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[16-06-2009]

Lisbon Forum on Innovative Approaches to ICT in Education

This upcomig 18th and 19th of June, the Lisbon Congress Centre hosts the Lisbon Forum on Innovative Approaches to ICT in Education.

[09-06-2009]

Welcome to the First Annual Carnegie Mellon | Portugal Conference

The First Annual Carnegie Mellon | Portugal Conference, entitled “Economy 3.0: Re-Boot and Re-Connect” is sponsored by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and will take place on June 22, 2009, at Palácio da Bolsa, Porto, Portugal.

[13-02-2009]

Figures for Portuguese personal computer market show greatest increase in Western Europe

The Portuguese market for Personal Computers in 2008 showed the greatest increase among Western European countries.

[10-02-2009]

Portuguese Government and Sun-Microsystems sign protocols

The Portugal – Sun Microsystems Accord, within the scope of the Technological Plan, will enable 2 million Portuguese citizens to have access to specialized training on the Internet and will strengthen the internationalization of research efforts in Portugal.

[09-02-2009]

New data from surveys on the Information Society in Portugal 2008

Publication on-line on the latest compilation of data on the Information Society in Portugal.

[03-02-2009]

Conference to Open European Year of Creativity and Innovation held in Portugal

The Belém Cultural Centre was the site of the formal opening of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation in Portugal, presided over by Carlos Zorrinho, National Coordinator of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation and Margarida Marques, Chief Representative of the European Commission in Portugal.

[22-01-2009]

Portugal moves up 5 places in European Ranking for Innovation

[13-01-2009]

MBA with MIT for top managers begins classes in Lisbon

[07-01-2009]

New Generation Networks: Government and operators sign agreement

[15-12-2008]

Investment in R&D increasing in Portugal

[30-09-2008]

Technological Plan highlighted at CIAPEM 2008

[25-09-2008]

Portuguese Government and Xerox Portugal sign Memo of Understanding

[24-09-2008]

Magalhães computer has arrived at schools

[22-09-2008]

Portugal to lead Iberian-American project to deal with the processes of dematerialization

[05-09-2008]

Volume of business in Services and IT increases

[20-08-2008]

In the last year Portugal was ranked 5th among European Union countries and 18th in the world (among 198 countries) for technology utilisation to improve Electronic Government.

According to the report* published on 19 August by the Brookings Governance Studies, Portugal has maintained its excellent performance in the improvements introduced in Electronic Government in the last year. It stands in 18th place in the world and 5th in the European Union.

[30-07-2008]

Technological Plan: e.escolinha (e-primary school) places 500,000 computers in primary schools. (www.inicitiva-magalhaes.com)

www.inicitiva-magalhaes.com)" >In the ambit of the Technological Plan initiative, the e.escolinha programme, half a million primary school pupils will receive laptop computers. This was announced by the Prime Minister in Lisbon on 30 July 2008.

[26-07-2008]

Technlogical Plan: Decisive step in the creation of the national aeronautic industry

The agreement between the Portuguese Government and the Brazilian aeornautics company, Embraer, was signed in Lisbon on 26 July

[26-07-2008]

Technlogical Plan: Decisive step in the creation of the national aeronautic industry

The agreement between the Portuguese Government and the Brazilian aeornautics company, Embraer, was signed in Lisbon on 26 July

[25-07-2008]

Portugal stands out for its adoption of mobile broadband

[25-07-2008]

Portugal stands out for its adoption of mobile broadband

[21-07-2008]

ACXIOM Study: Internet purchases up 50% in Portugal

[21-07-2008]

Portugal continues to attract investment and create employment in technologies

Lisbon receives Centre of Excellence integrated in the T-Systems’ d-Core Network

[17-07-2008]

Iberian International Nanotechnology Laboratory

Construction of the Iberian International Nanotechnology Laboratory starts following the conclusion of the international public tender.

[26-06-2008]

INOV Contacto Programme: Call for applications for international work placements

370 young graduates will be selected in this edition of the programme.

[26-06-2008]

Portuguese technology internationally recognised

Comment on Microsoft’s announcement of its largest ever investment in Portugal

[21-06-2008]

90.1% of Portuguese who use Internet consider the Technological Plan very important or important

[20-06-2008]

Technological Plan: Bell Laboratories in Portugal

A Memorandum of Understanding will be signed at the Knowledge Pavilion on 20 June 2008 between the FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology IP, UMIC – Agency for the Knowledge Society, IP and Alcatel-Lucent Portugal and the Bell Laboratories (Labs) which also belong to the international group Alcatel-Lucent.

[19-06-2008]

Portugal up 12 places in two years in the ranking that evaluates the preparation of OECD countries for the challenges of globalisation

[18-06-2008]

Administrative Simplification and e-Government

OECD: Portugal’s performance in this area considered good

[16-06-2008]

Technological Plan of Education: Prime Minister visits school of the future in Évora

The André de Gouveia School in Évora is one of the schools above the European average for the number of computers per student.

[02-06-2008]

Signing of agreements for the setting up of 4 Associated Laboratories

Today, 2nd June, the ceremony to mark the signing of the agreements for the setting up of four Associated Laboratories (AL) will take place in the Palácio das Laranjeiras, Lisbon at 11 o’clock.

[29-05-2008]

Broadband Efficiency Index 2007: Portugal is ranked as the 3rd most efficient country in the OECD for the promotion of broadband

According to the Broadband Efficiency Index, included in the study entitled “What Really Drives Broadband Adoption across the OECD?” produced and published by the Phoenix Center, Portugal had the 3rd best performance of the 30 OECD countries for its level of efficiency in adopting broadband. Only Iceland and Belgium were classified ahead of Portugal.

[28-05-2008]

NSRF: Another 396 million euros for companies

1147 new projects with 17,000 million euros investment in the NSRF calls for tender that terminated on 23 May

[19-05-2008]

OECD Broadband – December 2007 OECD Broadband Penetration Rate still fails to take mobile access into account

According to the OECD Broadband study published today, the fixed broadband penetration rate in Portugal stood at 14.4% in December 2007 following technical corrections introduced by the operators. It is recalled that the figure for the same period for 2005 was 11.5% which means that there was a 25% growth in two years.

[12-05-2008]

Science 2008: More Scientists for Portugal

A set of new incentives for Science in Portugal will be presented by the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, José Mariano Gago, on Monday 12th May at 11 a.m. at the Rectory of the University of Aveiro in a session presided by the Prime Minister, José Sócrates.

[09-05-2008]

Technological Plan

On 9th May, the “Hercules” Centre and the new Cisco Portugal headquarters were inaugurated in Lagoas Park. The inauguration took place during the signing of the memorandum between the Portuguese Government and Cisco.

[06-05-2008]

Technological Plan: Microsoft Protocols fully operational

At the start of 2008, it was the second anniversary of the cooperation agreement signed between the Portuguese Government and Microsoft during the visit of Bill Gates, the Chairman of Microsoft, to Lisbon. Today, both parties announced that the measures included in the Memorandum of Understanding are fully operational.

[02-05-2008]

Portugal is placed in top 10 for speed and access to Broad band

According to the report Explaining International Broadband Leadership published yesterday by the American Foundation The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Portugal is in 7th place for access speed to Broad band (BL) and 9th for price from a universe of 30 OECD countries.

[24-04-2008]

iTeach: portal for university IT teachers

The iTeach portal is a new visual facet for renewed communication with the community of university IT teachers in Portugal.

[23-04-2008]

€20 million investment creates mirror factory for photovoltaic units

Covilis, a Portuguese company in the multinational Saint-Gobain Group, has an investment project of around 20 million euros.

[21-04-2008]

National Strategic Reference Framework: more than 13,000 applications

The total number of applications already presented six months after the approval of the Operational Programmes represents one third of the funding of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF), which corresponds to 7000 million euros.

[17-04-2008]

Educational Technological Plan: Another 111,000 computers for Portuguese schools

The European Union’s Official Journal announced the international public call for tenders for the supply, installation and maintenance of 111 491 computers in the 2nd and 3rd cycles of Basic and Secondary School in the ambit of the Education Technological Plan.

[09-04-2008]

Portugal up 14 places in Public Administration capacity for the use of technologies

World Economic Forum has published the Global Information Technology Report 2007-2008 which considers Portugal the second in 127 countries for the importance the Government places on ICT in formulating its vision of the future.

[08-04-2008]

Carlos Zorrinho participates in the Baltic Information and Telecommunication Technologies Forum

The National Coordinator of the Lisbon Strategy and Technological Plan, Carlos Zorrinho, represents Portugal at the Baltic Information and Technologies Forum which takes place in Riga, Latvia from 9th to 11th April.

[14-02-2008]

7th in relative progress, Portugal up one place in the European Innovation ranking (EIS 2007)

According to the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) published today in Brussels, Portugal has the 7th best relative progress in innovation performance. This progress meant that Portugal rose one place in the overall ranking placing it among the group of “catching up” countries.

[24-01-2008]

Portugal is the 18th Country in the world in the environmental field

Portugal is in18th place for environmental performance in a global list of 149 countries according to the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) 2008 published in Davos by the World Economic Forum.

[21-01-2008]

BETT – Technologies for education

BETT, the world’s largest educational technology event took place in London from 9th to 12th January.

[21-01-2008]

Portugal on the Technological Frontier: OECD country with the 8th fastest Broad Band

[21-01-2008]

Portugal considered "best performing country" of the EU