Jorge Relvas is not only researcher in IDL and Professor at the Geology Department of FCUL, but also President of the Centro de Ciência Viva (CCV) Lousal - Mina de Ciência. He is this month's guest of the rubric “Guess Who”. (Versão Portuguesa no final da página) IDL - Can you tell us what does your research [...]
After Luxembourg, Germany, Brazil and Belgium, the next stop of IDL' s video rubric "Around the World" is Italy. Mara Limonta is a PostDoc at the University of Milano-Bicocca and she works on sedimentary geology. Here you can listen to the interview.
This Wednesday, Tech Labs- Innovation Center hosted the final of the contest ScienceIN2Business. 5 pitches of 5 minutes about innovative products were presented to the audience and juries. 2 of these 5 products are a result of the research done in IDL. Sílvia Nunes presented CeaseFire, which connects scientific knowledge to prevention, decision and combat [...]
Last Saturday, João Serra was one of the guest of the show "Godvibe" in the Kuriakos TV. The rubric was dedicated to the theme "Time to change: Sustainable and Renewable Energy". This TV channel has as its main audience young adults. Here you can listen to the interview. Image: Programa Godvibe
This Tuesday, Expo 98 turned 20 years! To celebrate this day, Pavilhão do Conhecimento - Centro de Ciência Viva brought together institutions producing research dedicated to the oceans. IDL, one of the invited institutions, participated in the celebration with 4 different interactive activities: Duelo entre a Terra e o Mar, Tsunami! O perigo que vem do Oceano, O [...]
Max Engel from the Geological Survey of Belgium, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences was the fourth guest of our video rubric "Around the World". After a short holiday in Portugal, he was invited by Pedro Costa to give a lecture at IDL about his work on sedimentary deposits. In this video, he reveals the importance [...]
Congratulations to Mina de Ciência - Centro Ciência Viva do Lousal for receiving the award "Best Public Project in Alentejo 2017", given by the Regional Tourism. The Centre is directed by Jorge Relvas and its executive director is Álvaro Pinto, both members of IDL. Image Credit: Entidade Regional do Turismo
The hundreds of high school students who visited the Faculty during its Open Day filled the corridors of IDL with voices and energy. Like in previous years, IDL researchers offered a large number of activities to the visitants. Testing a solar car, simulating a tsunami, observing minerals and rocks were just a few of the [...]
