In a world that is constantly changing, it is crucial that academia, the center of change and knowledge transfer, accompanies and exploits this transformation.

To Create Science and Make Innovation made in Lusófona is a biannual event that aims to showcase the research work of the different Organic Units and their respective Research & Development Units, as well as to present the research support services that make up ULusófona. In this sense, this event aims to promote a dynamic of aggregation and leverage of the value created by all the UI&D.

Presentation

The Science and Innovation Hub is the structure dedicated to the multiple opportunities that the science and innovation paradigm brings, namely in strengthening the integrated and comprehensive university model that fully fulfils its mission.

This Hub aims to reinforce ILIND's competence structure, in conjunction with the Pro-Rectory for Science and Innovation, as well as ULusófona's UI&Ds.

Ordem de Serviço Nº. 6/2025 (PT)

 ILIND

Universidade Lusófona has established ILIND - Instituto Lusófono de Investigação e Desenvolvimento (Lusófono Institute for Research and Development), with the aim of promoting links between scientific research and teaching activities at its educational establishments. ILIND is an organic research unit with the following objectives:

• Promote research and development (R&D) and disseminate knowledge in the various scientific areas it deals with;
• Coordinating and systematising the research activities carried out by the R&D units of the above-mentioned educational establishments, in particular monitoring the process of preparing, submitting and managing research projects, as well as supporting the processes undertaken by individual researchers;
• Coordinating the R&D process and advanced training at doctoral programme level in the various research units of the educational establishments, taking the common scientific areas of training as a starting point;
• Promote scientific exchange with national, foreign and international institutions and researchers;
• Contribute to obtaining adequate logistical and financial resources to carry out the R&D activities it undertakes directly, as well as those that are the responsibility of the units of the educational establishments whose research it coordinates;
• Encourage the presentation of interdisciplinary projects, involving the research units of all educational establishments;
• Create networks for scientific and cultural extension and community services.

Ordem de Serviço Nº. 93/2010 (PT)

ILIND comprises the following service units:

Science and Innovation Incentive Unit / Pre-Award

It is responsible for supporting all U&I applications for competitive external funding, as well as researchers' applications for competitive funding programmes.

Projects and Activities Monitoring Unit

It is responsible for coordinating the activity of the various science managers integrated into each of the University's U&I, as well as ensuring the management of the various internal programmes for funding and boosting science and innovation.

Knowledge and Technology Reporting, Dissemination and Transfer Unit

It is responsible for managing reporting processes to external organisations, monitoring ethical validation processes by the respective Commission, disseminating open science practices and policies, managing knowledge and technology transfer processes and managing intellectual property.

"Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge." - Stephen Hawkings

In a context of marked transformation in Higher Education and at a time when the European Union is defining a European agenda for Universities, Universidade Lusófona has taken as the centrepiece of its mission the square of knowledge that integrates Teaching, Research and Innovation, Connecting with Society and Providing Services.

Aware that scientific research and technological development are a goal of Universities - which must contribute to the development of culture and science with internationally recognised quality - Universidade Lusófona develops and implements a strategic policy for the area of Research and Development (R&D) that will make it an increasingly important centre for innovation and scientific research in Portugal and abroad, reinforcing the attractiveness of the project for highly regarded national and international teachers and researchers.

Universidade Lusófona aims to research and build knowledge in the scientific areas in which it teaches. Teaching and research are complementary parts of the education we provide and are inseparable elements of our university mission.

Strategic Plan 2022/2025 (PT)

Responsibilities and Duties

Aware that scientific research and innovation are a goal of Universities - which must contribute to the development of culture and science with internationally recognised quality - Universidade Lusófona intends to develop and implement a strategic policy for the area of Research and Development (R&D), and the Pro-Rectory for Research is responsible for:

1. To strategically manage research and development (R&D) activities, research policies and scientific infrastructures;
2. Representing the university in national and international R&D institutions;
3. Proposing and signing R&D contracts and agreements;
4. Monitoring the university's innovation, research and development activities, namely its research units and centres;
5. Stimulate and valorise research activities, namely through their integration and articulation with teaching;
6. Promoting the creation of a knowledge transfer plan, including intellectual property regulations;
7. Stimulating R&D capacity building;
8. Promoting and managing incubators and skills centres;
9. Promote an open science agenda;
10. Promote and ensure an information management plan for the university, units, research centres and ongoing projects;
11. Organise and ensure the implementation of a gender equality plan in research activities;
12. Develop projects and policies to attract and retain talent;
13. Designing career plans for researchers in collaboration with each research unit;
14. Ensure the dynamisation and structuring of scientific areas not covered by research units;
15. Diversify and broaden funding mechanisms for research, publicising available funding instruments, strengthening support mechanisms for submitting applications and strengthening relations with the business world in order to promote cooperative projects or projects under the auspices of donations, legacies, sponsorships or patronage;
16. Strengthen and manage incentive programmes for research and science in partnership with the Lusophone Institute for Research and Development (ILIND);
17. Disseminate the scientific knowledge produced, increasing the visibility of the research carried out at the university, by producing and managing a science communication system, in conjunction with ILIND.