The engineer Lídia Monteiro, until now non-executive member of the Directive Council of the Côa Park Foundation, was recently nominated by the Government, as President of the Consultive Council of this foundation. According to the document published in the Diário da República, and signed by the Minister of Culture Pedro Adão e Silva, the period...
The ART&TUR Festival has achieved a high international recognition, thanks to the quality and quantity of films that it distinguishes annually, as well as its integration in a worldwide network of similar festivals: the CIFFT (International Committee of Tourism Film Festivals) that annually elects the best tourism film worldwide, among all the films that travel...
The Fundação para a Salvaguarda e Valorização do Vale do Côa (FCP) opens a call for one research fellowship, in the framework of the CLIMATE@COA project “CLIMATE@COA – Climate and human adaptation during theLast Glacial Period in the Côa Valley region (Portugal) reference: COA/CAC/0031/2019, financed or co-financed by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia,I.P./MCTES through...
The Côa Park Foundation in collaboration with the Morph Group and the Polytechnic Institute of Guarda will teach the 8th Rock Art Guides of the Côa Valley course, between April and June, at the Côa Museum, located at Rua do Museu, Vila Nova de Foz Côa, from 9am-12:30pm/14h-17:30pm, in a total of approximately 230h. The...
More than 100 years ago (1921), a world pioneering exhibition in Madrid, marked the beginning of the large-scale dissemination of the oldest art created by human beings. The exhibition brought together two decades of documentation and study made by Spanish, French and German researchers. But it was not only a question of giving visibility to...
Tomorrow, February 4th, the book “CÔA SYMPOSIUM – New Views on Paleolithic Art” will be presented at Carmo Archaeological Museum in Lisbon. The opening session is scheduled for 5:30 pm and will be presided by José Arnaud – President of AAP and Aida Carvalho – President of the Côa Park Foundation. The conference “3 years...
The Côa Park Foundation wishes to all its employees, partners and friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We inform you that the Côa Museum will be closed on December 24th, 25th and January 1st 2022.
Extension of the deadline, until 30 November. Côa Parque – Foundation for the safeguard and enhancement of the Côa Valley, also known as Côa Parque Foundation is launching a contest for the attribution of 10 (ten) research grants, hereinafter called Doctoral Research Grants, in the scientific areas of “Environment and Global Change”, “Environment, Territory and...
The Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education is organizing the ANTHROPOCENE FORUM, at the Côa Museum, from June 15 to 17, in the context of the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union. The event promotes dialogue with the Anthropocene Working Group (2009) which is responsible for providing convincing evidence for the Anthropocene to be...
The Côa Park Foundation updated its contingency plan according to current legislation. See document (in portuguese) here
