Oliveira has been awarded a six-year contract with C2TN to pursue his studies focused on cancer imaging and treatment. After two postdocs in the UK and USA, and a CEEC fellowship at iMM, Bruno is returning “home” 12 years later, after completing his PhD at our research campus. Bruno will develop the research project entitled …
C2TN is part of the consortium that won the Horizon Europe project MI-TRAP – Mitigating Transport-Related Air Pollution in Europe. Mi-TRAP will bring together 26 parties from universities, research centers, companies and industry. MI-TRAP project aims to improve the currently available Tools and services for air pollution mitigation from transport sources through a multi-dimensional approach. …
New Horizon Europe Project will focus on the impact of transports on air quality Read More »
Joana Madureira defended her PhD Thesis last June in Pharmacy and Health by the University of Salamanca. Joana was focused on the development of bioactive products through the recovery of waste generated by the olive oil extraction industry, using radiation technologies to promote the extractability of bioactive compounds. The main goal of the project was …
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 …
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 …
The new iMPact project will study the microplastics in the air Read More »
A team of researchers from C2TN, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Universide de Evora and José de Mello in the frame of the ERIHS.PT Platform, was in 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 …
Science for the study of Sepher Torahs at Açores Read More »
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 …
Three C2TN researchers have been awarded CEEC positions by FCT Read More »
Researchers from C2TN-IST and FCT-UNL were at Museu Medeiros e Almeida (link: https://www.museumedeirosealmeida.pt/) 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 Casa Museu team for their hospitality. The start of an interdisciplinary collaboration is …