Keywords

• To improve the knowledge of the different social problems of Portuguese society and their impact on social cohesion and inclusion;
• To improve the knowledge of the different kinds of individual actors and organizations in the so called 3rd sector and, specifically on the social work;
• To contribute for the evaluation and improvement of social policies, in its relationship to social, political and environmental factors;
• To contribute to the evaluation and testing of different types of social and institutional responses, with a view to promoting quality of life, and strategies and methodologies of social intervention.