileged channels for communicating with alumni. In addition, the development of actions that try to promote an approach and the engagement of alumni among different initiatives not only inside the institution, but also in terms of local and/or regional context, could create added value and contribute to local tourism development. The present study aims to analyze the development of the network of a higher education institution, namely, the IPLeiri@lumni Network, assessing the platform design, the measures taken by the institution to renew the relationship with their alumni, and the resulting advantages from the paths taken by some alumni as a way of identifying the potential added value for the development of local tourism of the region.
- The red seaweed Giant Gelidium (Gelidium corneum) for new bio-based materials in a circular economy frameworkPublication . Mouga, Teresa; Fernandes, Isabel BarretoGelidium corneum (Giant Gelidium or Atlantic agar) is a well-known red seaweed harvested for its high-quality agar content. Agar is a mixture of the polysaccharides used in the food industry as a gelling, thickener, clarifying, and stabilizer agent. The best agar quality is also used in the laboratory as bacteriological agar. Yet, in recent years, the species has been studied for many other applications. Examples of uses are pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food supplements, bioremediation, biofuels, biofertilizers and biostimulants, biomaterials, and nanocrystals, among others. The use of this biomass, though, raises concerns about the sustainability of the resource, since this is not a cultivated species, being harvested in the wild. Thus, other uses of G. corneum biomass increase pressure on wild stocks already stressed due to climate change. However, in a biorefinery approach, a new trend is emerging, using waste biomass rather than harvested biomass to produce new bio-based materials. These are smart solutions that transform waste into innovative products, useful for various sectors of society while reducing the impact of biomass exploitation. The aim of this review paper, thus, is to address the current state of G. corneum biology, ecology, threats, its current uses and market, and the ongoing research on innovative proposals in a circular economy framework.
- Interacção universidade-empresa : o portal Alumni como instrumento socialmente responsável e de design colaborativoPublication . Ferraz, Francisco António Vaz Guedes Delgado; Fernandes, Isabel Barreto; Schon, MichaelNovas preocupações sociais, económicas e ambientais têm originado novas condutas por parte das organizações e das instituições, numa perspectiva de alcançar objectivos sustentáveis a médio e longo prazo. Assim, as entidades referidas e em particular, as instituições de ensino, têm procurado desenvolver um conjunto de práticas e ferramentas que lhes permitam interagir com todas as entidades com as quais se relacionam, adoptando assim uma postura e um comportamento coerente e transparente, com objectivos de criação de valor, enquadrando-se estas práticas na temática da Responsabilidade Social. Dentro das várias práticas de Responsabilidade Social adoptadas pelas instituições indicadas, incluem-se algumas visando os Stakeholders externos mas outrora internos, nomeadamente os seus antigos alunos, ou seja, através da criação de uma ferramenta electrónica, denominada Portal Alumni. Neste documento, pretende-se efectuar uma análise sobre a potencialidade do Portal Alumni enquanto instrumento de Design Colaborativo e de Responsabilidade Social gerador do relacionamento entre as instituições de ensino superior e os seus antigos alunos, obtendo-se assim sinergias inter-relacionais benéficas a nível da empregabilidade dos alunos, da relação com as empresas, bem como a nível do branding da instituição educativa em causa.