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Activity Funded

Institute of Medieval Studies

Instituto de Estudos Medievais

Reference
UID/00749/2025
Project Start Date
2025-01-01
Project End Date
2029-12-31
Principal Investigator
Funding Program
Avaliação UID 2023/2024

Abstract

The IEM is the only RU in Portugal devoted to the Middle Ages exclusively. It combines approaches from various scientific areas underpinned by a trajectory of continuous evolution during the 20 years since its foundation. The 2013 Strategic Project revealed a prestigious scientific heritage, identity, and direction. Having achieved national and international recognition for RU's dynamism, in 2018 Strategic Project we were committed to Continuity, Consolidation and Growth as the cornerstones of the future project. Now, IEM seeks to extend the scientific and organisational maturity shown, moving towards a central position in the European medieval research context, which will allow an increase of its contribution in this field of research. The time has come to move to a new level, condense in our motto for the next years- The Middle Ages in Action. Not only this evokes an inclusive, and integrated vision of the disparate realities that marked the medieval world, it also imparts a will to share data with society, thus contributing to the dissemination of reliable knowledge and the informing of free and complex-thinking citizens. The intrinsic duality of our adopted slogan is reflected in the strategic project’s chosen keywords: Heritage and Sustainability; Materialities and Representations; Communities, Identities and Memories; Knowledge Transfer and Partnership with Civil Society, all corresponding with the lines of activity to be developed. These keywords are taken up and detailed in the programmes of the two adjoined Research Groups (RGs) and in the planning of the FCT Tenure Funding positions and contracts for young PhDs that have been applied for and are also part of the FCSH's nodes of strategic cohesion. The basic condition for the development of a strategic project is people. Consequently, the RU will insist on stabilising research careers, besides an ambitious recruitment programme of international researchers, the awarding of doctoral scholarships and the maintenance and improvement of the working conditions of its members. In this new cycle, IEM is renewing its commitment to Open Science Practices, investing in transparent and accessible research by making resources, primary sources, data, and methods available online. Going further with the transfer of value from the knowledge generated at IEM, through the development of the MEDIEVAL brand, a structure that is already in place and which we now seek to strengthen. Through the realisation of our The Middle Ages in Action motto, the RU will seek to achieve centrality in a wide scientific spectrum, assuming the social responsibility of our researchers: in facing the many societal challenges; in rethinking the meaning and strategies for safeguarding and enhancing the heritage associated with the medieval period; and in promoting a hermeneutics in the face of the (re)readings and narratives constructed about the past, including those of different generations of historians.

Institutions

Main Institutions

  • Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos Medievais (UNL IEM)
  • Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL)

Funding 687.804,23 €

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) - Portugal

687.804,23 €