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NOVA FCT will have scholarships for master's degrees in the next academic year, for students with a final bachelor's degree average of 15 or more.

Application Period: 1st – 30th September 2025
Eligibility: Students must apply after enrolling in a master's programme at NOVA FCT.
Results: The list of selected candidates will be published on the faculty's website by 15th October.
Master’s programmes in the Department of Materials Science (DCM) are eligible.

UNINOVA will host the 2nd INFRACHIP School, exploring the future of Smart Surfaces: Devices & Integration Challenges!

📆25th February, 11:00AM CET, Online
💬 Meet the speakers:
▫️ Luisa Petti, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
▫️Kevin Rodrigues, CeNTI - Centre for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials
▫️Dorina Papanastasiou, UNINOVA
▫️Peter Andersson Ersman, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
▫️Diptiman Dinda, Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2)
▫️Marta Corvo, UNINOVA

Professor Elvira Fortunato, Professor Rodrigo Martins, and Professor Luis Pereira will be part of the Scientific Committee for MATERIAIS 2025

📢 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻

📅 July 1-3, 2025 | 📍 Lisbon, Portugal

On February 14, CENIMAT|i3N had the honor of welcoming Turkish Ambassador Haldun Koç. The visit began with a meeting between Professor José Júlio Alferes, Director of NOVA FCT, Professor Rodrigo Martins, Coordinator of i3N, and Professor Elvira Fortunato, Vice-Coordinator of i3N.

This year, Professor Maria Helena Godinho was featured on the EUTOPIA platform, recognizing her dedication to research in Soft Matter.
“Being a woman in science means dedicating life to research with passion while balancing family and career. It’s filled with challenges and hard work but brings rewards through collaborations and friendships while breaking barriers, inspiring change, and shaping the future through innovation.” – Maria Helena Godinho.

To celebrate the International Day of Girls and Women in Science, Professor Elvira Fortunato will be present at the event ‘How to Improve the Presence of Girls and Women in STEM in Portugal?’, on the panel ‘Female Leadership in STEM’.

This initiative organised by the STEM Women Congress, in partnership with APDC, will also present the results of a report, produced in 2024, mapping the initiatives underway to promote gender equality in STEM areas.

Dorina Papanastasiou, researcher at CENIMAT|i3N, has been selected as one of the winners of the YERUN Research Mobility Awards 2024/2025.
Her awarded project, in collaboration with Dr. Muhammad Shafique from Brunel University London, aims to combine printed electronics and life cycle assessment (LCA) in a pioneering study to evaluate the performance and environmental impact of sustainable printed heaters – the SPhED (Sustainable Printed Heaters Evaluation and Development) project.