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6th Congress "Mourning in Portugal" and 1st Portuguese-Brazilian Mourning Congress
The 6th edition of the "Mourning in Portugal" Congress, held on 10 July, was the result of the collaboration with the Academic Centre for Studies and Intervention on Mourning/Bioethics Centre of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, the Mourning Observatory in Portugal, the Laboratory of Studies and Interventions on Mourning of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, the Space of Mourning, and the Quatro Estações Institute of Psychology. This Congress integrated the 1st Portuguese-Brazilian Mourning Congress held on 11 July and both preceded the 11th International Conference on Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society.
The urgency of promoting scientific debate and the sharing of experiences on mourning and its application to the interests of the community, as has been done in other European countries and in other continents, led SPEIL- Sociedade Portuguesa de Estudo e Intervenção no Luto (Portuguese Society for the Study and Intervention on Mourning) to promote annually the national congress "Mourning in Portugal".
This created exceptional conditions for the meeting of professionals and people interested in the problem of mourning in our country, in Europe and in the world.