Portugal

Meet our National Lead for Portugal!

Who we are:

UPTEC

UPTEC supports the creation and development of business projects in the arts, sciences and technologies and hosts innovation centres for both national and international companies. Following a shared resources strategy, UPTEC provides projects with specialized support, connecting them to a wide and broad network of partners.

In addition, UPTEC offers a propitious environment for innovation and the creation of companies, as it assumes itself as a valuable role in bridging the gap between the knowledge generated at the University and the market.

UPTEC has been organising ClimateLaunchpad in Portugal since 2016, where we supported almost 50 teams within more than 90 applications in total. Besides, Portugal had two international winners. Pavnext was awarded in 2017 in the “Urban Transitions” category, whereas Eco2Blocks won the Global Grand Final of ClimateLaunchpad in 2018.

Ordem dos Engenheiros

The Ordem dos Engenheiros (Professional Association of Portuguese Engineers) is a professional association governed by public law which represents engineers in Portugal and which exclusively awards the professional title of Engineer, being obligatory to be registered in order to practice the profession.

Created on November 24, 1936, the Order is independent of the State and has administrative, financial, scientific, disciplinary and regulatory autonomy. The Order of Engineers is organized territorially into Regions, ensuring national coverage through a network of District Delegations, providing proximity services to its members.

The Order of Engineers represents all areas of knowledge in Engineering and is organized into 17 Specialty Colleges, including Environmental Engineering, and 25 Specializations.

Fórum Oceano/Hub Azul

Fórum Oceano’s mission is to strengthen the dynamics of strategic cooperation between actors – companies, RTD centres, higher education institutions, Public Administration organisms – and to promote the competitiveness of the main value chains that use the Sea and the marine resources as central elements of their activity in order to contribute, sustainably, to economic growth, exports and employment and to increase the relative importance of the economy of the Sea in the national economy.

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