CIUHCT in the European Researchers' Night 2017

This year's European Researchers' Night will have over 100 activities, spread between Lisbon's National Museum of Natural History and Science and the Príncipe Real Garden, both along the Rua da Escola Politécnica. Activities include scientific experiments and demonstrations, workshops, practical displays, exhibits, games and quizzes, informal conversations, debates, and street performances. CIUHCT will participate with an activity dedicated to the Anthropocene, through its researchers Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Simões, Ivo Louro, Davide Scarso, Jaume Valentines, and André Pereira.

Antropocénico: o que é isso? [Anthropocene: What is that?]

Do you know we're now in a new geologic epoch? The debate over the Anthropocene and the crucial issues associated with it — climate change, sea level rises, mass extinctions, and changes to traditional modes living — is fundamental to our life in the near future. Supported by data from different scientific disciplines, we intended to alert citizens for the need to act, in order to have a sustainable future. At the Príncipe Real garden, between 6pm and midnight.