Warm Up Sessions for the Science 2020 Meeting

In a preview of the Science 2020 Meetingwhich will be held on November 2, 3 and 4, 2020, at the Lisbon Congress Centre, the organization of the event is promoting 3 warm up sessions, on October 14, 21 and 26, in Lisbon, Ponte de Sor and Porto.

The warm up sessions will feature national scientists specializing in the topics highlighted this year at the Science 2020 Meeting, whose main theme will be the importance and challenges of science, research and innovation in Portugal's recovery in times of pandemic, making our country and Europe more resilient, more digital, greener, more social and more global. This debate is particularly relevant in the current context, in which Portugal is preparing to take over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2021.

The first warm-up session is entitled "Recovering Portugal with more knowledge, jobs and digital transformation" and will be held at the Pavilhão do Conhecimento in Lisbon on October 14 at 11 am. This session will present the agenda for the Science 2020 Meeting, which will feature the special participation of two Nobel Prize winners, among other renowned national and foreign scientists. All the information on the program of these warm up sessions is available on the meeting's website, where registration is already open.

This year, due to the current contingency situation of the Covid-19 pandemic, the logistics of the Science 2020 Meeting will be adjusted accordingly. The event will be face-to-face, with limitations according to the contingency plan of the Lisbon Congress Center. The event will be webstreamed, but all the speakers' presentations will be made in person. The program is being finalized and will soon be available on the website.

The Science Meeting is an annual event promoted by the Science and Technology Foundation in collaboration with the National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture - Ciência Viva and the Parliamentary Committee for Education, Science, Youth and Sport, and has the institutional support of the Government through the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education. The initiative aims to promote a wide-ranging debate on the main topics and challenges on the scientific agenda, with the aim of stimulating not only participation but also interaction between researchers, the business sector and the general public.