The provisional results published by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) once again place CE3C in a position of excellence, acknowledging the path it has followed to date and the vision it has for 2025-2029 period.
CE3C envisions a safe and sustainable future where scientific knowledge fosters ecological resilience, biodiversity, and the health of ecosystems and all living beings, ensuring a thriving planet for the generations to come.
The curious subterranean fauna that lurks in the depths of the Vale Telheiro cave in the Algarve has reached the summit of worldwide recognition. Today, the cave continues to be explored by Ana Sofia Reboleira under the Barrocal-Cave project.
22-26 September, Terceira island, Azores. The event will focus on the latest research in Macaronesian flora and plant macroevolution, promoting collaboration and knowledge sharing. Abstract submission deadline is fast approaching: April 15, 2025!
The ERC grants for CE3C researchers Sara Magalhães and Inês Fragata triggered the creation of a pioneering new infrastructure in the country.
Your 30 minutes of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, always on the same day, at the same time. Find the next one in our agenda!
The initiative helped consolidate the Portuguese community working on biodiversity genomics, uniting various areas of research towards a common goal.
Join us on May 27, 2025, at 12h00 (Lisbon time) for an E3Talk by Milena Moteva (Dep. Sustainable Land-Use and Real Estate Management, UACEG) in Room 2.2.14, Ciências ULisboa. Discover how climate change is shaping the future of irrigated agriculture in Bulgaria. Drawing on historical climate data and model projections, this talk will explore increasing water demands, deteriorating evapotranspiration conditions, and the development of national irrigation standards with broad practical applications.
The Evolutionary Agroecology (EA) research group is looking for a Research Technician (MSc. degree) to work within the HotPest project (ref: 2022.04172.PTDC).
Deadline for applications: May 29.
Join us on May 19, 2025, at 14h00 (Lisbon time) for an E3Talk by Lounès Chikhi (Centre de Recherche sur la Biodiversité et l'Environnement) at the FCiências.ID Amphitheatre. Explore how demographic models impact our understanding of human evolution, and why signals of Neanderthal admixture - and other interspecies hybridization events - may require critical re-evaluation in light of structured, admixture-free models.
Join us on May 16, 2025, at 11h00 (Lisbon time) for an E3Talk by Ignacio Gonzalez Bravo (Laboratory MIVEGEC, CNRS, Montpellier, France) at the FCiências.ID Amphitheatre. Discover why noise - often dismissed as biological error - may be a fundamental and heritable feature of living systems. This talk will explore how imperfect information flow, from DNA to phenotype, shapes evolution, cellular behavior, and disease. By reframing noise not as a nuisance but as a driver of diversity and adaptation, we open new paths to understanding life’s complexity.
CE3C researcher Roberto Keller was interviewed by the online magazine Wilder, where he shares his career and the role of the biological collections he safeguards at the National Museum of Natural History and Science.
The curious subterranean fauna that lurks in the depths of the Vale Telheiro cave in the Algarve has reached the summit of worldwide recognition. Today, the cave continues to be eagerly explored by CE3C researcher Ana Sofia Reboleira under the Barrocal-Cave project.
Submit your abstracts by May 16, 2025, for the 21st International Meeting on Frankia and Actinorhizal Plants / 1st International Conference on Neglected Legumes, happening July 14-17 in Lisbon.
Novo estudo revela as longas viagens do maçarico-de-bico-direito e os locais que utiliza para repousar: à porta de Lisboa, o Estuário do Tejo é um dos seus abrigos.
Estudo uniu as ribeiras do Sado aos corredores de um Museu em Madrid para descobrir um novo endemismo português. Equipa coordenada por Ignacio Doadrio (MNCN, Madrid) integra ainda as investigadoras Silvia Perea (MNCN) e Carla Sousa Santos (MARE).
Apelo liderado pela investigadora CE3C Tiziana Di Lorenzo foi publicado na revista Science, dois dias depois do Parlamento Europeu ter dado luz verde para a revisão das normas de avaliação da qualidade da água.
It is vital that we look at ecosystems in an integrative approach, understand the impacts of global changes on their functioning and share the knowledge acquired with new generations of scientists, with society and decision-makers.
CE3C is building a prosperous and sustainable future based on science, education and knowledge transfer.
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CE3C is home to over 400 researchers, working together in 39 groups, clustered in 4 thematic lines. Get to know the knowledge we help build every day, its diversity, and how we integrate it to respond to today's pressing issues.
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Like lichens, CE3C works symbiotically with different academic partners, both in Portugal and internationally, that span across various scientific domains and contribute to increase the collective impact on society.
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With recognised skills that span theory and practice, CE3C researchers dedicate an important part of their time to train new generations of scientists, knowledge transfer and to empower multiple fields of activity in society.
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Ricardo Faustino de Lima junta-se a parceiros locais e internacionais na organização de uma iniciativa pioneira que dará palco à incrível biodiversidade das “Galápagos de África”.
13 May 2025
Fique a conhecer melhor este ecólogo, no âmbito da série "À conversa com um Ecólogo", realizada numa parceria entre a Wilder e a Sociedade Portuguesa de Ecologia (SPECO).
30 Apr 2025
Enquanto um prado de flores silvestres ganha vida, o filme explora os esforços de uma dedicada equipa na recuperação da biodiversidade urbana: desde a captura de uma coruja que reside nas estruturas históricas da Quinta, até às rotinas de um biólogo que desenvolve um vínculo especial com as abelhas silvestres que cria e protege em casa, com o objetivo de reintroduzi-las no novo prado.
08 Apr 2025
16 May 2025
Location: FCiências.ID Amphitheatre, Ciências ULisboa & Online
19 May 2025
Location: FCiências.ID Amphitheatre, Ciências ULisboa & Online
From 19 May 2025 until 22 May 2025
Location: Palácio dos Congressos, São Tomé, São Tomé e Princípe
We produce science that crosses all levels of biological organisation, from organisms up to ecosystems, both natural and anthropogenic
We raise relevant questions and apply innovative techniques to answer them
We investigate fauna and flora and their relationship with their environment
We design models build scenarios and predict changes
We produce knowledge and develop tools to understand the impact of global changes on biodiversity and on human health and well-being
