| Awards |

Winner of the I&D Award – 2022 (1st place) + International Scientific Publication of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, for scientific publication of international relevance in the area of Social Sciences and Humanities. The prize was awarded on 21/11/2022 as part of the Solemn Opening Ceremony of the academic year of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, which took place at the José Lúcio da Silva Theatre in Leiria.

António Paula Brito Research Prize awarded by the Portuguese Society of Sports Psychology (SPPD) held at the Polytechnic Institute of Maia with the work entitled: ‘Understanding the associations across fibromyalgia-related fatigue, depression, anxiety, self-esteem satisfaction with life and physical activity in Portuguese and Brazilian patients: a structural equation modelling analysis’ which took place on 2 and 5 November 2022.

Honor of the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports in relation to Top Cited Paper 2020-2021 with the article entitled:  The bright and dark sides of motivation aspredictors of enjoyment, intention, andexercise persistence, attributed by Editora Wiley.

Honorable Mention to Luís Paulo Rodrigues, Pedro Bezerra and Vítor Pires Lopes for its Outstanding R&D Project “TECH”

Honorable Mention to Maria João Vaz da Cruz Lagoa for its Outstanding R&D Program “PETIZ

Honorable Mention to Filipe Fernandes Rodrigues for its excellent Ph.D. thesis entitled “The Bright and Dark side of motivation in exercise: promoting persistence and adherence” during the year of 2020.

Honorable Mention to Carlos Manuel Pereira Carvalho for its excellent publication entitled “The Pediatric Inactivity Triad: A Triple Jeopardy For Modern Day Youth”, on “ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal”, during the year of 2020.

1st Prize of the 8th edition of the FPDD Scientific Magazine ‘Knowing More to Include Better’ awarded by the Portuguese Federation of Sport for People with Disabilities (FPDD) within the 5th FPDD Seminar on the theme ‘Knowing More to Include Better’, on 03/12/2020, to the work entitled: Impact of passion on the regulation of motivation and subjective well-being, by the authors: Anabela Vitorino, Luis Cid, Teresa Bento, Diogo S. Teixeira and Diogo Monteiro.

Prémio de Investigação António Paula Brito atribuído pela Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicologia do Desporto (SPPD) no âmbito das XXI Jornadas da Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicologia do Desporto, realizadas em formato online a partir da Faculdade de Ciências do Desporto e Educação Física da Universidade de Coimbra, com o trabalho intitulado: “A relação instrutor-praticante nas necessidades psicológicas básicas do praticante” que decorreu nos dias 6 e 7 de Novembro de 2020.

Menção honrosa do Comité Olímpico de Portugal (COP), referente à V edição do concurso COP/Fundação Millenium BCP, Ciências do Desporto, com o trabalho intitulado: Diz-me o que fizeste no passado e dir-te-ei o que farás: Análise longitudinal da prática de exercício físico em ginásios e health clubs. A entrega dos prémios decorreu no dia 13/10/2020 no Salão nobre da Faculdade de Motricidade Humana da Universidade de Lisboa (FMH -ULisboa)

Honorable Mention to Sara Santos  for achieving high-level standards as a young researcher

Honorable Mention to Patrícia Posse for the excellent work supporting CIDESD and communicating science

Honorable Mention to Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro for hosting project NanoStima and project Deus Ex-Machina, an excellent support for CIDESD vision and mission.

Honorable Mention to Jorge Morais by achieving a high-level standard in his Ph.D. thesis entitled «Longitudinal modeling of young swimmers’ performance and biomechanics: identification, development and follow-up»

Honorable Mention to Lara Carneiro for achieving high-level standards as young researcher scope of CIDESD – GERON – Research Community.

Honorable Mention to João Viana for its excellent publication entitled «Evidence for Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Exercise in CKD»

Honorable Mention to Hugo Folgado for its excellent Ph.D. thesis entitled «Movement Synchronisation during training and competition of elite footballers»

António de Paula Brito Research Prize, XV Portuguese Society of Sports Psychology Conference, for the work entitled: The Mediation Role of Basic Psychological Needs in the Association between Autonomy Support and Psychological Well-being in Fitness Practitioners.