Inês Vilela, member of the Nova SBE NOVAFRICA Knowledge Center, presented the paper "Security, Terrorism and Humanitarian Intervention" in the online congress Beyond the West: Politics of the Global South. Matilde Grácio, Nova SBE PhD candidate and also from NOVAFRICA, moderated the panel of experts in this congress.

Virginia Gianinazzi presented the paper Reference Points in Refinancing Decisions at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Sixth European Workshop on Household Finance. 

João Duarte participated in the webinar "In & Out: Como vai mudar o emprego?", organized by VISÃO, where he mentioned that “to increase the chances of success in the job market one should not be afraid to take risks and change." He recommended looking at the priorities of the Recovery and Resilience Plan to see what are the major areas that will be privileged by European funds. "Health, the climate transition and the digital transition are good bets", he concluded.

Daniel Traça was speaker at the digital conference “Travel Guide to a Competitive Economy”, organized by the Ministry of Economy and Digital Transition and IAPMEI, where he showed some examples of Portuguese companies that innovate and manufacture products efficiently. For Daniel Traça, “resilience goes hand in hand with society and with a sense of common purpose that should be able to make us reinvent ourselves.”

Ricardo Zózimo participated in a webinar promoted by the Marquês de Valle Flor Institute on which new economic models are more viable to the environment. The debate sought to answer questions such as: Is there a viable alternative? Is it possible to imagine another economy that serves people and the planet? A model that guarantees quality of life instead of an economy focused on profit? And how many people are needed to take on this change?

Filipe Costa, researcher at Nova SBE Health Economics & Management Knowledge Center, participated in the digital conference “Science & Innovation in Combating Cancer: the people behind the numbers”, organized by Expresso. The European efforts that are being developed with the aim of improving the fight against cancer and the difficulties that countries like Portugal face were topics discussed.

Economia Viva conferences organized a session dedicated to the idea of European Health Union (EHU) in which Pedro Pita Barros participated. In his view, “it is simply not feasible to build a single health system in Europe, due to existing differences that reflect different preferences of societies.” To live with the diversity of health systems means that “a EHU should focus on aspects like being an economic public good, having important positive externalities, like the European Digital Health Space, interests of national health systems being aligned, like the joint procurement of products and services, and promoting shared values across countries, like solidarity and equity in access to health care”, he concluded.

The Nova SBE Leadership for Impact Knowledge Center launched the 2020 Annual Report, providing an overview of the publications Nova SBE faculty had in some of the most prestigious research outlets and the social, sustainable, and impactful projects this Knowledge Center is engaged with. It also summarizes the research and the ongoing education programs it has been working on.

Nova SBE sponsors the online (https://sicss.io/2021/lisbon/)  Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (June 14th to 25th). This summer school is co-organized by Qiwei Han, from Nova SBE, and Filipa Reis, from Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics. As the only program of this kind in the Iberian Peninsula, it intends to provide free training by scientists from Princeton and Duke universities for social science researchers who wish to learn essential tools in the emerging area of social computing sciences.

Pedro Pita Barros and Filipa Castanheira are jury and mentor, respectively, at the BI Award for Innovation in Healthcare 2021, an initiative that aims to distinguish innovative projects that can be integrated into real health contexts in Portugal. With a collaborative work format, the competition, will take place from May 21st to 23^rd. It will gather the candidate teams with a group of specialized mentors, who will guide them on the best way to transform their ideas into real projects.

Nova SBE is offering the PhD Summer School: Sovereign Debt Crises and Computational Methods to students and professionals who wish to advance their curriculum and knowledge. The 2021 edition will be held online from July 5th to July 9th. It includes coursework with Pablo A. Guerron-Quintana (Boston College) and a conference with top researchers. The course is credit-bearing (ECTS) and it will be conducted in English. Application deadlines: early-bird deadline is May 21st, and the regular deadline is June 18th.

Nova SBE launched the Portuguese version of the Elements of AI course for professionals and enthusiasts in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The online course, developed by the University of Helsinki and the company Reaktor, has been made available for free by the Finnish government since 2019. Elements of AI aims to demystify and democratize AI and offer tools to participate in building the future with this technology. Since its launch in Portugal, the course has already enrolled more than 1600  students, thus joining more than 650 thousand people from more than 170 countries.