Since 2018/2019, the Faculty of Fine Arts has collaborated with the Doctoral Degree in Sustainability Sciences of Universidade de Lisboa, integrating the teaching staff.
This Study Cycle engages 55 professors from 17 Faculties and Institutes of Universidade de Lisboa, ensuring the interdisciplinary mandatory to sustainability science. A truly multidisciplinary character is innovative, and can be seen in the shared responsibility between natural sciences and social sciences in the coordination, organization and teaching of each curricular unit, as well as in the co-supervision of theses by professors affiliated to Faculties/Institutes dedicated to different knowledge areas.
The challenges which society faces are complex and multidimensional, leading to new paradigms associated with sustainable development.
To be promoters of change, the 21st century professionals must be endowed with solid scientific knowledge and, most importantly, must hold the capacity to incorporate it in order to understand the interactions between global, natural, social and human systems, and how such interactions affect the sustainability contests.
Building this new scientific area requires assimilation of knowledge and mastery of tools that are seldom addressed by individual disciplines and scientific areas with an integrated approach. Today, disciplinary science deeply contributes to understand the function of the various pieces that make up our world but has gaps in understanding how these parts relate to each other.
The Universidade de Lisboa Doctoral Degree in Sustainability Science addresses this challenge by offering: an innovative program which seeks interdisciplinarity, the application of science to real problems, and the integration of knowledge and innovation with the participation of society and citizens.