2019

“Women in Science” - "’Ciência Viva’ paid tribute to 109 Portuguese women scientists [...] whose remarkable work has been instrumental in the progress that national Science and Technology", launching in 2019 the book "Women in Science" with the portrait of these researchers. http://www.cienciaviva.pt/mulheresnaciencia/segunda-edicao/

2017

“Doctorate Honoris Causa” by the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France, on 20.11.2017. https://ciecum.wordpress.com/2017/11/27/reconhecimento-internacional-investigadora-do-ciec-honoris-causa-pela-universidade-lyon-1/

2014

“Social Literacy LED Certificate” 2014, by the “DAVID Review System” on 16.01.2014, to the European project BIOHEAD-CITIZEN (“Biology, Health and Environmental Education for better Citizenship” FP6 European Project; CIT2-CT-2004-506015; 2004-2008) involving 19 countries and coordinated by Graça S. Carvalho. This award was given to the best four projects among 527 analysed.

DAVID is a KA4 – LLP project co-funded by the European Commission, whose objective is to design, test and validate a Review System for Interventions in Social Literacy from European countries, aiming to establish a pan-European database – of reviewed and non-reviewed entries – supporting a certification and recognition process of Social Literacy interventions. http://portal.ledonvalues.org/portal/site/David1/page/4524797b-d577-4a0b-a949-a70d19ccace0

1990

2nd Prize of Biotest Immunology awarded by LUSOTRANSPLANTE and BIOTEST PHARMA AG, Dreieich, RFA, as well as by its representative in Portugal NEO-FARMACÊUTICA Lda., based on the work "Implantation of metal prostheses and the immune system: effect of metallic ions adhesion molecules and T lymphocyte".