5th and last session of 2025 of the "Archives of Knowledge: Science, History and Memory"

The "Archives of Knowledge: Science, History and Memory" will hold its 5th and final session this year on November 19 at 2:30 p.m. at the FCCN - Small Auditorium of LNEC, in Lisbon.

Registration is now open for this session, which will be opened by Maria Paula Diogo, member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Paula Meireles, coordinator of the Science and Technology Archive and João Nuno Ferreira, from the FCT.

The guest speakers are Rúben Almeida, from INESC TEC - FEUP, who will give a presentation entitled "My Region - Your Municipal Portal", and Joaquim José, from the Polytechnic Institute of Guarda, who will talk about "Memor.pt - Explore Portuguese Digital Memory", both winners of the Arquivo.pt 2025 Award (1st and 2nd place, respectively). The session will be moderated by João Gomes, from FCCN, FCT's digital services unit.

The cycle "Archives of Knowledge: Science, History and Memory", organized by the FCT, has been running since February this year, with the aim of disseminating the documentary collection of its Science and Technology Archive, as well as others relevant to the history and memory of Science and Technology in Portugal. The sessions are short and take place in an informal, sharing atmosphere. For more information on this initiative, or to view the sessions that have already taken place, see the page dedicated to the event.

The Science and Technology Archive (ACT) is unique in the history of scientific activity in Portugal, with the task of preserving and managing the documentary memory of national scientific production, translated into thousands of support processes for Studentships, institutions and research projects. Open to the public since December 16, 2011, it has a significant collection of documents that includes, in addition to the FCT's own archive from 1997 onwards, the collection of the National Board for Scientific and Technological Research (JNICT), from 1967 to 1997, and other public and private bodies, essentially in the area of science policies and funding in Portugal.