Foundation and Organization

e-GEO, Research Centre for Geography and Regional Planning, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, founded in 1981, integrates 86 researchers, of which 34 with Ph.D and 22 PhD students. Most of the researchers belong to the teaching staff or are former students of the Department of Geography and Regional Planning of the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the Home Institution.

 

Research activities of e-GEO are supported financially by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiawith funds from the Portuguese Government Budget. The RI also develops projects and acctions financed by national research funds as well as by the Research Framework Programmes of the European Commission and other international funds in partnership with scientific institutions in European and non-European countries.