CeiED/ULHT participated in the XIV Luso-Afro-Brazilian Congress (CONLAB) and in the III Congress of the International Association of Social Sciences and Humanities in Portuguese Language (AILPcsh), which took place between September 15 and 17, 2021, through four of its Research and Learning Communities (ReLeCo):

• CEM: Culture(s), Education and Memory(s);
• NELP: Portuguese Language Studies Unit;
• NEA-ES: Nucleus for African Studies – Education and Society;
• CIDATE: Citizen Science in the appropriation and understanding of the Territory (4 projects)

The researchers Carlos Smaniotto Costa and Nagayamma Aragão together with Dr. Marluci Menezes from LNEC presented 3 papers analysing collaboratively the results and the research plans of common projects focused on public space, urban rivers, co-creation, citizen science.

The papers entitled The preservation of urban rivers as a tool for equity and development, Co-creating public space: investigating, theorizing and experimenting and Public space as a platform for territorial empowerment were discussed at the “Table GT15 Co-creation: an approach by participation as a means and as an end” and at the “Table GT27 From theories to (good) practices, and the presentation entitled and Education for a human city” were discussed.

The coordinators of ReLeCo CEM, Professor Maria Neves Gonçalves, and of NELP, Professor Lucimar Dantas, coordinated Table GT45a, in which the coordinator of ReLeCo NEA-ES:, Professor Arlinda Cabral, also made a presentation.

Other presentations by CeiED researchers:

• Discursive imaginaries of the Portuguese language in the pedagogical press (Maria Neves Gonçalves, José Gregório Brás).
• The place of Comparative Education in Portugal: analysis of research produced and published in social science journals (Carla Galego)
• PISA: Discourses and practices of Portuguese school headmasters, coordinators and students (Teresa Teixeira Lopo, Vítor Rosa)
• Higher Education in Angola and Cape Verde: comparative perspective on the causes of dropout, abandonment and poor performance of students (Arlinda Cabral, Teresa Patatas).