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Opera performance in Lisbon for better inclusion through digital literacy

'O Tempo (Somos Nós)' Performance
photo: © Gil de Lemos/SAMP
Four professional Portuguese singers performed the main roles in a new opera based on Homer’s “Odyssey” at a packed concert hall in Portugal’s capital Lisbon in mid-June. Also on the stage that evening were 16 amateur performers from the central Portuguese city of Leiria, where they are members of the city’s “school prison” population. The prison houses offenders in the age range of around 16 to 21 years. What’s more, a second group of Leiria inmates took part in the performance by video link from a stage that was located back in the jail 150 km away.

EUIPO: 6.8% of EU imports are counterfeits

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  • Counterfeit products can pose serious health and safety risks
  • 6.8% of EU imports – worth EUR 121 billion – are counterfeits
  • EUR 4 billion worth of counterfeit pharmaceuticals are traded worldwide

According to the study European Citizens and Intellectual Property (IP) carried out by the European Union Intellectual Property Office, consumers still find it hard to distinguish between genuine and fake goods.

3D printed food preserves the nutrition and flavor of fresh and frozen vegetables

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Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), and Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH) have collaborated on a new way to create “food inks” using fresh and frozen vegetables. The researchers say that the food inks preserve the nutrition and flavor of fresh and frozen vegetables better than existing methods.

CONFERENCE “THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY METAMORPHOSIS IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL TRANSITION”

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Under the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union Council (EU) since January 1st, INPI will host online, on February 11th, a High-Level Conference on Industrial Property and Digital Transition entitled “The Intellectual Property metamorphosis in the Age of Digital Transition”, under the aegis of "Remembering the Past, acting in the Present and reflecting upon Future challenges "

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