Miguel Sarmento
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- Santander and Coursera open 50,000 more free AI and data course places (you don't need to bank with them)
- More Portuguese employers plan to hire this quarter, and Centro is way out in front
- Portugal's car tax moves to instalments in 2027. Miss one and the rest fall due at once
- Portuguese SMEs get two free days of AI mentoring in Braga this October
- The Gulbenkian New Talents grant closes on 30 September (your referees get another week)
- Portugal's fishing fuel rebate is open, and your gear and boat length set the rate
- Run a startup in Portugal? The policy agenda to 2030 is being written right now
- The figure the CGTP now wants for 2027 is the government's own target for 2029
- Portugal's SME pitch prize gives you three minutes and €5,000. Entries close on 16 October
- The EU's SME Fund has run out of trade mark money. Patents are still open
- €182.5m is on the table for Portuguese SMEs, and the window shuts on 30 September
- Farming in Portugal? Brussels just cleared the aid that pays €28 a hectare
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