Science invades Braga in November – Morning Post

City accepts challenge to host Science Month.

Braga is dressing up for scientist to receive the month of Science as early as November. The challenge was launched by the Foundation Francisco Manuel dos Santos (FFMS) after the success of the initiative in Porto.

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The Science of the month will also have conferences and exhibitions in Coimbra, and went further south of this city, the program does not leave out Lisbon, specifically the National Museum of Natural History and Science of capital, which will launch the stage of the study Scientific Culture in Portugal: Tools to perceive the world and to learn how to change it , November 23.

Guest “brain” international Math
This authentic festival dedicated to science kicks off November 11, in Coimbra, with the conference Mathematics Culture and Creation . The event will bring to our country one of the greatest mathematicians of our time, the French Cédric Villani, whose biography can be visited on the official website of their own:. Www.cedricvillani.org/biography (in French and English)

The 19th is the highlight of the month dedicated to science. After June organizing a conference at the Casa da Música in Porto, to discuss the digital world and the impact of new technologies, the FFMS will now make a new national meeting. This time the debate will be in Braga and the focus is on the importance of scientific knowledge for society and for the policy.

“To confirm the trend that has been in Porto, we have another successful mobilizing more young people to participate in this meeting, “said Nuno Grouper, president of the FFMS, the Morning Post .

Raise the curtain for Science in three acts
Named after Science in three acts: society, prosperity and political , the event will take place between 9.00 and 20.00 at the Circus Theater, located on Avenida da Liberdade Braga. Until October 26 you can purchase each ticket for 15 euros, on sale at the FFMS site and the site of the debate. However, from that date, the value of the tickets on for 20 euros. In the case of student pays only three euros. Whatever the price, all tickets have lunch included.

For the city of Braga this debate could not come at a better time. “It will prove that Braga is the international roadmap for Science, Research and already has many interconnection projects between the various existing research centers at the University of Minho,” said Ricardo Rio, Mayor of the city.

Coimbra has more charm at the time of statistical
The exhibition Pordata Viva: the power of data will move the Pavilion of Knowledge in Lisbon, to the center of Coimbra Live Science on 24 November. This initiative (which can recall by clicking on the video below) had more than 110,000 visitors in Lisbon and proved the children and adults that statistical data is not an animal-of-seven heads.

Play with statistics in Knowledge Pavilion

“Teachers, parents and grandparents will find here something that enchants and become even stronger this relationship between each of us and statistics,” explained the CM Maria João Rosa, coordinator of Pordata, the most important site with data on Portugal, you can visit in www.pordata.pt.

play with statistics in Knowledge Pavilion

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