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1 Copyright 2018© by NOVA University Lisbon CONTENTS TITLE NOVA Science PROPERTY Universidade Nova de Lisboa Campus de Campolide 1099-085 Lisboa 08 Portugal 06 MESSAGE FROM Tel.: +351 213 715 600 04 A WORD FROM THE VICE-RECTOR E-mail: [email protected] www.unl.pt WELCOME TO NOVA THE RECTOR FOR RESEARCH November 2018 1 2 3 Published Annually COORDINATION Research Office Communications Office DESIGN Carlota Terenas www.thisiscart.com 14 PHOTOGRAPHY 10 12 RESEARCH UNITS Rectorate and Research Units of NOVA* RESEARCH RESEARCH UNITS AT A GLANCE CML – City Council of Lisbon 4 5 6 PRINTING Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, S.A. PRINTING RUN 3000 copies ISSN 2184-3775 98 102 LEGAL DEPOSIT COLLABORATIVE COLLABORATIVE 104 447909/18 LABORATORIES RESEARCH AwaRD NOVA SCIENCE DAY * The Coordination team acknowledges the contribution of (COLAB) SANTANDER/NOVA 2018 all Research Units of NOVA for the images provided for the making of this brochure. 7 8 9 2 3 Câmara Municipal de Lisboa Câmara Municipal 1 WELCOME TO NOVA NOVA University Lisbon to serve society through Founded in 1973, NOVA University Lisbon (NOVA) is a public university has Academic Units in knowledge and education on a that has adopted since its inception an innovative multidisciplinary model in the Portuguese university context. Lisbon, Almada, Oeiras local, regional and global level. The mission of NOVA is to serve society through knowledge and and in Carcavelos. education on a local, regional and global level. Delivering high quality teaching that assures the preference of employers and the success of graduates in the job market is a key priority for NOVA together with NOVA School of Science and Technology the development of topnotch research that contributes to tackle major societal challenges. NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities The recognition of this quality, both in teaching and research, guarantees the presence in prestigious international rankings, and the NOVA School of Business and Economics participation in networks such as YERUN - Young European Research Universities Network. NOVA Medical School Considered one of the 50 best young universities in the world, NOVA NOVA School of Law stands out for its comprehensive nature, internationalization culture and commitment to the grand challenges of society. NOVA Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine NOVA is the Portuguese university with the best performance in the Horizon 2020 Programme and boasts a track record of 19 ERC grants NOVA Information Management School awarded to its researchers. NOVA Institute of Chemical and The university has more than 20.000 students and 1.800 teaching Biological Technology António Xavier staff and researchers, and over 2.500 international students from 109 nationalities enrolled in its programmes. NOVA National School of Public Health With nine academic units distributed throughout the metropolitan area Rectorate of Lisbon, NOVA offers an intense and unique academic experience to its community. 4 5 The future of research at NOVA University Lisbon will be a creative tension between: fundamental research and innovative value creation, disciplinary hyper-specialization and interdisciplinary approaches to complex issues. 2 SCIENCE AT NOVA: A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE | 2018 2 NOVA University fully endorses the vision In what concerns social impact and value creation that takes knowledge and knowledge-based at national level, it should be said that this is a innovation as two crucial springs for sustainable challenge where NOVA has made many recent A development, both at national and global levels. progresses and has still plenty of room to progress. And for NOVA this entails five general lines of We coined this overarching project “NOVA Value action: Creation Project”. Its mission is to contribute to the WORD • to assume and develop international agendas social and economic development of the country for research and innovation with a focus on and, in particular, to its exporting activity. Here impact and value creation; I will emphasize the Collaborative Laboratories, a true cornerstone of this value creation project • to pursue smart specialization by identifying (presented in this brochure). FROM our strong research areas; • to enhance our capability for interdisciplinary I foresee that the future of research at NOVA will research; be a dynamic balance between four different poles: fundamental research and innovative • to foster collaboration with top level research THE value creation with social and economic groups, national and international, with impact; disciplinary hyper-specialization and corporations and with other social sectors interdisciplinary approaches to complex issues. (Municipalities, NGOs, and others); RECTOR • to outreach some other regions besides These four poles will generate, so to speak, a Europe, namely but not exclusively, permanent creative tension and to cope with this Portuguese speaking countries and dynamic tensional equilibrium in the right way, Portuguese speaking communities. NOVA will progress on four fronts: enhancing the profiling of our researchers; stimulating them To implement these general lines of action, by designing systems of incentives; developing several measures and initiatives were taken or are clear ways for rotating people; and keep on forthcoming. They focused mostly, although not communicating in all sorts of ways: to increase exclusively, on three aspects: scientific employment mutual knowledge, to enhance mutual trust, and and talent attracting; NOVA’s interdisciplinary to engage with society. ‘Silo culture’ is not an capability; creating impact and value. option anymore at NOVA, nor is an ivory tower. All open inside and out, that’s the name of the In order to support the talented people working game now. João Sàágua at NOVA, and they are plenty, and also the ones that are going to be hired in the near future, I think it may be appropriate to use a metaphor NOVA UNIVERSITY we created a special program: “Talent@NOVA” here, one that put us close to the Portuguese with several subprograms - NOVA Doctoral character itself, let’s just imagine the future of LISBON School; “Preparing for my ERC Grant Application” research at NOVA as a fleet of very diverse but Program; Individual Hiring Regulations; Merit well-coordinated boats, with plenty of busy Reward Regulation; and Merit Prizes Regulation. sailors boldly searching the seas of knowledge. João Sàágua 6 7 Research at NOVA is our most important asset. 3 NOVA’s HORIZON Research at NOVA is our most important asset Award SANTANDER-NOVA with 11 successful that will make the difference and will shape the editions; 3 future of NOVA University Lisbon for the coming • NOVA integrates the Young European Research MESSAGE years, the Horizon of our ambition as a great Universities Network due to the excellent University is to reach excellence in all areas. results achieved in the main rankings of NOVA is proud to host 41 Research Units covering Universities with less than 50 years. FROM all the scientific and technological areas, where The new Rectoral Team aims to strengthen and one third are research partnerships between to increase the scientific visibility inside and NOVA and other national institutions. outside NOVA, by promoting cross-cutting issues THE In terms of key performance scientific and collaboration, providing tools to the different types technical indicators I would like to highlight the of Research Units of NOVA, aiming to explore and following ones: take profit of the existing different synergies, to which we would like to associate the societal • Since the launch of the European Research VICE- impacts, as the driving element of our strategies for Council Grants programme in 2008, NOVA’s the future. researchers have been awarded a total of 19 grants, placing NOVA as one of the top Targeting this goal, we promoted the first edition RECTOR national institutions with a national share of of the NOVA Science Day 2018 that had more than 25%; 350 participants. • NOVA is the Portuguese University with the In order to materialize and share our “best” FOR best performance at H2020 Framework with NOVA community and their national and Program; international partnerships, we launched in 2018 • According to the Leiden ranking 2018, the NOVA Science journal (paper/digital edition) RESEARCH NOVA University Lisbon is the Portuguese covering all the research activities at NOVA. institution with the greatest impact in At NOVA we believe that the combined strengths terms of published scientific articles on of a collaborative team is by far bigger than the a global scale, with 11.8% of all scientific sum of the individuals, and at the end we want production on the TOP 10% of the most to prepare the future generations in order to cited publications; promote a Strong Academia, a Powerful Industry • NOVA participates in 10 Collaborative and a Respect Society. Laboratories funded by FCT.I.P. and coordinates two of them; It is a time of great challenges as well as opportunities for the university community and Elvira Fortunato • 77% of NOVA’s Research Units have been our partners to work together to increase NOVA’s classified with “Exceptional”, “Excellent” impact, by applying research to address critical NOVA UNIVERSITY or “Very Good” during the last evaluation global missions. LISBON performed by FCT.I.P.; • Strengthening of the Collaborative Research All of you are welcome at NOVA. Elvira Fortunato 8 9 4 RESEARCH RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS NOVA University Lisbon hosts 41 Research and Development Units (R&D), 15 of which are research partnerships between NOVA and other national institutions. In 2013, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, I.P.) evaluated 77% of NOVA’s R&D Units with “Exceptional”, “Excellent” and “Very Good”. These results were way above the national average of Portuguese Universities. Research at NOVA has been growing and developing, both at quantitative and 19 European Research qualitative level. NOVA is responsible for approximately 10% of the national Council (ERC) Grants. research papers indexed to the Web of Science (source: DGEEC – Directorate 4 General for Education and Science Statistics and NOVA University Lisbon).