The Universidade Católica Portuguesa is organising the «Artificial Intelligence and Ethics» conference on June 18, 2024, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., in Room 131, at the UCP headquarters in Lisbon, broadcast online.

Given by Paolo Benanti, Professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, the conference is an initiative of the Postdoc-Fellowship Program in Integral Human Development and CLIL - Católica Learning Innovation Lab.

The link to register for this event will be available shortly.

The III Global Symposium Uniservitate will take place on 27 and 28 October in Rome.

Isabel Capeloa Gil, President of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, will be one of the speakers at the opening session of the Symposium, which will take place on 27 October at 8am. This session will also include the participation of Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, Francesco Bonini (Rector of LUMSA), Carmela Di Agresti (LUMSA), Richard Brosse (Portfolio Manager Vital Catholic Thought, Porticus), María Rosa Tapia (Uniservitate programme-CLAYSS) and moderated by Enrique Ochoa (Executive Director, CLAYSS).

On 28 October, at 8am, the Service-Learning experience of UCP will be presented in the session "Service-learning and Global Compact on Education".

In the scope of the Uniservitate Award 2022, the Universidade Católica Portuguesa will receive an honorable mention for the project "Capacitar para proteger", on the second day of the Symposium. The project is part of the CApS project: Universidade Católica and Service-Learning: Innovation and Social Responsibility, which started in January 2020 involving the 4 campi of the University.

The UNISERVITATE Award seeks to promote quality Service-Learning practices carried out by Catholic Higher Education Institutions, recognizing experiences that represent effective contributions to the solution of socio-environmental problems, identified and addressed in solidarity with organizations and community members.

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Católica Medical School is organising the final seminar of the Clinical Bioethics Curricular Unit: "The Implication of Bioethics in Medical Practice: Cultivating Values, Principles, Norms and Duties as Essential Medical Competences", on 9 July at 12.45pm.

The seminar aims to explore the essential role of bioethics in the field of medical practice and will feature presentations by students from the first year of the Integrated Master's Degree in Medicine.

Specifically designed for first-year students in the MIM program, this seminar aligns with the Labs classes.

During the seminar, students will explore the following topics:

• Moral Responsibility
• Ethical Challenges in the Physician-Patient Relationship
• Research Ethics with Adult Human Subjects
• Research Ethics with Pediatric Human Subjects
• Bridging theory and practice by emphasizing foundational bioethical principles

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In the context of the 6th edition of the Post-Graduate Programme in Sports Law of the Faculty of Law - Lisbon School of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, an online conference on "European Law and the European Super League: the Advocate General's conclusions of December 15, 2022" will take place on January 24 at 6.30 p.m.

The conference will be attended by Professor Nuno Cunha Rodrigues (University of Lisbon Law School) and moderated by José Manuel Meirim (Faculty of Law - Lisbon School).

The session is open to all those who have an interest in it, being necessary to register through the online form.

The Institute for Political Studies of the Universidade Católica is organising the next Atlantic Conferences from 27 to 28 January 2023. Under the theme "Winston Churchill, Madeira, and the Euro-Atlantic Alliance", the event celebrates the 650th Anniversary of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance.

For further information, please contact secretariado.iep@ucp.pt

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The Postdoctoral Program: Integral Human Development, of Católica Doctoral School organizes the Conference "Vivere per fare vivere: futuro umano e bene comune", on April 26 at 6:30 p.m. in the Exhibition Hall.

Donatella Abignente, professor of Moral Theology at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology of Southern Italy, Section of St. Louis, Naples, and coordinator of the area of Theology of Christian Life, is the guest speaker for this lecture.

Among her publications we highlight: Decisione morale del credente. il pensiero di Josef Fuchs, Piemme, Casale Monferrato 1987; Conversione morale nella fede. Una riflessione etico-teologica a partire da figure di conversione del vangelo di Luca, Gregorian University Press, Morcelliana, Roma, Brescia 2000; with S. Bastianel, Le vie del bene. Oggettività, storicità, intersoggettività, Il pozzo di Giacobbe, Trapani 2009; "Discernere per decidere", in S. Bastianel, ed. Una teologia morale in ricerca, Il pozzo di Giacobbe, Trapani 2012, 53-107; trad. port.: "Discernere para decidir", in Between possibilities and limits. A moral theology in quest, Ed. Cáritas, Lisbon 2013, 71-136; Theology after Veritatis Gaudium in the Mediterranean Context, Universidade Católica Editora, Lisbon 2019.

Entrance is free, and the lecture will be given in Italian.

The Centre for Communication and Culture Studies organises a late afternoon talks session with the participation of Professor Mayaan Amir, from Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel), who will discuss the topic "At the margins of visual control: extraterritoriality and evidentiary imagery as a weapon of war".

The event will take place on March 2nd and is integrated in the CECC conversations about objects or stories (rubrica mappings: objects and stories).

SDG Meetings: Beyond Theory is the first event open to the public of the SDG Observatory in Portuguese companies, and will take place on June 1st, at 9am, at CATÓLICA-LISBON.

It will be an event to present the Observatory and its evolution and the state of the art of SDGs and Sustainability implementation in companies operating in Portugal, as well as some highlights from the public sector.

This meeting will also have an essentially practical component, divided in 4 workshops that will take place simultaneously and that require advance registration here.
 

The Center for Responsible Business & Leadership at CATÓLICA-LISBON is organizing the 1st Research Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals in the Corporate Context, on June 1st, from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM.

This conference aims to disseminate knowledge and share scientific research on the SDGs and business science. 

It is an opportunity for researchers residing in Portugal to share their studies and knowledge on the application of SDGs in the business context and to discuss ways to contribute to a more competitive and sustainable business sector and the advancement of science on sustainable development.
 

Submissions of research projects/abstracts of scientific work in development will be open soon.

CATÓLICA-LISBON is organizing a conference featuring Avivah Wittenberg-Cox on 10 May at 6:00 pm, where the way in which greater life expectancy is changing the world and impacting not only society and pension systems but also professional careers and businesses will be debated.

What happens when we are expected to live for 100 years and work for much longer? How can corporations deal with so many different generations working at the same time? Or how do we prepare our society for an ageing population? And individually, how do we keep thriving to 100 years old?

Longevity is a challenge but also offers huge opportunities if approached the right way!

Join us for Avivah’s presentation, where she will share her experience and insight, in a conference moderated by Céline Abecassis-Moedas, Dean for Executive Education.

Participation is free but limited to seats available. To guarantee your place, please register here.

The School of Nursing of the Institute of Health Sciences of Lisbon, UCP, organizes the V International Seminar of the Master in Nursing under the theme: "Specialized Nursing: A voice for Humanism", on November 25, 2022.

This, which is the 5th edition of the Seminar will take place from 9.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m., at the Palma de Cima campus.
 

The registration form will be made available soon.

Peter Hanenberg, Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation at Universidade Católica and Dean of Católica Doctoral School, is the guest speaker at the Eutopos Conference "Cognition, Culture and Creativity: the Search for Beauty", organised by Brotéria in partnership with CADOS.

Taking place on 19 October, from 7pm to 8.30pm, the session will be held at Brotéria in Lisbon and proposes two paths in the search for beauty: one that looks at the cultural nature of its meaning and another that traces the intersection between perception and conception.

This session is part of a cycle of three conferences centred on the topics of the "search for good agriculture", the "search for beauty" and the "study of what helps us progress in our moral life as a result of community involvement."

Participation in this event is free.

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