Protocol with the Aga Khan Network for scientific and technological cooperation

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

The areas of research covered are related to quality of life in developing societies, specifically: food security, biodiversity, child development, sustainable energy systems and urban development, poverty reduction, resettlement of migrants, 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 implement 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 will remain in force for 10 years and projects will be evaluated in Calls, which will begin to be launched by the FCT in 2016.