Prize

The Camões Institute awards the “Camões Prize 2016 for the Technologies for the Portuguese Language” to the best paper in PROPOR 2016:

“Design and Analysis of a Database to Evaluate Children’s Reading Aloud Performance”

Jorge Proença, Dirce Celorico, Carla Lopes, Sales Dias Miguel,
Michael Tjalve, Andreas Stolcke, Sara Candeias and Fernando Perdigão

Camões, Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua

Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, I.P., in short Camões, I.P., is a public institute, integrated in the indirect administration of the State, with administrative and financial autonomy and its own assets, pursuing duties of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under its supervision.

Camões, I.P., mission is to propose and implement the Portuguese cooperation policy and to coordinate activities undertaken by other public entities involved in implementing that policy and also to propose and implement the educational policy, to disseminate the Portuguese language and culture in foreign universities and to manage the foreign Portuguese teaching network at primary and secondary levels.