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Rivoli is inviting everyone to help blow out the birthday cake candles, in the 2021 online birthday party, which stretches from 20th January to 24th January. Celebrating an anniversary, especially the 89th anniversary of the city of Porto’s icon Rivoli Theatre is the reassurance that culture lingers and helps people thrive.

Porto City Hall determined, yesterday evening, 19th January, the reimposing of lockdown measures to help prevent the outbreak of the Covid-19. The sharp increase in Covid-19 infections led to the prohibition to public agglomerations in public space.

João Gama, a full professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto and researcher at INESC TEC, was recently named fellow of IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering, with its corporate office in New York City. João Gama was named for “his contributions regarding knowledge extraction techniques from continuous data flows”.

The latest confinement requires new restrictions to comply with, in order to help stop the dissemination of Covid-19. Still, culture will be a click away to make a difference in lockdown days. As such, Coliseu Porto Ageas and São João National Theatre will deliver live streaming sessions of their shows.

Alten, leader in both outsourced Engineering and R&D and IT & Network Services, acquired ITSector, a company from Porto. This acquisition, as stated by the tech company in Porto, currently employing 600 workers, “can push not only the contracting pace but also the business expansion”.

AddVolt and Everythink mobile Power bank, developed by FEUP’s alumni, has been tested and received the seal of approval by GALP. Addvolt, a company incubated at UPTEC — Science and Technological Park of the University of Porto, developed a mobile car power bank, aka electric battery charging for electric and hybrid vehicles. Addvolt’s long-time business partner Everythink, a company also incubated at UPTEC, was in charge of the he product design.

eDreams Odigeo is aimed at hiring in the city of Porto. The company first landed in Portugal in February 2020, and more recently, it has settled its technological centre in Downton Porto, where it has expanded operations. The next step for this month of January is to hire circa 30 people to work with the “largest online travel agency in Europe”, as they put it.

Bolhão Temporary Market is open and it provides vitally essential goods, from Monday to Friday, between 8 am to 8 pm, and on Saturdays, between 8 am and 6 pm. Customers have a varied offer of fresh vegetables and fruits, butcher's shop and dairies products, canned food and dried fruits, as well as fresh fish, frozen seafood, all with the Bolhão top quality.

Owing to the new preventive measures to stop the new coronavirus from further spreading, all cultural and sports facilities, manage by Ágora, close doors, which started yesterday, 15th January. This is in accordance with the Decree 3-A/2021 f 14th January, which regulates the State of Emergency issued by the President of the Republic.

The University of Porto awards in-house researchers. The application period concludes on 31st January. The winners of the scientific research award will be announced in March 2021 and, pandemic constraints permitting, the awardees will be presented with an in-person prize ceremony.