New FCT Board of Directors takes office for the 2016-2018 three-year period

The Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education; Manuel Heitor presided over the inauguration of the new FCT Board of Directors, in a ceremony attended by several representatives of the national scientific community, as well as FCT collaborators.

The Board of Directors thus assumes the mandate for the three-year period 2016-2018. It is composed of the President, Paulo Ferrão (Director of the MIT-Portugal Program and Full Professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon), the Vice-President, Miguel Castanho (Full Professor and Deputy Director of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon), the Members Isabel Ribeiro (Full Professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon) and Ana Sanchez (Coordinator of the Science Communication and Dissemination Office of the Institute of Chemical and Biological Technology of the NOVA University of Lisbon).

During the inauguration ceremony of the new Board of Directors, the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education presented the Charter of Guiding Principles for the FCT, which defines the main guidelines for the institution.

• Summary of the intervention by the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education , Manuel Heitor
• Intervention by the President of the FCT , Paulo Ferrão