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The XII edition of the annual PAPS Forum will be taking place in New York at the NYU Langone Medical Center on April 16 and 17 this year.

In the dawn of this new decade Portugal faces a critical moment in its path to strive forward. Harvesting the Globalized Portuguese Talent abroad, over the next few years, will play a fundamental role on successfully overcoming this challenge.

As such, the PAPS Executive Committee proposes to its members to go and take part on a series of exciting panel sessions, namely "Portuguese Science: The Way Forward", "Impact of the Diaspora on the Portuguese Economy" and "Portugal: The Brand", backed up with prominent leaders from several fields of the globalized Portuguese Academia, Industry and Society. Please check the Program page for more information.

On Sunday morning the PAPS General Assembly will take place, electing a new team that will lead PAPS during the next year.

Your ideas, critical thinking and insight are of upmost importance for the success of this project. PAPS looks forward to welcoming you to New York City!

Registration Deadline: March 26, 2011

Travel Expenses Support: from 100 to 1000 miles up to $100, more than 1000 miles up to $250. At this moment only the first 50 Regular Members will receive support. PAPS will make an effort to extend this support to more members, pending on sponsors.

For more information and registration visit:  http://www.papsonline.org/forum2011

The ISCTE-IUL MIT Portugal Competition, launched by ISCTE-IUL in partnership with the MIT Portugal Program, the MIT School of Engineering, Deshpande Center and Sloan Business School, aims to foster the entrepreneurial spirit in Portugal.

Alexandre Ferreira da Silva

Alexandre Ferreira da Silva, EDAM LTI PhD student won the PVC Iberic Forum Award. His work, entitled "PVC Formulation Study for the Manufacturing of a Smart Skin Structure based on Optical Fiber Elements", has the co-authoring of Filipe Gonçalves (TMG Automotive, MIT Portugal TME Student), Luís Ferreira and Francisco Araújo (both from FiberSensing), and José Higino Correia and Paulo Mendes (both from University of Minho), also supervising this student PhD thesis.

MIT Portugal students are organizing a conference focused in three main areas: education and academia; entrepreneurship; and employment challenges. The E3 Forum wants to be a place for students to present their work in close connection with all social agents that influence and are influenced by their work. This meeting also seeks to enlarge the students' network providing a space for companies, universities, and entrepreneurs to meet students and share their thoughts about what is the role, in a knowledge-based society, for a professional with a PhD. Finally, it is also a core goal of this event to provide the students with information related with career paths - academia and industry -, as well as good examples in the creation of technological-based companies, while elucidating the opportunities in this area in Portugal.

By achieving these goals the E3 Forum intends to fill the gap between research and current practice, students and society, academic studies and "real world" problems. These synergies provide an opportunity to increase the comprehension of the world, to analyze the work that is being done in PhD projects, and to collect useful insights and perspectives from those who face challenges and need to solve problems every day.

The E3 Forum organized by MPP Students will be held on the 30^thof June at the Faculty of Science and Technology of New University of Lisbon.

For further information, contact Alexandre Ferreira da Silva ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).