The Directorate-General of Administration and Public Employment has created a microsite to answer public servants’ questions about the support measures in sick leave or quarantine regime.
Country: Portugal
Portugal have created a 'Collaborative Work Plan in Public Administration', prepared within the area of governance of State Modernisation and Public Administration (nameley by the coordination of the Incentive System for Innovation in Public Management/SIIGeP), setting out guidelines for public services in the context of the state of emergency declared by the Decree of the President of the Republic No. 14-A/2020, of March 18.
The plan encompasses six areas of work, namely:
Development of…
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), through Unidade de Computação Científica Nacional (FCCN), reinforced the capacity of the main services provided to the research and higher education community and that ensure distance learning and remote working. The tools made available, namely Colibri Collaboration Platform, allow to set up remote classes, online meetings and information sharing. Since the beginning of march to April 15th, Colibri platform registered 3.7 million hits and more…
Science 4 COVID-19 consists on a digital plataform that groups metadata, datasets or links, problem registration, research results in epidemiological surveillance and other anonymous public health data necessary to combat the coronavirus epidemic, such as clinical, analytical and demographic results.
The Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (FCT), in collaboration with the Agência de Investigação Clínica e Inovação Biomédica (AICIB), opens a Call for granting 50 (fifty) PhD studentships (BD), focused on research related to this pandemic and its causal agent, SARS-CoV-2. Additionally, FCT will also support a Doctoral School focused on virology, consisting of an annual workshop bringing together international students and researchers.
Mobilization of the Portuguese scientific community to increase the national test capacity, namely at nursing homes, by the development of a new test protocol that only uses national inputs, certified by the National Health Institute of Portugal.
Covid-19 Response
Realtime News and Informations about Covid-19 Measures taken from local authorities and counties
The National Portal of Citizenship for Counties And Parishes create a COVID-19 Dossier (creating an automation tool) that shows in real-time all the news published in the Counties Institutional Websites, aggregating and centralizing all that information in one page and disseminating that information in a large scale for the population in general on a 50k Daily Basis Newsletter.
Incentive system to support collaborative R&D projects for the creation of new products, processes or systems, or for the introduction of significant improvements in products, processes or systems, relevant in the context of the combat of COVID-19. In this context, Proofs of Concept are supported, aiming at the development of ideas or prototypes that have resulted from R&D projects or that are in progress, and that are close to the market (pre-commercial development). The projects must be…
Support and reimbursable funding for the immediate development of ongoing R&D and technological innovation projects and initiatives developed by technological infrastructures (CIT - Interface Centers and CoLAB - Collaborative Laboratories), which respond to the immediate and medium-term needs of the NHS.
The CovidApp platform was developed to help at-home patients and potentially infected citizens to monitor their symptoms and health during the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic. Working with Santo António Hospital, one of the reference hospitals for the Northern region of Portugal, FMUP, the Faculty of Medicine for the city of Porto, MOSANO built an MVP in record time to allow doctors and reference personnel to track patients’ and potential patients’ health symptoms, predict when they need to be…