The RadAR project, coordinated by the C2TN researcher Nuno Canha in collaboration with the Portuguese Environment Agency, has won funding in a call for citizen science projects promoted by the European project RadoNorm (www.radonorm.eu). The RadAR project is a citizen science project on radon management, officially supported by Ciência Viva. RadAR “Students as key players […]
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C2TN is part of the consortium composed by 15 partners that won the Horizon Europe project InChildHealth “Identifying determinants for indoor air quality and their health impact in environments for children: measures to improve indoor air quality and reduce disease burdens”. The project will integrate health, environmental, technical and social sciences research to identify determinants
C2TN was recently awarded a project funded by FCT in the 2022 Call for R&D Projects in All Scientific Domains. Vânia Martins is the Principal Investigator for the winning project iMPact — Investigation of road traffic as a source of microplastics in the environment”. Airborne microplastics (MPs) have been drawing increasing global attention due to
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A team of researchers from C2TN, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Universidade de Évora and José de Mello in the frame of the ERIHS.PT Platform, was in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, to characterize a set of Sepher Torah and other documents from the Hebrew Museum Sahar Hassamaim and the Public Library and Archive Regional. Using portable
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C2TN is part of the consortium composed by 10 partners that won the H2020 project ECF4CLIM “A European competence framework for a low-carbon economy and sustainability through education”. The aim of ECF4CLIM proposal is to co-design and test a European Competence Framework for climate change and sustainable development that is transdisciplinary and will enable and
In the 4th edition of the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEEC) promoted by FCT, three researchers have been awarded with grants for the implementation of their projects during a six-year period at C2TN. The research project granted to Susana Sousa Gomes has the goal to characterize the diachronic evolution of copper-based metallurgy in
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The colloquium “Archaeological Project Outeiro do Circo 2008-2021”, organized by the Beja Regional Museum and held on the 16th of October, aimed to share the results obtained over the 13 years of work, discuss and bring together the researchers who, over the years, have made their contributions to this project and and interested stakeholders. The
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Researchers from C2TN-IST and FCT-UNL were at Museu Medeiros e Almeida to analyze the medallions of Catarina de Bragança and Carlos de Inglaterra, and the Renaissance platters. The technique was X-ray fluorescence (XRF) with a portable spectrometer. Thanks to the Museu team for their hospitality. The start of an interdisciplinary collaboration is always promising and
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Joana Lage, PhD in Environmental Sciences, won a research contract in the 3rd edition of the Individual Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEEC) competition. Joana Lage will develop new strategies to monitor air pollution by using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with low-cost sensors. This work will focus on critical zones, such as rural, industrial, and urban areas. These
A researcher working at C2TN has been awarded a contract in the 2018 Individual Scientific Employment Stimulus Competition (CEEC), which is the second edition of this call promoted by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) for doctoral researchers in all scientific areas. The results announced by FCT indicate that 3631 applications were
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