Applications for the Joaquim Romero Magalhães Research Award, which has a prize of 4 euros, are open until 15 May.
This year, the Municipality of Loulé promotes the first edition of the Joaquim Romero Magalhães Research Award, a biennial initiative aimed at rewarding the best research study on the Historical and Cultural Heritage of the municipality of Loulé in its different approaches, such as the historical, archeological and ethnographic.
All entries in the competition must be original, unpublished, not having been published or awarded previously. In the case of master's or doctoral theses, only those completed in the year of the competition, or in the previous year, will be accepted.
All authors of any nationality will be admitted to the competition, with particular efforts to encourage young researchers. Competing works must be submitted in Portuguese.
The deadline for submission of works ends on 15 May. All available information here You can also contact 289 400 600.
The winning work will have a prize of 4 thousand euros, in addition to having its first edition published by Al-'Ulyà Magazine.
The jury will be composed of the president of the Loulé Chamber, the director of the journal Al-'Ulyà and three members of the journal's Scientific Council, personalities of recognized scientific competence.
This award is intended to honor Joaquim Romero Magalhães, the distinguished professor and natural historian of Loulé, who died in December 2018, and author of «a remarkable historical work, promoter and disseminator of the historical documentation of the Municipal Archive of Loulé».
On the other hand, it is part of the programming of this Archive and is part of the activities of the Al-'Ulyà magazine, a periodical research publication of interdisciplinary scientific and cultural dissemination, owned by the Municipality of Loulé.
«Designed for a segment of the specialized public, it has the particularity of attracting readers with a common interest in the study and knowledge of social sciences, the humanities and the historical and cultural heritage», says Câmara de Loulé.
«Over the last two decades, Al-'Ulyà has allowed the systematic and rigorous recording and dissemination of research in the field of archaeology, local history, architectural, ethnographic and cultural heritage, decisively changing the way of facing issues of historical and cultural heritage which, by their own merit, came to occupy a strategic place in the development of the municipality», he concludes.
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