Physical Sciences & Engineering

ENGAGE SKA implements an action plan coupling frontier research and technological development in close collaboration with the Portuguese industry, promoting the participation of Portugal in the Square
Kilometer Array, the largest radio telescope of the XXI century, to be installed in Southern Africa and Australia. This platform will stimulate technological development by bringing together advanced
training and ICT, Renewable Energy and Space innovation, including the testing of prototypes on national soil.

Coordinating Institution | Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT)

Partners Institutions | Instituto de Telecomunicações de Aveiro (IT Aveiro/IT); Universidade de Aveiro (UA); Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (FC/ UP); Universidade de Coimbra (UC); Universidade de Évora (UE); Instituto Politécnico de Beja (IPBeja); Associação RAEGE Açores (A-RAEGE-Az).

Activities

• Astronomy, radio frequency and core optical technologies for radioastronomy, training in computational astrophysics, characterization and testing facilities with inclusion of Green (Solar) technologies.

• Aperture Array technologies optimization, solar observations (radio and optical), astronomy software development and E.Science, Cloud Computing and Data Storage.

Laserlab-Portugal is a distributed research infrastructure providing state-of-the-art laser systems to the scientific and industrial community. The Lisbon node is specialized in very high power pulsed lasers for
the study of the properties of matter at very high light intensities. The Coimbra node specializes in photochemistry, photobiology and photomedicine. This capability covers a vast amount of laser parameters with application in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, medicine and other fields. LLPT is a member of LaserLab Europe, participating in several access, joint research and networking activities.

Coordinating Institution | Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento (IST-ID).

Partners Institutions| Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear do Instituto Superior Técnico (IPFN/ IST/UL); Universidade de Coimbra (UC).

Services

• Access to laser systems and to modelling tools for laser-matter interactions;

• Accompanied access to femtosecond transient absorption with UV/ VIS/NIR detection, to picosecond single photon counting, to nanosecond photoacoustic calorimetry, to photochemistry in matrices and to phototherapy and photodiagnostics and to chemical imaging facilities, besides giving access to users of LaserLab Europe, including the training of young researchers.

PAMI focus on the development and exploitation of bio-inspired layer-by-layer fabrication processes to produce high-value personalized products, and intends to respond to a crucial competitiveness
challenge and threat to future property: closing the gap between R&D activities and the development of technological innovations in manufacturing.

Coordinating Institution | Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

Partners Institutions | Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN); Universidade de Coimbra (UC); Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica (ISR/UC), Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular (CNC/UC); Centro Tecnológico da Indústria de Moldes, Ferramentas Especiais e Plásticos (CENTIMFE).

Services

• Support industry-academic partnerships and expand the number of qualified researchers and engineers in the area.

PTNMR provides a coordinated access to a national platform of equipment, resources, services and skills in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) for the use of the participating institutions and for the
scientific community, from the national and international R&D system from industry and academia. The main goal is the maintenance of a single platform that promotes the technical integration, the sharing of resources and the combined management of the NMR infrastructure, enabling access to modern and fully operational NMR spectrometers and support of R&D initiatives.

Coordinating Institution | Nova.ID - Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT

Partners Institutions | Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT/NOVA); Universidade do Minho (UM); Universidade do Porto (UP); Universidade de Aveiro (UA); Universidade de Coimbra (UC); Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI); Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/UL); Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB/NOVA); Universidade da Madeira (UMa).

Services

• Several type of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectra in solution or solid state, from routine analytical services for structure elucidation to advanced applications, e.g. Structure activity relationship by NMR, HRMAS, NMR relaxometry, micro-imaging by NMR, Rheo-NMR, NMR Diffusometry besides NMR consulting
  service and training.