"CULTIVATING OUR BEST HUMANITY: DIALOQUES ON PEACE AND CLIMATE ACTION"

On September 21, the International Day of Peace, the Chair celebrated peace by organizing a morning of sharing and dialogue, involving about 30 people in an intergenerational group - aged from 17 to 84 years old - that included inspiring national and international youth and activists who dedicate their lives to improving the world in a sustainable and harmonious way.

We thereby list some of the participants and projects that were represented:
* David Schenscher - an active and conscientious young man, spoke about his experience of being born in a community based in Portugal, and known worldwide, devoted to peace and sustainability  - the "TAMERA" community;
* Pedro Rodrigues - Representative of the project "The Little Buddha", that brings meditative practices to young people in schools and also offer support groups for people undergoing suffering experiences and for men who want to reconnect with their deepest selves and re-invent themselves;
* Alexandre Seguro - a very young committed and active youngster labouring on the paths of meditation, peace and transformation, and co-creator of the 'Meditate with the Earth' (and Climate) initiative;
* Rita Fouto - from FAREDUCA, specialist in environmental education. FAREDUCA is a social enterprise that works in the area of ​​education for the environment and sustainable development, which privileges the artistic languages ​​to transmit information (sensitize), sediment knowledge (educate) and induce changes (transform), acting simultaneously at the individual and collective level;
* Rafaela Leal, with a graduation in International Relations and dedicated to Peace Education, is an active member of this UNESCO Chair
* Denise Luxton, from  Ecosophia Farm, who seeks to produce and share knowledge that materializes new forms of symbiosis between man and nature.
Ecosophia - Greek Oikos (Habitat) + Sophia (Wisdom / Knowledge).

Come celebrate International Happiness Day.
Happiness is a durable state of fulfilment, satisfaction, and physical and psychic balance, in which suffering and restlessness are transformed into emotions or feelings ranging from contentment to intense joy or jubilation.
Happiness also has the meaning of spiritual well-being or inner peace.
Happiness should always be treated as a primary issue in our society, which often does not give it its due value.

We live a tormented life span, which can not depend on the exploits of superficial and individual Happiness, with the risk of wandering competently through the landscapes of our decay. Happiness - as common resources, as a hope - can not be for energy consumption.
Peace is so difficult. A harmony. Trust in the future. The deep comprehension of the other. Life with integral quality.
So the time for coherence and health has come. The time to create new patrimonies of humanity. Only a movement of empathy will keep us from moral ruin.
Studying Hope, knowing what's best for the future, and discussing who brings the quality of life (in a Public Hearing format, through a method developed by Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo), are ways of traveling for beauty and the future that unites We need a choreography of new gestures, new conversations, original languages, new human and spiritual marks.

This day is celebrated globally with each March 20 and was conceived and funded by philanthropist, activist, statesman and prominent United Nations special adviser Jayme Illien to inspire, mobilize and promote the global happiness movement.
Come celebrate happiness with us!

During this event we will present:
The results of the Barometer of Hope
The public hearing on quality of life

Day 20/3, 6 pm, Monsanto Room, ISCSP - Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences (location) in Alto da Ajuda.

Free admission, we count on you!

THE H-20 OR “HAPPY 20”

Much like the G20 focuses on growth economics, the H-20 examines wellbeing economics. Social and cultural values differ among countries and within countries. Growth and GDP focus often disconnect policy from citizen aspirations. Science demonstrates the linkage between citizen perceived happiness and satisfaction in government performance.
Invited government leaders, economists, academics, activists, and researchers discuss wellbeing policy. Attendees share societal and national wellbeing policy challenges and good practices.

The H-20 focuses on “Smart Prosperity:”
Smart prosperity driven by policy simplification and the latest science;
Smart social investment practices for lasting national peace and social cohesion;
Smart economic returns from wellbeing and happiness policy;
Smart orchestration of health, employment, education, and inclusion policy

The H-20 Government Summit is an invitation-only roundtable dialog uniting global government leaders, economists, academics, activists and researchers motivated to improve national and societal well-being. Just as the G-20 Summit focuses on strengthening global economies, the H-20 Summit focuses on strengthening civic and public happiness. Ministers and senior government leaders from post-conflict and developing nations are invited.

The Future of Government Effectiveness is the H-20 mandate. Modern public policy, social cohesion and sustainable peace is our 2019 theme. Peace and the respect for human dignity are key to constructing environments where people can thrive. Education is an important driving force towards building bridges for social cohesion and eliminating conflict.

The H-20 Lisbon 2019, in partnership with the University of Lisbon and UNESCO, is privileged with the High Sponsorship of the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic, as well as many other Portuguese and international entities from more than 20 countries. Government participants from Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana, Jamaica, Kosovo, Liberia, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Timor-Leste, United Kingdom, Colombia and the United Arab Emirates have attended previous Summits.

WOHASU, the social enterprise that organizes the World Happiness Summit and H-20, celebrates the United Nations International Day of Happiness (decreed by the General Assembly to be observed every March 20). The World Happiness Report, produced yearly by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, demonstrates that effective public policy requires more than an economic lens. Well-being, social protection, inclusion, equality and healthy environments support country-context policy performance. The WOHASU mission is to highlight happiness as a crucial element of development and societal well-being.

The University of Lisbon was awarded the UNESCO Chair in recognition of the work carried out by the University of Lisbon in the area of ​​social and political sciences and is a proof of trust in the proposed work proposal.

This Chair aims to support the implementation of the United Nations Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, in particular by contributing to Goal 16, "Peace, Justice and Effective Institutions".This project also deserved the dignified support of the Secretary General of the United Nations, Eng. António Guterres and the President of the Portuguese Republic.

The E = GPS Chair will be led by Portugal which, according to the 2018 Global Peace Index, is the fourth most peaceful country in the world. The Project already integrates partners from around 20 countries on several continents, combining the experiences and resources of the various partners in different scientific domains.

The Course of Active Agents of Happiness took place between May 25 and June 26, 2018, and had the objective of providing scientifically based tools for the promotion of individual and collective well-being, happiness and peace. It is a well-being and harmony-based approach supported on positive psychology and clinical hypnosis, which focuses on personal development and positive citizenship.

Trainers:

Dr. Marisa Oliveira (Psychologist and ISCSP PhD student)
Prof. Dr. Mário Simões (Psychiatrist, Faculty of Medicine of University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Prof. Dr. Marcelo Demarzo (Mindfunless specialist in Brazil)

"The Mediterranean in Monsanto: in defense of biodiversity" was a walk thattook place on the morning of April 14, 2018, in partnership with the Interpretation Center of Monsanto-CIM, Lisbon City Hall, and Guided by Prof. Dr. Álvaro Fonseca. The objective was to work on the relationship between individual well-being, collective well-being and environmental sustainability - crossing pedagogical moments with a new awareness and new practices of environmental protection. The walk was accompanied by the reading of excerpts from texts by various authors about Nature, and several examples of the flora and fauna typical of the Mediterranean ecosystems that occur spontaneously in Portuguese territory were observed.Awareness of the vastness of the diversity and complexity of life is an inexhaustible and undeniable source of peace and well-being, which, by nourishing fascination with other beings and their diversity, stimulates our attention and care, indispensable for following paths more sustainable and harmonious than those in which we presently find ourselves.