Science City
Science City
In Portugal, the Science and Technology Foundation has been promoting the hiring of national and foreign PhD researchers with a view to attracting the best talent.
Lisbon has proved to be an attractive city not only for tourists, students and entrepreneurs, but also a city with a strong presence of researchers and international reference institutions such as the Gulbenkian Institute of Science, the Institute of Molecular Medicine, the Ricardo Jorge Institute and the Champalimaud Foundation, among others.
In addition to public and private institutions exclusively dedicated to science, Lisbon also has one and a half hundred research centers integrated into the network of higher education institutions that are financially supported by the Science and Technology Foundation.
Lisbon City Council is developing a series of actions to strengthen Lisbon's position in promoting science.
Initiatives
The main objectives of the Biolab, which will open in January 2022, are to bring citizens closer to science and to explore the city's biotechnological potential.
The European Researchers' Night (ERN) is an initiative funded by the European Union that centralizes and publicizes a number of high-quality research activities each year with the aim of increasing their public recognition and giving researchers the opportunity for direct contact with citizens through the exchange of ideas and experiences.
Lisbon City Council has been collaborating since 2014 on this project led by the Museum of Natural History and Science of the University of Lisbon (MAHNAC-UL), which also includes the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, the Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril, the Universidade do Minho, the Universidade de Évora, the Universidade de Coimbra and the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory