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Having celebrated 50 years of existence, the ICS is well established as an excellent Institute for Research in the Social Sciences. Our researchers distinguish themselves both at the national and the international level in the various areas of knowledge, and the Institute has acquired, over the years a vast experience in postgraduate training. In terms of postgraduate programs, the ICS has established different formats of teaching and training. There are strategic partnerships with other centers of advanced training, as well as FCT doctoral programs in a few areas. Students choose the ICS because our Institution is equated with excellence, rigor, and close interaction between researchers and students. Presently, there are over 100 Doctoral students in the various Social Sciences areas at the ICS. ICS-University of Lisbon is a post-graduate research and teaching institute, accredited by the Foundation for Science and Technology as an Associate Laboratory. ICS stands as a leading institute in the production and dissemination of advanced scientific knowledge in several fields of the social sciences, nationally and internationally. It offers 10 doctoral programs, 9 of which are in association. Currently, it includes about 160 Ph.D. students working actively on their dissertations. Between 2013 and 2017, 56 Ph.D. students successfully defended their thesis. ICS currently includes 105 researchers, dedicated to supervising dissertations in the fields of Anthropology, Political Science, Human Geography, History, Social Psychology, and Sociology, and other transdisciplinary study areas. ICS provides its doctoral students with individualized training and tutoring in a research environment, with opportunities for enrichment and theoretical and methodological improvement, integrated into an internationalized and multidisciplinary community, as well as the development of transversal competencies in specialized domains. These activities result from the collaboration between researchers of different disciplinary areas (Social and Cultural Anthropology, Economics, History, Human Geography, Political Science, Social Psychology, and Sociology), organized into 7 Research Groups: Empires, Colonialism & Post-Colonial Societies Environment, Territory and Society Identities, Cultures, Vulnerabilities Life course, Inequality & Solidarity: Practices and Policies Power, Society & Globalization Regimes & Political Institutions Socio-Political Attitudes & Behaviours. ICS has always been rated as an Institution of Excellence (the highest rating) by international FCT panels (1996, 1999, 2005, 2008, and 2014). These evaluations have provided a stimulus for innovative and interdisciplinary research, for high-quality teaching, and for enhancing the social relevance of knowledge produced by ICS. Over fifty years, the driving force behind ICS has been the combination of researchers and the ideas they investigate with a scientific culture characterized by methodological and theoretical diversity. Until 2020, ICS will be contributing to Changing Societies: Legacies and Challenges - a research agenda that lead the way to a new era as a research unit within the newly-merged University of Lisbon (ULisbon). This strategy is shaped by the need to respond to emerging societal trends and social issues in a changing and unstable world (namely those concerning Inequality, Citizenship, and Sustainability), taking into account both its structural underpinnings and short-term dynamics. View full university

ITAM is a private, secular, non-profit Mexican institution of higher education. Its mission is to contribute to students' comprehensive education and the development of a freer, more just, and more prosperous society. To carry out its teaching and research objectives, ITAM aspires to the highest academic excellence levels while supporting a diversity of ideas and a community that respects ethnic, cultural, and religious differences. ITAM is a private, secular, non-profit Mexican institution of higher education. Its mission is to contribute to the individual's comprehensive education and develop a freer, more just, and prosperous society. To achieve its research, teaching, and outgrowth endeavors, ITAM aims to reach the highest levels of academic excellence in an environment promoting the plurality of ideas and respectful of ethnic, cultural, and religious differences. ITAM seeks to contribute to the individual's comprehensive education and develop a freer, more just, and prosperous society. It also aims to become a community in its fullest sense, an institution of excellence and academic freedom, and a high-quality autonomous research center. Our institution's goal is to prepare and educate men and women capable of acting in an informed, rational, responsible, critical way and committed to creating, managing, and shaping public opinion, institutions, and further works. It also intends that these men and women be capable of creating and transmitting knowledge of the highest ethical, scientific, technological, and professional levels, allowing society to become aware of its problems and contributing to their understanding and solutions. ITAM perceives human beings as free and social individuals, engaged in the pursuit of human development and progress, and are essentially devoted to the quest for truth and righteousness. Hence, in general, education tends to improve the lives of human beings through the enrichment of their best values, their growth as individuals, the development of their awareness, and the increase of their civic capabilities. It also acknowledges their civic duty. As a result, our students become increasingly loyal to Mexico, to its values and traditions, which are understood as collective heritage. ITAM seeks to contribute to the individual's comprehensive education and develop a freer, more just, and prosperous society. It also aims to become a community in its fullest sense, an institution of excellence and academic freedom, and a high-quality autonomous research center. Our institution's goal is to prepare and educate men and women capable of acting in an informed, rational, responsible, critical way and committed to creating, managing, and shaping public opinion, institutions, and further works. It also intends that these men and women be capable of creating and transmitting knowledge of the highest ethical, scientific, technological, and professional levels, allowing society to become aware of its problems and contributing to their understanding and solutions. ITAM perceives human beings as free and social individuals, engaged in the pursuit of human development and progress, and are essentially devoted to the quest for truth and righteousness. Welcome to our website! It was created to provide you with specific information about our university. You will find out more information about our educational projects, events, and the various activities our community carries out throughout it. ITAM defines itself as an institution committed to higher learning. It is a private, lay, non-profit university. We advocate the plurality of ideas and welcome all cultural, religious, ethnic, and gender diversities. Since it was founded in 1946, we have committed ourselves to higher education to become Mexico's leading social and economic agent of change. Therefore, our mission is to contribute to the education of professionals that will help build a freer, more just, and prosperous country. To achieve this goal, not only do we stress rigorous academic, teaching, and research standards, but we also have the necessary human capital to make our mission a reality: our faculty and our students. Our faculty is acknowledged as one of the best in Latin America due to their excellent academic backgrounds, teaching skills, and, above all, their dedication to supporting their students throughout their learning process. Our talented and devoted students adhere to strict academic and personal standards and give a special meaning to our mission statement and our objective of preparing leaders to work in the public, private, and academic sectors. View full university