Centro Ciência LP

Consortia

The first 2 Consortia were established in 2019, aiming the sustainable and continuous development of activities that will ensure the advanced training of scientists from Portuguese Speaking Countries, within the scope of the installation and promotion of “Centro Ciência LP”, under the terms agreed with UNESCO in 2009. In 2020, a third Consortium was established, and in 2021 two new Consortia joined the group. The last Consortium was established in 2022.

Through the signature of Protocols with FCT, were created the Consortium of Engineering Schools (CEE) and the Consortium of Schools of Agriculture (CECA). In 2020 the 2 Consortia were joined by the Consortium of Biodiversity and Natural Sciences (CEBiCNa), and in 2021, the Consortium of Public Health Schools (CESP), and the Consortium of Life Sciences and Biomedicine Schools (CCVB) were also established.
The Consortia aim to promote the Centro Ciência LP in the fields corresponding to engineering sciences, technology and related areas and in agrarian sciences in their multiple areas, including, among others, agriculture, forestry, food and natural products, biological and environmental resources, biodiversity and ecosystem services, and public health, life sciences and biomedicine, as well as the underlying fundamental sciences, particularly fostering:

a) The cooperation between scientific and academic institutions of Portuguese Speaking countries, in order to ensure the social responsibility of national institutions at regional and international level;

b) The identification and systematic involvement of institutional partners at scientific and academic level in Portuguese Speaking countries, being given priority to scientific and technological institutions with strong local and endogenous roots to local activity, in addition to others to be later developed in the scope of “Centro Ciência LP”.

Within the scope of their responsibilities, the established Consortia shall:

a) To ensure the technical functioning for the development of the work of the Consortium;

b) To ensure the conditions for receiving and hosting the students with a PhD scholarship awarded by FCT within Ciencia LP Centre’s framework, whose host institution is one of the R&D units associated with the Consortium’s schools, namely their monitoring, as well as providing the necessary means for carrying out the work included in their PhD plan, including the components carried out in Portuguese Speaking countries;

c) To compete and apply for funding programes that enable the promotion of higher education training actions in Portuguese Speaking countries, namely advanced training and scientific capacity building;

d) To support the preparation of funding projects that enable scientific and technological structures to be set up or dynamised in Portuguese Speaking countries, including the organization of workshops and seminars within the Consortium’s scientific areas.

Centro Ciência LP

Consortia

Within the scope of their responsibilities, the established Consortia shall:

Consortium of Engineering Schools (CEE)

Consortium of Schools of Agriculture (CECA)

Consortium of Biodiversity and Natural Sciences Schools (CEBiCNa)

Consortium of Public Health Schools (CESP)

Consortium of Life Sciences and Biomedicine Schools (CCVB)