New Call Co-promotion – International Partnerships

During February, PORTUGAL2020, ANI, and FCT will open a Call proposals to fund joint projects between companies and non-business entities in the R&I system.

The launch of this Call the third phase of International Partnerships with Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, and the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), which began in 2018 and runs until 2030. The estimated budget is €18 million, and applications must be submitted through Balcão Portugal 2020.

The aim is to assign national companies the role of driving networks and collaborative projects, with the support of Portuguese R&D institutions and taking advantage of the experience and knowledge of US universities. The goal is to build a model in which national companies lead the process of modernizing the economic fabric, strengthening the innovation ecosystem in Portugal.

Joint projects led by Portuguese companies in partnership with national academic institutions that contribute to consolidating the intergovernmental initiative "Atlantic Interactions" are eligible to apply . The aim is for projects to help develop or consolidate partnerships with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, and the University of Texas at Austin in one or more topics from their respective programs, namely:

 AREAS OF RESEARCH

 Under the CMU-Portugal Program

• DATA SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING
• MOBILITY AND AUTONOMY
• DESIGN AND ENGINEERING APPLIED TO COMPLEX SOCIAL PROBLEMS

Under the MIT-Portugal Program

• CLIMATE AND CLIMATE CHANGE
• TERRESTRIAL SYSTEMS: FROM THE OCEANS TO SPACE
  
• DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN INDUSTRY
• SUSTAINABLE CITIES

 Under the UTA-Portugal Program

• SPACE-EARTH INTERACTIONS
• MEDICAL PHYSICS FOR EMERGING THERAPIES
• ADVANCED COMPUTING, QUANTUM COMPUTING, DATA ANALYSIS, AND VISUALIZATION
• NANO MATERIALS FOR NEW MARKETS

Applications must be submitted within three months of the Call opening.

GoPortugal – Global Science and Technology Partnerships Portugal (2018–2030)

It aims to stimulate scientific and business development, promote Portugal's affirmation in the world through the scientific and economic enhancement of an innovative agenda on "Atlantic Interactions," attract funding, and mobilize various national and international actors with an innovative approach in various areas of knowledge. This new phase will provide the creation of skilled jobs, attracting human resources of recognized international merit to Portugal.