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Minister of State for Higher Education praises the former Minister of Science

Minister of State for Higher Education praises the former Minister of Science

numberI left the opening session of the symposium “Aquém e Além do Cérebro”, Pedro Teixeira “Thank you very much for that” [Manuel Heitor] Over the years for science and higher education in Portugal.”

He continued, “There is a legacy of thinking, strategy, intervention and placing science, qualification and higher education as the main directions of political intervention in Portugal, and this general gratitude is more than justified.”

The newly sworn-in Minister of State for Higher Education also said that he had the ability of the former Chief Regency, who was present at the ceremony, to “think and reflect on the paths of higher education and science, which are now more liberated than some. responsibilities, but certainly with the same commitment and conviction as It is always the case.”

Pedro Teixeira, on behalf of the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, was speaking at the opening session of the 13th edition of the “Aquém e Além do Cérebro” symposium, organized by the Bial Foundation, and running until Saturday, in Porto. , on the topic “The Riddle of Time”.

The official noted the “many years of cooperation, until recently, with Fundação Bial”, of which he was a member, and stressed that “one of the distinguishing features of the symposium is to think about different topics in a different way.”

Luis Portela, President of the Bial Foundation, said that since the last edition, the Foundation has “increased and diversified its activity” and stressed that the main objective of the initiative is to present the work of the Foundation’s grantees, and to promote discussion on various topics.

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Organizing Committee Chairman Axel Klermans was “relieved” to be able to “finally hold this seminar”, which was initially scheduled for April 2020, but has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Miguel Guimarães, President of the Ordem dos Médicos, which is hosting the event at Casa dos Médicos, said the symposium is the moment when this space “wakes up to science” and becomes “the home of all these scientists, among all these researchers of all these thinkers”.

The ceremony was also in honor of the neuroscientist Fernando Lopez da Silva, who was President of the Scientific Council of the Bial Foundation, and died on May 7, 2019, with a video tribute, in which many scientific figures participated, including the former Minister. Science and technology, higher education, the certificate of two daughters of a researcher.

The current chair of the organizing committee highlighted the “kindness” of the world and said that “Fernando would have appreciated what would happen in the next three days”, while the president of the Ordem dos Médicos referred to a “humanitarian”.

Pedro Teixeira also highlighted the “closeness” of the degrees in relation to someone who “has served the country in many ways, through a remarkable academic and scientific career, but who was also an example of citizenship”.

Luis Portela remembered his friend who left an important legacy in the world of science, in Portugal and beyond.

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