Summer months usually represent a break from school activities in academia. Universities are, during the school year, animated by students, although at present they live in contrasting quietness. Among the non-teaching staff, an essential, if less visible part of the academic community, there are those who take the time to work and put projects on time, when they are allowed to do so, thanks to much less student requests.

But of course, it is students who give a unique life to a university campus. Their youth (that period of life in which much is defined), irreverence, the constant renewal, makes it a special place to work.

The first articles in this edition are about new cycles in FMUL’s leading structures, which are characterized by maintenance.
Professor Bugalho de Almeida, in his