The Instituto Superior Técnico is the school of engineering and technology of the University of Lisbon. It was founded as an autonomous school in 1911,and was integrated into the Technical University of Lisbon in 1930. IST is the largest school of engineering in Portugal by number of enrolled students,faculty size,scientific production and patents.
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in member and non-member nations intended to evaluate educational systems by measuring 15-year-old school pupils' scholastic performance on mathematics,science,and reading. It was first performed in 2000 and then repeated every three years. Its aim is to provide comparable data with a view to enabling countries to improve their education policies and outcomes. It measures problem solving and cognition.
The Technical University of Lisbon was a Portuguese public university. It was created in 1930 in Lisbon,as a confederation of preexisting schools,and comprised the faculties and institutes of veterinary medicine;agricultural sciences;economics and business administration;engineering,social and political sciences;architecture;and human kinetics.
The Portuguese Mathematical Society is the mathematical society of Portugal,and was founded in Lisbon on December 12,1940. Its objectives are the development of education and the dissemination and promotion of mathematical research in Portugal.
Higher education in Portugal is divided into two main subsystems:university and polytechnic education. It is provided in autonomous public and private universities,university institutes,polytechnic institutes and higher education institutions of other types.
Science and technology in Portugal is mainly conducted within a network of research and development (R&D) units belonging to public universities and state-managed autonomous research institutions. There are also non-state-run research institutions and some private R&D projects developed by companies.
Maria Manuela Dias Ferreira Leite is a Portuguese economist,pundit and retired politician. Ferreira Leite served as Minister of Education in Aníbal Cavaco Silva's third government,from 1993 to 1995,and as Minister of State and Finance in JoséDurão Barroso's government,from 2002 to 2004.
Aníbal António Cavaco Silva is a Portuguese economist and politician who served as the 19th president of Portugal,from 9 March 2006 to 9 March 2016,and as prime minister of Portugal,from 6 November 1985 to 25 October 1995. His 10-year tenure was the longest of any prime minister since Salazar,and the longest for a freely elected prime minister in Portugal's republican history. He was the first Portuguese prime minister to win an absolute parliamentary majority under the current constitutional system. He is best known for leading Portugal into the European Union.
Pedro Manuel Mamede Passos Coelho is a Portuguese politician and university guest lecturer who was the 117th prime minister of Portugal,in office from 2011 to 2015. He was the leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) between 2010 and 2018.
Jaime Alexandre Nogueira Pinto is a Portuguese writer and university professor,son of Jaime da Cunha Guimarães by Alda Branca Nogueira Pinto,who died in 2007.
Miguel Fernando Cassola de Miranda Relvas is a Portuguese politician and former Secretary General of the Social Democratic Party.
The 2015 Portuguese legislative election was held on 4 October. All 230 seats of the Assembly of the Republic were in contention.
The 11th Regional Legislature was formed after regional elections held on 14 October 2012,in which the Azores Socialist Party. Representatives of the Assembly were elected from 57 constituencies,with the majority of the seats occupied by members of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS),under the leadership of Vasco Cordeiro,who headed the 21st Government of the Azores,during the 11th Regional Assembly.
The University of Lisbon was a public university in Lisbon,Portugal. It was founded in 1911 after the fall of the Portuguese monarchy and was later integrated in the new University of Lisbon along with the former Technical University of Lisbon.
Luís Gil Bettencourt is a Portuguese-American musician,songwriter,and music producer.
Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco is a prominent Mozambican economist.
GASTagus,also known as Grupo de Ação Social do Tagus,is a Portuguese non-governmental development organization (NGDO).
Manuela Arcanjo is a Portuguese university professor. She was Secretary of State for the Budget in Portugal between 1995 and 1998,and Minister of Health between 1999 and 2001.
Pedro Nuno de Oliveira Santos is a Portuguese economist and politician,who is the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party. Santos previously held positions in the Portuguese Government under António Costa,first as Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs,from November 2015 to February 2019,and afterwards as Minister of Infrastructure and Housing,from February 2019 to December 2022.
Jorge Nuno Silva is a Portuguese mathematician who taught at the University of Lisbon,starting in 1995 and retiring in 2023. His interests encompass the pedagogy of mathematics,history of mathematics,history of board games,mathematical games,and recreational mathematics. He is the chief editor for Recreational Mathematics Magazine and Board Game Studies Journal.
