Science and Technology Management
The science and technology management department is responsible for: (1) drawing up institutional and structuring applications, namely to attract investment for infrastructure, equipment or human resources; (2) promoting, boosting and monitoring research and innovation projects (identifying and communicating business needs and ideas; selecting funding mechanisms and looking for strategic partners; supporting the exploitation of results with dissemination in technology supply/demand catalogs and registration and licensing of industrial/intellectual property; monitoring scientific production and relevant indicators); (3) coordinating science communication activities.
Contact:apoio.investigacao@ipb.pt
With specialized staff to support research, innovation, projects and fundraising, the Project Support Office is available to support the entire ecosystem at the various stages of the scientific process.
Project Support Office is the permanent technical and administrative support structure responsible for promoting, boosting and disseminating all research activities. Project Support Office is made up of two sections: the science and technology management department and the administrative and financial management department.
UPB’s R&D activities mobilize various structures that provide support services to the scientific community: the Project Support Office, the project management platform and the Ethics Committee.
AquaValor – Centro de Valorização e Transferência de Tecnologia da Água is a private non-profit association whose founding members are UPB, the Alto Tâmega Intermunicipal Community (CIMAT), the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), the University of Vigo (UVIGO), the Hospital Center of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro EPE (CHTMAD), the Alto Tâmega Region Development Association (ADRAT), the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation Eurocity Chaves-Verín, the Alto Tâmega Business Association (ACISAT) and key players from the private sector associated with the sector in question.
It is presented as a thematic but multifunctional interface infrastructure that aims to support companies by involving them in their activity, responding to existing needs that are not being met by companies operating in the market and also aims to create new channels for the transfer and dissemination of knowledge to the economic sector.
AquaValor works essentially around the theme of water, in its various aspects, as a distinctive/identity value, aggregator and driver of economic growth in the Alto Tâmega sub-region, mainly in four functional areas:
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) at the Service of Thermal Waters and Wellness Tourism;
Specialized services dedicated to generating added value;
Research and Innovation;
Training of Highly Qualified Human Resources, namely through master’s degrees and doctorates, as well as Higher Professional Technical Courses and training courses for tourism, hotel and restaurant workers.
MORE – Collaborative Mountain Research Laboratory is a non-profit association under private law, recognized as a Collaborative Laboratory by the FCT since 2018.
The result of a consortium of research units, laboratories, higher education institutions, technology centers, companies and intermediate and interface institutions, it has the financial support of the European Social Fund and the Portuguese State Budget through the CENTRO 2020 Program.
Its main objectives are:
Identify specific needs and challenges in Mediterranean mountain areas;
Mobilize value chains sustainably and promote unique natural sites, creating business opportunities based on science and technology;
Creating economic and social value by associating scientific and academic institutions in collaboration with economic, social and cultural actors;
Boosting the private sector by creating business opportunities;
Establish interface and knowledge transfer models;
Diversify, stimulate and coordinate activities based on scientific knowledge;
Facilitate the creation of jobs that generate economic and social value.
Contacts
Edificio do Brigantia Ecopark
Avª Cidade de Leon, 506
5300-358 Bragança
Telephone number: (+351) 300 081 998
WEB: morecolab.pt
E-mail: geral@morecolab.pt
A Collaborative Laboratory – CoLAB is a private non-profit association or a company, already created or to be created, whose main objective is the collaboration of its members in the pursuit of short and medium-term research and innovation agendas, focused on the creation of qualified employment and economic and social value.
The Collaborative Laboratories are an opportunity for scientific and academic institutions, in close collaboration with economic, social and cultural actors, to contribute to the construction in Portugal of projects of international relevance, with an effective impact on society, stimulating the creation of qualified employment in Portugal.
Collaborative laboratory status is granted by the FCT for a period of five years, renewable after an evaluation process.
SusTEC – Associated Laboratory for Sustainability and Technology in Mountain Regions is the result of the association of two UPB research units: CIMO – Mountain Research Centre and CeDRI – Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics Research Centre.
The aim of SusTEC is to move from Nature to Products through the implementation of sustainable practices and processes and digital and clean technologies. SusTEC’s focus is not on a vertical thematic field, but on transversal and transdisciplinary social challenges aligned with national and European research and innovation agendas.
SusTEC is organized along three thematic lines (LT):
LT1: Natural Resources, Agriculture and Climate Change;
LT2: Food and bio-based solutions; and
LT3: Innovative and technology-based SMEs.
LT1 works to improve agricultural systems, particularly family farming, natural resource management and economic and rural development, following an integrated approach to climate variability and change.
LT2 addresses the development of high-value foods, ingredients and natural-based products for various industrial fields through sustainable practices, which include the use of bio-waste, secondary flows from agro-industry, recycling and green technologies.
LT3 deals with the application of new knowledge and technologies to support the modernization of industry to meet current challenges in the context of digital transformation, promoting the creation of more innovative, technological and knowledge-based processes and systems that enable companies to be more competitive at national level and in international markets. It also integrates skills in the development of products and processes that consolidate a solid intervention in technology-based industries.
SusTEC’s activity is fully coordinated with:
the European Commission’s Green Deal for climate mitigation, promoting the transition to an industry based on a clean and/or circular economy;
the Farm to Fork strategy and the European Digital Strategy, helping to transform agriculture and rural areas and modernize the industrial sector;
the UN Sustainable Development Goals, namely: Eradicate Hunger; Quality Health; Decent Work and Economic Growth; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Sustainable Production and Consumption; Sustainable Cities and Communities and Climate Action;
national policies and the thematic agendas established by the FCT’s Research and Innovation Agenda (Industry and Manufacturing, Cyber-Physical Systems and Advanced Forms of Computing and Communication, and Circular Economy) and by the Inland Development Program.
An Associated Laboratory is made up of one or more R&D units and must ensure three fundamental criteria in a sustainable way: the response of public policies to scientific, health, social, environmental and economic challenges; the promotion of scientific or technical careers for doctoral graduates, as well as the ability to attract talent to Portugal and the ability to diversify funding sources and increase the attraction of funding from the European Union or other international entities for R&D activities in Portugal.
The Associated Laboratories are formally consulted by the government on the definition of national scientific and technological policy programs and instruments.
The status of Associated Laboratory is granted by order of the member of the Government responsible for the area of science and technology, for a period of up to 10 years, and aims to encourage the aggregation and organization of human and material resources with the quality and dimension necessary to respond to specific objectives of national scientific and technological policy. The FCT is responsible for evaluating proposals for the creation/renewal of Associated Laboratories.
The Research Unit in Health Sciences: Nursing (UICISA: E), hosted by the Nursing School of Coimbra (ESEnfC), is evaluated and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
UICISA: E develops R&D activities at an international and interdisciplinary level, with the aim of providing a sustainable and socially responsible response to complex problems related to health promotion, disease prevention and the provision of care for the sick, disabled and/or end-of-life person.
It aims to establish itself as an internationally accredited research center of excellence, demonstrating the importance of research in the specific field of nursing for innovation and health gains. In addition to its distinguished role and recognized merit in Portugal, UICISA: E maintains a continuous work of cooperation between researchers and partnerships with national and international research centers of excellence.
The UPB has had a branch of this R&D unit since 2018.
Contacts
Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra
Avenida Bissaya Barreto – Polo C
3046-851 Vila Real
Telephone number: (+351) 239 487 217
E-mail: investiga@esenfc.pt
CIDESD – Research Center in Sports Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development is a technically and scientifically multidisciplinary inter-institutional applied research unit based at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Vila Real) and is affiliated to the European College of Sports Sciences.
Created in 2007, this center is the result of the networking, by consortium agreement, of six previous research units from the UPB, the Rio Maior School of Sports Sciences – Polytechnic Institute of Santarém, the University of Beira Interior, the University Institute of Maia, the University of Madeira and the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro. It is currently a consortium agreement of 10 institutions, made up of three research communities: CreativeLab, GERON and STRONG.
CIDESD’s mission is to help develop human resources capable of carrying out autonomous interventions in the fields of sports science, health and human development. This mission is particularly integrated into objective 3 of the Sustainable Development Goals described in the United Nations 2030 agenda: to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all, at all ages.
Contacts
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Quinta de Prados, Edifício da Reitoria, 2º Piso, sala D2.30
5001-801 Vila Real
Telephone number: (+351) 259 350 151/2
WEB: cidesd.pt
E-mail: cidesd.geral@utad.pt
