Portugal is on the tip of everyone’s tongues right now and justifiably so. It is fast becoming Europe’s new startup capital and will host the world’s biggest technology fair Web Summit for the next 10 years. Yet in many areas it still lags behind its European partners, particularly in flexible working practices. Young and dynamic […]

An application which can map and quantify the amount of rubbish along Portugal’s beaches and coastline has been developed in Coimbra. The app is a joint science-citizen project developed by researchers at the University of Coimbra’s Department of Sciences and Technology (FCTUC) Centre for Sea and Environmental Sciences (MARE) in partnership with the Portuguese Association […]

Portugal’s economy is continuing to grow and converge with the strongest economies within the European Union according to the Ministry of Finance. In 2018, Portugal’s GDP grew, in real terms, 2.1% (-0.7 p.p. on 2017), according to the latest figures published by the National Statistics Institute (INE). And the ministry notes that the Portuguese economy […]

Following on from their third challenge to the Portuguese government to come clean over who exactly has been awarded ‘golden’ residency visas, the Portuguese branch of Transparency International has presented a formal complaint to the Commission for Access to Administrative Data (CADA). The document is designed to force the government’s hand to make data available […]