Alberto Sampaio History Prize applications open until May 31 - Portal do Município de Vila Nova de Famalicão - Portugal

The prize, promoted by the Municipalities of Famalicão, Braga and Guimarães and the Martins Sarmento Society, aims to encourage research in the disciplines of Social and Economic History, keeping alive the person and work of the historian Alberto Sampaio.

The winning study will be awarded a cash prize of 6,000 euros. The jury is made up of academics from Portuguese universities to be appointed by the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. The competing studies, to be sent to the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, can be the result of or based on academic work, namely master's dissertations or doctoral theses, as long as they comply with the prize regulations and must be written in Portuguese and be between 20,000 and 40,000 words in length.

Competitors must fill in the application form on the Academy's website and send their application to the Lisbon Academy of Sciences with a declaration that they will accept the jury's decision on the award of the prize, containing their identification details and attaching three copies of the study.

Alberto Sampaio was undoubtedly an eminent historian who, born in Guimarães and buried in Vila Nova de Famalicão, spent his life between these two municipalities. At his home in Boamense, in Vila Nova de Famalicão, he studied and wrote the work that he bequeathed to us, and part of his rich collection can be found in the Vila Nova de Famalicão Municipal Archive.