Academia de Engenharia (AE)
Member Academies
Av. António Augusto de Aguiar, nr. 3-D / 1069-030 Lisboa Portugal
T. +351 21 313 26 09 | F. +351 21 313 26 15
Identity
Sebastião FEYO DE AZEVEDO
Chairman
Founding date: 1995
Number of members: 124
Number foreign members: 5
Management and Staff: Teresa Fonseca
Financing and sources: The Portuguese Academy of Engineering is a private not-for-profit association
Mission
The objectives pursued by the ‘Avademia’ are the following:
– To assess the needs of the Country, and the technical resources that can be used or applied to stimulate research in engineering that may be advisable to the national welfare, as well as to monitor and give its advice on the part played by engineering in modern society.
– To promote co-operation within the field of engineering in Portugal, in the European Union and in other countries so as to ensure concentration of efforts in the resolution of social problems and in the development of research for such purpose.
– To give assistance to governmental bodies, whenever asked for by any of its agencies or departments, as regards issues of national importance for engineering.
– To cooperate with the ORDEM DOS ENGENHEIROS, with the ACADEMIA DE CIÊNCIAS DE LISBOA and with other similar foreign academies of sciences or engineering, as well as with national research and development centers.
– To serve the Country in other aspects related to important issues within the scope of engineering and technology.
Committees / Main working groups
Working Group on forecasting earthquakes.
Highlights 2023
On January 20, 2023, an international Debate on “The Data Economy in the European Union” was held at the Order of Engineers, Lisbon, jointly organized by the Academy of Engineering and the Order of Engineers with Members of the PPE Group, the S&D Group and the RE Group , of the European Parliament.
On August 12, 2023, a proposal was (successfully) submitted for the appointment of Professor Arlindo Oliveira, as member of the international and interdisciplinary working group for the topic “Successful and timely uptake of Artificial Intelligence in science in the EU”, in support of the European Commission’s Scientific Advisory Mechanism (SAM). The work carried out resulted in an important final independent report (Scientific Opinion n. 15, March 2024), to be reported in 2024.
On October 15-18, 2023, at the Academy’s proposal, a young researcher, Rui Neves, from the University of Porto participated in the ‘2023 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (EU-US FOE)’, held at Nokia Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, an event co-organized by the NAE-USA and the Euro-CASE.