The Scientific and Technical Validation Committee for Science4COVID's ideas, actions and publications is constituted by Catarina Oliveira (President of the AICIB Board of Directors), Patrícia Calado (Member of the AICIB Board of Directors), Cristina Abreu Santos (Member of the Institute's Board of Directors) Ricardo Jorge) and Nuno Feixa Rodrigues (Member of the FCT Board of Directors). This commission is responsible for the validation and preliminary classification of all ideas, actions and publications submitted to Science4COVID, using whenever necessary entities with recognized scientific and professional merit to support the analysis and framing of the initiatives submitted to each specific areas of application.