Rector's Logic – May 2024

10 de May, 2024

On 13 May, the first EUTOPIA Day will be celebrated (…) and NOVA will once again be present with a special programme on practically all its sites, so I invite all members of our community to get to know the work of this innovative member of the EUTOPIA Alliance and to take advantage of this celebration to explore collaboration opportunities in this important network.

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NOVA Culture

8 de May, 2024

A cultural itinerary of the University’s spaces and an agenda of initiatives open to the community are available on the NOVA Cultura website.

"A prominent figure in the field of labour law, recognised in Portugal, Europe and beyond". NOVA University Lisbon awarded Professor António Monteiro Fernandes the title of Doctor Honoris Causa

7 de May, 2024

The ceremony, which took place on Monday 6th at the NOVA University Lisbon, was full of praise and affection. 

  

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50 years of 25th ABRIL at NOVA: Freedom started here too

6 de May, 2024

On the fiftieth anniversary of 25 April, we remember the historical landmark found in NOVA: the starting point of the Batalhão de Caçadores 5. It was from here that, in the early hours of 1974, the march to Rádio Clube Português began, where the first democratic message was broadcast.

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30th April 1974: the day on which the NOVA University Lisbon congratulated the National Salvation Board on the "general lines of the service it intends to offer the country"

29 de April, 2024

Five days after the 25th of April 1974, the Installation Committee of the NOVA University Lisbon approved the sending of a telegram to the Junta de Salvação Nacional (J.S.N.) – the Portuguese name of the so-called National Salvation Boardm congratulating it for having found in the programme adopted by this provisional governmental body “the general lines of the service it proposes to offer the country”. It also points out that NOVA “sees the broadest perspectives for its action and expresses to the J.S.N. its adherence to the principles it proclaims and defends”. 

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30 April 1974: the day on which the NOVA University Lisbon congratulated the National Salvation Council on the “general lines of the service it proposes to offer the country”.

29 de April, 2024

Five days after the 25th of April 1974, the Founding Committee of the NOVA University of Lisbon approved the sending of a telegram to the Junta de Salvação Nacional (as for National Salvation Board), congratulating it on finding in the programme adopted by this provisional government body “the general lines of the service it proposes to offer the country”. He also points out that NOVA “sees the widest perspectives for its action and expresses to the J.S.N. its adherence to the principles it proclaims and defends”.

Signed by Professor Doctor Gonçalves Ferreira, Doctor Maria de Lourdes Belchior, Eng. Delgado Domingos, Doctor Alfredo de Sousa and Dr Silveira Botelho, it states that: “The NOVA University of Lisbon, still in the process of structuring and installation, seeks from the outset to be guided by educational and scientific objectives typical of a truly democratic society that we wish to build in the country”.

This document, which belongs to the archives of the NOVA University of Lisbon, marks the university’s position on a day full of strong emotions – five days and five nights after the dawn we had waited for so long, that whole, first and clean day, April 25, 1974, the day before May 1, Labour Day, declared a national holiday, would be marked above all by the arrival of the exiles in Lisbon: On the same Air France flight, the general secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party, Álvaro, Cunhal, the musicians José Mário Branco and Luís Cília and the future archaeologist Cláudio Torres returned.

Moreover, as the 30 April edition of Diário de Lisboa, which proclaimed in its headline a country “on the road to democracy”, pointed out, support for the J.S.N. was already beginning to emerge from the most diverse representatives of Portuguese society – from the Portuguese Society of Authors to the hundred and fifty scientists from the Gulbenkian Institute of Sciences, including the immense mass of students, who announced their “unequivocal adherence to the movement”.

 

 

Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships)

24 de April, 2024

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships) fund excellence in research and innovation by supporting researchers at all stages of their careers. They provide new knowledge and skills through cross-border mobility and exposure to different sectors and disciplines.

The MSCA-PF fellowships promote research excellence and are intended for PhD holders who wish to develop their research activities abroad, acquire new skills, advance their careers, and gain experience in other countries, disciplines, and non-academic sectors.

Interested researchers must apply together with a host organization, which can be a university, research institution, company, small or medium-sized enterprise, or another organization based in an EU Member State or a country associated with the Horizon Europe program. All disciplines are eligible for these postdoctoral fellowships, including research areas covered by the Euratom Research and Training Program.

NOVA at the launch of European Youth Week in Brussels with a focus on the European elections  

17 de April, 2024

Invited by UNICA network, NOVA University Lisbon attended the beginning of the meeting that takes place in Brussels until the 19th, and which aims to involve universities in a campaign to encourage young people to vote in the next elections for the European Parliament.  

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Rector's Logic – April 2024

2 de April, 2024

The debate on new forms of work organisation and their implications for labour law itself is an issue of great relevance to our society and deserves reflection from all of us. 

  

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Doctoral Research Fellowships within the EUTOPIA Alliance: Applications open until 26th April

8 de March, 2024

To enable students to make the most of the scientific environment of the alliance of European universities to which NOVA belongs, and to develop high-quality research projects with a global impact, doctoral research grants will be awarded to those who choose NOVA as their main institution. 

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24th edition of the "Trusted Brands" survey: Elvira Fortunato among the most trusted Portuguese personalities

7 de March, 2024

The winners of the 24th edition of the “Trusted Brands” survey, which assesses the level of trust Portuguese people have in a range of everyday realities – brands, personalities, professions and institutions – have just been announced. Once again, Elvira Fortunato’s name appears on this list. 

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Campolide Campus: Embracing Greenery in Every Shade

6 de March, 2024

Since green areas are an essential part of the urban environment, the vegetation around the campus where NOVA’s parsonage is located is made up mainly of Mediterranean species. The aim is to adapt to the local climatic conditions – and thus to meet NOVA’s objective of being a civic, global, and sustainable university. 

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NOVA celebrates International Women’s Day 

1 de March, 2024

“Investing in women: accelerating progress” is this year’s theme, which aims to highlight the difficulty of meeting the challenges of the 2030 Agenda given the lack of funding for measures to promote gender equality. 

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NOVA presents the university to schools in Kenya 

28 de February, 2024

For four days, it was possible to present NOVA degrees and also SUPERNOVA, a unique programme in Portugal for pre-university students, designed to help students from different countries adapt to the European education system, and its SUMMER SCHOOL. 

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Call for NOVA students: the next EUTOPIA Ideas Club will focus on climate change. Apply until the 10th March!

26 de February, 2024

Are you a NOVA undergraduate student, are you interested in climate issues, and do you want to represent the University at a meeting of the Alliance of European Universities of which we are a member? The next EUTOPIA Ideas Club, to be held in Venice next 23 April, will be dedicated to climate change and applications are open until 10 March. 

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All about NOVA at Futurália: Portugal's biggest education, training and employability fair is coming up

26 de February, 2024

In its 15th edition, the largest education fair in the country will once again have a very special stand, where you will be able to find the entire academic offer of NOVA University Lisboa. Come and visit us from the 20th to the 23rd of March: we will be right at the entrance of the FIL, in Lisbon. 

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Meet NIMSB – NOVA Institute for Medical Systems Biology support team

22 de February, 2024

A team from NOVA Institute for Medical Systems Biology (NIMSB) is already working at the Rectorate of NOVA University of Lisbon and intends to strengthen the collaboration between all the institution’s organic units. NIMSB wants to attract top scientists in the areas of biomedical research and precision medicine.

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#Team NOVA: Diana, Our Young Climate Ambassador 

7 de February, 2024

Since the beginning of the year, Diana Neves, Junior Project Manager supporting the Communication Department and Welfare Services at NOVA University Lisbon, has been one of the chosen ones to give voice to the European Climate Pact, an initiative by the European Commission aimed at engaging people and organizations for a more sustainable Europe. 

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NOVA marks International Education Day

24 de January, 2024

The annual celebration of International Education Day on 24 January, as decided by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 2019, highlights the fundamental importance of education in promoting peace, social justice and sustainable development. 

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EUTOPIA_HEALTH: the innovative project of the European University Alliance of which NOVA is a member has been officially launched. 

19 de January, 2024

This is an initiative that aims to improve the academic panorama in health-related fields in the so-called expanding European countries, to reduce disparities in research and value creation.

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EUTOPIA Talks debut at NOVA Cairo: three talks are already scheduled with researchers from the alliance of European universities to which NOVA belongs. 

18 de January, 2024

The NOVA campus in the Egyptian capital, the first of a Portuguese university outside the national territory, will host a series of lectures throughout 2024 with top researchers from the various partners of EUTOPIA, the alliance of European universities to which NOVA belongs. 

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Society and Territory Conference – Collaborative Dynamics for Sustainable Innovation "It is through the transformation of cities that most of today's problems will be solved"  

17 de January, 2024

The first major conference of the year at NOVA was dedicated to how the university can contribute to supporting and finding solutions that respond in a sustainable way to the problems of the community in which it operates. Matching single people with students looking for accommodation, to be implemented next academic year, is one of the proposals. But it’s not the only one.  

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NOVA technology for cancer treatment licensed to BioNTech

11 de January, 2024

The agreement, announced this week by Portuguese biotech company CellmAbs, a spin-off of NOVA University Lisbon, includes patented technology originating from NOVA’s Faculty of Science and Technology (NOVA FCT) and developed in collaboration with the Portuguese Institute of Oncology of Porto (IPO) and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) in Germany.

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14th edition of SUPERNOVA open for applications: unique programme in Portugal now accepting applications for the semester starting in September 

4 de January, 2024

Due to increasing demand, this unique programme in Portugal, which aims to help students from different countries adapt to the European education system, is now accepting applications for the next semester. 

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ADN Award

4 de January, 2024

The Prémio Agir Diferente na NOVA (ADN) aims to stimulate innovation at NOVA University Lisbon and recognise good practices that have already been implemented.

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AI for Online Gambling Addiction Prevention

27 de December, 2023

Online Gambling is a major industry in Europe, albeit having potentially devastating social and personal consequences, especially for those most prone to addictive behaviours. For the Portuguese Gambling Inspection and Regulation Service, identifying the actual scope of gambling addiction and dealing with this problem has become a growing challenge. To address this, Mauro Castelli and his team from NOVA IMS developed an AI-based system that employs data from online gambling providers operating nationally and models the behaviours associated with addicted gamblers, allowing for their early detection. Using historical data from 2019, the team was able to identify approximately 1500 users corresponding to pathological players.  

Employing the system developed at NOVA, the Portuguese authority is now able to receive automatic alerts when a user is moving toward a “dangerous” behaviour, enabling them to design prevention actions that protect citizens at risk of developing serious addiction.  

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SDG Target 3.5- Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol.

 

NOVA CellmABS spin-off awarded by Portugal Ventures  

21 de December, 2023

The biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of the next generation of immunotherapies has just had its work recognised in two categories: Startup Health Technologies Award 2023 and Startup Revelation Award 2023. 

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