APECS Portugal VII Workshop of career development. Annual event. The workshop will take place on the 26th October 2016 in Lisbon, and as usual it will occur near the Portuguese Conference for Polar Sciences. This year, the workshop theme will be the ambivalence of science and policy in polar regions. We aim to welcome new members in this workshop, and with them and the old ones discuss how science and policy can work in favor of each other. The preliminary poster and programme can be found below. (Note: the title has been changed to Science & Policits).