Engineer and former minister João Cravinho honored at the University of Coimbra

The Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra will host this Thursday, September 18, at 2:30 pm, a colloquium in honor of engineer João Cravinho, which will be attended by Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, José Reis and Gonçalo Marçal.

" João Cravinho was one of the greatest figures of economic thought in Portugal from the second half of the 20th century to the present day, with a strong presence in national public life and in our international relations," the Faculty highlights.

Before his government duties – he served twice as a minister – and his role as a member of the Assembly of the Republic and the European Parliament, João Cravinho was responsible for creating one of the best planning structures for the structural transformation of our country: the GEBEI-Group of Basic Studies of Industrial Economics, in the early 1970s, which had a very significant impact on Public Administration and academia.

"The discussion of major issues such as regionalization and the location of the new airport owes much to him," and therefore, his work is being studied and duly valued, adds the Faculty.

João Cravinho worked as a professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, in the first undergraduate course and later in the Master's in European Economics.

This series of colloquia in his honor, which begins at FEUC, will also include sessions in Lisbon, Faro and Porto and is an initiative of the research project The Political Economy of Building Democracy (FCT-Foundation for Science and Technology) underway at the Center for Social Studies.