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Sports | Cristiano Ronaldo retiring from Portuguese national team Diplomacy Community | Azores Government offers cultural exchange grants for diaspora applicants Travel | TAP and SATA airlines move forward with privatization Community | Barack Obama in Lisbon praises Portuguese Americans
 

Sports | Cristiano Ronaldo retiring from Portuguese national team – Portugal

Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the greatest players in world sports history and Portugal’s most celebrated footballer, announced on Thursday, November 5, that he is retiring from the Portuguese national team. The 41-year-old Madeira-born superstar announced his decision in an emotional social media video, saying the time had come to relinquish Portugal’s iconic No. 7 jersey. […]

Diplomacy – Portugal and the United States reaffirm cooperation with the Azores – Washington, DC

Portugal and the United States have reaffirmed this week their strategic partnership, emphasizing continued American military cooperation at Lajes Air Base, on Terceira Island in the Azores, at the 53rd meeting of the Portugal–United States Standing Bilateral Commission, held in Washington on November 3. Under the framework of the 1995 bilateral Defense Cooperation Agreement, commonly […]

Community | Azores Government offers cultural exchange grants for diaspora applicants – Azores

The Government of the Azores has opened applications for grant opportunities supporting cultural and community projects in Azorean emigrant communities abroad, as well as educational exchanges and immigrant integration initiatives for 2027.  The funding opportunities are particularly relevant to Azorean organizations, cultural associations, and educational institutions in the United States, Canada, Bermuda, Brazil, and other […]

Travel | TAP and SATA airlines move forward with privatization – Portugal

Portugal has selected Germany’s Lufthansa Group as the strategic investor in TAP Air Portugal, marking a significant turning point for the country’s aviation industry and with important implications for Portuguese communities in the United States, Canada, and beyond.  The selection does not mean that Lufthansa has already taken ownership of TAP. Rather, it represents a […]

Community | Barack Obama in Lisbon praises Portuguese Americans – Portugal

Former United States President Barack Obama returned to Lisbon on Saturday, October 10, where he delivered a keynote address at the 6th edition of the Game Changers Forum.  During his two-day stay in Lisbon, Obama met with Portuguese President António José Seguro at the Palácio de Belém, the official residence of the Portuguese head of […]

Annual Disquiet International Literary Scholarship – Lisbon

07 January 2011

In collaboration with the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), Dzanc Books announced the 1st Annual Disquiet International Literary Program (ILP), in Lisbon, Portugal, to take place June 19 – July 1, 2011. The program includes workshops and discussion groups with Portuguese-American writers and Portuguese writers  in Lisbon. There are full scholarships available for writers of Luso descent. Winners […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Conferences, Education, Scholarships

VII International Conference on Language Teacher Education – Minneapolis

07 January 2011

The VII International Conference on Language Teacher Education will take place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 19–21, 2011. The mission of the conference is to address the education of teachers of all languages, at all instructional and institutional levels, and in all the many national and international contexts in which this takes place, including: English […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Conferences, Education, Organizations

Funding for Portuguese at University of Arizona- LCTLs

03 January 2011

The UA’s Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language, and Literacy has earned a $1.3 million federal grant to continue its mission of helping improve the instruction and learning of languages least commonly taught (LCTLS). The languages targeted in this project are Chinese, Portuguese and Russian. At $1.3 million, the grant will support 12 projects […]

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Posted in Education

António Damásio publishes new book

02 January 2011

Ten years after the publication of The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (1999), neurologist António Damásio launched a new book on consciousness Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (2010) on relations between mind, brain and consciousness. António Damásio  is  a researcher at University of Southern California. His […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, People

Free fuel assistance – MAPS

02 January 2011

The Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers  (MAPS) announced it is providing free help with fuel assistance applications for Portuguese speaking families in the Greater Boston-  by appointment  -at the nonprofit agency’s offices in Cambridge, Allston, Dorchester and Lowell.  The program, which runs from November 1 to April 30, is available to any family or individual […]

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Posted in Community, Organizations

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