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About
The overall aim of the Applied Psychology Research Center Capabilities & Inclusion – APPsyCI – is to strengthen the capacity of individuals, groups, families, organizations and institutions to develop solutions to concrete societal and complex problems across the life-span, promoting collaborations amongst the public, private and non-profit sectors.
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It was structured to
- (In)form innovative social policies at the national and European levels through effective and evidence-based social community interventions on contemporary societal challenges;
- Provide opportunities to explore internationalization and cross-fertilization of innovation potentials and interactions among research, intervention and teaching/learning in Psychology and other Social Sciences;
- Articulate and disseminate a diverse stock of produced knowledge based on a long-standing experience of Research, Teaching & Intervention;
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Open Science and Knowledge Dissemination
- All these aims and specific purposes are to be operationalized within Open & Citizen Science principles translated into collaborative, transparent dissemination strategies, potentiating the creation transfer of knowledge, made accessible to potentiate the practical uses of scientific outputs to benefit people and social contexts.
- The connections and University-Community Partnerships at the national and international levels, ensure the dissemination of the APPsy Research Center production in the academia and the broader societal spheres and publics, ensuring the aim of producing socially relevant and useful science.
With this Research Center we intend to be actively engaged and emerged in the contemporary societal challenges, contributing for change and development following and potentiating a path that we are already started with:
- Participating as experts in National/ Transnational Reform Strategies
- Integrating Boards and Think Tanks both for science and practice
- Develop national and transnational consortia to submit new proposals within the existing resource lines