The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), through its Science and Technology Archive (ACT), is organizing the “Archives of Knowledge: Science, History and Memory” series in 2025. The 2nd Session will take place at April 16th, starting at 2:30 pm, at the FCT facilities (Av. D. Carlos I, 126, Lisbon).
This cycle aims to disseminate the documentary collection of the FCT Science and Technology Archive, as well as other relevant documents for the history and memory of Science and Technology in Portugal, through the promotion of five short sessions, held in an informal and sharing environment.
Paula Diogo, member of the FCT CD and Paula Meireles, coordinator of the Science and Technology Archive, will open this session, which will have as guest speaker the researcher Quintino Lopes (Institute of Contemporary History, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, University of Évora/IN2PAST – University of Évora).
See the detailed event program on the ACT website and register for free here.
The ACT is unique in the history of scientific activity in Portugal, with the function of preserving and managing the documentary record of national scientific production, translated into thousands of grant applications, institutions, and research projects. Open to the public since December 16, 2011, it holds a significant documentary collection that includes, in addition to the FCT's own archive from 1997 onwards, the collection of the National Board of Scientific and Technological Research (JNICT), from 1967 to 1997, and other public and private organizations, primarily in the area of science policy and funding in Portugal.
Three more sessions of this cycle are scheduled for 2025, to be held on June 18, September 17, and November 19. All information about the specific programs for each session will be made available in due time on this page.
