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Between April 15th and 19th, Ciências ULisboa will reflect on what sustainability is and is not, with thematic days in which presentations, workshops and round tables will take place, among other activities, to which the entire Science community is invited:
Check out the program here.
NEW EDITION SLI REINFORCES THE CHALLENGE TO YOUNG PEOPLE TO BUILD THE FUTURE FROM SPACE
The new edition of Sustainable Living Innovators maintains the challenge of the previous one: how to solve Earth's problems from space. Applications for this program, which brings together young people and technology at CEiiA, are open to Portuguese students in secondary and higher education. For the first time, there are specific vacancies for foreign students from Cape Verde, Mozambique, Angola and Brazil.
Between July 15 and August 9, participants in the 2024 edition of Sustainable Living Innovators (SLI) are challenged to develop a new product or service, from idea to prototype, having the opportunity to interact with professionals from different areas of knowledge at CEiiA.
This year, SLI internationalizes by bringing partners for a first international experience by opening specific vacancies for foreign students from Cape Verde, Mozambique, Angola and Brazil.
Applications for the 5th edition of SLI close on April 30th.
'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.
FCULresta: the "mother forest" of a network of mini-forests
Urban mini-forests are germinating and the ODSlocal Platform presents on its website this new network of inspiring local projects to give them due visibility.
19 mini-forests have already been mapped, distributed across the municipalities of Almada, Amadora, Barreiro, Cascais, Lisbon, Oeiras, Seixal and Setúbal, developed by different types of promoters, such as municipalities, NGOs, schools and companies.
The five SDGs that these projects benefit from the most are SDGs 13, 15, 3, 4 and 11. The mapped impacts also allow us to know which Goals of the 2030 Agenda are covered.
This is an emerging network, the seeds of which are expected to reach the whole country.
BCSD (Business Council for Sustainable Development) Portugal and Amélia de Mello Foundation launch a competition for a sustainable entrepreneurship scholarship.
BCSD Portugal, in partnership with the Amélia de Mello Foundation, organizes a competition for the attribution of an entrepreneurship scholarship in the field of sustainability, which aims to be a financial support to entrepreneurs to start the business concept.
This grant will include original research projects in the proof-of-concept phase in the field of entrepreneurship, with a relevant potential for meeting national decarbonization objectives, through efforts in terms of energy transition. It aims to distinguish and support research work that contributes to the development of solutions applicable within a time horizon of 3 years.
The deadline for applications is 30 April 2024.
How to promote sustainable and smart marine spatial planning?
An international study led by Catarina Frazão Santos, professor at Ciências ULisboa, identifies ten key elements that promote the development and implementation of sustainable, equitable and climate-smart ocean use planning processes around the world.
The scientific article published on March 12 in the journal of the Nature group - npj Ocean Sustainability - was developed by scientists and experts from international organizations and academic institutions from Portugal, South Africa, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, United States, Italy and the United Kingdom.
REN Award - Applications until 30 April
The prize is awarded annually to the best master's theses in energy developed in Portuguese universities, and has a clear purpose: to contribute to the development of the energy sector in Portugal and to strengthen the interaction between REN and academia in Portugal.
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.
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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.