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Holiday Season invite for a different Sunday at House-Museum Marta Ortigão Sampaio
"A chegada do sol" ["The coming of the Sun", free translation] is the topic for a different outing, on July 1st at House-Museum Marta Ortigão Sampaio (CMMOS), now that summer is officially in town.
Fridays and Saturdays offer public transport that suits all needs
MOVE PORTO metro 24H during the weekend is back. Nonstop public transport guarantees night service in Porto every Friday and Saturday from 28 June until 7 October. This is the fifth consecutive year of such initiative, themed MOVE Porto Metro 24H that guarantees Subway service all night long on Friday and Saturday.
Take a hike to S. Lázaro Garden and enjoy a beautiful summer garden
If you spend some time exploring the city's green spaces you can see yourself in front of one of the city's top spot garden, the S. Lázaro Garden. Every year, through São João, the flowerbeds enveloping the pond and the garden of S. Lázaro are decorated with flowers and new plants. Pelargoniums and basil pots create the best urban scenario, lending the spot the best scent and colour for this summer.
The city of Porto establishes the institution of the Ombudsman for the first time
The Mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira and the Municipal Executive have decided to establish, for the first time in the city of Porto, the role of the Ombudsman, in order to act as "a tool for citizen participation".
Re-Design for Performance debated at the Green Project Awards Conference on 28 June
The transition of the classical industrial model towards a Performance Economy will be the highlight of the next GPA - Green Project Awards Conference, which will be held at the Porto Inova Building, on 28 June, starting at 9 am. The conference is aimed at debating the fundamental change in all the sectors of the manufacturing industries, from the traditional manufacturing model to the functional services production.
Women in Technology Meeting in Porto on 27 June
The city of Porto hosts the second Meeting of women in IT jobs, on 27 June, at the DevScope Auditorium, Partner Company of the event organisation. IAMCP - International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (the largest Microsoft community and network partners), jointly with WIT (Women in Technology) will address the need for inclusiveness of the available potential labour pool in particular the severe under-representation of women in the ICT workforce management positions.
Porto recognised in the area of eliminating physical barriers towards cultural participation
Porto received two Honourable Mentions at the Access Culture Prize 2018, whose fundamental goal is to promote access - physical, social and intellectual - to culture venues and to the cultural offer.
Digital Platform connects companies and universities
The Consortium UNorte.pt, comprised by the Universities of Minho and Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, has launched a digital platform to bring closer companies and the academia. This project, titled Balcão UNorte.pt, aggregates and combines information on the universities' skills, services and technologies with the Research, Development and Innovation challenges facing both national and international companies.
Porto-China: Bilateral cultural and trade relations blossom
CGTN National Television Channel in China, in collaboration with Portuguese News Channel Porto Canal, hosted a special edition on Economic, Trade Relations and Cultural Exchanges between Portugal, namely Porto and China, which included the Mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira (on official tour to China), Victor Gao, Vice-President of the Centre for China and Globalization and Wu Jun, Kushun talk Show Host who lives in Porto.
Performance "Fugu" premieres at Rivoli on 30 June to dwell on "Power and Man"
"Fugu" is a performance featured in the context of Trengo - Circus Festival of Porto, at Rivoli, 0n 30 June, at 7 pm. Two clowns live in the world of aristocracy and the power that legitimises it. They savour power as though it were a delicatessen. This is the old dispute between power and Men, a timeless fight that "Fugu" traces through the language of the contemporary clown, a debate that has always existed and will remain in time.