FCT at Futurália under the slogan "Doing Research is Your Thing?"

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Futuralia is the largest Education and Training Fair in Portugal. This year it was held from March 16 to 19 at FIL-Feira Internacional de Lisboa, and the FCT was represented for the first time at this event at the invitation of PO CH-Programa Operacional Capital Humano.

FCT's participation, under the slogan "Doing Research is Your Thing?", was ensured by researchers and doctoral programs, which represent the support given by FCT to Advanced Training - doctorates and post-doctorates - through Studentships and the financing of doctoral programs, both co-financed by PO CH.

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The theme of Digital Employability was also promoted by FCT, with the participation of partners from CPED (Portuguese Coalition for Digital Employability), namely ANPRI (National Association of Computer Science Teachers), CDI Portugal, Academia de Código and the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém. These partners in the coalition coordinated by FCT presented the opportunities that the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) area represents for future career development, as well as for the growth of the national digital economy.

FCT's presence at Futurália had the following objectives: to enlighten students about the academic pathways leading to a doctorate, namely which courses, in Portugal or abroad, how to identify a supervisor and the project, or how to obtain funding; to illustrate the multiple career opportunities for PhD graduates: research, industry, entrepreneurship, science management or consultancy; and to publicize the potential and opportunities of training in ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) for the first job and/or for retraining.

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More than three dozen doctoral and post-doctoral students volunteered to collaborate in this initiative with the FCT, serving as spokespeople and sharing testimonies and experiences about their academic, professional and even personal journeys with the students, teachers and parents who visited Futurália.

FCT's presence also included the collaboration of the Games for Media and Information Literacy project of the UT-Austin Portugal Program and several doctoral programs, which had the opportunity to promote a first contact with high school students before they entered higher education. The following programs were represented:

- RaBBiT- Radiation Biology and Biophysics Doctoral Training Program;

- PhD Program in Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies;

- Doctoral Program in Migration;

- PhD Program in Art and Design;

- IGC PhD Program Integrative Biology and Biomedicine - IBB;

- PhD Program in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine;

- Doctoral Program in Materials Science and Engineering;

- PhD Program in Nanotechnologies and Nanosciences;

- PhD Program in Advanced Materials and Processing - AdvaMTech;

- Doctoral Program in Psychology;

- HERITAS PhD Program - Heritage Studies;

- Doctoral Programs at MIT Portugal;