Finaciamento da Universidade dos Açores
Etiquetas: Finaciamento, Mariano Gago, Ministério do Ensino Superior
Este blog é da responsabilidade do Campus de Angra do Heroísmo da Universidade dos Açores e pretende dar conta das actividades desenvolvidas ao longo de 2006 - Ano Internacional dos Desertos e da Desertificação, bem como das actividades realizadas na mesma área temática,ou não, nos anos posteriores.
Etiquetas: Finaciamento, Mariano Gago, Ministério do Ensino Superior

Etiquetas: Alterações climáticas globais, Financiamento, Mariano Gago, Massachusetts, Ministério do Ensino Superior
O objectivo do protocolo é atribuir bolsas de estudo a estudantes portugueses e norte-americanos para a realização de trabalhos ligados às energias renováveis e à biologia marinha.Um dos projectos que mais envolve o Departamento de Oceanografia (DOP) é a instalação, na ilha do Faial, de um Observatório Internacional, acessível a investigadores de todo o Mundo.Mariano Gago aproveitará a deslocação ao Faial para visitar também as futuras instalações do pólo da cidade da Horta da Universidade dos Açores, que se encontram em fase final de construção.O Reitor da Academia açoriana vai aproveitar a ocasião para tentar assegurar um reforço de verbas, que permita ultrapassar os constrangimentos financeiros da instituição.Avelino Meneses já fez saber que a Universidade não tem dinheiro para pagar salários aos professores e funcionários, até final do corrente ano.Etiquetas: Avelino Meneses, Financiamento, Mariano Gago, Ministério do Ensino Superior

Etiquetas: Congresso, cooperação, investigação, Investimentos, Mariano Gago
The MIT-Portugal Program is a major initiative undertaken by the Portuguese government to strengthen the country’s knowledge base at an international level through a strategic investment in people, knowledge and ideas.
Emerging global challenges, including those resulting from the current international economic crisis, create new opportunities for the MIT-Portugal Program. These challenges call for new solutions requiring a systems-thinking perspective. The new solutions reflected in the revisited strategy will be diverse, but they will share four main features: they will be designed for complexity, uncertainty, and emergence following ‘engineering systems’ principles, in order to significantly expand research and education in engineering systems across many of Portugal’s top national universities, in close collaboration with MIT.
A High-Level Meeting at MIT
The revisited strategy was confirmed during a meeting at MIT today between José Mariano Gago, the Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor, Portugal's Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Higher Education, MIT Chancellor Phillip Clay, and Professor Subra Suresh, MIT’s Dean of Engineering, as well as at a meeting of MIT-Portugal’s Program Governing Committee. It is based on thorough discussions undertaken in recent months among Portuguese and MIT faculty, in close consultation with industry in Portugal and the Program’s External Review Committee.
Minister Gago, emphasizing the importance of the collaboration, said “the MIT-Portugal Program will bring new blood and will provide new challenges to the very fast and impressive growth of Portuguese Science and Technology.”
According to MIT’s Dean Suresh, “MIT-Portugal has not only made great strides in creating education and research programs of great value to Portugal and MIT, but also has developed substantive plans to expand upon those successes in the coming years. Its work is even more significant now, given the global economic downturn.”
“The MIT-Portugal Program is MIT’s largest program in Europe,” said Chancellor Clay. “We are gratified by the results during the first two years. Seven new innovative graduate programs have been developed, joint research has been initiated, Portuguese faculty and students are working at MIT, and new university–industry relationships have been fostered in Portugal. We will now build upon this success with the revisited strategy, which targets the most promising areas of research.
Secretary Heitor also supported the revisited strategy for MIT-Portugal. “It will promote new engineering research in Europe. It considers the development of new knowledge based on scientific research in three clusters of methods and models fostering systems thinking: Design and implementation; Uncertainty and Dynamics; and Networks and Flows. And it includes applications to core systems issues for urban metabolism, energy and transportation systems, supply chain, manufacturing, cell engineering and the health system, and is based on advanced coupling and development of modelling tools.”
Building on Successes to Date
After a successful first two-and-half years, MIT-Portugal has established research consortia among leading Portuguese engineering schools, related research laboratories, and groups at MIT. Among the key strategic goals going forward:
Adopting a holistic view on planning and modeling energy systems should increase by 100% the penetration of renewable energies in electricity production in the near term, and reduce by 50% the fossil fuels dependence and the greenhouse gases emission for this purpose. These goals are being demonstrated in the ‘Green Islands’ project in Azores Islands, which is intended to demonstrate high penetration levels of renewable energies, making use of smart energy networks, adequate transportation systems, improved energy efficiency schemes in buildings, active demand side management technologies, as well active management of electric vehicle grid integration.
Improving the fundamental knowledge of stem cell features and potential uses, toward the delineation of effective clinical-grade technologies for the controlled expansion and/or differentiation of adult stem cell populations. (For example, innovative cellular therapies tested at the Instituto Português de Oncologia (IPO) Francisco Gentil in Lisbon since October 2007 have brought about a clear improvement in the quality of life and life extension of patients.)
Providing new expertise and research capacity to support the Portuguese strategy to lead innovative niche markets for mobility industries in the coming five years, with an emphasis on electric vehicles for urban environments, as well to facilitate the usage of new polymeric and structural materials in niche markets typical of low-carbon city cars.
The program will strengthen research and education collaboration in several focus areas of strategic significance to both MIT and Portugal:
Sustainable energy systems: Emphasis will be given to their integration in energy networks, as well as in energy economics and industrial ecology. An international energy company, SGC Energy, is joining this effort as an industrial affiliate, and will help to foster new research in bio-energy.
Transportation systems: The overarching focus will continue to be on the design of complex large-scale transportation systems that will have major societal impact and provide opportunities for sustainable economic development throughout Portugal. The emphasis is on high-speed rail systems and the implementation of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).
Bio-Engineering Systems: With advanced study and doctoral programs in place that are aimed at educating a new generation of leaders in bio-engineering technical innovation, this area will consider the growing international relevance of stem cell research and enhance its efforts in such areas as innovative cell therapy, tissue engineering for regenerative medicine, and advanced medical devices. The goal is to bring about new business opportunities related to the promotion of well-being in an aging population.
Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing (EDAM): MIT-Portugal will focus on the adoption of multidimensional and systems approaches to develop environmentally friendly products and optimal operational efficiencies that reinstate working margins and provide financial sustainability to the automotive industry, with an emphasis on niche markets for low-carbon city cars and related systems.
(In MIT)
Etiquetas: cooperação, energias alternativas, Mariano Gago, MIT

Etiquetas: Base das Lajes, energias alternativas, energias renováveis, Mariano Gago

Etiquetas: Alunos, Financiamento, Mariano Gago, Orçamento
Embora as preocupações financeiras estejam centradas no orçamento para 2009, a Universidade dos Açores não sabe ainda se vai ter dinheiro para pagar todos os vencimentos, continuando, portanto, Avelino Menezes à espera de uma resposta do ministério do Ensino Superior para poder pagar os salários de Dezembro, mas confessou à Antena 1 / Açores não ter grandes expectativas em relação à reunião de hoje. Quanto à Comissão criada para definir o saneamento financeiro da Academia açoriana, está a pouco tempo de apresentar as suas conclusões, o que deverá acontecer até final de 2008.Etiquetas: Avelino Meneses, Financiamento, Mariano Gago, Orçamento
A Universidade dos Açores (UAc) está outra vez a braços com dificuldades financeiras graves, de tal maneira que não garante o pagamento aos seus funcionários dos salários de Dezembro. O "buraco" financeiro na UAc já vai em três milhões de euros só este ano e o Ministério da Ciência e Ensino Superior ainda não concretizou o pedido feito pelo reitor açoriano no sentido de o Estado transferir verbas que permitam liquidar os vencimentos a um universo superior a 250 professores e 200 funcionários. "Estamos a aguardar o reforço orçamental que já havíamos solicitado e que segue a sua tramitação, aparentemente normal, entre o MCES e o Ministério das Finanças", afirma o reitor Avelino Meneses, que faz votos para que o dinheiro chegue a tempo e corresponda às necessidades. O máximo que a tutela conseguiu satisfazer, há poucos dias, foi autorizar a antecipação do duodécimo que permitirá pagar os subsídios de Natal. Os custos com pessoal atingiram, em 2007, quase 18 milhões de euros, sendo que a academia vai receber no próximo ano 14,7 milhões de euros do Orçamento, um valor que continua a ser deficitário. Na sequência dos problemas financeiros que afectam várias universidades públicas, um grupo de 13 ex-reitores já pediu a intervenção do Presidente da República e do primeiro-ministro. Adriano Pimpão faz parte deste grupo e diz ao DN que estarão com problemas cerca de dez universidades. O ministro do Ensino Superior, Mariano Gago, admitiu ontem que existem maus gestores, mas disse que os próprios se corrigirão ou serão substituídos, rejeitando a hipótese de intervir.Etiquetas: Avelino Meneses, Ensino superior, Financiamento, Mariano Gago, Orçamento, Reitor