3rd Self Evaluation Report (ZEN) requested by Council of

Ministers of 24 November, 2005 creating an International Support Group for the Reform of State Laboratories (GIARLE) chaired by Dr. Jean-Pierre Contzen and working with the Programme for the

Reform of Central Government (PRACE) at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES).

Summary including selected projects from management board (DIRAL) to stakeholders listed in bylaws:

Steering Committee (CO), Monitoring Unit (UA), Scientific Council (CC), Paritary Commission (CP).

Earlier versions were presented at a Plenary Meeting of CC, a joint meeting of CO.UA and a meeting of CP with the non-research staff.

16 March, 2006.

Instituto de Investigação Científica TropicalInstituto de Investigação Científica Tropical

IMPLEMENTING AN EVALUATION CULTURE

Nov. 2003 Bylaws approved

Feb. 2004 Management appointed

May 2004 1st Self Evaluation Report: CRIP lists management targets

Jan. 2005 2nd Self Evaluation Report: ENCA defines core competencies

May 2005 Five Year Research Plan voted by CC

Jun. 2005 Internal Regulation Published

Dec. 2005 Inaugural Meeting of CO and UA; Preparatory Group for Evaluation (GPAV, selected from DIRAL) extends CRIP and ENCA into ZEN.

PORTUGUESE STATE LAB DEDICATED TO RESEARCH AND CAPACITY BUILDING IN

COUNTRIES FROM PORTUGUESE SPEAKING COMMUNITY (CPLP)

3 CORE COMPETENCIES

1. Sustainable Development and Food Security (SUS)

2. Memories and Identities (MEM)

3. Access to and Preservation of Heritage (PAT)

187 tenured posts, of which 54 are researchers and 10 are senior researchers

173 S&T personnel, of which

• 23 collaborators• 44 fellowship holders• 53 full-time-equivalent (FTE) researchers are listed

in 2001-2005 publications database

51 PhD, 17 Masters, 63 BA/BSc

HUMAN AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES

Budget – € 8,3 million in 2006

External Funding – 16% of imputed research costs

National

International

CPLP

DISTRIBUTION OF STUDENTS ACCORDING TO ORIGIN OF INSTITUTION

EDUCATION LEVEL OF STUDENTS IN NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS SUPERVISED BY IICT RESEARCHERS

PostDoc

PhD

Master

BA/BSc

Prof. Training

Other

CAPACITY BUILDING AND ADVANCED TRAINING

231 students supervised during 2001/05

CORE COMPETENCY Sustainable Development and Food Security (SUS)

Includes 3 Programmes and 4 Centres

6 partnerships with other state labs

0.5 ISI publications per FTE researcher year

Guinea-Bissau,IICT

SELECTED PROJECTS WITH EXTERNAL FUNDING

Digital soil map of AngolaTER PROGRAMME

Impact assessment for the sub Saharan Africa challenge programme (Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique) AGRI PROGRAMME

Protective mechanisms against African swine fever infection AGRI PROGRAMME,Partnership being negotiated with Vet. Research Lab. (LNIV)

An Information System to support agro-ecological planning, environmental and rural development issues related with the use and conservation of Land Resources of Angola

ASFV infected pig macrophages

Integrated Pest Management on stored riceAGRI Programme

Objectives of Dem Tec Project Implementation of sampling programs for stored paddy rice from

India and Pakistan and milled rice ready for consumption, used in:

• risk assessment

• decision-making Application of additional control methods less noxious

than existing ones for consumers and the environment New technology transfer from research to industry Demonstrations planned for tropical areas (Cape Verde) Projected visit of team researcher to Oklahoma and Kansas State Universities

Demonstration and Technology transfer Project from Portuguese Agency of InnovationSponsor: Trécé, Inc., Salinas California

BIO/JMAT Programme Digitizing African Types at LISCFinanced by Andrew Mellon Foundation (USA)

The project is part of the international project African Plants Initiative (API).

Type of Xylia mendoncae Torre

API aims at creating a online comprehensive database of high-resolution images of all African type specimens from leading herbaria and botanic gardens around the world, including LISC, the herbarium of IICT.

LISC has about 245.000 African specimens. Of these, it is estimated that 3.500 are type specimens. More than 1000 types have already been digitised.

Evaluation of BIO/JMAT Programme(PALMEIRIM REPORT)

New Mission: Research for Biodiversity Management

Some weaknesses

1. Unbalanced scientific staff

2. Low capacity to attract external funding

Specific measures

1. Broaden research to applied and multidisciplinary areas

2. Maintain current research themes

3. Management plans of natural reserves, preservation strategies for endangered species, conservation projects ex-situ

SUS CENTRES

Centre of Remote Sensing for Development (CDRD)

Coffee Rusts Research Centre (CIFC)

Plant Ecophysiology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology Centre (ECO-BIO)

Forests and Forestry Products Centre (FLOR)

1. Global and regional pyrogeography

Fire in the Brazilian Amazon: multi-year mapping of area burned and estimation of pyrogenic emissions using remotely sensed data (POCTI/CTA/45126/2002)

GEOLAND: Fire induce landcover and forest changes ca. 60 participating international institutions(SIP3-CT-2003-502871)

CDRD

2. Landcover classification and change detectionLandcover changes and successional pathways in the forests of Cantanhez, Guinea-Bissau (POCTI BIA-BDE/57965/2004)

Landcover map of Angola (scale 1:750000), obtained from MODIS and Landsat-TM images.

CIFCMain purpose: to centralise, at international co-operation level, the

research on the main coffee diseases

More than 90% of resistant coffee cultivated varieties were created with CIFC help

Coffee leaf rust Coffee Berry Disease

Development of a strategy for a durable management of the resistance to coffee berry disease (CBD) in Africa (ICA4-CT-2001-10008)

Scientific collaboration in fundamental and practical knowledge in the most important coffee diseases in Tanzania with the ultimate aim of producing coffee varieties with durable resistance to these pathogens (TA STA COF99 01)

Agreement Cenicafe (Colombia) - since 1976

Stress physiology and gene expression. Coffea sp. acclimation to cold and high irradiance stressful conditions (POCTI/AGG/43101/2001)

ECO-BIO

Growth of plants under environmental controlled conditions to study the responses to biotic and abiotic stresses at genomic, physiological, biochemical and structural levels (CONC-REEQ/374/2001)

Role of defense-related genes during the establishment of root-nodule symbioses between higher plants and nitrogen-fixing bacteria (POCTI/AGR/55651/2004)

Solid state analysis

FLORThe only group dedicated to the identification of tropical woods and

development of non destructive methods of analysis (Portuguese Quality Certificate pending)

2. Non destructive evaluation of wood and wood productsNear and Fourier transform infrared for wood chemical and physical properties - extractives, lignin and polysaccharides - modulus of elasticity and basic density

1. Tropical wood identification - optimise utilization - counterfeit analysis

5145

cm

-1

water content

SELECTED INDICATORS

SUS 3 PROG 4 CENT

Activities with External Funding (%) 66 67 78

Ext. Fund. / Cost (%) 14 4 26

Personnel S&T 76 44 31

FTE S&T 55 27 28

Of which in Publication Database (PD) 33 22 13

Intern. Publications /FTE/yr 2.1 1.8 2.3

CORE COMPETENCY Memories and Identities (MEM)

Includes 2 Programmes and 1 Centre

Planta do Quartelamento e Fortaleza da Ilha de Moçambique. Carlos J. dos Reis e Gama, 1802

AHU

Cartography, Politics and Colonial Territories

Database system on documents and cartography, produced by the Cartographic Commission, including data on frontiers’ delimitation, natural resources and territory management

CD ROM with cartographic documents available to CPLP and other countries

General History of Cape Verde

3 volumes, 2 prizes, 1 honourable mention

Cooperation project between Portugal and Cape Verde to publish a National History based on the organization of a documentary corpus on Cape Verde History.

SELECTED PROJECTS WITH EXTERNAL FUNDING

Dynamics of Interaction in the Lusophone World

Focus on rural and urban processes relevant for the study of colonial policies and cultural interactions.

Memories, Heritage and Cultural Cooperation

Study of the material and non-material heritage shared by CPLP countries

SELECTED PROJECTS WITH EXTERNAL FUNDING

FORTHCOMING EVENTS AND BOOKS

INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON HISTORY OF AFRICALisbon 1988 and 1999, Rio de Janeiro 1996, Maputo 2004

Next edition planned for Cape Verde, 2006

THE ATLANTIC SPACE OF THE ANCIENT REGIMEPartnership with Overseas History Centre (CHAM), 2005

Historians, archivists, anthropologists, sociologistsProceedings forthcoming

COLONIAL CARTOGRAPHY IN AFRICA Coloquium 7-10 Nov. 2006

Cape Verde Virtual (CVV)

3D Visualisation System of pluridisciplinar georeferenced information for turistic, cultural, educational and scientific applications to foster Cape Verde development.

Interdisciplinary Programme forGLOBAL DEVELOPMENT (DES)

1. To study Public Private Partnerships (PPP) capable of contributing to economic and social development

2. To design interdisciplinary projects helping CPLP countries with difficulties in fullfiling the MDGs - Health Promotion and Illness Prevention

Temporal and spatial transmission risk of parasites emerging from freshwater ecosystems in Santiago Island (Cape Verde)

Nutrition, Child Growth and Development (S. Tomé and Timor)

MEM 2 PROG DES

Activities with External Funding (%) 75 77 67

Ext. Fund. / Cost (%) 15 15 20

Personnel S&T 45 43 7

FTE S&T 41 37 4

Of which in Publication Database (PD) 19 17 2

Intern. Publications /FTE/yr 0.8 0.5 3.4

SELECTED INDICATORS

CORE COMPETENCY

Preservation and Access of Heritage (PAT) Includes INTERMINISTERIAL PROGRAMME

TO TREAT AND PROVIDE ACCESS TO IICT HERITAGE (PI) and services open to the public:

Overseas Historical Archive (AHU)Tropical Garden (JMAT)

Documentation Centre (CDI)

Photo before and after treatmentGoa, Emile Marini collection - IICT

PAT & PI

PAT provides an enabling environment for the adoption of best practices in

preservation and conservation, museology, archival and information sciences.

This core competency acts as a platform for research and communication

within and between SUS and MEM

Staff is mainly doing technical work and almost 50% is external (in this case

fellowships play an important role in overcoming the freeze in recruitment and

the attraction of young professionals)

PI, after 8 months:

• Inserted 15,600 records in interactive databases

• Treated and organised 18,500 collection items

AIMS OF PAT

Technical Work

Research Activity

Cooperation

Anthropological Mission Films

Angola, 1950-55

AHU Laboratory

AHU Archives

Study of Portuguese overseas heritage

Identification communication

classification preservation of

collections

Transferring knowledge and technology, allowing the

sustainable development of CPLP countries

PI

– Portuguese Museums Institute– Science and Technology Foundation– National Library

Conservation And Training– Nova University of Lisbon– Polytechnic Institute of Tomar

Bibliographical Collections

Entomology collection

Wood samples collection

Archaeology collection

Ethnographic collection

Scientific Instruments

Photographic collections

National Library: PORBASE 5 (bibliographical collections);

U.S. National Science Foundation / Kansas University Biodiversity Research Center: SPECIFY (zoological collections)

University of Oxford: BRAHMS (botanical collections):

IPM / MatrizNet: MATRIZ (archaeological, art and ethnographic collections)

INTERACTIVE DATABASES

GBIF –

Global Biodiversity Information Facility

(152 data providers)

IGC

Collective Catalogue on-line - over 150

libraries

Portuguese Museums Network – over 28 museums

34 international botanical databases

Responsible for the arrangement of and the access to more than 15km of records produced by the Portuguese overseas offices between mid 17th century and ca. 1974, a few of which to be transfered

AHU

More than 500 specific search requests / year

2500 readers in 2005

65% Portuguese20% CPLP10% UE 5% other countries

Projects under consideration Heritage Built by the Portuguese in Africa Ministries of Public Works and Foreign Affairs Atlantic Africa Ministry of Culture of Brazil, CPLP

AHU

January 18, Conference with Conservation Institute (IPCR) on Prevention and Emergency Plans in Museums Archives and Libraries

February 15, book launch in the presence of the Minister of State

and Foreign Affairs

2006 Events

TROPICAL GARDEN

A botanical garden, created in 1906, that holds a valuable collection of plant species mainly from tropical and sub-tropical regions

Has benefited since 1992 from support of Berardo Foundation and other sponsors.League of Friends of JMAT to be launched soon.

• Member of Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI), Iberian-Macaronesian Association of Botanic Gardens (AIMJB) European Botanic Gardens Consortium.

• Subscribed to the 2003 International Agenda for Botanic Gardens in Conservation.

SHOWCASE OF TROPICAL

RESEARCH AND COMMUNICATION Research on taxonomy, biodiversity,

natural and ecological resources Education services and public

awareness events

Launch of “The Adventure of Plants”

“Under the Double Shade of Trees” Exhibition

100th anniversary celebration in the presence of minister

25 January 2006

23 September 2005 European Researchers Night,in the presence of Secretary of State

COMMUNICATION AND DISSEMINATION ARE TOP PRIORITIES FOR CO AND UA (ALSO GIARLE!)

Interministerial Programme to treat and access IICT patrimony

Documentation and Information Centre

Overseas Historical Archive

Updated News

DataBases

Website being revamped at www.iict.pt

Large quantity of publications available in CDI

Non technical summary of pappers appearing regularly in “Africa Today” and “Nova Cidadania”

www.tvciencia.pt

SELECTED EVENTS

African Cinema FestivalNovember 2005

Angola Anthropological Mission Films

DVD with “Dances of Timor”. Timor Anthropological Mission Films

Lusophone Book Fair in East TimorNovember 2005

Lisbon Book Fair with Chaves Ferreira Publishers

SELECTED EVENTS

200 children and youths in 2004 and 2005.

Program Live Science from MCTES

50 years of the Coffee Rust Research Centre, in the presence of Secretary of State

29 April 2005

Luanda-Exibition: “50 years of scientific books about Angolawith Institute Camões and Catholic University of Angola

September 2004

Seminars arranged by Chair of Scientific Council. First series began with President of Foundation for Science and Technology. Planned second series on scientific knowledge and its constraints

Burnay Palace, 30 November/04

Conference by Prof. Jean Pierre Contzenat Junqueira 30, Auditorium, 14 June/05

Burnay Palace, 15 December/05

at Junqueira 30, Auditorium

Visit of Prime Minister of Cape Verde in the presence of Portuguese Science Minister

Innovation and Multilateral Agreements:which impact for developing countries

Visit of IRD President and Presentation of Palmeirim Report

VISITS AND SEMINARS