O objectivo deste estudo é compreender o comportamento parental face à cardiopatia congénita. Os participantes deste estudo são 14 mães e 2 pais (em duas entrevistas estavam presentes pai e mãe) de crianças com diagnóstico de cardiopatia congénita, com idades compreendidas entre os 21 dias e os 13 anos. Baseado no método Grounded Theory, analisaram-se catorze entrevistas semi-estruturadas, sendo cinco entrevistas pertencentes a um estudo anterior (Barroca, 2003). Desde que é comunicado o diagnóstico de cardiopatia congénita num filho, a vida destes pais e de quem os rodeia, altera-se, tornando-se a sua preocupação principal o medo da morte da criança pela incerteza do diagnóstico. Uma vez que a intervenção cirúrgica é incidente neste estudo, a possibilidade de persistência de sintomas ou a necessidade de nova intervenção cirúrgica, promove um sentimento de ameaça à confiança parental, que conduz a uma parentalidade suspensa, centrada na doença da criança.

Le@d3.0 Academy intends to create a knowledge alliance between Academy and Industry to widespread the use of Web3.0/Open Educational Resources (OER) by trainers to develop those Strategic e-Leadership skills (Se-Ls) that are required by the labour market in the Digital Age.Le@d3.0 focuses on trainers as changing agents and aims at: identifying new Leaders’ transversal competencies needs (decision making, people management, strategic vision, design, creativity, intra/entrepreneurship) and how to raise them using innovative methods; undertaking a gap-analysis to identify the competencies trainers are lacking to effectively develop Web3.0/OER based learning programs to train and enhance Se-Ls; shaping, deploying and testing an open virtual environment & an educational tool kit for trainers enabling learning processes aimed at Se-Ls; and, setting up a Community of Practice (CoP) of trainers to use Web3.0/OER in Strategic e-skills education.Partners from 7 European Union countries will assure a wide dissemination of project’s outputs and results and will create an international Le@d3.0 Academy for Se-Ls devoted both to trainers of the academic and business world (primary target group) and to students/managers/entrepreneurs (secondary one).This communication intends to provide a first overview on the Le@d3.0 project’s main goals and research findings, exploring how strategic leadership skills are affected by the digital age and how they can be embedded in learning contents and processes, in universities, business schools and corporate academies.

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SPIN-UP Entrepreneurship Training and Coaching Programme was specifically design to meet the needs of management teams in University Spin-Offs. The ultimate goal of the SPIN-UP Training and Coaching Program is the development of Key Entrepreneurial Skills (KES) in University Spin-Offs (USO), enabling/leveraging their growth and allowing for the creation of new knowledge based jobs. The term USO here employed refers to entrepreneurial initiatives often resulting from research and development projects (but not exclusively), led by academic entrepreneurs (professors, teachers and students in High Education Institutions,-HEI). USO can, therefore, be categorized as innovative and knowledge based enterprises. Based on research conducted in 4 European countries–Finland,Poland,Portugaland TheNetherlands-that enabled for the identification of key entrepreneurial skills lacking in University Spin-Offs, the SPIN-UP Entrepreneurship Training and Coaching Programme can act directly on one of the main factors hampering the growth of these kinds of enterprises. SPIN-UP Entrepreneurship Training and Coaching Programme proposes a very practical approach to the learning of entrepreneurial skills, where learning by-doing and other ative learning methodologies, learning with peers and methodologies such as coaching, are blended to provide for a very effective learning experience. By the end of training and coaching sessions, trainees should have improved their abilities in a set of management areas that enable them to face and deal more properly with challenges posed in their enterprises. SPIN-UP training in HRM and Leadership aims to develop in trainees a set of key skills that were found to be essential to enable University Spin-Offs growth. The main objetives are to: know the basics about HRM and Leadership (understand the main concepts around High Performance Work Systems–HPWS - as a model for HRM and understand the model of full range leadership); Identifying HRM and Leadership practices for growth; Developing own HPWS and leadership path for growth.