First annual scientific progress report. Memories, cultures and identities: how the past weights on the present-day intercultural relations in Mozambique and Portugal?

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Moisés de Lemos
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Cabecinhas, Rosa, Macedo, Isabel Moreira, Balbé, Alice Dutra
• Tipo de documento: Relatório
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/75200
• topic: Ciências Sociais::Ciências da Comunicação

[Excerpt] Introduction: This report presents the activities developed by the team of the project “Memories, Cultures and Identities: How the past weights on the present-day intercultural relations in Mozambique and Portugal?, supported by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and Aga Khan Development Network. This project aim is to analyze the processes through which certain narratives conveyed by cultural, educational and artistic products are created and disseminated in society and also the reception of these products, involving high school students in activities of reflection, reinterpretation, and recreation of narratives about the past and the present of intercultural relations. This project also seeks to contribute to the collection, preservation and dissemination of cultural, educational and artistic content in Mozambique and Portugal. A multidisciplinary team of researchers from several universities in Portugal and Mozambique, as well as from University of Minho (PT) and Eduardo Mondlane University (MZ), collaborates with the project, namely: School of Journalism (MZ), ISARC – Higher Institute of Art and Culture (MZ), Superior Monitor Institute (MZ), Autonomous University of Lisbon (PT), Beira Interior University (PT), Polytechnic University (MZ) and University Zambezi (MZ). This report presents the main developments in the scope of the project, in the period between September 2018 and September 2019, also considering the articles in press and the communication proposals submitted and accepted, in the context of the project, carried out by the end of 2019. The events organized by the project team are also point out, including initiatives that involved the participation of the academic community, as well as those activities carried out with secondary school students. In Portugal, this articulation with schools allowed the establishment of contacts with teachers, which proved to be fundamental for the realization of the focus groups, foreseen in the academic year 2019-2020. [...]