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“Bolsas USA@PT” – Call 2016

The Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) is awarding grants for USA speakers to participate in seminars and conferences in Portugal. Applications must be individual and submitted online here.

Applications must include the folllowing:

– The event’s schedule;

– The foreseen budget detailing expenses and financing received, mentioning the co-sponsors;

– Brief biographical note of the USA speaker.

Application deadlines for conferences, seminars and workshops in Portugal beginning in:

· January 2016: applications submitted until September 30, 2015

· February 2016: applications submitted until October 31, 2015

· March 2016: applications submitted until November 30, 2015

· April 2016: applications submitted until December 31, 2015

· May 2016: applications submitted until January 31, 2016

· June 2016: applications submitted until February 29, 2016

· July 2016: applications submitted until March 31, 2016

· August 2016: applications submitted until April 30, 2016

· September 2016: applications submitted until May 31, 2016

· October 2016: applications submitted until June 30, 2016

· November 2016: applications submitted until July 31, 2016

· December 2016: applications submitted until August 31, 2016

Results will be announced within 60 days after the closing date of the application.

“Bolsas R&D@PhD” – Call 2016

The Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) is accepting applications for research internship grants at USA institutions, in an effort to strengthen the academic and research network between Portugal and USA.

The internships should focus on innovative technological and scientific themes and shall also contribute to improve the network of knowledge between the Portugal and American Institutions, thus facilitating the development of institutional partnerships. Applications must be individual and submitted online here.

Candidates must comply to the following requirements:

– Portuguese nationality or residency;

– Hold a position of doctoral student in a Portuguese Higher Education Institution and / or research center;

– Submit an internship work plan;

– Submit a recommendation letter from the Portuguese Host Institution;

– Submit an acceptance letter by the American Host Institution where the internship will take place;

– Submit a budget, detailing the foreseen costs and the financing sources that the candidate has or will apply to, for the stay in USA.

Application deadlines for oral presentations in USA conferences beginning in:

Internships beginning between January 1 and June 30, 2016:

· Applications: until October 31, 2015.

· Results: until December 31, 2015.

Internships beginning between July 1 and December 31, 2016:

· Applications: until April 30, 2016.

· Results: until June 30, 2016.

“Bolsas Papers@USA” – Call 2016

The Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) is awarding grants for oral presentations at USA conferences, to foster the internationalization of the scientific knowledge produced in Portugal. The grants will not cover poster presentations. Applications must be individual and submitted online here.

Candidates must comply to the following requirements:

– Portuguese nationality or residency;

– English language proficiency;

– Hold a position of doctoral student, professor or researcher in a Portuguese Higher Education Institution and / or research center;

– Submit a letter of recommendation from the Portuguese Host Institution;

– Submit a proof of acceptance to present at the conference, issued by the event’s organization (if this document is not yet available at the time of application, the candidate will have 30 days after the call’s deadline to submit it).

Application deadlines for oral presentations in USA conferences beginning in:

· January 2016: applications submitted until September 30, 2015

· February 2016: applications submitted until October 31, 2015

· March 2016: applications submitted until November 30, 2015

· April 2016: applications submitted until December 31, 2015

· May 2016: applications submitted until January 31, 2016

· June 2016: applications submitted until February 29, 2016

· July 2016: applications submitted until March 31, 2016

· August 2016: applications submitted until April 30, 2016

· September 2016: applications submitted until May 31, 2016

· October 2016: applications submitted until June 30, 2016

· November 2016: applications submitted until July 31, 2016

· December 2016: applications submitted until August 31, 2016

Results will be announced within 60 days after the closing date of the application.

TECHDAYS Aveiro & Conftele 2015
Date: September 17 and 18, 2015
Location: Aveiro EXPO – Parque de Exposições de Aveiro
url: http://www.techdays.pt/

TECHDAYS Full Schedule here

TechDays Aveiro is a two-day event designed to promote the Information Technology, Communications and Electronics (ICTE) sector and uphold its importance to Portugal’s economy, organized by the Telecommunications Institute (IT) in collaboration with the University of Aveiro (UA), the National Portuguese ICT Cluster (TICE.PT), Companies Association for an Innovation Network (INOVARIA) and the Municipality of Aveiro. The event will involve research and development centers, industry partners and higher education institutions.

During the two days, the event will feature conferences and debates, demonstrations of technology produced in the national R&D centers, a poster exhibition and a technology trade show dedicated to the ICTE industry. The Smart Cities platform will also host a technological exhibition.

The 10 th National Conference on Telecommunications (Conftele 2015) will be happening in paralel at the same venue. Conftele is an international forum for information exchange among universities, research units, service providers, operators and manufacturers, on the recent technical issues in the telecommunications industry.

To register, please follow this link: https://pco.abreu.pt/CLIENTES/abreu/formularios/form_8303608667.php

For more information, please contact: techdays@av.it.pt

CMU Portugal’s inRes 2014 selected team AddVolt featured in workshop Future Cities – Workshop on Entrepreneurship Strategies and Business Opportunities
Date: September 3, 2015, 15h00 – 18h00
Venue: UPTEC, Porto
url: http://futurecities.up.pt/site/workshop-on-entrepreneurship-strategies-and-business-opportunities/

The Future Cities Project is a FP7 funded project that 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. This project will be hosting its Entrepreneurship Strategies and Business Opportunities workshop at UPTEC, Porto.

This event will have the participation of CMU Portugal’s inRes 2014 selected team, AddVolt.

Schedule

14h30 Check-in

15h00 Future Cities

Daniel Moura

15h30 Ceiia

16h00 Celfocus

Daniel Dias e Paulo Patrício

16h30 Startups pitch (15 min each)

Still Urban Design

Casas em Movimento

Addvolt

Registration form is available at http://goo.gl/1doxSe

BIN@Porto – An Unique Innovation Event
Date: November 2 – 4, 2015
Venue: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
url: http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~binporto2015/

The Faculdade de Engenharia of Universidade do Porto (FEUP), with the support of the Science and Technology Park of University of Porto (UPTEC) and in partnership with the University of Sheffiled and the Universidade de São Paulo, is organizing the 6 th International BIN@ Event, an annual meeting of the Business & Innovation Network.

The BIN@ is an informal international network of academic and industry partners engaged and supporting the creation of a sustainable forum for sharing good practices and opportunities in Innovation, with currently over 1600 delegates worldwide and has hosted 5 annual international events so far, held in Portugal, UK and Brazil.

BIN@’s objective is to develop a sustainable international network of partners from across industry, academia, investment, incubation, business development and economic development agencies to support the sharing of good practice and knowledge and to promote open innovation.

The Event BIN@PORTO will include:

• Technologies Showroom
• Business Showcase
• 14 thematic Action Tank sessions
• 10 Open Sessions
• 24h Challenge on Product Design & Development
• Several networking activities
• Complementary Events

The registration form can be found here.

Feedzai, one of the startups created in the scope of the CMU Portugal Program, is one of its “five-star” sponsors
Money 20/20 Hackathon – 2015 Edition
Date: October 25 – 28, 2015
Venue: Las Vegas, USA
url: http://www.money2020.com/node/15156

The Money20/20 Hackathon is the largest financial technology event, with the participation of more than 500 developers from over 15 countries and 10 of the most influential brands. Participants will have 24 hours to showcase their skills and vision using the APIs, SDKs and other tools from today’s leading innovators in Payments and Financial Services, competing for a prize package of more than $125K.

This event is hosted by Money20/20, the largest global event focused on payments and financial services innovation for connected commerce at the intersection of mobile, retail, marketing services, data and technology. Sponsored by the biggest names in the industry, such as VISA, MasterCard and PayPal; the 2015 edition also has Feedzai, one of the startups created in the scope of the CMU Portugal Program, as one of its “five-star” sponsors.

Registration for participants is available until October 22, 2015. The first Money 20/20 Europe edition is already scheduled for April 2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Portugal Ventures – Call for Entrepreneurship
Date: September 3, 2015
Location: Portugal
url: http://www.portugalventures.pt/en/content/call-entrepreneurship-7

Portugal Ventures has launched a new initiative to promote investment for market-oriented scientific and technological projects in the Seed Capital phase, the Ignition Programme.

The Ignition Programme’s main goals are to reinforce the Portuguese entrepreneurship ecosystem by improving the link between entrepreneurs, R&D centres, incubators, industry experts and Venture Capital; and help highlight the value of scientific and technological knowledge and use of its potential to change the structure of the Portuguese economy and to increase its competitiveness.

By participating in the Programme, the selected projects will have access to the following:

• Contact with the Ignition Partners Network – preparation of application to be investment ready, coaching and incubation;
• Assignment of a significant majority of the start-up share capital to its founders;
• Expert mentoring of the projects funded by Portugal Ventures, by both national and international experts;
• The opportunity to be accelerated or incubated in international hubs of innovation;
• Periodic Calls/Cycles of investment (see the calendar).

Submission Calendar:

Until 14th September 2015 – Pre-Screening of the projects submitted to the Twelfth Call For Entrepreneurship

17th or 28th or 29th or 30th September 2015 – Pitches to the Assessment Panel

12th October to 14th October 2015 – Assessment by and Pitches to the Board of Directors of Portugal Ventures

Until 14th January 2016 – Conclusion and Investment

Find more information on the Ignition Programme here.

The Ignition Programme is an initiative included in the +e+i Programme.

The Venture Capital funds managed by Portugal Ventures are backed by the European Union through FINOVA, COMPETE and POR LISBOA.

EMNLP 2015 – Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Date: September 17 – 21, 2015
Location: Culturgest, Lisbon
url: http://www.emnlp2015.org/
Online registration is open until September 11, 2015
Students may apply for attendance grants until August 26 th 2015 here.

The 20 th edition of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2015) is organized by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL – SIGDAT), a special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP. It is one of the main forums in which the scientists in the language technologies area disseminate their cutting-edge research work.

The local organization team includes not only staff from Instituto Superior Técnico, but also representatives from its spin-off community (Priberam and Unbabel), and its research institutes (INESC-ID and IT). In fact, one of the two local Chairs is André Martins, who was the first dual degree student of the Portugal Carnegie Mellon program in Language Technologies.

This event is part of a series of conferences on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, established as one of the main forums in which the scientists in the language technologies area disseminate their cutting-edge research work.

The program schedule includes invited talks by some of the world’s best known researchers in the area: Yoshua Bengio, who will talk about neural language models, and the recent impressive results on machine translation and on mapping an image to a sentence, and Justin Grimmer, who will discuss how elected officials and constituents communicate, and show how representation style affects American politics.

The first two days of the conference will be devoted to 7 parallel workshops and 8 tutorials. The list of tutorials also highlights the growing impact of this type of data driven approaches on topics such as personality analytics, semantic similarity, information extraction, knowledge acquisition from the web, social media text analysis, learning semantics from text, multiword expressions, and affect and emotion.