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    • Overview
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      • Earth Systems: Oceans to Near Space
      • Digital Transformation in Manufacturing
      • Sustainable Cities
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      • 2025 Call for Seed Grant Proposals
    • Funded Projects
      • 2024 @PT Call for Exploratory Proposals
      • 2024 Seed Projects
      • Flagship Projects
      • 2021 Exploratory Projects
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Research

2017 @PT Call for Exploratory Proposals

Call Info
Funded Projects
Call Info

A Call for Proposals for Exploratory Research is opened within the MIT Portugal Program framework.

This call is guided towards research projects with the potential to contribute towards the long-term objective of developing innovative products and services, demonstrating international competitiveness and innovative capacity in science and technology amongst public and private sectors and the entities of the National Scientific and Technology System (SCTN) under the following themes:

  1. Integrative research based in the context of the Atlantic International Research Center (AIR Center);
  2. Sustainable and data driven urban systems;
  3. New industrial concepts and smart factories;
  4. Bio & Medical Devices;
  5. Sustainable Transportation Systems.

These projects will be also used to assess emergent scientific domains that could be considered in the design of a potential 3rd phase of the MIT Portugal Program. The projects developed should also contribute to the Atlantic International Research Center (AIR Center) scientific developments and objectives, as stated in the document “Towards a Science and Technology agenda for an integrative approach to the Atlantic: Climate Change and Energy Systems, Space and Ocean Sciences, through North-South cooperation”, available at FCT website.

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Funded Projects

List of Funded Projects

Below there is a list of all the exploratory projects that begun last year and that are ongoing during 2017/2018, along with the link to their main page and the name of the Project Coordinator.

  1. Multifunctional marine-inspired bioadhesives as medical devices for gastrointestinal anastomosis repair
    Natália M. Alves, UMinho

  2. Ureteral stents as chemotherapy delivery systems for urological tumors
    Ana Rita Duarte, UMinho

  3. BIOmedical DEVICE development based on pre-miRNA G-quadruplex
    Carla Cruz, UBI

  4. New low-cost approach for solar-cells based on magnetoplasmonic nanostructures
    David Navas Otero, FCUP

  5. Innovative High-Altitude Balloon for Atlantic Observation: Fostering the Development of a Collaborative Platform for Integrated Aerial and Oceanic Research
    José Azinheira, IST | Dário Silva, IST

  6. Towards deep sea soundscaping
    Marcos Silva, UMinho

  7. ISY-AIR: An integrated system for urban scale air quality assessment and forecast
    Oxana Tchepel, UCoimbra

  8. Rational design of a thermostable esterase for the production of high-value bioplastics for biomedical applications
    Alexandra Carvalho, UCoimbra

  9. Marine oil spills: Green biological Emulsifiers agents’ production and autonomous Robotic tools for response optimization
    Frederico Ferreira, IST

  10. Development of new numerical tools and constitutive models to simulate the fused filament fabrication – a low-cost additive manufacturing process
    Jorge Belinha, FEUP/INEGI

  11. Additive Manufacturing of Innovative and Multifunctional Ceramic Products for Architectural Systems
    Paulo Cruz, UMinho

  12. FIRST: Mapping flexibility of urban energy systems
    Daniel Aelenei, FCT/UNL

  13. Streamlined environmental and cost life-cycle assessment of building retrofits: a decision-supporting tool
    Fausto Freire, UCoimbra

  14. UMove – Understanding User’s Needs, Preferences and Social Interactions for the Design of Future Mobility Services
    Carlos Bento, UCoimbra

  15. AWAREE: a data driven towards to drivers’ attention
    Sara Ferreira, FEUP

  16. MOBI-AGE – Promoting urban mobility in ageing populations
    Anabela Ribeiro, FEUP

  17. Ferrofluidic Extensional Rheological Response for Ocean CLEAN-up
    Francisco Rosales, FEUP

  18. Engineering biosensors for human cell type and state diagnosis using synthetic digital computation
    Alisson Gontijo, UNL

  19. WSMART ROUTE – Waste Collection based on a Real Time Route Planning System
    Tânia Ramos, IST-CEG

  20. Tuberculosis meets fuel cells. An innovative vision to passive DMFC: electrochemical biosensors
    Lúcia Brandão, ISEP
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