Partners

Founded in 1973 and a national pioneer in the provision of training in various areas, the University of Aveiro (UA) is today considered one of the most innovative universities in Portugal, known for its quality of teaching and research, and also committed to cooperation with the business community.
Currently, it is attended by around 17,000 undergraduate and graduate students, 9% of whom are international students. The academic community also comprises around 1400 professors and researchers and 630 members of the technical, administrative, and management staff. In recent years, the UA’s capacity-building effort in terms of infrastructure (buildings and scientific equipment) and lines of research, including human resources and people, has been essential to provide the UA with superior competitiveness and thus ensure a better future and a greater and more effective contribution to regional and national development. The matrix nature of the UA is the basis for inter and transdisciplinary research, based on sharing experiences, exchanging information, improving practices, and promoting joint projects between researchers from the different scientific areas of the UA. The University of Aveiro team involved in the project is made up of professors and researchers from different Departments, integrating different lines of action in the areas of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, and Chemical Engineering, as well as in interface areas such as Nanotechnology and Marine Sciences. This team has made a strategic and continuous commitment to connecting with the business, associative and cooperative sectors, with a view to transferring scientific and technological knowledge and consequent endogenization by companies, associations, and entities in the Region and the Country.