Protocol with Aga Khan Network for scientific and technological cooperation

The financing of the projects, totaling 10 million euros, will be provided by Ismaili Imamat .

The research areas covered are related to 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 through the promotion of the Global Science agenda among Portuguese-speaking African countries, and the establishment in Lisbon of the UNESCO Center for the 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 lasts for 10 years and the projects will be evaluated in Calls , which will begin to be launched during 2016 by FCT.