| World Portuguese Language Day was celebrated at the UC with the awarding of distinctions to our former students. Anabela Chambuca, a student from Mozambique who graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (FEUC), received the Joaquim Chissano Alumni Award. |  |
 | A UC research team designed an app to support pregnant women. Only available in Portuguese for now, "Mind the mom" provides information, exercises and cognitive-behavioural therapeutic strategies with evidence in the enhancement of mental health in pregnant women, adapted to the context of the pandemic. |
| Applications are now open for the first edition of the "Bolsa de Investigação Santander Prémio UC 2021" (Santander Research Grant UC Award 2021), worth 15 thousand euros. The scholarship results from the UC Prize awarded this year to Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, and aims to support the development of a work in the area of Arts and Humanities. The grant aims to award an original research project in Portuguese, with the topic “O impacto da pandemia Covid 19 na perceção do humano” (The impact of the Covid 19 pandemic on human perception) and is addressed to national or foreign researchers of Research Centres of the University of Coimbra. |  |
 | Applications are open for the first edition of the Future City Challenge - Coimbra, a competition that encourages the development of solutions that use the Internet of Things (IoT), promoted by Fikalab, Critical Software's innovation lab. Participants will be challenged to present innovative solutions that improve the life of the inhabitants of Coimbra. Applications must be submitted by the 31st of May, by filling in a form on the website. |
| Copies of Cardinal Saraiva's mail correspondence are back to the University of Coimbra. The two manuscript volumes were acquired in a joint effort of the UC Archive, Press, General Library and the Rectory. Copies of correspondence are "records that were made of the correspondence that was sent out", says Ana Maria Bandeira, from the Coimbra University Archive (AUC). When sending mail, the sender usually "lost it if he didn't make a copy or if there was no copier". This was "a way of keeping the information in the original place from where it came". |  |
 | Gil Vicente Academic Theatre (TAGV) screens Oscar winner for best foreign film: "One more round", by Thomas Vinterberg, premieres next Monday at 7 p.m. |
