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International Partnerships

The Portuguese Government initiated in 2007 several international partnerships grouping portuguese universities and world class research institutions: the Massachussets Institute of Technology, Carnegie-Mellon University, University of Texas at Austin, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and Harvard Medical School. Also an ambitious cooperation program in Nanotechnologies was launched with Spain. As a consequence of these actions the following were created:

• The MIT-Portugal Program and other information available through the FCT site.
• The CMU|Portugal Program — Information and Communication Technologies Institute, and other information available through the FCT site.
• The UTAustin|Portugal Program — International Collaboratory for Emerging Technologies, CoLab, and other information available through the FCT site.
• A Fraunhofer Institute in Portugal (Porto) in the area of Technologies Applications, Content and Services for Ambient Assisted Living.
• The International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in Braga.
• The Harvard|Portugal Programme was launched on May 21, 2009. Other information available through the FCT site.
• UTEN Network
• Lisbon MBA, a partnership between Faculdade de Economia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Económicas e Empresariais da Universidade Católica Portuguesa and the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Targeted R&D projects in the Framework of International Partnerships

89 applications in cooperation with industry received

In 2008 FCT received 89 applications for targeted R&D projects in the framework of 3 public calls open through MIT-Portugal, CMU-Portugal and UTAustin-Portugal programs for funding of R&D activities in partnership with at least two national research centers, companies and the US Institutions associated to each program. Calls were announced in early 2008 and were open between July and mid October. Total funding requested for these projects amounts to 22.5 M€ for a 3 year period, including a wide group of national scientific institutions and university research groups.

The applications received will be evaluated by panels of international experts of recognized merit, appointed after consulting the leadership of the US partners in each program. The panels are presided by:

Call for Projects in the framework of the MIT-Portugal ProgramEvaluation Panel »»

• Professor Henk Sol, Professor, University of Groningen e Technical University of Delft, President of the External Advisory Board of the MIT-Portugal Program.

Call for Projects in the framework of the CMU-Portugal Program Evaluation Panel »»

• Angel Jordan(Chair), Professor (Emeritus), Carnegie Mellon University, ex-Director of the Software Engineering Institute.
• Raj Reddy, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, (Co-Chair).

Call for Projects in the framework of the UTAustin-Portugal ProgramEvaluation Panel »»

• Robert Peterson, Professor and Vice-President for Research, University of Texas at Austin.

The evaluation process will run up to the end of December 2008 and approved projects will start in the beginning of 2009.

The evaluation and selection process of the research projects is based in criteria previously defined for the various call areas, including project relevance, scientific merit, originality and expected results, capacity for integration of young researchers, result usage in indutry and the degree of involvment of team members in companies, as well the degree of institutional involvment and amount of private co-funding.