MIT Portugal collaboration enters new phase

Friday, October 26, 2018 - 15:40 in Mathematics & Economics

The MIT Portugal Program (MPP) recently held the inaugural conference for MPP2030, which is an effort to strengthen Portugal’s knowledge base and international competitiveness through strategic investments in research, people, and ideas in areas of global relevance and with significant societal impact. The conference theme — “An international partnership toward the challenges of complex systems” — not only recognized MPP's most recent achievements, but more importantly showcased and presented the new scope and targets for coming years. The event, held on Oct. 1 in Lisbon, was opened by Portugal's Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education Manuel Heitor; Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT, the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation) President Paulo Ferrão; U.S.-based MIT Portugal Program 2030 Director Dava Newman; and Lisbon-based MIT Portugal Program 2030 Director Pedro Arezes. Other conference presenters included José Moutinho of the Atlantic International Research (AIR) Centre and MIT professors John Hart, Douglas Hart, and Jessika Trancik. Students, faculty, and principal investigators were also given an opportunity to share their...

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