Terrible news for science in Portugal. The Gulbenkian Foundation is killing off the IGC. This will leave the Champalimaud as the only truly independent international research center in the country.
* in the life sciences, I don't know all of what's out there in other fields.
@cyrilpedia this is sad news indeed!
@schoppik Foundation will close IGC and move funding and some groups to the biomedical Molecular Medicine Institute of Lisbon University - which coincidentally is where the new Foundation President and the board member handling this came from (Vice Dean and Dean, respectively, per the piece you cannot open).
@schoppik It plays into a larger translate only framework from Europe - soon it will become like the medieval scholastic tradition here: only translators of previous work, no new ideas
@cyrilpedia how so? (I can’t read the article)