Católica in Porto promotes interdisciplinary research
"Chronic pain control in people with Vertebro-Medullary Injury: an interdisciplinary study between Neuroscience, Art, Nursing and Ethics" and "Acting at COVID-19: evaluation of the impact of the pandemic on the health of UCP students" are the two winning projects of the 1st interdisciplinary research project competition of the Porto Regional Centre of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP). The aim was to encourage interdisciplinarity as a vehicle capable of adding value to research.
Célia Manaia, vice-president of the Porto Regional Centre for Research and Internationalization, explained that the competition for interdisciplinary research projects corresponds "to another initiative, among others, that give rise to an increasingly ambitious research and with an immense impact on society."
The project "Chronic pain control in people with Vertebro-Medullary Injury: an interdisciplinary study between Neuroscience, Art, Nursing and Ethics", aims to contribute to the control of chronic pain in people suffering from this disease using an innovative non-pharmacological and non-invasive intervention. This project will be developed by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Health of the Institute of Health Sciences, the Research Center for Science and Technology of the Arts , and the Institute of Bioethics.
The project "Acting at COVID-19: evaluation of the impact of the pandemic on the health of UCP students" is composed by a consortium of researchers from the Faculty of Biotechnology, the School of Arts, the Faculty of Education and Psychology and the Institute of Health Sciences. It aims to evaluate the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on students from the academic community of Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
The financial incentive allocated to each of the projects is intended for the development of research, in particular in the application in human resources, in the acquisition of instruments, in the expenses of missions in the country or abroad and in the expenses with the demonstration, promotion and dissemination of the results obtained.
Convinced that interdisciplinary research can achieve results that would not be achieved through a single area of knowledge, Católica in Porto encourages the proximity and identification of common objectives, in the certainty that the fusion of different areas of specialization will allow to respond to major challenges.