Water pollution is a severe worldwide problem that urgently requires development of novel sensing concepts allowing for monitoring contaminants at very low concentrations.The ambitious aim of the SAFE WATER project is to design, implement and validate a new portable optical instrument, for in situ a...

The primary objective of the e-LOG project is to create a methodology to assess the environmental impacts of different retail strategies, taking into consideration the origin, mode of transport and the destination of products. The research will be focused on transport in a strict sense. The estimate...

With the growing relevance of distributed renewable energy sources (DRES) in the generation mix and the increasingly pro-active demand for electricity, power systems and their mode of operation need to evolve. The goal of the evolvDSO was to define future roles of distribution system operators (DSOs...

The Footwear Cluster evolved from an industry driven, resource based activity to a market led Knowledge Based activity, taking advantage in style and fashion and preserving a shoe making capability in Portugal. To keep competitive, the footwear Cluster needs to concentrate on the creative phase, mas...

The Smart-Health-4-All project aims to stimulate an ecosystem dedicated to research and development (including clinical and translational research), production, marketing and dissemination of medical technologies in Portugal (including medical devices and digital health solutions ), based on informa...

PAC - Portugal AutoCluster for the Future? (“PAC”) Project is a mobilizing project led by Simoldes Plásticos, S.A. and closely aligned with Mobinov Cluster | Cluster Automóvel de Portugal??s action plan. Through a set of activities with a high knowledge content, the PAC Project aims to address techn...

Steep slope vineyards account for 10% - 12% of European viticulture land area and produce some of the highest value wines. Row sizes are quite narrow, typically 90 – 150cm. Currently, where possible, treatments are applied from a small tractor-based system that considers an air-blast based sys...

Developed at INESC TEC, S-Calibration presents itself as a technology to revolutionize material analysis. S-Calibration solves a physical limitation of the systems currently used, enhancing their resolution enabling the detection of subtle but relevant changes of small elements in samples. Besides t...

After the earthquakes in L’Aquila, Haiti and Japan, the European Commission confirmed that there exists a large discrepancy between (robotic) technology that is developed in laboratory and the use of such technology in the field for Search and Rescue (SAR) operations and crisis management.  Th...