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The initiatives prepared in 2014 to celebrate Safer Internet Day have the theme "Together we will create a better Internet".

The director of the 3Bs research center at the University of Minho, Rui Reis, became the first non-US-based scientist to receive the Clemson Award for Contributions to the Literature.

Inês Gonçalves, Joana Tavares and Luísa Neves are the researchers honored in the 10th edition of the initiative.

From February 5 to 7 in Évora, the conferences will bring together the research and teaching community
on topics such as b-on, RCAAP and others.

On January 24, Miguel Seabra attended the Parliamentary Committee on Education, Science and Culture.

The FCT has approved new Studentships in the Call Technological Internships 2013, in technological areas of strategic interest to the country.

On January 16, FCT and the Fulbright Commission signed three cooperation protocols that strengthen cooperation and scientific exchange between Portugal and the United States of America.

Twenty years of research led by Miguel Seabra, the current president of the FCT, has led to encouraging results for the first gene therapy for a form of hereditary blindness.

Rui Costa, Lars Jansen, Edgar Gomes and Sofia Aboim will receive a total of 7 million euros over five years to consolidate their research teams and develop their ideas.

The project selected in the first Call the Portugal-China Joint Innovation Center for Advanced Materials investigates cardiovascular intervention devices.

The European Southern Observatory inaugurated its new facilities on December 4th. The building's structure was designed in collaboration with a Portuguese company.

Maria Mota, a researcher at the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine in Lisbon, is the winner of the 2013 edition of the prestigious Pessoa Prize.