Portuguese SKA white book released

The white book summarising Portugal’s interests in the SKA from science to computing, industry and societal impact has now been published.

The book stems from contributions presented at the Portuguese SKA Days held on the 6th and 7th February 2018 and attended by Manuel Caldeira Cabral, then Minister of the Economy; Paulo Ferrão, then President of the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT- Science and Technology Foundation); as well as Daan du Toit, Deputy Director- General of the South African Department of Science and Technology; Alistair McPherson, then SKA Deputy Director General; Robert Braun, SKA Science Director; and advisors to the Ministry of Science and Technology and Higher Education Cabinet and other organisations.

This initiative was held to promote the SKA among the Portuguese scientific and business communities with support from the FCT and the contribution of Portuguese policy makers and researchers.

The meeting was very successful in providing a detailed overview of the SKA status, vision and goals and describes most of the Portuguese expected contributions to science, technology and the related industry aspirations.

DID YOU KNOW?

Two more “white books” have recently been published, including the Chinese SKA Science Book, a thorough summary of which is available here, and the updated SKA-JP Science Book for 2020, which since 2015 has seen a doubling of the number of authors involved and more than 130 new pages added, demonstrating the interest of the Japanese scientific community in the SKA!

By SKAO