After meeting up in Aalborg last year, this year the DASH team is meeting in Lisbon. And you can be part of this: on 9 April, ICS-UL is organising the second DASH Thematic Workshop, which is open to anyone interested.

Team members from all four partner countries and from all types of organisation will be coming to Portugal for a series of events between 8 and 10 April, many doing a month-long secondment in Lisbon and/or Évora. 8 April is reserved for the Mid-Term Review of the DASH programme. On 9 April, ICS-UL is hosting this year’s thematic workshop, which is open to the public. The programme starts at 9:15 am and will be as follows:
- Welcome – Alda Botelho Azevedo, ICS-ULisboa
- Information session on the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Staff Exchanges – Desislava Kolarova, European Research Executive Agency. Unit A.3 MSCA Staff Exchanges
- Questions and Discussion
- The role of the private sector in delivering below-market rent options – Sónia Alves, ICS-ULisboa
- Access to the rental market in Portugal: the affordable rent programme – Nuno Travasso, DARQ – Coimbra University
- The governance of affordable housing through PPPs: the limits of private/public dichotomies – Patrícia Canelas, Oxford University
- Reflections – Simone Tulumello, ICS-ULisboa
- Questions and Discussion