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Highlights
In the second edition of the SCIENCES Sustainability Week, which took place between 15 and 19 April 2024, we got to know the projects distinguished in the 5th edition of the Ideas for Sustainability Competition:
- The honorable mention, worth €500, was awarded to the Solar Ovens project: coordinated by Miguel Brito (Department of Geographic Engineering, Geophysics and Energy), which intends to develop, test and install a set of solar ovens on the roof of the C7 building to heat lunches for students, staff and teachers of the Faculty.
- The winner, receiving €1000, was the Autonomia21@FCUL coordinated by Federico Herrera and Manuela Pereira (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry), the project will develop a course on the development of autonomy for people with Trisomy 21 in SCIENCES, taking as a starting point results already obtained.
"Through the CIÊNCIA Sustainability Week we aim to equip participants with more sustainable behaviors in their personal and professional lives, inspire those who will be the next generation of leaders committed to a greener world and balance and contribute to a more sustainable future for all", says Filipa Pegarinhos, Coordinator of the Safety, Health and Sustainability Office of CIÊNCIAS.
Workshop "Bioplastics in a sustainable world: A workshop on barriers and solutions" that is being organized by the HEI-Lab of the Lusófona University.
This event aims to bring together representatives from different areas of the value chain associated with the production and marketing of bioplastics, to discuss and co-create solutions that promote the transition to more sustainable plastics. Attached you can consult the poster of the event.
The workshop will have a mixed format, face-to-face and online, taking place on May 9, 2024, between 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., at Universidade Lusófona - Centro Universitário de Lisboa, U Building - rooms U.0.8 & U.0.9.
You can participate in person, or if it is not possible for you to travel to Universidade Lusófona - Centro Universitário de Lisboa, you can choose to participate online through the link https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/my/BioLaMer
To register, go to https://forms.gle/tbKvSws5Yqj5eYKC9
Report from the newspaper Publico about HortaFCUL: this project has been feeding a community for 15 years
"The edible forest is one of the gateways to HortaFCUL, a project conceived by students of that faculty where the principles of permaculture are applied. Started in Hortinha, with the endorsement of the FCUL board, the initiative expanded in an organic way and gained a place in that educational institution. Today, there is a mini-forest, two bio-islands, the solar garden and Permalab, a permaculture laboratory with a vegetable garden, greenhouse, composting center, and that became the basis of this project."
Article: Acting locally, thinking globally: 15 years of HortaFCUL
In order to inform and raise awareness among political and institutional decision-makers of the benefits of the mere existence and functioning of a community garden, HortaFCUL – a permaculture collective based at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL) – decided to take its example as a case study, and transcribe its positive impact through a set of clear indicators. objective and scientific.
Full article here
For students of all study cycles of Sciences ULisboa.
Goals:
- To help students, as agents and actors in the construction of their life path, to:
- Clarify personal values, skills and interests;
- Relate these concepts to decent work, inclusion and sustainability;
- Critically analyze inclusive and sustainable values;
- Establish career plans, taking into account the challenges of sustainability and inclusion;
- Increase confidence in their personal abilities to face the present and the future;
- Promote more positive attitudes towards the future;
- identify community resources and opportunities to support your projects;
- Include in your personal career and life goals the concept of decent work, as a condition for inclusive and sustainable personal development.
The sessions take place on May 2 between 2 pm and 3:30 pm, in room 8.2.17 (Building C8).
Participation is free, but requires prior registration (until April 26).
More information in gapsi@ciencias.ulisboa.pt or in person in room 4.1.25
HortaFCUL: a piece of countryside in the heart of the city
At the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL), 15 years ago, a group of students decided to start a vegetable garden, transforming a flowerbed that was nothing more than a boring lawn. What started as a small agroecological space has now become a project that wants to transform other lawns of the college, turning them into climate refuges and oases of biodiversity.
See the full article here
World Earth Day in 2024 will be on April 22. The overarching theme for this year is "Planet vs. Planet Plastics", with a focus on human and environmental health and reducing the use of single-use plastics.
This year alone, Sciences has already collected 988 kg of plastic! Science gives value to recycling!
'Agrivoltaic' solutions for a sustainable future
'Agrivoltaic' combines solar photovoltaic energy production with agricultural activities in the same area and emerges as a promising solution to address global energy and food challenges.
Image4All has played a relevant role in the promotion and implementation of 'agrivoltaic' in Portugal, being responsible for the development and management of several initiatives in this area. An example is the recent creation of Horta Solar, an innovative project in collaboration with the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL)
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International Day of Forests - March 21
"The International Day of Forests marks the March equinox and the beginning of spring. In urban areas, where the artificial landscape grows day by day, it is of increasing importance to provide the common citizen with pleasant, fresh and comfortable wooded spaces, especially for recreation and leisure. At Ciências ULisboa, in the spaces cared for and managed by the HortaFCUL collective, we try to bring this dimension to the urban context, promoting solutions such as mini-forests (the case of FCULresta), edible forests (Bioilhas) or agroforestry (PermaLab) as tools for the community itself to appropriate these spaces and interact with them. It is in the social services that these ecosystems provide that we see a more lasting impact of these interventions on local communities, and we should not underestimate their value in changing mentalities and in the growing awareness of civil society for the relevance of natural spaces within large urban areas". António Vaz Pato, guardian of HortaFCUL.
FCUL's CiclOficina helps bike users repair their bikes for free and create a culture of using bicycles as urban transport. CiclOficina is for everyone and aims to involve bicycle users in their repair, thus allowing progressive learning.
Every Wednesday from 18:00 to 20:00 in Building C3, floor 1, Science ULisboa.
Other events in the field of Sustainability
SOCLIMPACT (www.soclimpact.org) is a research and innovation project from Horizon 2020 that aims to model and assess the impacts of climate change and the ways of adapting to climate changes, for case studies covering 11 islands and European archipelagos. Ciências ULisboa, through FC.ID, was the Insular Focal Point for the Autonomous Region of the Azores and coordinated the work package for creating the Adaptation to Climate Change paths.