15 December 2025 Share This

Research Impact Narratives Challenge: meet the winners of the 3rd edition of the competition here

In 2023, NOVA launched the Research Impact Narratives Challenge, inviting professors and researchers affiliated with any of the university’s academic units to translate the impact of their research projects into narratives.

Considering it imperative that society in general understands and appreciates the results of research activities, and given that, both nationally and Europeanly, innovation funding agencies have given increasing importance to measuring the impact of projects under development, this Research Impact Narratives Challenge was the format chosen for NOVA researchers to do so.

Revealed at the NOVA Science and Innovation Day 2025, the 5 projects distinguished in this third edition of the competition come from different scientific areas. In addition, in this third edition, given the quality of the applications, five Honourable Mentions were also awarded.

At the time of receiving the award, Mauro Castelli was represented by Leonardo Vanneschi, Ricardo Henriques by Mário del Rosário, and Ricardo Jardim Gonçalves by Dr. Maria do Carmo Marques.

Winners:

Transforming Legislative Impact Assessment: Using AI to Produce Better Regulations for Citizens and Society
Mauro Castelli
NOVA IMS/MagIC

LEGO to Labs: How NanoJ-Fluidics (Pumpy) Democratised Advanced Microscopy from Bench to Classroom
Ricardo Henriques
ITQB NOVA/ MOSTMICRO

Measuring to Transform: The Sustainable Health Index as a Compass for Health Policy
Pedro Simões Coelho
NOVA IMS/MagIC

From Research to Societal Change – NOVA’s Digital Health Model Recognised as a European Lighthouse
Ricardo Jardim Gonçalves
NOVA FCT/ UNINOVA/CTS

Tuna Odyssey: the story of a fishing village and the resource that sustains it
Brígida Baptista
NOVA FCSH/CHAM

Honourable Mentions:

Health Literacy: A question of Health that Matters
Ana Rita Pedro
NOVA ENSP/CHRC

Making the Invisible Visible: Transforming Public, Clinical, and Policy Understandings of the Embryo In Vitro
Catarina Delauney
NOVA FCSH/CICS.NOVA

Nature’s Comeback: Rethinking Land Abandonment through Ecological Recovery and Climate Action
Henrique Cerqueira
NOVA FCSH/CICS.NOVA

Conducting Constitutional Reform in a United Kingdom Overseas Territory
Julian Jeremy Sarkin
NOVA School of Law/CEDIS

ImproVITA – Extending the shelf life of food products to decrease food waste
Liane Meneses
NOVA FCT/LAQV REQUIMTE