Protocol with Aga Khan Network for scientific and technological cooperation

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

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

This collaboration results from the scientific and technological cooperation protocol signed between the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES) and Imamat Ismaili. 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 with Portuguese-speaking African countries, and the establishment in Lisbon of the UNESCO Center 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 10-year duration and the projects will be evaluated at Calls, which will start to be launched during 2016 by FCT.