Portugal supports global strategy against monkeypox – XXIII Government
The Minister of Science and Higher Education, Elvira Fortu, received the Ambassador of the United States of America, Randi Charno Levine, Lisbon, during a meeting that she established to strengthen the bilateral relationship between Portugal and the United States of America’s domain in Technology and scientific cooperation. , technological and academic.
The Minister or Portuguese Government Support the policy defined by the World Health Organization of considering a monkeypox (monkeypox) a public health emergency of international concern, which makes open access to all the science of the latest research pre-community in this domain.
During the meeting of partnerships in force with US higher education institutions (MIT-Portugal, UT-Portugal and CMU-Portugal), which promotes the internationalization of Portuguese scientific and higher education institutions through projects and innovation mobility of resources knowledge, triggering new themes.
Currently, both countries collaborate on initiatives within the scope of cooperation in the areas of science, technology and higher education:
- International Fair – NAFSA -, the world’s largest meeting of those responsible for the internationalization of Higher Education and Research Institutions, through the Fulbright Commission, the Erasmus+ Agency and the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD);
- goPORTUGAL Program – Global Science and Technology Partnership Portugal – which comprises several internationalization programs that promote the mobility of students, teachers, researchers and non-teaching staff;
- Study and Research in Portugal, a platform for the valorization and internationalization of Portuguese higher education in science and technology;
- Fulbright educational and scientific exchange program, whose 2022 edition awarded 67 scholarships to 46 Portuguese and 21 Americans, among researchers, teachers and students, who in the academic year will begin to develop their work and research in national and North American institutions.
The bilateral relationship between the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education and the Embassy of the United States of America in Lisbon is allowed to deepen cooperation in the area of Artificial Intelligence and triangular cooperation with Africa.