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The Luso-American Development Foundation is a portuguese foundation, whose mission is to promote Portugal through the cooperation with the United States of America, envisioning the portuguese development with special focus upon Azores.

The current presidency is performed by Dr. Rita Faden da Silva Moreira Araújo. The Board of Directors is composed by Prof. Dr. Elsa Maria Pires Henriques and Dr. James J. Kelly (also members of the Executive Board), alongside Dr. Vitor Ângelo Mendes da Costa Martins and Dr. Rodrigo Vasconcelos de Oliveira.

= History and Mission = The Luso-American Development Foundation is a portuguese, private and finacially self-sufficient foundation, created in 1985 by the Portuguese State.

Its mission is to contribute for the Portuguese development by encouraging cooperation between Portuguese and American societies in areas that envolve science, research, culture, art, education and business, based on financial and strategic support for innovative projects, like the Study in Portugal Network (SiPN) program, FLAD life Science Awards and Scientific Scholarships.

FLAD is a member of the national and international foundations network, namely the Portuguese Foundation Center (PFC), the European Foundation Center (EFC), the Council on Foundations in the USA, and the Bellagio Forum for Sustainable Development.

= Investing in the Portugal Development = The Luso-American Development Foundation believes in the portuguese development, and consequently invests on science, technology, education, culture and transatlantic relations by making available different scholarship and awards programs, that instill greater cooperation between Portugal and the USA

Science and Technology
The Luso-American Development Foundation provides scholarships with the purpose of strengthening the Portuguese academic and scientific community, namely:


 * R&D@PhD that allows Portuguese doctorates to develop research internship programs at USA institutions;
 * Papers@USA for further internationalization in the USA of scientific knowledge produced in Portugal;
 * USA@PT whose mission is to support the participation of US speakers in conferences and seminars in Portugal.

Education and Culture
As regards to education, the Study in Portugal Network (SiPN) is the core program in support of Portuguese internationalization within FLAD, together with the Crossing the Atlantic program which provides mobility funds between the University of the Azores and the USA, in addition to portuguese visiting professors at Brown University, Georgetown University and the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

= Study in Portugal Network (SiPN) = Study in Portugal Network (SiPN) its a program associated to the Luso-American Development Foundation that emerged in a moment of strong internacionalization of the portuguese economy and education, which aims to position Portugal as a reference point in the North American, European and Lusophone context, regarding the labor and academic market.

SiPN offers a complete Study Abroad experience that includes all the necessary assistance since the moment of enrollement to North-American students looking for the best Study Abroad program on the market.

SiPN main partners, besides FLAD, are the US Embassy, ​​the Portuguese Ministry of Education, the Luso-American Chamber of Commerce, Fullbright Portugal, the Lisbon City Council and AICEP.

= Contemporary Art Collection =

The Luso-American Development Foundation has a contemporary art collection with more than a thousand pieces of art, created in 1986, which represents several areas of Portuguese artistic creation, from drawing, painting and sculpture to printmaking, photography, video and art installation.

Manuel Castro Caldas founded the collection and was responsible for the acquisition made between 1986 and 2005 in close collaboration with the sculptor Rui Sanches and, later, with the painter Manuel Costa Cabral.

To date, the Art Collection has served as an anchor for a series of initiatives, independent projects and exhibitions organized by the Foundation or in partnership with other cultural institutions, such as the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, The Drawing Center in New York, museums that belong to the Ministry of Culture (with exhibitions at the museums in Évora and Caldas da Rainha), Spain’s Generalitat de Catalunya, Serralves Foundation, Culturgest, the Nogueira da Silva Museum from Minho University, Arpad Szenes-Vieira Foundation, Vale do Côa Museum, as well as other Portuguese museums under the care of The Regional Ministry of Culture and the Azores Regional Government

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