Knowledge Networks News 3rd Meeting of the Governing Committee of the UT Austin – Portugal Programme 3rd Meeting of the Governing Committee of the UT Austin – Portugal Programme
The main management body of the UT Austin – Portugal Programme, the Governing Committee, met for the 3rd time on 3 October 2008, a little more than a year and a half since the Launch of the UT Austin – Portugal Programme, on 2 March 2007. The meeting was concerned with analysing the progress verified in each area (Digital Content, Advanced Computing, Mathematics, and the stimulation of commercialisation activities related to science and technology by UTEN – the University Technology Enterprise Network), the strategic plan for each of these areas and the general guidelines for the awarding of budgets, research project bidding processes, new advanced training Programmemes for the PhD and Executive Masters Programmes, the affiliation of companies to the Programme, and improvement in the dissemination and communication of the Programme and its activities.
The Board of Directors of the UT Austin - Portugal Programme is headed by the President of FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, IP, and this also includes the President of Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC), the Vice-President for Research and the Associate Vice-President for Research from the University of Texas at Austin, as designated by the Provost of this university, and the two co-directors of the Programme, in Portugal and at UT Austin.