After a one-year hiatus, the IHC will once again participate in European Researchers’ Night (ERN), through our hub at the University of Évora, with four activities for all ages. Sara Albuquerque and Ângela Salgueiro are the main facilitators.

Throughout the evening of 26 September, visitors will be able to learn more about two of the research projects underway at the IHC through two permanent activities: the PHONLAB project proposes ‘Sound, Science, and Memory: Armando de Lacerda and the Coimbra Experimental Phonetics Laboratory’, which tells the story of experimental phonetics in Portugal; the KNOW.AFRICA project presents ‘Angola – knowledge in movement: science and invisibilities in 19th-century Portuguese expeditions’, about the indigenous people who travelled with the explorers and contributed significantly to the construction of knowledge and scientific collections.

At 6 pm, Sara Albuquerque will begin a guided tour of the Évora Public Garden which will reveal some of its secrets — a challenge that the Institute for Advanced Studies and Research (IIFA) at the University of Évora set for the IHC researcher, which is part of the Botanising the City project. At 7 pm, on the NEI stage, the KNOW.AFRICA project, Vasco Ramalho and students from the Music Department of the School of Arts of the University of Évora will present a piece of music whose score was found among the writings of Capelo and Ivens about the scientific expedition to Angola between 1877 and 1880. You will be travelling in time and space through music.

The 2024 and 2025 editions of ERN have run under the theme ‘Science for Global Challenges’ and involve nine partners in the field of research, dissemination, and implementation of inclusion and sustainability in four Portuguese cities: Braga, Coimbra, Évora, and Lisbon. The initiative was funded by the European Commission through the SCIGLO consortium. The HERCULES Laboratory is the coordinating research centre at the University of Évora.