17 June 2025
The European Research Council (ERC) awards two ERC Advanced Grants to Life Sciences in Portugal
The results of the most recent European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants have been announced today (June 17th). In Portugal, the ERC selected two new projects in the area of life sciences, which in total will receive 5M€.
The ERC funding, worth in total €721M, will go to 281 leading researchers across Europe. In the case of life sciences, 732 proposals were submitted and 83 were selected for funding, which represents a success rate of approximately 11%.
11 June 2025
Episode 4 - Consciousness: From Zombies to Beast Machines
From philosophical zombies and the purpose of dreaming, to measuring consciousness like temperature and why brains aren’t computers, Seth unpacks the idea that our experience of reality – and of ourselves – is a kind of waking dream, a “controlled hallucination”, shaped by prediction, perception, and the body’s primal drive to stay alive.
His theory of what it means to ‘be you’ challenges how we understand perception – and turns what you thought you knew about yourself on its head.
05 June 2025
Wrapping up the 4th Edition of the Mentoring Programme Ciência di Noz Manera
Following intro sessions that happened at schools back in February, nearly 200 8th-grade students from Escola do Alto do Lumiar (Lisboa) and Escola Dr. Azevedo Neves (Amadora) took part in a series of hands-on/minds-on experiments at both the GIMM Foundation and Champalimaud Foundation (CF) in March.
04 June 2025
Many Possible Futures: How Dopamine in the Brain Might Inform AI That Adapts Quickly to Change
The problem with averages
Imagine you’re deciding whether to wait in line for your favourite meal at a busy restaurant or grab a quick snack at the nearest café. Your brain weighs not just how good the meal might be, but also how long it will take to get it.
Champalimaud Open Seminar (COpS)
"AI/Radiomics 2.0: How to Safely Translate Research Results to the Clinics"
Nickolas Papanikolaou, Computational Clinical Imaging Group
"A New Society of Mind"
Joe Paton, Learning Lab
Moderation
Carlos Minutti, Immunoregulation Lab
Venue
Champalimaud Foundation Auditorium
29 May 2025
Meet Ardem Patapoutian, who discovered the molecules at the root of our exquisite sense of touch – and won a Nobel for it
“I love talking about the molecular structure [I discovered]”, said Ardem Patapoutian, who leads a lab at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, as he was presenting his work to an audience gathered at the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), in Lisbon, last week. “It's very easy for me to talk about it when I have PowerPoint slides, but what if I'm in a restaurant or in a bar and I want to tell someone about how it works? I decided to get a tattoo of the structure and I want to share it with you.”
28 May 2025
Episode 3 - Inside OCD: White Bears and Blizzards
What drives someone to fear their own thoughts, or an Ethiopian schoolgirl to eat the wall of her house, bit by bit? Why do millions of us get stuck in loops of doubt and dread? And what does it mean to have a brain that simply won’t let go?
Festival Cumplicidades - Ideas for the Future
The Auditorium of the Champalimaud Foundation will be the stage for artists and scientists to share with the public their ideas for the future, in a sequence of lectures/performances anchored in reality or hand in hand with fiction. A unique event where the affinities of art and science are revealed in their curiosity for the unknown.
