{"id":16009,"date":"2025-06-05T04:23:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T03:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in2past.org\/?p=16009"},"modified":"2026-01-23T06:12:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:12:53","slug":"internal-evaluation-committee-visits-in2past-in-evora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in2past.org\/pt\/news\/internal-evaluation-committee-visits-in2past-in-evora\/","title":{"rendered":"Comiss\u00e3o de Avalia\u00e7\u00e3o Interna visita IN2PAST em \u00c9vora"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Internal Evaluation Committee visits IN2PAST in \u00c9vora<\/b><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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On May 19th and 20th we were visited in \u00c9vora by our Internal Evaluation Committee (IEC), an advisory body of IN2PAST whose mission is to monitor the activity of the associate laboratory (AL) in order to assess its progress and suggest adequate measures and improvements.<\/p>

Responsible for analysing IN2PAST’s regular operations and issuing the reports it deems appropriate, the IEC is made up of selected external experts<\/a> and personalities, working mainly in foreign institutions, with recognised scientific expertise in the areas in which the AL operates.<\/p>

Currently composed of Dace Dzenovska (University of Oxford), Felipe Criado-Boado (Incipit-CSIC), Francesc Cort\u00e8s i Mir (Universitat Aut\u00f3noma de Barcelona), Henrique Leit\u00e3o (CIUHCT \u2013 FCUL), Nathan Schlanger (\u00c9cole Nationale des Chartes \u2013 PSL) and Yacy Ara Froner (Escola de Belas Artes \u2013 UFMG), it was approved at the plenary meeting of the Scientific Council held on 24 January 2025 in Braga, at the proposal of the Board, and has a three-year mandate. Only Felipe Criado-Boado did not travel to \u00c9vora.<\/p>

The IEC was welcomed on the afternoon of the 19th at Casa Cordovil, University of \u00c9vora, by the almost complete Coordinating Committee of the Scientific Council (CCSC), including the president of the Scientific Council, N\u00e9lia Dias<\/a> (CRIA \u2013 Iscte), the president of the Board, Ant\u00f3nio Candeias<\/a> (HERCULES \u2013 U\u00c9vora) and the vice-president Jos\u00e9 Neves<\/a> (IHC \u2013 NOVA FCSH), as well as Board members Joana Cunha Leal<\/a> (IHA \u2013 NOVA FCSH), Jos\u00e9 Mir\u00e3o<\/a> (HERCULES \u2013 U\u00c9vora), Manuel Pedro Ferreira<\/a> (CESEM \u2013 NOVA FCSH) and Paulo Sim\u00f5es Rodrigues<\/a> (CHAIA \u2013 U\u00c9vora), other representatives of the seven research units in the CCSC,\u00a0 coordinators or representatives of the Thematic Lines<\/a>, and the science management and communication team.<\/p>

In a very intensive three-hour meeting, the five members of the IEC, who had previously received a 30-page report on IN2PAST’s activity over the first five years of its existence, did not shy away from asking for any clarification they deemed necessary, asking uncomfortable questions or paying compliments.<\/p>

Assessing the first five years<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>

We talked about quality, ambition, breath, success, new forms of collaboration, doctoral networks, public policies, publications and white papers, but also about funding, budgets and self-perpetuation, future challenges, new research agendas, connections to the business community, environmental costs and natural heritage, or artificial intelligence and the crisis in heritage sciences.<\/p>

In the evening, we joined the In2Future Boot Camp 2025 welcome dinner, served at Monte Alentejano by Cantares de \u00c9vora, an association dedicated to Cante Alentejano (Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity) and local gastronomy.<\/p>

On Tuesday morning, 20 May, the IEC members and part of the IN2PAST team visited the HERCULES Laboratory facilities at Vimioso Palace, led by Ant\u00f3nio Candeias, during which they saw some unique equipment in Portugal<\/a> \u2013 such as the laser ablation system (LA-ICP-MS), used to analyse trace elements in materials in very minute concentrations \u2013 and interacted with several researchers at their benches.<\/p>

Nathan Schlanger and Dace Dzenovska were also guest speakers at the IN2PAST Doctoral School’s Inspiring Talks #2 and #3, which took place in the afternoon at Pal\u00e1cio de Dom Manuel, on Marcel Mauss’ \u2018the gift\u2019 as heritage, and on \u2018Things, relations and other socialist matters\u2019, in relation to the EMPTINESS project and the text Bordering encounters, sociality and distribution of the ability to live a \u2018normal life\u2019<\/em> (DOI 10.1111\/1469-8676.12075<\/a>). The moderators were Afonso Dias Ramos<\/a> (IHA \u2013 NOVA FCSH \/ IN2PAST) and Rita Lu\u00eds<\/a> (IHC \u2013 U\u00c9vora \/ IN2PAST).<\/p>

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HERCULES director and IN2PAST president Ant\u00f3nio Candeias led the guided tour of the laboratories, which house various state-of-the-art equipment, some unique in Portugal.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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N\u00e9lia Dias, president of our Scientific Council, presented IN2PAST main activities (2021-2025) to the IEC (here sided by TL2 coordinator Rebeca Blanco-Rotea).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Ant\u00f3nio Candeias, president of the Board, presented IN2PAST main activities (2021-2025) to the IEC.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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(Left to right) IEC members Yacy Ara Froner, Henrique Leit\u00e3o, Dace Dzenovska, Francesc Cort\u00e8s i Mir and Nathan Schlanger.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Francesc Cort\u00e8s i Mir and Manuel Pedro Ferreira during the guided tour of the HERCULES laboratories.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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HERCULES director and IN2PAST president Ant\u00f3nio Candeias led the guided tour of the laboratories, which house various state-of-the-art equipment, some unique in Portugal.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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