Ciência Viva no Laboratório, the program to occupy young people with science during the vacations, is back. This year, between June 23 and September 5, we'll be welcoming students from 9th to 12th grade and vocational education to the CiBB laboratories. Registration for the internships is now open.
Ciência Viva no Laboratório is a summer internship program for students from 9th to 12th grade and vocational education, which offers young people the chance to intern for free in some of Portugal’s leading scientific institutions.
The internships, promoted by Ciência Viva - National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture, in collaboration with research units and R&D (Research and Development) companies, last between one and three weeks and are accompanied by one researcher for every two students.
This initiative has already given around 20,000 students across the country the opportunity to get to know the reality of scientific research up close and has played a decisive role among young Portuguese, helping to clarify career options related to science and technology.
CiBB - the R&D Unit of the University of Coimbra, which brings together CNC-UC, iCBR-FMUC, MIA-Portugal and GeneT - is once again promoting this initiative, offering 22 internships, with a total of 47 spots, running from June 23 to September 5:
CNC-UC internships (September 1-5):
- ViMBip – A Journey into Bigenomic and Precision Medicine
- Brilliant Mitochondria: Our Energy Factories…and More
- Vaccines of the Future: Lipid Nanoparticles in Cancer Therapy
- Infection Control: Evaluating Molecules Against Bacteria and Biofilms
- Patent Design
- Thinking Outside the Lab Box
iCBR-FMUC internships:
- Development of therapies based on Genome Editing for Retinopathy Pigmentosa - June 23-27
- Studying DNA and chromosomes to find diseases - June 23-27
- The Use of Drugs and Natural Compounds to Combat Addiction - June 23-30
- From plant to medicine: how can plants help us produce new medicines? - July 7-11
- Vascular Health and Cardiometabolic Disease: Prevention and Treatment Strategies - July 7-25
- How can we use cell models to study heart diseases? - July 14-18
- From phytochemical-skin biological interactions to the development of cosmetic formulations - July 14-18
- Join the fight against cancer! - July 14-18
- Dentistry - research on biomaterials for orthodontics - July 14-31
- How do we study diseases that affect vision in the laboratory? - July 21-25
- Microglia cell cultures to study glaucoma - July 21-25
- Unraveling vision: the science behind age-related macular degeneration - July 21-25
- Potential of extracellular vesicles of plant origin in the health field - July 28 to August 1
- Photodynamic therapy targeting endometrial cancer stem cells - August 18-22
MIA-Portugal internships:
- Communication between organelles during cellular aging - August 4-8
- How does our brain age? Come explore, investigate, discover! - September 1-5
More information on internships and applications here.
