The 22nd UC Cultural Week kicks off on March 1 with shows, installations, workshops and exhibitions. Until 15 March, the city will have even more cultural offer.

UC Open Science: The University of Coimbra has kept manuscripts for hundreds of years and they are now being recovered so that they can fulfill their original function: to become music and be a heritage of all of us. This is the story of the new life of the musical manuscripts that are kept by the General Library of the University of Coimbra (BGUC).

Bluepharma and the University of Coimbra (UC) get together once again to distinguish excellence in scientific research. Applications for the Bluepharma Innovation Award | University of Coimbra 2019 are open until March 2, an international prize worth 20 thousand euros, which aims to distinguish the best scientific projects developed in the area of Health Sciences. All information here.

32.9% of parents misinterpret their children's weight (30.6% underestimate and 2.3% overestimate), practically one in three, reveals a study published in the "American Journal of Human Biology". Conducted by Daniela Rodrigues, Aristides Machado-Rodrigues and Cristina Padez, from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra (FCTUC), the study had two main objectives: to analyze the agreement between the children's nutritional status and the perception that parents have about their weight; and observe whether underestimation of weight was in any way associated with the risk of the child being overweight / obese.

The Health Services of the University of Coimbra will promote a personal and academic coaching programme - Personal Wellness - with the purpose of providing the student community with skills in the field of self-knowledge, emotional regulation, problem solving and conflict management. The group training sessions will take place on February 27, 5, 12 and 19 March, from 5:30 pm to 7 pm, at the Health Services facilities, Faculty of Medicine (Campus I), 2nd floor. Participants are then invited to an individual session on a date to be scheduled. Participation is free. Interested parties should send an e-mail, until February 21st, to gabadmin@sas.uc.pt, mentioning their name, Faculty and Course, year and contact (mobile phone).

Cedipre will hold the Conference on Public Employment and Data Protection, on February 29, in the Auditorium of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra. Registrations here.

The Social Services of the University of Coimbra (SASUC), together with the Integration and Counseling Centre, are promoting UC Skills courses in conjunction with the Students' nuclei. The training is aimed at all students of the University of Coimbra and aims to develop psychosocial and communication skills, in order to improve study performance and academic performance. Registration must be made at the Students' nuclei, and it is free.

The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra (FMUC) has two new master's courses. FMUC new training offer includes the Master in Clinical Laboratory Genetics, coordinated by Isabel Carreira and Joana Barbosa de Melo, and the Master in Molecular and Translational Neurosciences, coordinated by Ana Cristina Rego.