5th and final session of 2025 of the "Archives of Knowledge: Science, History and Memory" series.

The "Archives of Knowledge: Science, History and Memory" series will hold its 5th and final session of the year on November 19th at 2:30 pm at FCCN – Small Auditorium of LNEC, in Lisbon.

Registration is now open for this session, which will feature opening remarks by Maria Paula Diogo, member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Paula Meireles, coordinator of the Science and Technology Archive, and João Nuno Ferreira, from FCT.

The guest speakers are Rúben Almeida, from INESC TEC – FEUP, who will give a presentation entitled “My Region – Your Local Government Portal”, and Joaquim José, from the Polytechnic Institute of Guarda, who will speak about “Memor.pt – Explore Portuguese Digital Memory”, both winners of the Arquivo.pt 2025 Prize (1st and 2nd places, respectively). The session will be moderated by João Gomes, from FCCN, the digital services unit of FCT.

The "Archives of Knowledge: Science, History and Memory" cycle, organized by the FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology), has been running since February of this year, with the aim of disseminating the documentary collection of its Science and Technology Archive, as well as other materials relevant to the history and memory of Science and Technology in Portugal. The sessions are short and take place in an informal and collaborative environment. For more information about this initiative, or to view past sessions, please consult the event's dedicated page .

The Science and Technology Archive (ACT) is unique in the history of scientific activity in Portugal, with the function of preserving and managing the documentary memory of national scientific production, translated into thousands of files supporting grants, institutions, and research projects. Open to the public since December 16, 2011, it possesses a significant documentary collection that includes, in addition to the FCT's own archive from 1997 onwards, the collection of the National Board for Scientific and Technological Research (JNICT), from 1967 to 1997, and other public and private organizations, essentially in the area of ​​science policy and funding in Portugal.