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Portugal nominates new members for the INL Council

The Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology, and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor, has designated two new members for the main INL governing body, the INL Council, representing Portugal, one of the INL member states. Elvira Fortunato and Madalena Alves now join Helena Pereira, President of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, replacing António Cunha and José Fernando Mendes, who integrated the INL Council for over eight years. Elvira Fortunato is Full Professor and Vice-Rector of the NOVA School of Science and Technology and Madalena Alves is Full Professor at the University of Minho Centre of Biological Engineering. The Council is the sovereign body of the INL in which all member states are represented. It is composed of three representatives from each Member State and is currently presided by Helena Pereira, President of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. The vice president is José Juan Sánchez Serrano, Spanish Deputy Director-General for the Internationalization of Science and Innovation. INL welcomes the two new members of the INL Council and thanks to both António Cunha and José Fernando Mendes for their service and contribution to INL growth for almost a decade.

National Mourning Day in Portugal – 4th of January

Photo Credits: sapo.pt INL associates to the National Mourning Day declared this Monday, 4th of January 2021, by the Government of Portugal, one of the INL member-states, for the passing away of Carlos do Carmo, one of the most distinguished voices in the country, and a renowned Fado singer. For the Portuguese musicologist Rui Vieira Nery, “after Amália Rodrigues, Carlos do Carmo was the most powerful renewing force of Fado”, the national singing style. Carlos do Carmo always shown profound respect for the Portuguese language in conjunction with a clear and beautiful voice, that he kept until 2019, the year he decided to say goodbye to the stages. In 2014 he added the “Career Latino Grammy” to his long list of awards celebrating a lifetime of cultural achievement. But the most significant one was perhaps when UNESCO declared Fado to be “Intangible World Heritage”, in 2011, culminating his personal efforts within the application for this important distinction. One of the best ways to remind him is by listening to “Lisboa Menina e Moça”, a hymn of love to the capital city of Portugal, where he was born in 1939. Carlos do Carmo died on the 1st of January 2021, at the age […]