The Department of Mineral and Energy Resources Engineering (DER) at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) is responsible for a Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HACS) course dedicated to WATER. This course is conducted in a "Seminars" format with guest speakers from various fields (Musicians, Visual Artists, Sociologists, Journalists, Designers, Economists) who come to talk to our students about Water from a transdisciplinary perspective. It is named "Conversas sobre a Água / Water Talks," aiming to complement the students' scientific education with learning that deepens the understanding of current social, geopolitical, historical, artistic, ethical, deontological, and economic issues related to WATER that shape our society.

This course is offered to all undergraduate students at Técnico ULisboa. The classes are primarily designed to promote dialogue and interaction between the guest speakers, the course instructors, and, naturally, the students.

Date	Speaker	Title
19/02	Paulo Cordeiro Musician, Sintra Music Conservatory	“Water and Music”
26/02	Bárbara Bruno EPAL, Museum of water	“Water Heritage Route in the city of Lisbon”
05/03	Rui Mendes Observatories of Lisbon	“Lisbon un numbers. The Water”
12/03	José Francisco Pavia & João Carlos Simões  Lusíada University	“Water Wars’: security and strategic importance”
19/03	Inês Rodolfo Designer, Nova University	“Design thinking and digital prototyping for human behavior change”
26/03	Alexandra Prado Coelho Journalist of Público Vera Moutinho Multimedia Journalist	“How will we do agriculture in a future with less water?" (Report and debate)