From water quality to the most sustainable cities, from robots to natural hazards. Técnico will organise more than two dozen activities on September 30, during the European Researchers’ Night, in three different sites: The National Museum of Natural History and Science, the Pavilion of Knowledge and the Champalimaud Foundation. Attendance is free.

The 2022 European Researchers’ Night takes place simultaneously in hundreds of European cities, under the motto “Science for All (SCIEVER) – Inclusion and Sustainability”. This initiative is funded by the European Commission, under the Horizon 2020 programme, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), which aims to bring researchers and citizens closer together.

Técnico activities in the European Researchers’ Night:

National Museum of Natural History and Science (Lisbon) – Programme

• “The various aspects of water: the degradation of water quality and its reuse” (Técnico Analysis Laboratory)
• “A more sustainable and inclusive city: designing an accessible Lisbon following the UN 2030 sustainable development goals” (Técnico Sustentável)
• “Disaster risk reduction” (Treme-Treme / CERIS – Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability / Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores: Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa – INESC-ID)
• “NEMOSINE: innovative packaging solutions for storage and conservation of cultural heritage” (CERENA – Centro de Recursos Naturais e Ambiente)
• “Learning how to make a monster slime” (CERENA – Centro de Recursos Naturais e Ambiente)
• “Eco-friendly foams” (CERENA – Centro de Recursos Naturais e Ambiente)
• “CO2 objective – to separate, capture, value” (CQE – Centro de Química Estrutural)
• “Colour without dyes” (CQE – Centro de Química Estrutural)
• “Green Solvents” (CQE – Centro de Química Estrutural)
• “Scientific research in aquatic environments and at the ends of the planet” (CQE – Centro de Química Estrutural)
• “Long life with biomaterials” (CQE – Centro de Química Estrutural)
• “Game of elecTrons” (CQE – Centro de Química Estrutural)
• “Science Dating – a blind date with science” (C2TN – Center for Nuclear Sciences and Technology)
• “Robots for Sustainability” (ISR – Institute for Systems and Robotics, Lisboa / LARSys – Laboratory for Robotics and Engineering Systems)

Pavilion of Knowledge (Lisbon) – Programme

• “How to measure air pollution?” (C2TN – Center for Nuclear Sciences and Technology)
• “The air belongs to everyone!” (C2TN – Center for Nuclear Sciences and Technology)
• “Knowledge is power” (C2TN – Center for Nuclear Sciences and Technology)
• “What do you know about sustainable mobility?” (U-Shift / CERIS – Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability)
• “From home to school” (U-Shift / CERIS – Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability)
• “How much does it cost to use a car?” (U-Shift / CERIS – Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability)
• “Touch our ancestors’ fossils” (IPFN – Institute for Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion)

Champalimaud Foundation (Lisbon) – Programme

• “Finding Arcadia” (ITI – LARSYS – Interactive Technologies Institute)
• “Beer Beyond Drinking” – Técnico Brewers Club
• “Neuro Geographic”