Science Meeting 2020

The Science Meeting 2020 starts tomorrow, with a program concentrated on the 3rd and 4th of November due to 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 in Chemistry in 2004, will participate by videoconference in Plenary 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 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 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 other names that will participate in the plenary sessions that will take place at the CCL. Most of the Thematic Sessions will be broadcast online on the Meeting page. Prime Minister António Costa* and European Commissioner Elisa Ferreira will be attending the opening of the Meeting and President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa will be attending 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 for Education and Science, and has the institutional support of the Government through the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education.

It is worth remembering that the logistics of Ciência 2020 strictly complies with all the rules of the State Health Department for events with these characteristics.

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