News
- Exhibition and Talks on "Journey to the Centre of the Computer" in Abrantes - 17/02/2010
The evolution, language and components of the computer are the theme of the exhibition "Journey to the Centre of the Computer", open to the public at the Centre for New Technologies, Edifício Pirâmide, Abrantes, from 24 February to 31 March 2010. This has been organized by the Abrantes Town Hall and the Abrantes School of Technology, a branch of the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar.
- Valimar Digital Seminar - 06/03/2009
The Valimar Digital Seminar was held on 6th March 2009 at Viana do Castelo Municipal Library, at which the results of the Digital Regions and Cities project “Valimar Digital” and the Community Networks project Valimar Net, both co-funded by the POSC – Knowledge Society Operational Programme, were presented.
Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC) was represented at the seminar by Professor Graça Simões, who gave a presentation entitled Information Society – Portugal in Change. New Generation Networks.
- Vale do Minho with New Generation Network - 26/09/2008
The Vale do Minho Digital Forum took place on 29 and 30 September 2008 in Melgaço with a round of workshops on the first day followed on the second by the presentation of the results of the Vale do Minho Digital project.
This project, which was approved in September 2005, is one of the 33 projects forming part of Digital Cities and Digital Regions which has been carried out throughout Portugal in order to implement the Digital Portugal project, envisaged in 2000 as part of the Operational Information Society Programme (POSI), and later continued in the Knowledge Society Operational Programme (POSC). Together these projects cover 287 of the country’s 308 municipalities and cover roughly 95% of the entire national territory.
- Presentation of the results of the Leiria Digital Region Project - 15/07/2008
The public session to present the results of the Leiria Digital Region project took place at a ceremony chaired by the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education at Castelo de Ourém, on 15 July 2008, starting at 11:00.
This project is one of the 33 projects forming part of Digital Cities and Digital Regions which has been carried out throughout Portugal in order to implement the Digital Portugal project, envisaged in 2000 as part of the Operational Information Society Programme (POSI), and later continued in the Knowledge Society Operational Programme (POSC).
- Call for tender for Preparatory Actions for Urban Networks for Competitiveness and Innovation - 06/10/2007
The Directorate-General for Spatial Planning and Urban Development has launched a call for tenders (text in Portuguese) closing on 16th November 2007 for Preparatory Action projects for cooperation between cities with a view to setting up Urban Networks for Competitiveness and Innovation, under the POLIS XXI Cities Policy (text in Portuguese).
- Call for tenders for eParticipation 2007 projects - 12/06/2007
The call for tender for eParticipation projects (text in Portuguese) in the scope of the European Commission’s eParticipation 2007 Work Programme has been launched. The budget for the call for tenders is 4.7 million EURO. The call for tenders runs from 13.06.2007 to 13.09.2007 (5 pm Brussels time).
- Digital Aveiro Forum - 09/03/2007
The Digital Aveiro Forum was held on 9th and 10th March 2007 at the Aveiro Exhibition Park - one of the Knowledge Society Operational Programme’s Digital Cities and Regions projects planned for the end of the Digital Aveiro project. The agenda (in Portuguese) included sessions dealing with each of the project’s intervention areas and their assessment. It concluded with a plenary session summing up and looking at future perspectives, which was opened by an intervention by the President of the UMIC (in Portuguese) and closed by the Minister for Science,Technology and Higher Education.
- Call for tenders open for eParticipation projects - 08/08/2006
The European Commission has launched the call for tenders running from 28th July to 4th October 2006 for projects in the scope of the “eParticipation 2006” programme.