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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.
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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.
The Portugal Brief
Brisav Sends the RECAPE for Porto-Oiã High-Speed Rail Sections 4 and 5 Out to Public Consultation From 8 June — 15 Working Days on the Participa Portal Test the Gaia Station Move to Vilar do Paraíso and the Twin-Bridge Douro Crossing

Brisav Sends the RECAPE for Porto-Oiã High-Speed Rail Sections 4 and 5 Out to Public Consultation From 8 June — 15 Working Days on the Participa Portal Test the Gaia Station Move to Vilar do Paraíso and the Twin-Bridge Douro Crossing

Brisav opens public consultation on the Porto-Oiã high-speed rail subsections 4 and 5 via the Participa portal on 8 June, with 15 working days to test APA's December 2025 rejection over the Gaia station relocation to Vilar do Paraíso and the twin-bridge Douro crossing.
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