Economy

The challenge for the International Labour Congress- Rethinking the Future of Work is to try to design work and jobs in the coming years. The Congress is held at the Customs Building, July 13 and 14 and comprises the participation of over 150 University Lectures, researchers and lawyers from all corners of the world.

Entrepreneurship and innovation "made in" Porto are celebrated in the 2nd Startup FEST (Feel, Enjoy, Show, Taste), July 15, at Gomes Teixeira Square, next to the rectory of Porto University.

Make time in your agenda for one of the most popular events in Porto: Sunday sessions in the City Park, starting July 16 and running until September 17. Relaxed afternoons, lots of music, chitchatting and socialising in a natural and green environment.

Porto was the first city to formulate policy pertaining tourist transport, including touristic buses, tuk-tuks and other tourist related transport. Tourist transport is now banned from Bus lanes and housing districts. Also, the tourist transport sector has to meet stricter environmental standards.

Porto means a lot to Vestas. Out of 99 cities Vestas, a multinational wind company, chose Porto to establish its new engineering centre. This investment in the northern region of Portugal places the country as a research and development hub, equally to Norway, UK, Germany, India and Denmark. The latter hosts Vestas's global headquarters.

A substantial mixed-use urban regeneration project is to be delivered by MEFIC Capital (MEFIC) and Round Hill Capital, located at a site adjacent to the University of Porto Campus at Paranhos in Porto, Portugal's second largest city.

Telephone boxes in Porto are getting a makeover; there were around 301 phone boxes in the streets of Porto in 2013. Nowadays, 167 phone boxes were removed and 134 booths will be fully recovered, with the equipment being replaced and completely operational.

The English version of "Innovation in the Transformation of the City" was released yesterday. The book is a compilation of a series of public debates, sponsored by the municipality, which took place in Porto Innovation Hub.

Concerts of São João are brought to a close with Marta Ren and Clã that will perform this evening in Aliados.

"If someday someone asks about me / Tell them I lived to love you". It was to the tune of Salvador Sobral's "Amar pelos Dois", this years' Eurovision Song Contest Winner that the firework display kicked off last night in Ribeira do Porto.