Ciência'18 - Meeting with Science and Technology in Portugal

Following on from the last annual Science meetings, it is with renewed enthusiasm that we challenge all researchers and their R&D Units to take part in Ciência 2018, also attracting all citizens to open debates on new scientific opportunities and challenges. This year's annual meeting, Ciência 2018, will take place from July 2 to 4 at the Lisbon Congress Center.

This year, the programme will be organized around "missions" associated with major scientific and societal challenges, based on the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. We want to highlight the need to deepen research and innovation, while at the same time strengthening the mechanisms for communication and dialogue, which everyone recognizes as increasingly important if the contributions of knowledge and technology are to be understood and strongly supported by society. We would therefore like to mobilize all researchers and their R&D Units for the debate that is emerging in Europe on the design of the future 9th European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, 2021-2028. 

During the month of April, the coordinators of the R&D units were invited to submit their proposals for oral communications and demonstrations of R&D activities. We will soon also be asking for proposals for digital posters to be presented by PhD students during the meeting.

Encontro Ciência 2018 is promoted by the Foundation for Science and Technology in collaboration with the National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture Ciência Viva and the Parliamentary Commission for Education and Science, with the institutional support of the Government through the Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education.

We are sure that, with everyone's collaboration, we will create another unique moment of annual reflection on the state of science and technology in Portugal and Europe.

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