Missão

Rato - Association for Cultural and Scientific Promotion is a Portuguese organisation without profit intentions whose mission is centred on the stating of the society of information and emerging information and communication technologies.

The modernisation of the methods and techniques of recollection, processing and dissemination of Information and Culture are a mean of democratisation of Knowledge. And it´s this democratisation which will sustain the integral development of the societies of information towards the societies of knowledge.

Another strategic core element of Rato - ADCC is based on the global placement of contents associated with the Portuguese Speaking cultures, as an opposite to the prevalent anglo-saxonic media industry. Rato - ADCC is willing to be a spreader of information in Portuguese.

This way, the primordial paths of activity are based on training, promotion and implementation of projects which are recurrent of the utilisation of the Computer and New Information Technologies' techniques and methodologies, being the creation of partnerships, with several agents and institutions of different regional levels, as the preferred vector of action.

The fundamental factor for the achievement of this vision is Youth, as an engine of development of activities in this domain, but it must promote multilateral mechanisms of generational interactivity.Rato - ADCC is an open project, dynamic to new wills and ideas, in a democratic enrichment perspective of the organisation.

The biggest asset of the Rato - ADCC are people and their ideas.