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Rivoli Grand Auditorium MO will play host to Performance "Dança Doente" by Brazilian choreographer, Marcelo Evelin. The reputed dance and company Demolition Incorporada feature a performance that contextualizes Hijikata Tatsumi's dance, butoh's master, a dance of Japanese origin and presented as a reaction to western contemporary dance of the time together with Brazilian rhythms.

Researchers from one of the main investigation centres in Porto, the Cintesis - Health Services and Technologies Research centre are part of the European team involved in the task of developing ActiveAdvice.

The winners of the Splash Innovation Stage, a startups competition under the EIP Water Conference, were announced this afternoon. inanoE, headquartered in Porto, received two awards: the third prize of the competition and also the InnoEnergy, award given to the solution with the potential for better energy efficiency.

The European Researchers' Night is back to celebrate science, with the aim of bringing researchers and the general public closer together, highlighting the impact thereof on their day-to-day lives. This is the perfect opportunity for young people to envision a professional career in the scientific domain.

Music, science, art, and gastronomy are just a few areas covered by the Aquaporto 2017 edition to be held in the City Park on 29 and 30 September. This year, the Water Festival is spotlighted as the closing event for Porto Water Innovation Week, which is running in the city and gathers over 60 countries that debate both science and business sectors.

Known as the "millenials' company" or "Air France's little sister", Joon already has booked flights: from 1 December, the newest low-cost airliner starts linking Porto and Paris. In fact, Portugal is the only country with two routes from the new Air France-KLM company, Lisbon and Porto.

Queer Porto - International Queer Film Festival, in its third Edition, is already a consolidated cultural event in Porto's cultural rentrée. The festival features, as usual, a multidisciplinary programming, offering the best there is regarding different methods and interpretations of queer culture.

Porto Water Innovation Week starts today. This event runs till 30 September and makes Porto the European Capital of Water and Innovation committed to find a global solution for the challenges facing the planet.

Sunday, 24 September, Porto Water Innovation Week kicks off. Until the end of September, this event makes Porto the European Capital for Water and Innovation. More than 1200 participants from 60 countries, two conferences, and two display areas for companies and investigation institutes, startups investigation, a cocreation lab and "team building" and the Aquaporto Festival make up the programme.

Three young high school researchers from Porto represent Portugal in the European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS) final, 22 September in Tallinn, in Estonia. These students have created a macro-algae natural based fungicide, named Corallina sp. for inhibition of microbial growth and thus fight the Pathogen, Phytophthora cinnamomi responsible for causing the ink disease in several forest species.