Main goals
- Encourage scientific debates in Portuguese;
- Strengthen proximity and relationship among Portuguese-speaking countries’ scientists;
- Boost and consolidate contacts within science networks;
- Promote knowledge exchanges and foster research infrastructures’ shared use;
- Enhance the discussion of currently relevant scientific topics in a comprehensive and cross-cutting way.
Discussion topics
- Social lift – the role of Higher Education
- Climate change, truth and consequences
- Space, new frontiers and opportunities
- Technology development: the children of the abacus
- Biodiversity: the law of the strongest
- PhD scholarships – special session: scholarship holders
- Agriculture: from the plough to the satellites
- Health and medicine, Hippocrates in the XXI century
- Anthropocene: man Vs environment
- The digital revolution and AI: why, how and for whom
- Physics and development
- Ocean, the heart of the planet
- Global science, connecting the dots
Debates layout
- Platform: videoconferences via Zoom or equivalent platforms
*If possible, there may also be face-to-face sessions - Sessions length: 1h45/2h00
- Sessions Structure:
– Introduction to the topic by keynote speaker (15/20 mins);
– Round table debate with guest speakers (50/60 mins);
– Q&A.