November 25-26, 2025 | FLUP, Noble Amphitheater

As part of Science and Technology Week and the National Day of Scientific Culture.

Call for Papersuntil September 15th

After a 1st FLUP Research Meeting dedicated to sharing emerging scientific paths (2023) and a 2nd Meeting focused on the intersection between interdisciplinary and collaborative methods (2024), the 3rd FLUP Research Meeting proposes, in 2025, a broad reflection on the multiple ways of mapping knowledge, networks and intersections in the production of knowledge.

Following a year dedicated to Maps at FLUP – ‘Mapoteca FLUP: 50 years serving the community’, this third edition highlights research as a process of mapping and interconnection, exploring the importance of academic networks, methodological transversality and the confluence between different areas of knowledge. In this context, the verb map appears as a plural verb, open to multiple meanings – from tracing physical territories to mapping relationships and affections or building symbolic landscapes, from representing data to organizing conceptual systems and articulating discourses. Between biology and computer science, geography and mathematics, mapping also extends to the historical, literary, philosophical, linguistic, cultural, social, environmental and digital humanities, asserting itself as a transversal practice: locating, relating, translating, recomposing. In this semantic and disciplinary broadening, the investigative gesture itself is recognized – situated, connective and creative – made up of provisional orientations, translations in transit and articulations that design knowledge in movement. In a move to strengthen integration, the aim is for this event to also contribute to enhancing and strengthening the mapping of intersections and the building of networks between the research centers within FLUP.

Co-organized by the Centre for Digital Culture and Innovation (CODA) and the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto (FLUP), in partnership with FLUP’s 8 R&D Units, this meeting aims to consolidate a space for sharing and interdisciplinary debate, encouraging new ways of thinking about research and promoting dialogue between researchers, teachers and students.

We invite the academic community to take part in this initiative, contributing to the creation of new mappings of knowledge, exploring the research networks that connect us and reflecting on the intersections that transform the way we understand and produce knowledge.

Thematic areas of interest for oral communications, posters, practical workshops or round tables include, but are not limited to:

• Knowledge mapping
  • Models and practices of interdisciplinary mapping.
  • Visualization of knowledge networks and scientific collaboration.
  • Mapping the impact of research in different social and cultural contexts.
• Research Networks and Collaborative Methods
  • Construction and analysis of academic and inter-institutional networks.
  • New approaches to interdisciplinary research.
  • The role of data in promoting scientific collaboration.
• Information Extraction, Analysis and Visualization
  • Methods for automatically extracting textual and visual data.
  • Digital tools for knowledge analysis and representation.
  • Digital Humanities and information processing technologies.
• Data Life Cycle and Information Management
  • Strategies for organizing and preserving scientific data.
  • Data management plans and good practices in research.
  • Ethics and accessibility in data sharing and reuse.
• Infographics and Science Communication
  • Visual representation of data and concepts in research.
  • Strategies for making science accessible to non-specialized audiences.
  • The impact of visualization on scientific dissemination and teaching.
• Intersections between Social Sciences, Humanities and Technologies
  • New digital methodologies applied to research.
  • The role of the humanities in analyzing complex phenomena.
  • Technology and society: challenges and opportunities in the digital age.

Accepted formats:

(authorship limit: maximum of two accepted proposals per participant)

• Oral communication (15 min)
• Poster (printed by the authors; formats A0 or A1, vertical)
• Practical workshop (up to 4 hours)
• Round table (up to 1 hour)

Important dates:

• June 02: Call for proposals opens
• September 15: deadline for submitting proposals

Useful links:

Submission of proposals

Meeting’s official website

Contact:

encontroinvestigacao.flup@gmail.com