Transcript Diapositivo 1

Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical
3rd Self Evaluation Report (ZEN) requested by Council of
Ministers of 24 November, 2005 creating an International Support
Group for the Reform of State Laboratories (GIARLE) chaired by
Dr. Jean-Pierre Contzen and working with the Programme for the
Reform of Central Government (PRACE) at the Ministry of
Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES).
Summary including selected projects from management board
(DIRAL) to stakeholders listed in bylaws:
Steering Committee (CO), Monitoring Unit (UA),
Scientific Council (CC), Paritary Commission (CP).
Earlier versions were presented at a Plenary Meeting of CC, a joint
meeting of CO.UA and a meeting of CP with the non-research staff.
16 March, 2006.
IMPLEMENTING AN EVALUATION CULTURE
 Nov. 2003 Bylaws approved
 Feb. 2004 Management appointed
 May 2004 1st Self Evaluation Report: CRIP
lists management targets
 Jan. 2005 2nd Self Evaluation Report: ENCA defines
core competencies
 May 2005 Five Year Research Plan voted by CC
 Jun. 2005 Internal Regulation Published
 Dec. 2005 Inaugural Meeting of CO and UA;
Preparatory Group for Evaluation (GPAV, selected from
DIRAL) extends CRIP and ENCA into ZEN.
PORTUGUESE STATE LAB DEDICATED TO
RESEARCH AND CAPACITY BUILDING IN
COUNTRIES FROM PORTUGUESE SPEAKING
COMMUNITY (CPLP)
3 CORE COMPETENCIES
1. Sustainable Development and Food Security (SUS)
2. Memories and Identities (MEM)
3. Access to and Preservation of Heritage (PAT)
HUMAN AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES
 187 tenured posts, of which 54 are researchers and 10
are senior researchers
 173 S&T personnel, of which
• 23 collaborators
• 44 fellowship holders
• 53 full-time-equivalent (FTE) researchers are listed
in 2001-2005 publications database
 51 PhD, 17 Masters, 63 BA/BSc
 Budget – € 8,3 million in 2006
 External Funding – 16% of imputed research costs
CAPACITY BUILDING AND ADVANCED TRAINING
231 students supervised during 2001/05
EDUCATION LEVEL OF
STUDENTS IN NATIONAL
INSTITUTIONS SUPERVISED BY
IICT RESEARCHERS
DISTRIBUTION OF
STUDENTS ACCORDING TO
ORIGIN OF INSTITUTION
PostDoc
PhD
National
Master
International
BA/BSc
CPLP
Prof. Training
Other
CORE COMPETENCY
Sustainable Development and Food Security (SUS)
Includes 3 Programmes and 4 Centres
6 partnerships with other state labs
0.5 ISI publications per FTE researcher year
Guinea-Bissau,
IICT
SELECTED PROJECTS WITH EXTERNAL FUNDING
 Digital soil map of Angola
TER PROGRAMME
An Information System to support agro-ecological
planning, environmental
and rural development
issues related with the use and conservation of Land
Resources of Angola
 Protective mechanisms against African
swine fever infection
AGRI PROGRAMME,
Partnership being negotiated with Vet.
Research Lab. (LNIV)
 Impact assessment for the sub Saharan Africa challenge
programme (Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique)
AGRI PROGRAMME
ASFV infected
pig macrophages
Integrated Pest Management on stored rice
AGRI Programme
Demonstration and Technology
transfer Project from Portuguese
Agency of Innovation
Sponsor: Trécé, Inc., Salinas California
Objectives of Dem Tec Project
 Implementation of sampling programs for stored paddy rice from
India and Pakistan and milled rice ready for consumption, used in:
• risk assessment
• decision-making
 Application of additional control methods less noxious
than existing ones for consumers and the environment
 New technology transfer from research to industry
 Demonstrations planned for tropical areas (Cape Verde)
 Projected visit of team researcher to Oklahoma and Kansas State Universities
BIO/JMAT Programme Digitizing African Types
Financed by Andrew Mellon Foundation (USA)
at LISC
The project is part of the international project African Plants Initiative (API).
API aims at creating a online comprehensive
database of high-resolution images of all African
type specimens from leading herbaria and
botanic gardens around the world, including
LISC, the herbarium of IICT.
Type of Xylia mendoncae Torre
LISC has about 245.000 African specimens. Of these, it is estimated that 3.500
are type specimens. More than 1000 types have already been digitised.
Evaluation of BIO/JMAT Programme
(PALMEIRIM REPORT)
New Mission: Research for Biodiversity Management
Some weaknesses
1. Unbalanced scientific staff
2. Low capacity to attract external funding
Specific measures
1. Broaden research to applied and multidisciplinary areas
2. Maintain current research themes
3. Management plans of natural reserves, preservation strategies for
endangered species, conservation projects ex-situ
SUS CENTRES
 Centre of Remote Sensing for Development (CDRD)
 Coffee Rusts Research Centre (CIFC)
 Plant Ecophysiology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Centre (ECO-BIO)
 Forests and Forestry Products Centre (FLOR)
CDRD
1. Global and regional pyrogeography
Fire in the Brazilian Amazon: multi-year mapping
of area burned and estimation of pyrogenic
emissions
using
remotely
sensed
data
(POCTI/CTA/45126/2002)
GEOLAND: Fire induce landcover and
forest changes
ca. 60 participating international institutions
(SIP3-CT-2003-502871)
2. Landcover classification and change detection
Landcover changes and successional pathways in the forests of Cantanhez, GuineaBissau (POCTI BIA-BDE/57965/2004)
Landcover map of Angola (scale 1:750000), obtained from MODIS and Landsat-TM
images.
CIFC
Main purpose: to centralise, at international co-operation level, the
research on the main coffee diseases
Coffee leaf rust
Coffee Berry Disease
More than 90% of resistant coffee cultivated varieties were created with CIFC help
 Development of a strategy for a durable management of the resistance to coffee
berry disease (CBD) in Africa (ICA4-CT-2001-10008)
 Scientific collaboration in fundamental and practical knowledge in the most
important coffee diseases in Tanzania with the ultimate aim of producing coffee
varieties with durable resistance to these pathogens (TA STA COF99 01)
 Agreement Cenicafe (Colombia) - since 1976
ECO-BIO
 Stress
physiology
and
gene
expression. Coffea sp. acclimation to
cold and high irradiance stressful
conditions (POCTI/AGG/43101/2001)
 Role of defense-related genes during the
establishment of root-nodule symbioses
between higher plants and nitrogen-fixing
bacteria (POCTI/AGR/55651/2004)
 Growth of plants under environmental controlled conditions to study the
responses to biotic and abiotic stresses at genomic, physiological, biochemical
and structural levels (CONC-REEQ/374/2001)
FLOR
The only group dedicated to the identification of tropical woods and
development of non destructive methods of analysis
(Portuguese Quality Certificate pending)
1. Tropical wood identification
- optimise utilization
- counterfeit analysis
water content
5145 cm-1
Solid state analysis
2. Non destructive evaluation of wood
and wood products
Near and Fourier transform infrared for wood
chemical and physical properties
- extractives, lignin and polysaccharides
- modulus of elasticity and basic density
SELECTED INDICATORS
SUS
3 PROG
4 CENT
Activities with External Funding (%)
66
67
78
Ext. Fund. / Cost (%)
14
4
26
Personnel S&T
76
44
31
FTE S&T
55
27
28
Of which in Publication Database (PD)
33
22
13
Intern. Publications /FTE/yr
2.1
1.8
2.3
CORE COMPETENCY
Memories and Identities (MEM)
Includes 2 Programmes and 1 Centre
Planta do Quartelamento e
Fortaleza da Ilha de Moçambique.
Carlos J. dos Reis e Gama, 1802
AHU
SELECTED PROJECTS WITH EXTERNAL FUNDING
General History of Cape Verde
3 volumes, 2 prizes, 1 honourable mention
Cooperation project between Portugal and Cape Verde to
publish a National History based on the organization of a
documentary corpus on Cape Verde History.
Cartography, Politics and Colonial
Territories
Database system on documents and cartography,
produced by the Cartographic Commission, including
data on frontiers’ delimitation, natural resources and
territory management
CD ROM with cartographic documents available to
CPLP and other countries
SELECTED PROJECTS WITH EXTERNAL FUNDING
Dynamics of Interaction in the
Lusophone World
Focus on rural and urban processes
relevant for the study of colonial policies
and cultural interactions.
Memories, Heritage and Cultural Cooperation
Study of the material and non-material heritage shared
by CPLP countries
FORTHCOMING EVENTS AND BOOKS
THE ATLANTIC SPACE OF THE ANCIENT REGIME
Partnership with Overseas History Centre (CHAM), 2005
Historians, archivists, anthropologists, sociologists
Proceedings forthcoming
INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON HISTORY OF AFRICA
Lisbon 1988 and 1999, Rio de Janeiro 1996, Maputo 2004
Next edition planned for Cape Verde, 2006
COLONIAL CARTOGRAPHY IN AFRICA
Coloquium 7-10 Nov. 2006
Interdisciplinary Programme for
GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT (DES)
1. To study Public Private Partnerships (PPP) capable of contributing to
economic and social development
 Cape Verde Virtual (CVV)
3D Visualisation System of pluridisciplinar georeferenced
information for turistic, cultural, educational and scientific
applications to foster Cape Verde development.
2. To design interdisciplinary projects helping CPLP countries with difficulties
in fullfiling the MDGs - Health Promotion and Illness Prevention

Temporal and spatial transmission risk of parasites
emerging from freshwater ecosystems in Santiago
Island (Cape Verde)

Nutrition,
Child
Growth
(S. Tomé and Timor)
and
Development
SELECTED INDICATORS
MEM
2 PROG
DES
Activities with External Funding (%)
75
77
67
Ext. Fund. / Cost (%)
15
15
20
Personnel S&T
45
43
7
FTE S&T
41
37
4
Of which in Publication Database (PD)
19
17
2
Intern. Publications /FTE/yr
0.8
0.5
3.4
CORE COMPETENCY
Preservation and Access of Heritage (PAT)
Includes INTERMINISTERIAL PROGRAMME
TO TREAT AND PROVIDE ACCESS TO IICT HERITAGE (PI) and
services open to the public:
Overseas Historical Archive (AHU)
Tropical Garden (JMAT)
Documentation Centre (CDI)
Photo before and after treatment
Goa, Emile Marini collection - IICT
PAT & PI
 PAT provides an enabling environment for the adoption of best practices in
preservation and conservation, museology, archival and information sciences.
This core competency acts as a platform for research and communication
within and between SUS and MEM
 Staff is mainly doing technical work and almost 50% is external (in this case
fellowships play an important role in overcoming the freeze in recruitment and
the attraction of young professionals)
PI, after 8 months:
• Inserted 15,600 records in interactive databases
• Treated and organised 18,500 collection items
AIMS OF PAT
Technical Work
Cooperation
Identification
communication
classification
preservation of
collections
AHU Laboratory
Research Activity
Study of Portuguese
overseas heritage
Anthropological Mission Films
Angola, 1950-55
AHU Archives
Transferring knowledge and
technology, allowing the
sustainable development of
CPLP countries
PI
Bibliographical
Collections
– Portuguese Museums Institute
– Science and Technology Foundation
– National Library
Conservation And Training
– Nova University of Lisbon
– Polytechnic Institute of Tomar
Entomology
collection
Wood samples
collection
Archaeology
collection
Photographic
collections
Ethnographic
collection
Scientific
Instruments
INTERACTIVE DATABASES
Collective
Catalogue online - over 150
libraries
GBIF –
 National Library: PORBASE 5
(bibliographical collections);
 U.S. National Science Foundation /
Kansas University Biodiversity Research
Center: SPECIFY (zoological collections)
Global Biodiversity
Information Facility
(152 data providers)
IGC
 University of Oxford: BRAHMS
(botanical collections):
34 international
botanical
databases
 IPM / MatrizNet: MATRIZ
(archaeological, art and ethnographic
collections)
Portuguese
Museums Network
– over 28 museums
AHU
Responsible for the arrangement of and the access to more
than 15km of records produced by the Portuguese overseas
offices between mid 17th century and ca. 1974, a few of which
to be transfered
2500 readers in 2005
65% Portuguese
20% CPLP
10% UE
5% other countries
More than 500 specific
search requests / year
AHU
Projects under consideration
 Heritage Built by the Portuguese in Africa
Ministries of Public Works and Foreign Affairs
 Atlantic Africa
Ministry of Culture of Brazil, CPLP
2006 Events
January 18, Conference with
Conservation Institute (IPCR) on
Prevention and Emergency Plans in
Museums Archives and Libraries
February 15, book launch in the
presence of the Minister of State
and Foreign Affairs
TROPICAL GARDEN
A botanical garden, created in 1906, that holds a valuable collection
of plant species mainly from tropical and sub-tropical regions
• Member of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International
(BGCI), Iberian-Macaronesian
Association of Botanic Gardens
(AIMJB) European Botanic
Gardens Consortium.
• Subscribed to the 2003
International Agenda for
Botanic Gardens in
Conservation.
Has benefited since 1992 from support of Berardo
Foundation and other sponsors.
League of Friends of JMAT to be launched soon.
SHOWCASE OF TROPICAL
RESEARCH AND
COMMUNICATION
 Research on taxonomy, biodiversity,
natural and ecological resources
 Education services and public
awareness events
25 January 2006
100th anniversary celebration in the presence of
minister
Launch of “The Adventure of Plants”
“Under the Double Shade of Trees” Exhibition
23 September 2005
European Researchers Night,
in the presence of Secretary of State
COMMUNICATION AND DISSEMINATION ARE TOP
PRIORITIES FOR CO AND UA (ALSO GIARLE!)
Website being revamped at www.iict.pt
Updated News
Interministerial Programme to treat and access IICT patrimony
DataBases
Documentation and Information Centre
Overseas Historical Archive
Large quantity of publications available in CDI
Non technical summary of pappers appearing
regularly in “Africa Today” and “Nova Cidadania”
www.tvciencia.pt
SELECTED EVENTS
African Cinema Festival
November 2005
Angola Anthropological Mission Films
Lisbon Book Fair
with Chaves Ferreira Publishers
Lusophone Book Fair in East Timor
November 2005
DVD with “Dances of Timor”.
Timor Anthropological Mission Films
SELECTED EVENTS
Program Live Science from MCTES
200 children and youths in 2004 and 2005.
50 years of the Coffee Rust Research Centre,
in the presence of Secretary of State
29 April 2005
Luanda-Exibition: “50 years of scientific
books about Angola
with Institute Camões and Catholic University of Angola
September 2004
VISITS AND SEMINARS
 Visit of IRD President and Presentation of Palmeirim
Report
Burnay Palace, 15 December/05
 Visit of Prime Minister of Cape Verde
in the presence of Portuguese Science Minister
Burnay Palace, 30 November/04
 Innovation and Multilateral Agreements:
which impact for developing countries
Conference by Prof. Jean Pierre Contzen
at Junqueira 30, Auditorium, 14 June/05
 Seminars arranged by Chair of Scientific Council.
First series began with President of Foundation for Science and
Technology. Planned second series on scientific knowledge and its
constraints
at Junqueira 30, Auditorium