RISE-Health launched its Doctoral Student Committee (CED RISE-Health). The initiative, which took place at the Medical Research Centre of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, featured speeches by Fernando Schmitt, RISE-Health coordinator, and Lara Fonseca, current president of the CED RISE-Health.

For the leader of the country’s largest research unit and coordinator of the Associate Laboratory RISE, ‘doctoral students are the basis for RISE-Health to develop in terms of research’.

In her speech, Lara Fonseca emphasised the role that the CED RISE-Health aims to play. ‘The RISE-Health Doctoral Student Committee aims to help unite doctoral students and integrate them into the Research Unit,’ she explained, adding that “civic and scientific education” is also part of the CED RISE-Health’s priorities.

‘The link between the doctoral students and the integrated researchers is very important, as it makes it easier to understand the dynamics of the Research Unit and guarantees better support for all the students,’ she said.

Training and proximity

At the launch of the Doctoral Student Commission of RISE-Health (CED RISE-Health), Lara Fonseca revealed some of the activities that this representative body will be carrying out, in particular the ‘RISE Students’ Day’, an annual event to be announced, where scientific dissemination and networking will be the main highlights.

Find out more about the Doctoral Student Committee of RISE-Health (CED RISE-Health) here.