The board of Artis - IHA, research center of the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon expresses its satisfaction at the recent appointment of the National Palace of Mafra as a World Heritage Site and is pleased to have been able to contribute to this magnificent result with the scientific research of "AquaMafra. The water in the Palace of Mafra: Looks over 300 years of history" project, with Dr. Ana Patrícia Rodrigues Alho as responsible researcher. This project received financial support from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and other institutions associated with the work. The investigation has been publicly lauded, which honors us very much.

With the first Portuguese contacts with Sri Lanka in the early sixteenth century, Catholic missionaries came in their quest to convert local populations. The loss of the island to the Dutch in the mid-seventeenth century began a black period for Sinhalese Catholics, hard-hounded and left to their fate. At the end of the seventeenth century, Father José Vaz, from the Oratory Congregation of Saint Philip Néri, made his way to Sri Lanka and took on the mission of spiritually assisting the Catholic communities of the island, founding countless missions and churches, supported by others oratorian Goan.

Applications for one (1) Science and Tecnology Management Grant (BGCT) to a Graduate in the scope of research support activities of ARTIS - Institute of Art History of the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon ( ARTIS-IHA, FLUL) financed by own funds.

The purpose of this Call is to finance archival projects that are supported by institutions that guard documentary heritage (countries adhering to the Iberarquivos Programme) or projects of a supranational nature, with which archives / archivists of the Ibero-American community benefit as a whole.