Science Meeting 2020

The Science 2020 Meeting begins tomorrow, with a program concentrated on November 3 and 4 due to measures to control the Covid-19 pandemic. It will bring together the Portuguese scientific community in an intense debate on how to make Portugal and Europe more resilient, more social, more digital, greener, more social, and more global.

Aaron Ciechanover, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004, will participate via videoconference in Plenary Session 1 on the 3rd, whose theme is "Science in Portugal for a more RESILIENT Europe," and in which he will speak about ethical issues in managing the pandemic in his keynote address entitled "Bioethical issues raised by the Pandemic." Also on the 3rd, Sir Richard Roberts, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine in 1993, will participate in Plenary Session 3, entitled "Science in Portugal for a GREENER Europe," in which he will speak about The Nobel campaign supporting GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms).

Robert Langer, Eric von Hippel, Elvira Fortunato, Susana Sargento, Pedro Conceição, Ricardo Conde, and Inês Azevedo are among the other names that will participate in the plenary sessions taking place at the CCL. Most of the Thematic Sessions will be broadcast online on the Meeting's website. Prime Minister António Costa and European Commissioner Elisa Ferreira will participate in the opening of the Meeting, and President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa will participate in the closing.

Helena Canhão, coordinator of the Center for Integrated Health Research at NOVA Medical School, and Pedro Oliveira, from Copenhagen Business School and NOVA School of Business and Economics, are the curators of this year's edition.

The Science Meeting is an initiative promoted by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) in collaboration with Ciência Viva and the Parliamentary Committee on Education and Science, and has the institutional support of the Government through the Minister of Science, Technology, and Higher Education.

It is worth noting that the logistics of Ciência 2020 strictly comply with all the rules of the Directorate-General for Health for events of this nature.

All information about the 2020 Science Meeting is available on the website.