Exhibitions

Opening Ceremony of the "Portuguese Semester"

Add to Calendar 2021-01-15 12:00:00 2021-01-15 13:00:00 Opening Ceremony of the "Portuguese Semester" The Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council has arrived and the invitation to celebrate it is open to all Our first event will be the traditional flag ceremony on January 15, 2020 at 12:00 pm. The ceremony will be online and will connect Ispra to many other colleagues and friends throughout the EU. Among the distinguished speakers are the Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms, Elisa Ferreira, the Ambassador of the Portuguese Republic to Italy Pedro Nuno Bartolo, and the Director General of the JRC, Stephen Quest. The ceremony will be moderated by João Cruz, a stand-up comedian and researcher. The portuguese singer and composer Manuel Freire will perform to close the event. Freire is well-known for his interpretation of the poem Pedra Filosofal. Freire was very influential through his music, before and after Portugal’s 1974 Carnation revolution. His voice and Gedeao's words are still an inspiration to millions of Portuguese They neither know, nor dream, that dreams command life. That whenever a man dreams the world bounces, advances, as if it were a coloured ball held by the hands of a child. Webstream link https://webcast.ec.europa.eu/virtual-opening-ceremony-of-the-portuguese-semester Agenda 12:00-12:05 Welcome by Master of Ceremonies, Joao Cruz​ 12:05-12:15 Address by Stephen QUEST​, Director General Joint Research Centre​ Address by Georg PETER​, President of the German Semester Organising Committee, Address by Sandra CALDEIRA and Ricardo SOUSA​, Presidents of the  Portuguese Semester Organising Committee.​​ 12:15-12:25 Flag Ceremony​ German Anthem -  Lowering of the German Flag​ Portuguese Anthem -  Raising of the Portuguese Flag​ European Anthem​ 12:25-12:30 Address by Commissioner Elisa FERREIRA​, Commissioner, Cohesion and Reforms 12:30-12:35 Address by Embaixador Pedro Nuno BÁRTOLO, ​Portuguese Ambassador to Italy​ ​12:35-12:45 Pedra Filosofal by Manuel FREIRE ​ ​12:45 Unveiling of the symbol (Roundabout)​ 13:00 Closing of the Ceremony​ Webstreaming PT-Semester 2021 paulorosa.par@gmail.com Europe/Rome public
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Monument to the Discoveries - Padrão dos Descobrimentos

The Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council has arrived and the invitation to celebrate it is open to all

Our first event will be the traditional flag ceremony on January 15, 2020 at 12:00 pm. The ceremony will be online and will connect Ispra to many other colleagues and friends throughout the EU.

Among the distinguished speakers are the Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms, Elisa Ferreira, the Ambassador of the Portuguese Republic to Italy Pedro Nuno Bartolo, and the Director General of the JRC, Stephen Quest. The ceremony will be moderated by João Cruz, a stand-up comedian and researcher.

The portuguese singer and composer Manuel Freire will perform to close the event. Freire is well-known for his interpretation of the poem Pedra Filosofal. Freire was very influential through his music, before and after Portugal’s 1974 Carnation revolution. His voice and Gedeao's words are still an inspiration to millions of Portuguese

They neither know, nor dream, that dreams command life. That whenever a man dreams the world bounces, advances, as if it were a coloured ball held by the hands of a child.

Webstream link

https://webcast.ec.europa.eu/virtual-opening-ceremony-of-the-portuguese-semester

Agenda

12:00-12:05 Welcome by Master of Ceremonies, Joao Cruz

12:05-12:15

  • Address by Stephen QUEST​, Director General Joint Research Centre​
  • Address by Georg PETER​, President of the German Semester Organising Committee,
  • Address by Sandra CALDEIRA and Ricardo SOUSA​, Presidents of the  Portuguese Semester Organising Committee.​​

12:15-12:25 Flag Ceremony

  • German Anthem -  Lowering of the German Flag​
  • Portuguese Anthem -  Raising of the Portuguese Flag​
  • European Anthem

12:25-12:30 Address by Commissioner Elisa FERREIRA​, Commissioner, Cohesion and Reforms

12:30-12:35 Address by Embaixador Pedro Nuno BÁRTOLO, ​Portuguese Ambassador to Italy​

​12:35-12:45 Pedra Filosofal by Manuel FREIRE 

​12:45 Unveiling of the symbol (Roundabout)​

13:00 Closing of the Ceremony

Photography Exhibition - Lisbon Street Photography

Add to Calendar 2021-06-30 03:07:13 2021-06-30 03:07:13 Photography Exhibition - Lisbon Street Photography For our final online photography exhibition we will bring you along for one day and one night in Lisbon. Find the exhibition HERE This exhibition was prepared in cooperation with the FotoCineClub of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) . The pictures have been shot by the club's members during a street photography workshop to the city of Lisbon when there were no restrictions to travel and smiles weren't hidden behind masks. We reveal the best ones here in our website, so we finish our series of photography exhibitions where we started. In the streets of Lisbon.  Hope you like it! Picture copyright Eda Ustaoglu Online PT-Semester 2021 paulorosa.par@gmail.com Europe/Rome public
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Eda Ustaoglu_Lisbon

For our final online photography exhibition we will bring you along for one day and one night in Lisbon. Find the exhibition HERE

This exhibition was prepared in cooperation with the FotoCineClub of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) . The pictures have been shot by the club's members during a street photography workshop to the city of Lisbon when there were no restrictions to travel and smiles weren't hidden behind masks.

We reveal the best ones here in our website, so we finish our series of photography exhibitions where we started. In the streets of Lisbon. 

Hope you like it!

Picture copyright Eda Ustaoglu

Photography Exhibition - DIS CONNECTION

Add to Calendar 2021-05-15 16:00:00 2021-05-15 17:00:00 Photography Exhibition - DIS CONNECTION We are proud to present a fully original photography exhibition from Rui Barroso, a true modern renaissance man, who besides being a photographer is also a Tango professor among other things. Check the exhibition HERE In this exhibition, Rui Barroso, brings us his vision of the extraordinary times that we are living under the global pandemic. After being invited to present his work, the concepts that came to his mind to present in this exhibition were stopped and suddenly his world has come to an halt.  He, as most of us, had to reset and rethink his position in the world and the relationships with others. This exhibition aims to reflect this instropective times and maybe project towards what it is to come. Join us, this Saturday, where the artist will give his view of the exhibition, live.  Direct link for the presentation: https://europa.zoom.us/j/84666911754?pwd=clpyK3gzRmMxVEliUG1sNEsxREZLQT09  This Saturday, 15th May, at 16.00 CET (15.00 Lisbon time). Check other Photography exhibitions HERE   Online PT-Semester 2021 paulorosa.par@gmail.com Europe/Rome public
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DIS CONNECTION

We are proud to present a fully original photography exhibition from Rui Barroso, a true modern renaissance man, who besides being a photographer is also a Tango professor among other things. Check the exhibition HERE

In this exhibition, Rui Barroso, brings us his vision of the extraordinary times that we are living under the global pandemic.

After being invited to present his work, the concepts that came to his mind to present in this exhibition were stopped and suddenly his world has come to an halt.  He, as most of us, had to reset and rethink his position in the world and the relationships with others.

This exhibition aims to reflect this instropective times and maybe project towards what it is to come.

Join us, this Saturday, where the artist will give his view of the exhibition, live. 

Direct link for the presentation: https://europa.zoom.us/j/84666911754?pwd=clpyK3gzRmMxVEliUG1sNEsxREZLQT09 

This Saturday, 15th May, at 16.00 CET (15.00 Lisbon time).

Check other Photography exhibitions HERE

 

Photo exhibition - "The dawn of Freedom"

Add to Calendar 2021-04-25 00:00:00 2021-04-30 23:59:59 Photo exhibition - "The dawn of Freedom" 25 April | Photo exhibition on our website - "The dawn of Freedom" Come with our photographer, Mário Varela Gomes, into the morning of the 25th of April of 1974, where he captured the defining moments of a new age in the history of Portugal after decades of dictatorship. Welcome to "The dawn of Freedom" Ispra PT-Semester 2021 paulorosa.par@gmail.com Europe/Rome public
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Army Cavalry School (EPC) withdraws from the field of operations

25 April | Photo exhibition on our website - "The dawn of Freedom"

Come with our photographer, Mário Varela Gomes, into the morning of the 25th of April of 1974, where he captured the defining moments of a new age in the history of Portugal after decades of dictatorship.

Welcome to "The dawn of Freedom"

Exhibition - Keepers of the sea: women wisdom for science

Add to Calendar 2021-02-11 14:00:00 2021-03-08 23:00:00 Exhibition - Keepers of the sea: women wisdom for science In this virtual exhibition prepared for the JRC’s Portuguese Semester you will be guided through the Keepers of the sea project. You will learn about the new roles the women from the fishing community have now on their communities for seagrass meadows conservation. Seagrass meadows offer us a number of ecosystem services: a set of natural processes which directly or indirectly contribute to human well-being. Besides being important nursery habitats that supports biodiversity, coastal communities and the fishing economy (among a lot of other things!), seagrass also sequester and store high amounts of carbon in their biomass and sediment, which makes them crucial ecosystems in strategies to combat the climate crisis. Visit the virtual exhibition to learn about Ocean Alive’s work in preserving this precious habitat, in Portugal: https://pt-semester.eu/ocean-alive Online PT-Semester 2021 paulorosa.par@gmail.com Europe/Rome public
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Seagrass meadows

In this virtual exhibition prepared for the JRC’s Portuguese Semester you will be guided through the Keepers of the sea project. You will learn about the new roles the women from the fishing community have now on their communities for seagrass meadows conservation.

Seagrass meadows offer us a number of ecosystem services: a set of natural processes which directly or indirectly contribute to human well-being.

Besides being important nursery habitats that supports biodiversity, coastal communities and the fishing economy (among a lot of other things!), seagrass also sequester and store high amounts of carbon in their biomass and sediment, which makes them crucial ecosystems in strategies to combat the climate crisis.

Visit the virtual exhibition to learn about Ocean Alive’s work in preserving this precious habitat, in Portugal: https://pt-semester.eu/ocean-alive

Virtual Photography exhibitions

Add to Calendar 2021-05-25 09:00:00 2021-05-30 00:00:00 Virtual Photography exhibitions In a time when travelling is limited, the Portuguese semester is proud to present a series of photography exhibitions that will allow for viewers to travel to Portugal via the lens of a series of photographers that try to capture the essence of being Portuguese, our way of life, our cities and our culture. With the cooperation of the JRC FotoCineClub we will travel in time and in space during these virtual exhibitions. Our first exhibition was all about the day that Portugal found itself free thanks to the carnation revolution. Check the gallery HERE For the second exhibition, in the month of May, we will have Rui Barroso, a modern renaissance man, that will give his take on our times.  Stay Tuned.   - Photography by Rui Barroso- Portuguese semester website. PT-Semester 2021 paulorosa.par@gmail.com Europe/Rome public
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Nazare fishermen

In a time when travelling is limited, the Portuguese semester is proud to present a series of photography exhibitions that will allow for viewers to travel to Portugal via the lens of a series of photographers that try to capture the essence of being Portuguese, our way of life, our cities and our culture.

With the cooperation of the JRC FotoCineClub we will travel in time and in space during these virtual exhibitions.

Our first exhibition was all about the day that Portugal found itself free thanks to the carnation revolution. Check the gallery HERE

For the second exhibition, in the month of May, we will have Rui Barroso, a modern renaissance man, that will give his take on our times. 

Stay Tuned.

 

- Photography by Rui Barroso-