Wednesday, 22nd March

Auditorium Renato Araújo – Central and Rectorate Building | University of Aveiro

08:00 - 08:30 Registration

Welcome and Opening Remarks
08:30 - 09:00 João Borges, Ana Soares, Daniela Ribeiro, Alexandra Monteiro, Joana Pereira, Luísa Sal
(University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Grant Writing Workshop – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Chairs: João Borges & Daniela Ribeiro (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Amélie Delmon (EU R&I Grants Officer at the University of Bordeaux, France)
Tips and tricks on how to write a successful MSCA Doctoral Networks
9:00 - 10:30
Nuno Gonçalves (MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at CICECO/University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Experience and tips for a successful MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Grant Writing Workshop – Widening Actions & European Research Council (ERC) Grants
Chairs: Luísa Sal & Ana Soares (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Rui Munhá (Science Officer at Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal, and Coordinator of
the NCPs in the Pillar of Scientific Excellence and in the Widening & ERA Part of Horizon Europe)
Widening in Horizon Europe: empowering people and institutions
Gabriela Dima (Project Manager and Policy Advisor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, the
11:00 - 12:30 Netherlands)
Best practices on how to write successful ERC grants
Manuel Souto (Principal Researcher at CICECO/University of Aveiro, Portugal)
My personal story to obtain an ERC grant: some tips and useful resources
12:30 - 13:30 Roundtable (moderator: João Rocha, Full Professor at CICECO/University of Aveiro, Portugal)
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
Career Development Workshop
Chairs: Ana Soares & Daniela Ribeiro (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Jonathan Yewdell (National Institutes of Health, USA)
14:30 - 16:00
How to succeed in science
16:00 - 18:00 Internal session – Twinning projects
Thursday, 23rd March
Auditorium Renato Araújo – Central and Rectorate Building | University of Aveiro

Science Communication Workshop

Chairs: Alexandra Monteiro & Joana Pereira (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Catarina Moura (Science Communication Officer at the International Iberian Nanotechnology
09:00 - 09:30 Laboratory, Portugal)
Bringing science to life
Paulo Sérgio Santos (Communications Manager at the Católica Porto Business School, Portugal)
09:30 - 10:00
The importance of written and oral communication skills in science communication
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Bárbara Pinho (Freelance Science Communicator, Portugal)
10:30 - 11:00
Communicating science (aka bursting the bubble)
Adriano Cerqueira (Science Journalist & Producer of the podcast ‘90 Segundos de Ciência’, Portugal)
11:00 - 11:30
Communicating science in less than 90 seconds: challenges and opportunities
Pedro Pombo (Director of Fábrica Centro Ciência Viva de Aveiro, Portugal)
11:30 - 12:00
New Challenges for science communication: the case of Fábrica
 Roundtable (moderator: Adriano Cerqueira, Science Journalist & Producer of the podcast ‘90
12:00 - 13:00
Segundos de Ciência’, Portugal)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 17:00 Internal session – Twinning projects
Friday, 24th March
Auditorium Renato Araújo – Central and Rectorate Building | University of Aveiro
Scientific Writing & Publishing Workshop
Chairs: João Borges & João F. Mano (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Nesma El-Sayed Ibrahim (Associate Editor at Nature Reviews Bioengineering, Germany)
09:30 - 10:30
Publishing your research – and a new Nature journal
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Nesma El-Sayed Ibrahim (Associate Editor at Nature Reviews Bioengineering, Germany)
11:00 - 12:00
From the lab to editorial – a career in scientific publishing
Closing Remarks
12:00 - 12:30
João F. Mano & João Borges (University of Aveiro, Portugal)

* The soft transferable skills’ training program in the framework of the First School of the SUPRALIFE Horizon Europe EU
funded Twinning project (Grant Agreement nr. 101079482) is organized in collaboration with the EpiViral Horizon 2020 EU
funded Twinning project (Grant Agreement nr. 952373), and EPIBOOST (Grant Agreement nr. 101078991) and FONDA
(Grant Agreement nr. 101079134) Horizon Europe EU funded Twinning projects.