On March 11, 2025, researchers Teresa Pereira and Jéssica Bispo presented their progress on the project Bridges between Fictional Narratives and Science in the 21st Century (BFS21) at the event Ficcionalizações da Ciência no Mundo Anglófono VII, held at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and organized by CETAPS’s Research Strand Culture, Science and the Media, in cooperation with CEEC.

We are excited to announce an open call for contributions to the upcoming Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Utopian Studies. This self-paced, free course will be hosted on the NAU platform, developed and managed by the FCCN Unit of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), and coordinated by CETAPS.

In the latest issue of News from Everywhere, the JRAAS Newsletter, we explored the vital role of cultural sustainability in our work. Beyond mere preservation, cultural sustainability seeks to keep culture relevant and impactful in contemporary society. This edition features an exclusive interview with Dr. Catherine Grant, a leading expert in the field.

On 22nd January, the JRAAS team facilitated a workshop within the context of the 2nd FLUP Research Meeting, called “Mapping Utopias: Introduction to Map-making in R”.

Fátima Vieira, our Digital Lab leader, was one of the invitees of Sociedade Civil, a RTP 2 programme transmitted yesterday, January 28, 2025. During her intervention, Fátima Vieira talked of how utopian thinking and imagination can fertilize and influence social development, and presented our collaborative utopia-building game Horizon as a means to promote our creativity.