Science 2022 marks FCT's 25th anniversary

Science 2022 - Meeting with Science and Technology in Portugal is now open for registration and will take place from May 16 to 18, 2022, at the Lisbon Congress Center (CCL). This year, the Science Meeting is part of the FCT's 25th anniversary celebrations, a date that is being marked with numerous discussion and reflection sessions, decentralized to various cities across the country and with the active participation of the scientific community, focusing on important issues for the future of science in Portugal and Europe.

Encontro Ciência is the largest annual science and technology event in Portugal and is promoted by FCT, in collaboration with the National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture - Ciência Viva, and with the institutional support of the Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education and the Parliamentary Committee for Education, Science, Youth and Sport. The initiative sees the active participation in the program of national R&D institutions - FCT R&D units, CoLABs, Associate Laboratories and State Laboratories - through scientific communications, demonstrations of R&D activities and posters by PhD students.

The Science 2022 Commissioners are Teresa Pinto Correia, Researcher at the Associate Laboratory Change and Full Professor at the University of Évora, and Teresa Ferreira, Researcher at the Associate Laboratory TERRA and Full Professor at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia. This year's guest country is Egypt, which will also be actively participating in the program.