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Scientists Rui Reis and Adélio Mendes have been awarded the prestigious Studentships Advanced Grants by the European Research Council (ERC).

The high-speed network dedicated to Research and Education, 'UbuntuNet', was launched at the EuroAfrica-ICT Forum in Lisbon.

Four start-ups selected as finalists for the Building Global Innovators Venture Competition 2012.

Building Global Innovators, the Call organized by ISCTE and the MIT | Portugal Program, awards four start-ups in the 2012 edition.

The memorandum of understanding that ensures the continuity of the UT Austin|Portugal Program for the next five years is supported by an annual investment of €2M by the FCT.

The memorandum of understanding, which guarantees the continuity of the UT Austin|Portugal Program for the next five years, represents an investment of €2 million per year by the FCT.

Nuno Santos is one of the researchers on the international team that has detected a planet with a mass similar to Earth's in Alpha Centauri B, the star system closest to the Sun.

Rui Costa, a researcher at the Champalimaud Foundation, received the 2012 Young Investigator Award from the American Society for Neuroscience.

Portuguese companies working and developing technologies in the space area now have another tool for transferring these technologies to the non-space market.

The European Patent Office (EPO) originality prize was awarded to three Portuguese students.

The Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program is the first international partnership between national and US universities and research centers to be renewed.

The award ceremony for the Scientific and Technical Translation Prize in Portuguese took place on September 26 at the Faculty of Letters in Lisbon.