Science 2020 meeting

The 2020 Science Meeting starts tomorrow, with a program focused on November 3 and 4 on measures to control the Covid-19 pandemic, which 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, Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry in 2004, will participate by videoconference in Plenary 1 on day 3, whose theme is "Science in Portugal for a more RESILIENT Europe", and in which he will talk about ethical issues in managing the pandemic in his keynote entitled "Bioethical issues raised by the Pandemic". Also on the 3rd, Sir Richard Roberts, Nobel Prize winner for Medicine in 1993, will take part in Plenary 3, entitled "Science in Portugal for a GREENER Europe", where he will talk 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 some of the other names taking part in the plenary sessions 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 open the meeting and the President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa will close it.

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 commissioners 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 Commission for Education and Science, and has the institutional support of the Government through the Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education.

It cannot be stressed enough that the logistics of Ciência 2020 strictly comply with all the rules laid down by the Directorate-General for Health for events of this nature.

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