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Twenty-Seven Portuguese Startups Touch Down at Web Summit Rio Through 11 June — €20 Million in Backing, 269 Employees and an AI / Health-Tech / Defence Stack Span Lisboa, Funchal, Aveiro and Mirandela

Twenty-Seven Portuguese Startups Touch Down at Web Summit Rio Through 11 June — €20 Million in Backing, 269 Employees and an AI / Health-Tech / Defence Stack Span Lisboa, Funchal, Aveiro and Mirandela

Twenty-seven Portuguese startups landed at Web Summit Rio on Monday for the 8–11 June run, with €20 million in cumulative backing and 269 employees spread across Lisboa, Funchal, Aveiro and Mirandela — Startup Portugal and Unicorn Factory Lisboa anchor the fourth-consecutive Brazil push.
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Diário da República Publishes Decreto-Lei 113/2026 on 8 June — Autonomous Driving Tests on Portuguese Roads Open From 8 July at a 0.2 g/l Operator Alcohol Cap, 20 km/h Speed Discount and Quadruple Liability Cover

Diário da República Publishes Decreto-Lei 113/2026 on 8 June — Autonomous Driving Tests on Portuguese Roads Open From 8 July at a 0.2 g/l Operator Alcohol Cap, 20 km/h Speed Discount and Quadruple Liability Cover

Decreto-Lei 113/2026, published in Diário da República on 8 June, opens Portuguese public roads to autonomous-driving tests from 8 July under a six-year operator licence floor, a 0.2 g/l alcohol cap, a 20 km/h speed cut and quadruple insurance cover.
The Portugal Brief
Plano Social para o Clima Activates in June With a €1.6 Billion Envelope Through 2032 — €1.073 Billion Routes to Building Renovation and €516 Million to Transport as the EU Climate Social Fund Lands in Portugal

Plano Social para o Clima Activates in June With a €1.6 Billion Envelope Through 2032 — €1.073 Billion Routes to Building Renovation and €516 Million to Transport as the EU Climate Social Fund Lands in Portugal

Portugal's Plano Social para o Clima goes operational in June with €1.6 billion through 2032 — 75% EU and 25% national — routing €1.073 billion into building renovation and €516 million into transport to cushion the 2027 ETS2 carbon-price pass-through on heating and motor fuel.
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Ministério da Educação Brings 19,172 Teachers Into the 2026/27 Quadros via External Competition and Internal Mobility — 4,776 New Permanent Posts and 14,396 Internal Moves Anchor the September Start

Ministério da Educação Brings 19,172 Teachers Into the 2026/27 Quadros via External Competition and Internal Mobility — 4,776 New Permanent Posts and 14,396 Internal Moves Anchor the September Start

The Ministério da Educação placed 19,172 teachers for 2026/27 — 4,776 new permanent entries plus 14,396 internal moves — with 5,454 directed to shortage zones; QZP 45 (Greater Lisbon) took 2,814 and QZP 46 (Setúbal) 1,124, and 3,090 went to primary teaching.
The Portugal Brief
DGES Lines Up 56,790 Public Higher-Education Seats for the 2026/27 Concurso Nacional — Medicine Adds 62 Places to 1,656 and Educação Básica Climbs 147 to 1,344 With Applications Opening on 20 July

DGES Lines Up 56,790 Public Higher-Education Seats for the 2026/27 Concurso Nacional — Medicine Adds 62 Places to 1,656 and Educação Básica Climbs 147 to 1,344 With Applications Opening on 20 July

DGES locks 56,790 places in the 2026/27 concurso nacional — 34,841 university and 21,949 polytechnic — with applications opening 20 July; Medicine adds 62 to 1,656 (including a new UTAD degree), Educação Básica climbs 147 to 1,344, and the system carries 78,283 total seats.
The Portugal Brief
Lisbon's Chelas-Beato Drainage Tunnel Slips to 2029 as Santa Apolónia Metro Faces an Eight-Month Shutdown — Câmara Awaits LNEC Calculations to Open the Second Bore of the €250 Million Plano Geral de Drenagem

Lisbon's Chelas-Beato Drainage Tunnel Slips to 2029 as Santa Apolónia Metro Faces an Eight-Month Shutdown — Câmara Awaits LNEC Calculations to Open the Second Bore of the €250 Million Plano Geral de Drenagem

Lisbon's Chelas-Beato drainage tunnel — the second of two storm-water bores in the €250 million Plano Geral de Drenagem — now completes in 2029, with Santa Apolónia metro facing an eight-month shutdown once LNEC releases the structural calculations.
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