3 rd self evaluation report (zen) requested by council of ministers of 24 november, 2005 creating an...
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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.
Instituto de Investigação Científica TropicalInstituto de Investigação Científica Tropical
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)
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
HUMAN AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES
Budget – € 8,3 million in 2006
External Funding – 16% of imputed research costs
National
International
CPLP
DISTRIBUTION OF STUDENTS ACCORDING TO ORIGIN OF INSTITUTION
EDUCATION LEVEL OF STUDENTS IN NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS SUPERVISED BY IICT RESEARCHERS
PostDoc
PhD
Master
BA/BSc
Prof. Training
Other
CAPACITY BUILDING AND ADVANCED TRAINING
231 students supervised during 2001/05
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 AngolaTER PROGRAMME
Impact assessment for the sub Saharan Africa challenge programme (Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique) AGRI PROGRAMME
Protective mechanisms against African swine fever infection AGRI PROGRAMME,Partnership being negotiated with Vet. Research Lab. (LNIV)
An Information System to support agro-ecological planning, environmental and rural development issues related with the use and conservation of Land Resources of Angola
ASFV infected pig macrophages
Integrated Pest Management on stored riceAGRI Programme
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
Demonstration and Technology transfer Project from Portuguese Agency of InnovationSponsor: Trécé, Inc., Salinas California
BIO/JMAT Programme Digitizing African Types at LISCFinanced by Andrew Mellon Foundation (USA)
The project is part of the international project African Plants Initiative (API).
Type of Xylia mendoncae Torre
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.
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)
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)
CDRD
2. Landcover classification and change detectionLandcover changes and successional pathways in the forests of Cantanhez, Guinea-Bissau (POCTI BIA-BDE/57965/2004)
Landcover map of Angola (scale 1:750000), obtained from MODIS and Landsat-TM images.
CIFCMain purpose: to centralise, at international co-operation level, the
research on the main coffee diseases
More than 90% of resistant coffee cultivated varieties were created with CIFC help
Coffee leaf rust Coffee Berry Disease
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
Stress physiology and gene expression. Coffea sp. acclimation to cold and high irradiance stressful conditions (POCTI/AGG/43101/2001)
ECO-BIO
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)
Role of defense-related genes during the establishment of root-nodule symbioses between higher plants and nitrogen-fixing bacteria (POCTI/AGR/55651/2004)
Solid state analysis
FLORThe only group dedicated to the identification of tropical woods and
development of non destructive methods of analysis (Portuguese Quality Certificate pending)
2. Non destructive evaluation of wood and wood productsNear and Fourier transform infrared for wood chemical and physical properties - extractives, lignin and polysaccharides - modulus of elasticity and basic density
1. Tropical wood identification - optimise utilization - counterfeit analysis
5145
cm
-1
water content
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
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
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.
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
SELECTED PROJECTS WITH EXTERNAL FUNDING
FORTHCOMING EVENTS AND BOOKS
INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON HISTORY OF AFRICALisbon 1988 and 1999, Rio de Janeiro 1996, Maputo 2004
Next edition planned for Cape Verde, 2006
THE ATLANTIC SPACE OF THE ANCIENT REGIMEPartnership with Overseas History Centre (CHAM), 2005
Historians, archivists, anthropologists, sociologistsProceedings forthcoming
COLONIAL CARTOGRAPHY IN AFRICA Coloquium 7-10 Nov. 2006
Cape Verde Virtual (CVV)
3D Visualisation System of pluridisciplinar georeferenced information for turistic, cultural, educational and scientific applications to foster Cape Verde development.
Interdisciplinary Programme forGLOBAL DEVELOPMENT (DES)
1. To study Public Private Partnerships (PPP) capable of contributing to economic and social 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 and Development (S. Tomé and Timor)
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
SELECTED INDICATORS
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 treatmentGoa, 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
Research Activity
Cooperation
Anthropological Mission Films
Angola, 1950-55
AHU Laboratory
AHU Archives
Study of Portuguese overseas heritage
Identification communication
classification preservation of
collections
Transferring knowledge and technology, allowing the
sustainable development of CPLP countries
PI
– Portuguese Museums Institute– Science and Technology Foundation– National Library
Conservation And Training– Nova University of Lisbon– Polytechnic Institute of Tomar
Bibliographical Collections
Entomology collection
Wood samples collection
Archaeology collection
Ethnographic collection
Scientific Instruments
Photographic collections
National Library: PORBASE 5 (bibliographical collections);
U.S. National Science Foundation / Kansas University Biodiversity Research Center: SPECIFY (zoological collections)
University of Oxford: BRAHMS (botanical collections):
IPM / MatrizNet: MATRIZ (archaeological, art and ethnographic collections)
INTERACTIVE DATABASES
GBIF –
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
(152 data providers)
IGC
Collective Catalogue on-line - over 150
libraries
Portuguese Museums Network – over 28 museums
34 international botanical databases
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
AHU
More than 500 specific search requests / year
2500 readers in 2005
65% Portuguese20% CPLP10% UE 5% other countries
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
AHU
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
2006 Events
TROPICAL GARDEN
A botanical garden, created in 1906, that holds a valuable collection of plant species mainly from tropical and sub-tropical regions
Has benefited since 1992 from support of Berardo Foundation and other sponsors.League of Friends of JMAT to be launched soon.
• 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.
SHOWCASE OF TROPICAL
RESEARCH AND COMMUNICATION Research on taxonomy, biodiversity,
natural and ecological resources Education services and public
awareness events
Launch of “The Adventure of Plants”
“Under the Double Shade of Trees” Exhibition
100th anniversary celebration in the presence of minister
25 January 2006
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!)
Interministerial Programme to treat and access IICT patrimony
Documentation and Information Centre
Overseas Historical Archive
Updated News
DataBases
Website being revamped at www.iict.pt
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 FestivalNovember 2005
Angola Anthropological Mission Films
DVD with “Dances of Timor”. Timor Anthropological Mission Films
Lusophone Book Fair in East TimorNovember 2005
Lisbon Book Fair with Chaves Ferreira Publishers
SELECTED EVENTS
200 children and youths in 2004 and 2005.
Program Live Science from MCTES
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 Angolawith Institute Camões and Catholic University of Angola
September 2004
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
Burnay Palace, 30 November/04
Conference by Prof. Jean Pierre Contzenat Junqueira 30, Auditorium, 14 June/05
Burnay Palace, 15 December/05
at Junqueira 30, Auditorium
Visit of Prime Minister of Cape Verde in the presence of Portuguese Science Minister
Innovation and Multilateral Agreements:which impact for developing countries
Visit of IRD President and Presentation of Palmeirim Report
VISITS AND SEMINARS