Católica Porto Business School is pleased to host the 18th Global Brand Conference between 7– 9 May 2025. We are a prestigious triple crown business school (EQUIS, AMBA and AACSB) in Porto, Portugal, and we are pleased to welcome you all to this conference.

For two decades, the Global Brand Conference of the Academy of Marketing’s Brand Identity and Corporate Reputation Special Interest Group has become known as one of the leading academic conferences on branding worldwide. The conference brings together top branding experts around the world to discuss and advance the state-of-play in branding research, theory, and application.

Following the success of previous editions, we welcome scholars, researchers and practitioners in branding, corporate reputation and identity to join us in the beautiful city of Porto, in May 2025.

The III International Conference on Public Policies and Data Science is an initiative by the International Network on Public Policies and Data Science (RP3CD) and will take place at the University of Aveiro. Centered on the theme "Smart Territories," the event aims to explore how data science can contribute to the design, implementation, and evaluation of public policies that promote better territorial and sectoral coordination, resource management efficiency, environmental balance, social equity, and greater citizen integration in decision-making processes.

This conference seeks to:

1. Foster debate on the social, economic, environmental, and territorial dimensions that challenge local and global contexts.
2. Promote the exchange of experiences across various disciplines, focusing on the use of data and technology to support technically informed, participatory, transparent, and impactful decision-making processes.

A preocupação fundamental que nos motiva é podermos contribuir para “Vivermos mais, com melhor saúde e felizes”, para isso contamos com todos e a sua participação na conferência é, seguramente, uma mais-valia. Envelhecer tem de ser encarado da forma mais construtiva possível e daí a nossa abordagem na perspetiva de uma Longevidade Positiva. Como diz um cartaz que circula por aí “Não estou mais velho, estou melhor”. É isso, a experiência apura-nos, faz-nos mais sábios, mais capazes de fruir o que a vida nos dá e mais resilientes para o que perdemos, mas o fundamental é ter um propósito e acordar sempre com um objetivo a alcançar e a alegria de continuar a caminhar.

Presencialmente ou a distância, assistindo apenas ou apresentando resumo, a sua colaboração é preciosa para o sucesso da conferência.

O programa procura responder a questões não apenas teóricas, mas muito práticas, por isso a conferência é dirigida aos académicos, aos profissionais e aos estudantes. Todos são bem-vindos, todos são importantes.

The VI COMBART International Conference is a collaboration between different entities, including the Interdisciplinary Center for Social Sciences of the New University of Lisbon (CICS.NOVA, NOVA FCSH and CICS.NOVA. IPLeiria); the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto (IS-UP); the Institute of Art History (IHA/ IN2PAST) and the Institute of Communication (ICNOVA) of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon; the Center for Transdisciplinary Research <Culture, Space and Memory” (CITCEM); and LabEA Laboratory for Research in Art Education/FBAUP. The Luso-Brazilian Network Todas as Artes (TAA) and the Luso-Brazilian Research Network in Arts and Urban Interventions (RAIU) are also partners in this event. The aim is to bring together a diverse range of knowledge, disciplines and arts, opening up proposals to researchers from areas such as sociology, anthropology, history, art history, cultural and creative industries, participatory artistic practices and artistic research, cultural economics, cultural and social geography, urban planning, cultural studies, communication sciences and related disciplines, such as illustration, music, cinema, visual arts, performance and performing arts, as well as intersections with new technologies.

The theme of the 13th Congress, "Challenging Democracies: Risks and Uncertainties", is especially relevant in the contemporary socio-political context. Democracies around the world are facing unprecedented challenges, from the rise of populism and conservative movements and the increase in social inequalities and violence, to cyber threats and the climate crisis. The congress aims to explore these and other relevant issues through a sociological lens, bringing together researchers, academics and practitioners to discuss and debate the threats and opportunities facing contemporary democracies.

The symposium is co-convened with the participation of the Global Africa Comparative and International Education Society (Global Africa -CIES), the Comparative Education Section of the Portuguese Society of Educational Sciences (SEC-SPCE), the Mondial Association for Peace by Comparative Education (MAPE) and the VIII International Conference of Indian Ocean Comparative Education Society (IOCES).