News

Restructuring of the PhD program approved at DCSA

July 20, 2016

The DCSA Department Council approved the proposal for restructuring the doctoral programme on TA. It includes a reduction in the number of compulsory disciplines, and the introduction of national and international cooperation tracks:

  1. The Joint Doctoral Initiative with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  2. The track on "Health Technology Assessment"
  3. The track on "Governance of Technology Assessment" with the University of Liège

2016 Call for PhD Studentships and Post-Doctoral fellowships

May 20, 2016

The call is open between 15 june until 15 july 2016

Please, follow the webpage of FCT: http://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/concursos/individuais2016.phtml.en

Recognition at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

December 17, 2015

The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) from Brazil recognised our PhD title on Technology Assessment hold by Dr. Ana Clara Cândido. This is an important new once other Brazilian students of the PhD programme of Technology Assessment can have automatically that recognition in their home-country.

First of all, congratulations to Dr. Ana C. Cândido for this achievement!

Michael Decker new Head of Division at KIT

October 20, 2015

ITAS Director and PhD theses supervisor at FCT-UNL took over leading position at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The Professor of Technology Assessment wants to keep close contact with the Institute and the scientific TA community.

6th Winter School on Technology Assessment

October 20, 2015

The 6th Winter School on Technology Assessment organised by the PhD programme will be held at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of Universidade Nova Lisbon

For further information please link to the event webpage at http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/winterschool-ta/announcements/6th-winter-school-technology-assessment

This Winter School has also information in a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/events/1621373484800179/

5th Doctoral Conference on Technology Assessment

July 9, 2015

5th Doctoral Conference on Technology Assessment

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Doctoral Programme on Technology Assessment

Caparica Campus

Local: Library Auditorium FCT-UNL

Date: 15 July 2015

fromt 9:30 until 17:30

Designing a PhD Programme on TA

March 26, 2015

Designing a PhD Programme on TA: An Evaluation of Five Years of Experience

António Moniz [1,2]

Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany [1]

Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal [2]

Michael Decker becomes Chairman of VDI Advisory Board

March 7, 2015

Michael Decker becomes Chairman of VDI Advisory Board

The Association of German Engineers (VDI) has elected the Professor of Technology Assessment and Deputy Head of ITAS-KIT as Chairman of the Advisory Board "Society and Technology".

2nd European Conference on Technology Assessment, Berlin

January 24, 2015

Two European conferences (2013 in Prague and 2015 in Berlin) aimed at taking stock of and supporting exchange on TA capacities available in Europe are being organised in the framework of the FP7 funded project “Parliaments and Civil Society in Technology Assessment” (PACITA).

Call for the 2nd phase of application (PhD students)

January 21, 2015

It is open until February 7th 2015 the call for new PhD programme candidates (2014/2015). They can  apply at http://www.fct.unl.pt/candidato/doutoramentos

The full-time PhD students are welcome, as well part-time students. This last situation applies mostly to those cases where the students have already a job contract with another entity (company, research institution, public administration, etc.).

The students that apply now will only pay the half of the 2014/15 fee.