Intercultural Mediation and Social Intervention

Intercultural Mediation and Social Intervention

Course Type:
Master’s Programme

Programme Introduction

This Master aims to provide knowledge & competencies at theoretical, practical & methodological level in the key areas of enhancement of understanding of multicultural character of contemporary society and social work between diverse cultures & social groups.

Programme Coordinator

Ricardo Manuel das Neves Vieira
ricardo.vieira@ipleiria.pt

Reference

2083

School

Education and Social Sciences

City

Leiria

Language

Portuguese

Type

B-learning

Length

4 Semesters

Vacancies

General and International student contingentl: 25

Notice

Edital 2026 (PT Doc retf)

DGES certification

Objectives

Programme

The main objectives, justified & reflected in the competencies to develop in different CU, are:

  • To provide students with a wide range of knowledge w/ a considerably broad scope & the acquisition of specific competencies to the design & implementation of the characteristic tasks of the several stakeholders involved in the activity of intercultural mediation;
  • To offer students the opportunity to explore the potential of new tools of social science & social work & guidance in the prevention & resolution of social tensions;
  • To enable students with knowledge & competencies to intervene in groups, organisations & institutions;
  • To promote scientific research to a deeper & postgraduate level in the master’s specialisation area.
1st Year
ID Name Semester ECTS Length
1st Semester 7 40h
  1. Fundamental rights – notion; system ; functions; regimes: general; Rights, Freedoms and guarantees; Protection;
  2. Economic, social and cultural rights
    1. Regime
    2. Economic rights
    3. Social Rights
    4. Cultural rights; Fundamental Rights in the European Union
  3. The conflict management and Mediation
    1. Conflict: definition, types, reasons and consequences;
    2. Conflict management: prevention and resolution
    3. The different types of conflict resolution: adversarial and non-adversarial:characterization and distinction;
    4. Mediation: paradigms, characteristics, principles, advantages, process and participants;
  4. The Mediation in Portugal
    1. The introduction in Portugal of alternative means for conflict resolution
    2. ThePublic Mediation System: SMF, SML SMP: creation, advantages, importance, objectives, matters, exclusions and functioning.
1st Semester 9 50h
  1. Sociocultural mediation, text and context and historical aspects
  2. Identities and mediations: mediation as prevention and dialogue as a means of conflict resolution.
  3. The plurality of the intervention in mediation:
    1. Socio-pedagogical Mediation
    2. Family Mediation
    3. Community Mediation
    4. Mediation in workplace settings
    5. Intercultural Mediation
  4. The experiences of intercultural mediation and social intervention in Portugal:
    1. The IAC and mediation.
    2. The work of mediation and the mechanisms for systematic cooperation between institutions – the case of the ACT project.
    3. The work of ACIDI in mediation with ethnic minorities.
  5. Mediation and integration of immigrants into Portuguese society.
  6. The mediation work with Roma communities.
1st Semester 7 40h
  1. 1Epistemological problems
    1. History of social scientific thought
    2. Human Scientificity and research in CSH
    3. Science, SC and Educational Sciences: paradigms of research
    4. Break with the “pre-construction” of objects and problems
  2. Processes of investigation and intervention
    1. Social Work, scientific and political paradigms
    2. The “critical” posture and the role of ideology in the social sciences
    3. Methodological patterns of explanation and of comprehension
    4. Complex rationality and methodological polytheism
    5. Fundamental and Applied Research
  3. Research and social intervention: designing a plan
    1. Stages of the research: linearity and circularity of the process
    2. Drafting social projects
    3. The research report
    4. From the theme to the construction of a research problem
  4. Analysis of research in the field of IMSI
    1. Modes of applicable research: theory, practice and objects
    2. Case studies: testimonies and scientific production
1st Semester 7 40h
  1. Conceptualization and current trends in the understanding of migration
    1. Definitions and sources of information on international migration
    2. Migrations as a interdisciplinary research subject
    3. Theoretical perspectives on international migrations
  2. Current migratory flows: global and national dynamics
    1. Current migratory system
    2. Forced migrations: displaced people and refugees
    3. Migration and development
    4. The diversification of current migration flows
    5. The Portuguese migratory landscape
  3. Challenges of diversity: assimilation, multiculturalism, and interculturalism
    1. Immigrants’ integration processes
    2. Migrant integration processes in Portugal
      1. Local immigrant integration policies
    3. Integration of the second generation
  4. Social Intervention with immigrants
    1. Ethnic diversity as a variable in social intervention
    2. Different policy areas
Mediação Sociocultural em Territórios Educativos 2nd Semester 7 40h
Research Methodologies II 2nd Semester 7 40h
The Professional and the Contexts of Intercultural Mediation 2nd Semester 7 40h
Thematic Seminar on Intercultural Mediation 2nd Semester 9 50h
2nd Year
ID Name Semester ECTS Length
1st Semester 48
  • 2083111 – Project
  • 2083112 – Thesis in Intercultural Mediation
  • 2083113 – Internship in Intercultural Mediation
2nd Semester 12 90h
  1. Contexts and modalities of mediation and social intervention.
  2. Academic rules, normativity of processes, products and freedom of research.
  3. Presentation of the master’s research project conducting to the Dissertation/Project/Internship.

Entry Requirements

Entry Requirements

  1. Holders of an undergraduate degree in Social Work, Social Education, Cultural Animation, Teacher Training and holders of an undergraduate degree in other areas of social sciences and humanities;
  2. Holders of foreign academic degree of a 1st study cycle organized according the principles of the Bologna Process offered by a State that has adhered to this Process, in the area mentioned in paragraph a);
  3. Holders of foreign academic degree recognized by the scientific body of the establishment of higher education as an undergraduate degree, as long as it is in the area mentioned in paragraph a);
  4. Holders of an educational, scientific or professional curriculum, recognized as attesting the capacity to carry out this cycle of studies by competent scientific body of the establishment of higher education (subparagraph d)) of paragraph 1 of article 17 of the Decree Law 74/2006, of 24 March, with changes introduced in subsequent normative).

Accreditation

State: Acreditado
Number of years of accreditation: 6
Publication Date: 04-12-2020
Accreditation A3ES

More Information

The study cycle will have duration of 4 semesters and has been structured in the following manner:
The 1st semester comprises 3 curricular units, for a total of 30 credits;
The 2nd semester has a total of 3 curricular units and 30 credits;
In the 3rd semester, the students attend the curricular unit “Supervision Seminar” and start and carry out their Project/Thesis in Intercultural Mediation, for a total of 30 credits;
The 4th semester will be the conclusion of the Project/Thesis in Intercultural Mediation, which also will amount to 30 credits.


Contacts
E-mail: studywithus@ipleiria.pt

Application Fee

60€

Enrolment Fee

General contingent: 50€
International student contingent: 100€

Tuition Fee

General contingent: 1140€
International student contingent: 3000€

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