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Metamaterials are a special class of engineered materials, designed to have properties not found in nature. Glaucio Paulino, a professor at Princeton University, discusses his work on developing modular chiral origami metamaterials, engineering control approaches and the ways they might benefit society.

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Job ID: 259738

INESC TEC | Jurist – Public Procurement (AE2025-0288)
INESC TEC

Jurist – Public Procurement

Work description

The selected candidate will join the legal support team and the INESCTEC.OCEAN project, strengthening the public procurement area. They will be responsible for:

Analyze procedures for expenditure on goods and services. Initiating the contract formation procedures necessary for contracting goods, services, and works contracts. Preparing information, procedural documents, reports, and communications. Initiating direct award procedures, prior consultation, limited tender by prior qualification, public tender (national and international), and excluded contracting. Public procurement procedures through public procurement platforms, such as AcinGov and Anogov. – Assist in responding to public procurement procedures as the contracting entity. Be part of procedure juries. Ensure the external reporting relationships legally required in matters of public procurement. Propose

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From 15/07/2025 to 15/07/2025, a Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 74 km/h) EIGHT-25 was active in NWPacific. The cyclone affects these countries: Japan (vulnerability Low). Estimated population affected by category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0 (40.119 million in tropical storm).

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