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As part of the internal training series promoted by the university, the session “Citizen Science in Research and Innovation” took place on 14 May 2025.

Lusófona University has once again stood out on the international stage, with two of its researchers – Professor Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues and Professor Rui Cunha Marques – being included in the prestigious list of the world’s top 2% most influential scientists, compiled by Stanford University in collaboration with Elsevier.

European Doctoral Day is on 13 May.

ULusófona is joining this initiative by organising the ‘Ice Cream PhD Social’ at Espaço Marmita (Building B), starting at 16:30. This event is aimed at PhD students and PhD graduates, providing an informal evening to share ideas and celebrate the academic journey with ice cream and good conversation!

FOR WHOM: PhD students and PhD graduates

For more information contact the Secretariats of your Organisational Unit or the Science Managers of your Research Unit.

Lusófona University is pleased to announce its integration as member of EIT Manufacturing, one of the leading Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). This strategic partnership places Lusófona at the heart of the digital and sustainable transformation of European industry, reinforcing its commitment to innovation, education, and entrepreneurship.

The Foundation for Science and Technology has just released the provisional results of the evaluation of R&D Units (UID) under the 2023/2024 Multiannual Funding Programme for Research Units. The evaluation focused on the scientific and technological activities carried out by national R&D Units between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2023 and on the objectives, strategy, activity plan and organisation for the period 2025 to 2029.

COFAC - Cooperativa de Formação e Animação Cultural, the promoting organisation of Universidade Lusófona, invites all PhD students from the partner institutions of the FilmEU consortium to apply for the new edition of DOCTUS: Pathways of Contemporary Research, part of the European project WIRE by FilmEU. The next session will take place between 14 and 16 May 2025 at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU), Slovakia.

The launch of ‘The Fram2 mission’ was a success and its mission includes ‘the SpaceXposome study’, which has the collaboration of ULusófona.

Lusófona University is pleased to announce its participation in the successful proposal for the 2024 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Networks (MSCA DN) call led by the University of Bourgogne. This prestigious European initiative promotes interdisciplinary doctoral training and international collaboration among top research institutions.

A group of researchers from I-MVET - Investigação Medicina Veterinária (CECAV), focusing on the study of feline retroviruses, has just published in the BMC Veterinary Research Journal the first study carried out in Portugal on the subgroups of the feline leukemia virus (FeLV), viral load and viremia in a population of declawed cats in which more than one hundred cats were evaluated.

HEI-Lab receives funding for ASISVIA digital health project