Protocol with the Aga Khan Network for scientific and technological cooperation

Funding for the projects, totaling 10 million euros, will be provided by Ismaili Imamat.

The research areas covered are related to the quality of life in developing societies, more specifically: food security, biodiversity, child development, sustainable energy systems and urban development, poverty reduction, migrant resettlement, civil society and pluralism.

This collaboration is the result of the scientific and technological cooperation protocol signed between the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES) and the Ismaili Imamat. The protocol aims to materialize the "Knowledge for Development" initiative, which includes new joint actions in Africa, namely by boosting the Global Science agenda among Portuguese-speaking African countries, and the establishment in Lisbon of the UNESCO Centre for advanced training of scientists from Portuguese-speaking countries, as well as a set of actions and measures to deepen academic, scientific and technological cooperation between Portuguese-speaking countries and other countries in Africa.

This protocol has a duration of 10 years and the projects will be evaluated in Calls, which will begin to be launched in 2016 by the FCT.