Once again, NOVA Medical School|Faculdade de Ciências Médicas partnered up with Pavilhão do Conhecimento-Centro de Ciência Viva and British Council for the 10th edition of the FameLab in Portugal and together will organize one of the Lisbon FameLab'19 Qualifiers.
This event will occur on 2 February 2019 at Research Campus-NMS|FCM and the winners of this Qualifier will participate directly in the National Semi-Finals.
FameLab is one of the biggest science communication competitions in the world, primarily designed to engage and entertain.
Each person has 3 minutes to show that can deliver a scientific message without using audiovisual materials to a non-scientific audience in an engaging way.
NMS|FCM-Pavilhão do Conhecimento Regional Qualifier is constituted by the following stages:
i. Online application with a 3' minutes video - until 27 January 2019. Apply here.
ii. Communication of the results to the candidates by e-mail - 28 January 2019;
iii. NMS|FCM-Pavilhão do Conhecimento Qualifier - 2 February 2019 at Research Campus - NMS|FCM.
The selected candidates will participate in one of the 2 national semi-finals (March 2019). The winners of the semi-finals will attend a Science Communication MasterClass (March/April 2019) and the National Final will occur on April/May 2019. The National winner will represent Portugal in the international semi-final at the Cheltenham Science Festival (4-9 June 2019, United Kingdom).
Anyone can participate as long as one has at least 18 years old and does not work in science communication.
For more information and complete normatives visit the FameLab website.
FameLab2019 - Lisbon Qualifier - NMS|FCM-Pavilhão do Conhecimento Facebook page.
Any inquiries should be addressed by email to sci.communication(at)nms.unl.pt.