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Abstract

What it will be studied in this paper corresponds to an historical overview on the genesis of the installation of scientific research in Portugal during the period between the two world wars. The creation of a National Board of Education ─ the JEN (Junta Nacional de Educação) ─ explains the political effort to organize modern scientific research in the country, specially the grant service abroad and the support of scientific institutions (laboratories) in Portuguese Universities. We present the various attempts to achieve a political scientific coordinating board in Portugal during the Republic. We try to summarize the main results achieved by JEN in the thirties, specially the number of grants abroad.

Key words: Junta de Educação Nacional, scientific research in Portugal, scientific grant holders