«The Videocast represents an essential support»

01.09.2020

The marine conservation technician at the Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA), Nuno Oliveira, describes the role of the service managed by the FCCN Unit, of the FCT, Videocast, in the project “Cagarras nas Berlengas | Natureza na Web” – an initiative that seeks to “promote environmental education and awareness” through uninterrupted, live transmission from a nest of this bird species.

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Registration for the 11th Luso-Brazilian Open Science Conference is now open.

14.08.2020

The event will take place online from October 6th to 8th. The program focuses on sharing, discussing, and disseminating knowledge, practices, and research on Open Access to Knowledge and Open Science.

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1st edition of the Advanced Computing Projects Competition

14.08.2020

Around 27 million core hours available on the National Advanced Computing Network.

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Winners of the 3rd Edition of the Arquivo.pt Award 2020

14.08.2020

Arquivo.pt, a research infrastructure managed by FCT, through its National Scientific Computing Unit (FCCN), announced the three winning finalists of the 3rd Edition of the Arquivo.pt Award 2020.

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“Summer 2020 RCTS CERT Capture The Flag” Results – Extremely Positive Balance  

11.08.2020

The Computer Security Incident Response Service of the Science, Technology and Society Network – RCTS organized a “Capture The Flag” event, between August 4th and 6th, lasting 50 hours. 

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«EllaLink station installation is almost complete»

03.08.2020

General Coordinator of the FCCN Unit, João Nuno Ferreira, visited the Sines station, intended to host the EllaLink submarine cable, and revealed some details about this structure.

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Arquivo.pt introduces new features

03.08.2020

The Portuguese web preservation service now includes two new features: viewing with an old browser and exporting search results.

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“Summer 2020 RCTS CERT Capture The Flag” takes place in August

28.07.2020

The FCCN unit of the Foundation for Science and Technology, through its Security Incident Response Service, RCTS CERT, is organizing a "Capture the Flag" event from August 4th to 6th. The initiative is open to students in higher education, secondary education, and vocational training. 

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Watch the Lightning Talk by Luís Sampaio, an ISEP student

27.07.2020

An ISEP student participates in GÉANT's Future Talent Programme with support from the National Scientific Computing Unit. Luís Sampaio's Lightning Talk presents his research on synthetic telepathy integrated into messaging applications, conducted in collaboration with his colleague Fábio Lourenço.

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Colibri now offers webinar services

24.07.2020

Pilot project will allow the RCTS community to use the Colibri service to hold events with more than 300 participants.

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OCRE Project announces funding for cloud and digital services that support research

20.07.2020

The Open Clouds for Research Environments (OCRE) Consortium announced the opening of applications for a program focused on cloud or digital services to support scientific activities and researchers. Applications will open on September 15th.

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FCCN launches new RCTS CERT website

17.07.2020

The FCCN unit has just launched the new RCTS CERT website, the service for responding to computer security incidents originating from or targeting RCTS – Science, Technology and Society Network

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