After being nominated in 2021, Inês Lynce, INESC-ID president of the Board of Directors, has been reappointed, by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), national co-director for Phase IV of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program, which will run from 2025 to 2030. The leadership will be shared with fellow co-director João Magalhães, from the Faculty of Science and Technology of NOVA University of Lisbon, working together with director José Fonseca de Moura, professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).

FCT also appointed national co-directors for other U.S. partnerships, for the MIT Portugal: João Pedro Barreto, from the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra and Alexandre Ferreira Silva, from University of Minho, and for UT Austin Portugal: Rute André, from University of Aveiro and Rui Oliveira, from University of Minho.

The extension of these partnerships is an opportunity for greater ambition and alignment with the challenges of the Portuguese scientific and technological system, which could translate into a more significant impact on the country’s development.

It is expected that the new phase will bring “changes in governance, including the implementation of a new model in early 2026 and the establishment of a new mission structure”. This new structure will be chaired by José Manuel Mendonça, President Emeritus of INESC TEC and Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.

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*Adapted from the original published by CMU Portugal