Carlos Fortuna, professor at the Faculty of Economics and researcher at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, was awarded the Análise Social Prize (2020) ex-aequo for his article "O mundo social do ruído. Contributos para uma abordagem sociológica [The social world of noise. Contributions to a sociological approach], published in the journal Análise Social of ICS-UL | Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon.

The distinction was also awarded to Ricardo Paes Mamede, for the article “Explicações alternativas para a crise do Euro e suas implicações” [Alternative explanations for the Euro crisis and its implications], by a jury composed of Sofia Aboim (president, ICS-University of Lisbon), António Firmino da Costa (ISCTE-IUL), Bela Feldman-Bianco (UNICAMP), Alina Pereira Esteves (IGOT-University of Lisbon) and Octavio Amorim Neto (EBAPE-Fundação Getulio Vargas).

The prize, with a pecuniary value of 1000 euros, will be delivered at the ICS Forum, which will take place at ICS on December 14th, at 5:30pm.