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The Museu Romântico [Romantic Museum] reopened to the public recently after having been closed for refurbishing works to the building and to the equipment within. Mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira officially opened the permanent exhibition following nearly one year of restoration works the building has undergone. The new permanent exhibition is now open for visits at the Museu Romântico, set up at Quinta da Macieirinha, in an environment that revives the natural setting of a cottage in Porto from...

Porto University is the best placed university in the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, which measures the online presence of over one thousand Higher Education Institutions worldwide. Porto academia is on the 225th place on the world ranking and it is the only Portuguese University to be at the top 100 in Europe.

February 16th is the end date for the entry period of the technological competition launched by the European project EMBERS, in the field of mobility. This initiative encompasses the adoption of "smart city" project applications responding to specific challenges within three cities, one of which is Porto. The most innovative and effective project will be granted 30 thousand euros.

Ryanair will start operating the Porto/Seville route for the 2018 winter flight schedule. This new route will have three weekly flights and it is schedule to begin late October. According to information provided to the press, flights will be available for purchase as of March.

On 14 February, you pay no entry at all to visit the Torre dos Clérigos in Porto. In 2017, the monument welcomed 145,718 visitors and marks this visit record number with free entrance to the landmark building.

The Health Research and Innovation Institute (i3S) from the University of Porto will host the first "Gago Conference on European Science Policy". This event is sponsored by the Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal (MCTES) and will bring together in Porto, on 14 February, European researchers, politicians and entrepreneurs for a wide-ranging debate on Europe's present and future cancer research.

The Rivoli Grand Auditorium features "La Mélancolie des Dragons », by Philippe Quesne, on 16 February, starting at 9.30 pm. The Director, Quesne stages a diptych show, "La Mélancolie des Dragons". In a magical snowy setting the dragons and their dog will find Snow White, and build a minimalist and multifunctional amusement park.

The Cité des Métiers in Porto is a project promoted by Porto City Hall within the scope of employability and entrepreneurship and it is setting presence at the Cité des Métiers International network, which will take place in Paris on 8 and 9 February. The project "Cité des Métiers" is jointly managed by different stakeholder organisations that work as a resource centre with the aim of providing professional guidance and advice on one's professional future. The Cité des Métiers is run accordin...

Porto city Hall challenges innovation and entrepreneurship communities to start the enrolment process of ScaleUp Porto., aimed at supporting Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology. The overall amount devoted to the selected proposals is seventy thousand euros.

The exhibit "Álvaro Lapa: No tempo todo" [Álvaro Lapa: All of Time], which gathers the most thorough retrospective work of the artist (Évora, 1939 - Porto, 2006) ever presented, opens on 8 February at the Serralves Museum. Self-taught artist and writer, Lapa first studied Law and a couple of years later he pursues studies in Philosophy, travelling to Paris where he engages with surrealism artists.