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Global Entrepreneurship Week 2015
Date: November 16 – 22, 2015
url : http://www.sge.org.pt/

The Global Entrepreneurship Week is a celebration of the innovators and job creators who launch startups that bring ideas to life, drive economic growth and expand human welfare. During one week each November, GEW inspires people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators. The event started in 2008, and currently it is celebrated in more than 160 countries, and involves 25k partners.

In Portugal, the event is organized by Associação Portuguesa de Business Angels (APBA) and Associação para o Desenvolvimento Económico e Social (SEDES), and the main theme is Industry. The events will take place all over the country:

• November 3rd :: Kickoff at Startup Braga
• November 16th :: Opening Session at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)
• November 19th :: Women’s Entrepreneurship Day at Câmara de Comércio e Indústria Portuguesa
• November 19th :: Entrepreneurship Fair organized by ANJE
• November 20th :: Closing Session at Faculdade de Engenharia of the Universidade do Porto

“Science Today and The Future of Knowledge” – CNC’s International Conference
Date: November 20, 2015
Venue: Pavilhão do Conhecimento, Lisboa
url: http://www.cnc.pt/artigo/3457

The Centro Nacional de Cultura (National Culture Centre) is organizing an international conference under the theme “Science Today and The Future of Knowledge” to discuss the current state of science and the need to ensure knowledge for the future. This event will highlight, in particular, the coordination of international efforts to stimulate knowledge for worldwide development. This conference is the last of a cycle of events paying tribute to former Portuguese Minister of Science and Technology, José Mariano Gago and celebrates the 70 year-anniversary of the Centro Nacional de Cultura, under the theme “Science, Politics and Scientific Culture”.

For this conference, nearly 50 experts are expected to participate and among the names announced there can be found current and former government representatives, such as Ernie Moniz , U.S. Secretary of Energy; Carlos Moedas and Mario Campolargo , from the European Commission; Wang Weizhong and Liu Yanhua, Former Vice Ministers from People’s Republic of China; José Carvalho and Maria Teixeira, Science and Technology Ministers from Angola and Jorge Nhambiu, Science and Technology Minister of Moçambique.

Other representatives from worldwide organizations will be present, such as Deborah Roseveare and Andrew Wyckoff, Education and Science Directors from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Jean-Jacques Dordain , General Director from the European Space Agency (ESA); Dava Newman , Vice President of U.S.’s National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA); Irina Bokova, Maciej Nalecz and Guillermo A. Lemarchand from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and Sierd Clotingh , President of Academia Europea and Vice President of the European Research Council (ERC).

Experts from academia are also expected, the list includes Jared Cohon and Manuela Veloso from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Bruce Tidor , Phil Clay and Dan Roos from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Nuno Ferrand and Alexandre Quintanilha from Universidade do Porto (UP).

For more details on the events and the full list of expected lecturers in the conference, please visit CNC’s website.

Applications must be submitted online: https://si.flad.pt
Deadline for applications: November 15, 2015; 11:59 PM (Lisbon, Portugal time)

The Luso-American Foundation in collaboration with the National Science Foundation announces the Call for Proposals “2015 PORTUGAL – U.S. Research Networks Program”.

Researchers, Research teams and Laboratories in Portugal are invited to submit proposals for building joint research activities with partners in the United States. This program aims at promoting new or developing existing partnerships between Portuguese researchers and research institutions, and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) funded counterparts in the US.

FLAD grants up to 15.000 Euros each will be awarded to selected candidates from Portuguese institutions, to support travel, lodging, conferences, workshops, or other expenses associated with the research partnerships.

This program is expected to complement grant support provided by NSF to the US selected counterparts. US partners should be advised to seek “supplements” to their existing grants for similar expenses from the National Science Foundation. NSF grantees should submit a supplemental request to the program that made their existing grant (see http://www.nsf.gov/oise for instructions). NSF grantees should also indicate to their program managers that the supplement request may be co-funded by NSF’s International Science and Engineering section (OIIA/ISE) contingent upon the availability of funds. The US researcher’s supplemental request must include funding to send a student to the Portuguese lab for at least a month.

Eligibility Requirements:
1. Projects must be in the following areas:
a. Materials Science
b. Nanotechnology
c. Information Technology
d. Biotechnology
e. Environmental Science

2. Candidates must be affiliated with Research Centers or Universities in Portugal;

3. Candidates must propose partnerships with U.S. institutions or researchers who have ongoing grants from the National Science Foundation. Information on NSF Grantees is available on www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/

source: FLAD

Instituto Superior Técnico Ph.D. OpenDays
Date: November 9 to 12, 2015
Venue: Salão Nobre, IST
Agenda: http://phdopendays.tecnico.ulisboa.pt

IST is launching the Ph.D. OpenDays initiative with the main goal of offering the opportunity to more than 500 Ph.D. students of socializing and sharing their research, skills and expertize not only with the rest of the academic community, but also with the several companies that will be attending this event. The four Ph.D. OpenDays will take place in a very familiar and cozy atmosphere, where the students will have the opportunity to showcase their work and directly contact and discuss their research, opportunities and careers with the attending companies representatives. At the end of each day, several thematic panels and special presentations will take place, and the Ph.D. movies will be screened.

Several students and alumni of the CMU Portugal will be involved:
November 11, 2015 :: David Henriques will make a pitch on “Security of Cyber-physical Systems”
November 12, 2015 :: André Martins (alumn), Unbabel, will talk about “Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing”

When: November 20, 2015 @ 18:30 (Friday)
Where: OutSystems – Rua Central Park – Linda-a-Velha (map)
Registration: form
Further information: please contact Ricardo Marques (ricardo.c.marques@gmail.com)

OutSystems and the CMU Alumni Portugal Chapter are organizing an event about the #1 Rapid Application Delivery Platform for the Enterprise. The goal is to learn a bit about the OutSystems history, the challenges OutSystems faces everyday, and to get to know some of the people that make all of this possible. All the students and alumni are invited to participate.

The speakers will be:
Lúcio Ferão , principal engineer and co-founder, will tell how OutSystems grew from a small garage company to leader in Gartner magic quadrant with a strong international presence;
João Rodrigues , UX expert and CMU alumni (MHCI’11) will tell you a little bit about the opportunities and challenges of Enterprise UX, while shedding some light on how his CMU background helps him on his daily tasks.
Ricardo Marques , software engineer, security expert and CMU alumni (MSIT-IS’08) will tell why a company like OutSystems needs a SWAT team, the kind of challenges that the team addresses and how the education received from CMU plays an important role in these tasks.

How to get there:
Public Transport – Carris: 748, 751 (both at 5-minute walk)
By car – A5, take the Linda-a-Velha exit (parking at Central Park is free for the first hour, and there are usually parking spaces in the neighbouring streets)

Agenda:
18:30 Reception and Networking
19:00 Outsystems Intro (Lúcio Ferrão)
19:20 Enterprise UX (João Rodrigues)
19:40 Live to SWAT, SWAT to win, and other amazing stories (Ricardo Marques)
19:55 Closing words
20:30 Students and Alumni dinner, venue to be announced

Orientation Day 2015 in Aveiro, Portugal
CMU Portugal Program:
“Innovation Strategies in Established Companies”
With the beginning of a new academic year, we usually organize an event to welcome the newly enrolled students and the students that are arriving in Portugal for the first time. This year it is not an exception, and we have the involvement of the Alumni Chapter. The Orientation Day is scheduled for October 17th, in Aveiro, which is known as “The Venice of Portugal.” PT Inovação will be the host of the workshop and the theme will be “CMU Portugal Program: Innovation Strategies in Established Companies.” (please register here)

We are currently a community of more than 600 young and senior researchers from all over the world, that together contribute to the mission of the CMU Portugal Program, which is to create new knowledge in key focused areas of ICT by means of cutting edge research, world-class graduate education and a close connection with the Portuguese industry, aiming at placing Portugal at the forefront of Science and Innovation. Please note that this event is also open to all the students and alumni that are in Portugal at the time.

October 17th, 2015 :: Aveiro
Preliminary Agenda
(transportation will be provided from Porto and Lisbon to and from Aveiro :: form)

10:00am Registration
Venue: Oficina do Doce, Aveiro

10:15am Student Reception
Welcome Words
Students & Alumni Introductions
Student Matters

10:45am Pastry Workshop & Boat Trip in Ria de Aveiro

1:00pm Networking Lunch
Venue: PT Inovação, Aveiro

Workshop: “CMU Portugal Program: Innovation Strategies in Established Companies”

2:20pm Welcome Words
Alcino Lavrador, CEO, PT Inovação

2:40pm CMU Portugal Program Insights
João Claro, National Director, CMU Portugal Program

3:00pm Lightning Talks
Filipe Condessa, Dual Degree Ph.D. Student in ECE, IST/CMU
Manuel Loureiro, Dual Degree Ph.D. Student in EPP, FEUP/CMU

3:30pm Keynote: Building Bridges with the Scientific System as Enabler of Innovation
Alcino Lavrador, CEO, PT Inovação

3:50pm Roundtable on “Innovation Strategies in Established Companies”
João Paulo Costeira, researcher and professor at ISR/IST and scientific director of the CMU Portugal Program (moderator)
Alcino Lavrador, CEO, PT Inovação
Ricardo Cabral, ECE alumnus (IST/CMU) and computer vision researcher
Ricardo Marques, MSIN alumnus (UA/CMU) and senior software engineer, OutSystems

5:20pm Closing Remarks
João Claro, National Director, CMU Portugal Program

(more information about the speakers will be provided as soon as possible)
Invitation

Global Technological Trends: A Better World?
Date: October 15, 2015 at 9:30pm
Venue: Serralves Foundation, Porto
url: http://www.serralves.pt/pt/actividades/tendencias-globais-2030-tendencias-tecnologicas-globais-um-mundo-melhor/

The Serralves Foundation will be hosting a conference titled “Tendências Tecnológicas Globais: Um Mundo Melhor?”(Global Technological Trends: A Better World?), a discussion on what changes the coming technological advances can bring for Portugal. This event is part of a cycle of conferences called “Tendências Globais 2030: Os Futuros de Portugal” (2030 Global Trends: Portugal’s Futures).

The conference will be hosted by António M. Cunha, Rector of the University of Minho, with the presence of guest speakers José M.F. de Moura, from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and director of the CMU Portugal Program at CMU, and Andrea Ricci, director of the Institute of Studies for the Integration of Systems in Rome.

Tickets can be purchased in the Serralves Foundation website.

Madeira Interactive Tecnologies Institute (M-iti)
M-iti Holds the Public Kick-off of the Research Agenda for the Institute within the ERAChair
Date: October 10 th , 2015 at 18:30
Venue: Madeira Tecnopolo, Piso -2
url: http://www.m-iti.org

The Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-iti), created in the scope of the CMU Portugal Program, will hold on October 10 th , the public kick-off of the research agenda for the institute within the ERAChair. Chris Csikszentmihályi, who is the ERA Chair at the M-iti since the Fall of 2014, will present the project, drive the discussion on its research agenda, and host a public kick-off.

Local government and higher education representatives are expected to attend, such as Jorge Carvalho, Regional Education Secretary; Eduardo Jesus, Regional Economy, Turism and Culture Secretary; José Carmo, Rector of Universidade da Madeira; Francisco Costa, President of Universidade da Madeira’s Conselho Geral (General Council) and the Mayor of Funchal, Paulo Cafôfo.

Chris Csikszentmihalyi was selected to take over the ERA Chair in order to promote research and innovation in the area of ​​Design and Human Computer Interaction. With over ten years of experience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, where he led the “MIT Center for Future Civic Media” and the “Media Lab Computing Culture Group”, Chris Csikszentmihalyi is a world leader in the application of technologies in cultural contexts and global politicians.

The Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute is an innovation institute as defined by the statutes of the Universidade da Madeira and established as an associated independent non-profit R&D organization whose founding members are the University of Madeira, Madeira Tecnopolo S. A. and Carnegie Mellon University. M-iti, which is part of LARSyS, operates in the interdisciplinary domain of human-computer interaction encapsulating contributions from computer science, psychology and design in order to address and engage in important scientific and technological challenges that are both relevant to society and have significant economic impact.

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The Future is Already Here! – Future Cities Conference 2015
Date: September 25, 2015
Venue: Mosteiro São Bento da Vitória, Porto, Portugal
url: http://futurecities.up.pt/site/conference2015/
Agenda: here
Registration: here

The Future Cities Project is a FP7 funded project intended to reverse the deterioration of the cities’ public facilities and the citizens’ quality of life, likely to happen due to population growth and concentration in urban centers. It aims at unlocking the full potential of interdisciplinary research in urban technologies, as well as strengthening knowledge transfer activities in close cooperation with local and global industrial partners.

A key goal was to turn the city of Porto (Portugal) into an urban-scale living lab, where researchers, companies and startups can develop and test technologies, products and services, exploring such subjects as sustainable mobility, urban-scale sensing, safety and privacy, as well as quality of life for citizens and their families.

Being a project of the Universidade do Porto, and because of its multidisciplinary nature, the Future Cities involves research groups from several schools of the UP such as Engineering (FEUP), Psychology (FPCEUP) and Sciences (FCUP). In the Future Cities team, several members are closely related to the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program, such as Faculty Exchange Program participants, Scientific Directors, Ph.D. student advisors and other project (ERI, EBP, Lead projects) members.