The day dawned with the promise of adventure: we are not 20,000 leagues under the sea, but 70 meters away from the water. View of the trays of the Ponte 25 de Abril, Lisbon is towel point-light and the girl who Ary dos Santos “sang”, overlooking the Tagus. Distance makes the monument, and sometimes also brings goose bumps to looking down. But we are in summer, and there is no wind tip to shake the courage of hesitant.
The starting point is the room of moorings within one of the pillars, through which more than 11 000 steel cables that support the bridge. José Costa Nunes and Francisco Mendes Godinho are engineers Portugal infrastructures that guide participants, providing technical explanations. The visit, on Wednesday, marked the official beginning of the Ciência Viva program in summer Network, an initiative of Ciência Viva – National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture, to which are associated scientific institutions, associations, centers Ciência Viva, municipalities and companies around the country.
Rosalia Vargas, president of Life Science Agency, created as a unit of the Ministry of Science and Technology in 1998, recalls the words of José Mariano Gago, then Minister of Science and Technology, and who died in April this year, ” We need to take science to where they are citizens, and the most simple and direct way ‘- these were the words that told me Professor Mariano Gago in the year that we created Ciência Viva in the summer, and today we are here in his honor. “
From bats to the stars
initiative that aims to promote scientific culture among the Portuguese society had its first edition in 1996, with the session Astronomy Beach , held in locations across the country. Today there are over 1,100 free shares spread across all districts of the country, between 15 July and 15 September, in which people of all ages can sign up over the Internet (in http://www.cienciaviva.pt and for more information there is the Summer Line: 218 985 050).
The entries this year come up now in more than 11 000 at the official opening day. From astronomy to engineering, passing by medicine, biology and geology, themes run through the various areas of science.
The astronomical observations, which initially began to be done only at beaches today take place in several parts of the country throughout the coast, but also through the interior, to be better protected from light pollution is optimal “telescope” to observe stars and planets. Freixo de Espada a Cinta is one of the places of these activities take place -. The session Closer to the stars , on 12 August, organized by the Life Science Center of Bragança
closer to the stars will also be participants in the session in Foz do Douro, which will take place on 5 August. The activity is organized by the Port Planetarium – Living Science Centre, which collaborates with the Center for Astrophysics at the University of Porto. Earlier still, on 24 July, held in Tavira an astronomical observation, this time organized by the Algarve Live Science Centre.
Geology is also one of the areas explored, with enough fertile Portuguese territory for these sessions. In Castromil in Paredes municipality, there is a trip down memory lane with a visit to the old gold mines. There will be eight sessions between July and September, the walls of City provides, in partnership with the Porto Planetarium. In Évora will take place on 15 July and 17 August, a route through the historic center, the Roman core to the Moorish quarter or Jewish quarter of the Alentejo town.
Closer to the public will get to nuclear medicine, with sessions of 18 and 15 July, organized by the Living Science Center of Coimbra – Exploratory Infante D. Henrique, in partnership with Hospital Center and University of Coimbra. Participants will know the medical field that uses radioactive substances to diagnose or treat disease.
In biology, the Nights of bats , organized by Living Science Center Alviela, county Santarém, and that take place between July and August promise participants to observe the flying mammals and identification of different species with ultrasonic detectors. In several days of July, August and September, there is, in grating in the municipality of Mafra, a visit to the Recovery Center of the Iberian Wolf. Visitors will get to know more about the last great predator of the Portuguese fauna in this activity organized by the Living Science Center Lousal, along with the Wolf Group -. Association for the Conservation of Lobo and its ecosystem
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