The BSC AI Factory Incubation Space Program gives startups and small firms free access to supercomputing, technical support and mentoring between 5 October and 30 March at UPTEC Asprela II. Applications close on 15 September.

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15 September 2026

By Miguel Sarmento

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Portugal Space has set three annual assessment rounds for the ESA's InCubed programme through to 2028. Applications never close; the assessment dates do.

An electricity grid operator can work out, without leaving the office, that a branch is growing too close to a high-voltage line. That is not science fiction and it is not expensive. It is what VESTA does — a system built by the Portuguese company Spotlite that combines satellite imagery with AI to watch vegetation along power lines, railways and roads. VESTA was funded through InCubed, the European Space Agency's industrial innovation programme for Earth…

Portugal's education ministry placed 1,505 more teachers than last year, with 5,894 going to the regions with the deepest shortages. Acceptance closes on 18 August and staff report to schools on 1 September.

Anyone who applied has until the end of today to click accept. Portugal's education ministry has placed 20,404 teachers for the 2026/2027 school year, and the acceptance window on the AGSE platform opened on Sunday and closes on Tuesday 18 August. Those who accept report to their school on 1 September. Of the total, 19,152 are established staff moved through the internal mobility competition. The other 1,252 came in through initial recruitment, the route…

Call COMPETE2030-2026-7 puts €45m behind knowledge-transfer work at Portugal's collaborative labs and technology centres, 85% of it European money. Only the North, Centre and Alentejo can apply.

There is fresh money for the part of Portugal's science system almost nobody writes about: the institutions sitting halfway between a university lab and a factory floor. Call COMPETE2030-2026-7 opened on 12 August with €45 million and closes at 17:00 on 15 October. It is aimed at Laboratórios Colaborativos, known as CoLABs, and Centros de Tecnologia e Inovação, the technology and innovation centres. Both are interface bodies. They exist to take research…

The Foundation's Apoio à Internacionalização covers travel, accommodation and meals for artists, curators and programmers in performing arts, visual arts, cinema and cross-disciplinary work — and applications must land 30 days before the trip.

One Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation grant has been open since January and closes on 31 October, and unlike most competitions it has no single submission date: applications to the Apoio à Internacionalização run continuously and a decision follows within 30 days. The reference ceiling is €5,000 per project. It pays for one specific thing: getting artists, curators and programmers to events run by major international cultural institutions. Performing arts —…

Notice PESSOAS-2026-9 funds mentoring teams for young people under child protection measures, for up to 24 months each, across the Norte, Centro and Alentejo regions. Applications opened on 3 August, with 85% ESF+ co-funding.

There is a point in the life of a young person in residential care when the system stops walking beside them and they have to do everything alone: rent a room, manage a wage, enrol on a course, book a doctor. This money is aimed squarely at that step. Notice PESSOAS-2026-9 has opened with more than €6.2 million from the European Social Fund Plus to fund teams that accompany, one by one, young people who are or have been under a child promotion and…

15 August falls on a Saturday this year. Anyone working it at a company that stays open is owed either compensatory rest worth half the hours or a 50% pay uplift, and article 269 of the Labour Code hands the choice to the employer, not the worker.

The Feast of the Assumption, 15 August, is one of Portugal's mandatory public holidays, and this year it lands on a Saturday. For plenty of people that changes nothing at all. For anyone who works Saturdays it changes quite a lot, and what the law actually hands you is thinner than most people assume. Start with the misunderstanding that causes the most office arguments. A public holiday falling on a day you would not have worked anyway does not buy you a…

Portaria 332/2026/1, published on 11 August, sets the rules for applications, places, assessment and external training. One new duty stands out: seven hours a month on emergency service from the second year onwards.

More than 550 pharmacists are currently working through Portugal's Residência Farmacêutica, the specialist training route that leads to the title of specialist pharmacist. Until this week they were doing it under a 2020 legal framework that never spelled out how any of it actually worked. Portaria 332/2026/1, published on 11 August, supplies the missing rulebook. The timing is the story. The first cohort is reaching the end of its training, with the first…

The chain is putting over €45 million into the country by summer 2027. The first opening is 2 September at Forum Castelo Branco, the second 10 September at Alegro Setúbal.

Four new stores, an extension to an existing one and around 300 jobs by summer 2027. That is what Primark has under way in Portugal, backed by an investment of more than €45 million. The first two openings already have dates. Forum Castelo Branco gets the city's first Primark on 2 September. Eight days later, on 10 September, Alegro Setúbal follows. Next come GaiaShopping in Vila Nova de Gaia and central Porto, and the Porto one is worth flagging…

Calls PESSOAS-2026-10 and PESSOAS-2026-11 fund youth Education and Training Courses for 2026/2027. Applications close on 31 August and 16 September, through the Portugal 2030 portal.

There is €17.5 million on the table for youth Education and Training Courses in the 2026/2027 school year, €15 million of it from the European Social Fund Plus. The calls opened on 7 August, and there is not one of them. There are two, with different eligible applicants and different deadlines, and mixing them up costs an application. Call PESSOAS-2026-10 is for public education establishments running CEF courses at level 2 of the National Qualifications…

Crescer com o Turismo takes rolling applications until 31 December 2026, with non-repayable grants capped at €400,000 per project. Councils, non-profits and SMEs can all apply.

Most Portuguese funding programmes run as closed competitions with a hard deadline and a scramble in the final fortnight. Crescer com o Turismo, run by Turismo de Portugal, does not. It takes applications on a rolling basis until 31 December 2026 or until the money runs out, whichever comes first. The pot is €30 million and it covers the whole country, Madeira and the Azores included. Two things make it unusual. The support is a straight grant rather than…

The EU directive makes employers tell candidates what a job pays before the interview, bans asking what they earned before, and requires larger companies to publish their gender pay gaps. Portugal has still not published the law transposing it.

A date written into European law has come and gone with almost no noise. Directive (EU) 2023/970 set 7 June 2026 as the deadline for member states to transpose it, and Portugal has reached August without publishing the law that does so. This is not a technicality. It is the directive that kills off the job ad reading "salary to be discussed". Four concrete things, and every one of them touches people looking for work or already in it.

The AMADEE-27 analogue mission sets up around Monsaraz and Alqueva in April 2027. The Austrian Space Forum is taking applications from researchers in robotics, astrobiology, geosciences, life sciences and human factors.

In April 2027 there will be people in spacesuits walking the plain around Monsaraz and Alqueva. This is AMADEE-27, an analogue mission run by the Austrian Space Forum, and applications to take part in the scientific programme are open now. The deadline is 6 September. A dress rehearsal. For two weeks a team of analogue astronauts wears spacesuit simulators and runs procedures as though they were on Mars, constraints included: restricted movement, delayed…

The 16th edition of the EPIS Social Scholarships is open to secondary and higher-education students and to young adults with disabilities in traineeships, across mainland Portugal, the Azores and Madeira.

Around this time every year thousands of Portuguese households do the same piece of mental arithmetic: enrolment, textbooks, transport, and sometimes a rented room in another city. The EPIS Social Scholarships exist for that arithmetic, and the 16th edition is now open. There are 395 scholarships on offer, worth 970,000 euros in total. Applications run until 25 September 2026 and cover the whole country, mainland Portugal plus the Azores and Madeira. The…

The Trainees Metro | 1.ª Viagem programme places recent graduates and master's holders in multidisciplinary teams for a year. Eligible fields run from law and economics to geospatial and electrical engineering.

You finished your degree this summer and the first year is still a blank. Here is one answer with a date attached to it. Lisbon Metro has opened the 2026 edition of its Trainees Metro | 1.ª Viagem programme, aimed at recent graduates and master's holders. Applications run until 31 August and are made online through the recruitment section of the company's institutional site. The placement lasts twelve months. Trainees join multidisciplinary teams, work on…