Collaborative Laboratories

InnovPlantProtect aims to develop innovative, bio-based solutions to promote safer, more productive, and more environmentally friendly agricultural crops. To achieve this goal, InnovPlantProtect will address specific problems in Mediterranean crops, particularly those resulting from the emergence of new pests and diseases associated with ongoing climate change.

Its objective is to develop research, innovation, and knowledge and technology transfer activities with a view to increasing sustainable forest management in Portugal, the competitiveness of the Portuguese forestry sector, and reducing the negative consequences of rural fires, leveraging knowledge and promoting its application in solving concrete, current, and emerging problems of companies and communities, addressing major societal challenges.

To create, study, and implement new holistic approaches in the design and development of cyber-physical systems (CPS), capable of integrating transdisciplinary perspectives (systems engineering), combined with creative thinking (design thinking), complexity, and multidisciplinarity of knowledge, in promoting open innovation and its sustainability applied to the creation of products, services, and interfaces in cyber-physical technologies.

Development of applied research in technological developments and systems integration for the use of solar energy technologies in the decarbonization of different sectors of activity: Energy production, Industry, Transportation, Agriculture, Energy autonomous communities.

It aims to contribute to improving the social situation of tourism workers, promoting and valuing the profession in an inclusive, rewarding and conciliatory approach.

To boost clinical research to increase innovation in the health sector, in strategic areas such as medical devices, biomarker identification, and personalized medicine, integrating the contributions of relevant stakeholders to strengthen multidisciplinary skills, particularly in clinical trials.