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Municipal cultural and sports facilities close during confinement
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.
Award for Excellence by the University of Porto open applications
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.
Municipality of Porto leads project to bring back homeless people to a full active and autonomous life
The Municipality of Porto promotes social and professional re-adaptation and re-integration of the most vulnerable in society, as is the case of homeless people. The project “Porto Sentido” is complemented by no other than three words that express the consideration the Municipality gives when advancing measures that require sustainability to last in time, namely housing, capacity building and reintegration.
This is a best way to deliver transformation framework in a smart sustainable city
Porto City Hall estimates that the Monte Pedral project, where it plans to build circa 330 dwellings, mostly at affordable prices, amounts to an investment that surpasses 63 million euros, in accordance with the plot-division that has been unanimously approved by the Municipal Executive, early this week. “This plot is the great opportunity for creating a new city centre in Porto”, highlighted councillor for Urbanism, Pedro Baganha, during the Executive Meeting, held on 11th January.
TMP moves the schedule forward and takes Raimund Hoghe’s Postcards from Vietnam on stage today at Rivoli
Porto Municipal Theatre moved the schedule forward and the in-person presentation of the show “Postcards from Vietnam”, by Raimund Hoghe, is set for today, Thursday, at 7.30 pm, at Rivoli. The session was due to go on stage on 15th January, but owing to the lockdown issued by the Portuguese Government, that will not be possible.
Confinement food ingredients or how to avoid food waste during the pandemic
The pandemic has shown the positive result of people realising how much food was being wasted; and households can keep this mindset in the future. With the mandatory lockdown in the country, effective as of 15th January, more people are due to cook their meals at home; as such, the team of the Environmental Department of Porto City Hall has come up with best suggestions on how to plan meals and shopping and also reuse leftovers, all the while saving money.
Municipal programme applications to target housing problems “Porto Solidário” open on 19th January
The ninth edition of the Municipal Programme “Porto Solidário” opens on 19th January. This programme was established in 2014 and it is essential to guarantee the right of housing to the most vulnerable households. This Social Emergency Fund by the Municipality of Porto has already supported 2.336 families. Applications should be submitted at the Domus Social site, which includes filling a form and attaching the required documentation.
Porto European Capital of Culture kicked off twenty years ago, this very same day
Porto was European Capital of Culture twenty years ago, on 13th January 2001. Those attending the ceremony sensed that change was in the air, as most of the invitees arrived at Coliseu do Porto by bus, which was a symbolic way of showing that, in fact, change would come, as in calling attention to the fact that culture had to be accessible to all in society.
Lello Bookshop will be woven through with a new concept: cultural place, signed by Siza Vieira
Lello Bookstore, renowned as one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world will be woven through with a new concept: no other than a cultural site, under the label of Pritzker Siza Vieira. The project will be shaped at the Rua das Carmelitas, 148, which will enable a direct connection to Lello Bookstore.
Solidarity restaurants in the Municipality of Porto serve an average of 525 meals per day
The Municipality of Porto runs three solidarity restaurants and serves an average of 525 meals per day. At times like these, solidarity in the shape of free meals is crucial, as the pandemic outed the already existing social inequalities that are hardened by the pandemic constraints.