Invited Chairs
The creation of Invited Research Chairs is aimed at the recruitment of leading international researchers to support Higher Education institutions in their internationalization and partnership efforts.
This programme was announced on May 12, 2008 as part of the Ciência 2008 initiative. The following documents are available:
Sponsored Invited Chairs
Corporate sponsoring is assured for the following Invited Chairs:
With location already defined
- BES-Bodiversidade Chair, in Biodiversity, at Universidade do Porto.
- BES Chair, in Renewable Energies, at Universidade de Évora.
- Delta Cafés Chair, in Biodiversity, at Universidade de Évora.
- EDP Chair, in Biodiversity, at Universidade do Porto.
- Martifer Chair, in Renewable Energies, at Universidade de Aveiro.
- Nokia-Siemens Chair, in Telecommunications, at Universidade de Aveiro.
- Odebrecht Capistrano de Abreu Chair, in History of Brazil and Portugal, at Universidade do Algarve.
- Public and Social Policy Chair, at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa.
- REFER Chair, in Biodiversity, at Universidade do Porto.
- Santander Chair, in Communication Sciences, at Universidade da Beira Interior.
- Santander Totta Chair, in Nanotecnologies, at Universidade da Madeira.
- String Theory Chair, at Instituto Superior Técnico.
- Zon Chair, in Innovation and Operations Management, at Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
With location to be settled in a Public Call
- Alcatel-Lucent Portugal Chair, in Information and Communication Technologies.
- Atsutoshi Nishida Invited Chair, in production of digital content and usage of technology in an educational context, in the framework of the Rede de Investigação e Aprendizagem Toshiba Portugal.
- Microsoft Research Chair in information and communication systems and technologies for Health.