ICP-ANACOM regularly sponsors various initiatives which support the objectives and actions of regulating the communications sector, promoting their development, the dissemination of information and discussion on topics of reference, as well as scientific research and training.
During 2010, twenty-three sponsorships were granted, mostly corresponding to specific events promoted by educational institutions and by representative bodies or bodies with relevant activity in the communications sector.
The issues addressed in sponsored initiatives were mainly focused on radiocommunications and electronic communications, and also included the information society and other topics of horizontal relevance to the sector.
Through sponsorship and cooperation protocols, partnerships were maintained with entities that contribute to the research and production of studies and knowledge about the sector, such as IJC - Instituto Jurídico da Comunicação (Legal Institute of Communication) and CEDIPRE - Centro de Estudos de Direito Público e Regulação (Centre for Studies in Public Law and Regulation).
The project "TIC Pediátrica" (Paediatric ICT) of FDTI - Fundação para a Divulgação das Tecnologias de Informação (Foundation for the Dissemination of Information Technologies) continued to receive support from ICP-ANACOM in 2010. The objective of this project is to provide the paediatric units of public hospitals with technological equipment that will provide their younger patients with the opportunity to engage in leisure activities and to keep in contact with their schools. Accordingly, it is directed not only at hospitalized children and hospital technicians and volunteers, but also at the families of these children, assuming also an educational component.
ICP-ANACOM also continued the partnership, which it has had since 2003, with APDC - Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento das Comunicações (Portuguese Communications Development Association).
In 2010, various initiatives were sponsored as part of the activities plan of ACIST-AET Associação Empresarial de Telecomunicações (Telecommunications Business Association), continuing previous practice.
In terms of advertising presence, about a hundred proposals were examined in 2010. As a result this Authority took a presence in various newspapers, magazines and directories, with an institutional advertisement designed in line with its new image, and a "Roaming Light" advertisement. Notices were also published to give disclosure of the SIC - Sistema de Informação Centralizada (Centralized Information System) and the frequencies auction (BWA).
