General Questions
- Promote research and development (R&D) and disseminate knowledge in the various scientific areas under its responsibility;
- Promote national and international scientific exchange;
- Contribute to obtaining logistical and financial resources for R&D activities;
- Validation of the contractual objectives to be assigned to the R&D activity;
- Encouraging the presentation of interdisciplinary projects;
- Creating scientific and cultural extension networks and providing services to the community.
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Lusófona University's R&D activities are supported by various structures that provide support services to the scientific community.
- ILIND - Lusophone Institute for Research and Development
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- PMO - Project Management Office
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- Library, Archives and Documentation
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Tel.: + 351 21 751 55 00 - Ext. 711 and 713
Website. https://biblioteca.ulusofona.pt/
- GAI - University Innovation Support Office
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- GABI - University International Relations Support Office
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Universidade Lusófona has 15 Research and Development Units, spread across all the University's schools and faculties.
UI&Ds
Coordinator: Luis António Monteiro Rodrigues
CBIOS, the Centre for Research in Biosciences and Health Technologies was created in 2011 as an R&D structure of COFAC/Universidade Lusófona with the purpose of creating and promoting knowledge in health sciences. As part of our vision, CBIOS develops Integrated Health Strategies to support the progress of Lusophone societies.
Funded by FCT
Coordinator: António Teodoro
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Education and Development (CeiED) is an R&D unit set up at Universidade Lusófona - Centro Universitário de Lisboa in the areas of Education, Heritage, Human Development and Museology.
Funded by FCT
Coordination: Manuel José Damásio, José Gomes Pinto and Maria José Brites
The Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies (CICANT) is the result of the combined efforts of researchers in these areas at Lusófona University (Lisbon and Porto), working towards the goal of creating an autonomous research unit that will enable the research activities carried out at the centre to be integrated and enhanced. It promotes theoretical and applied research at the intersection of media, society, literacies, arts, culture and technologies. CICANT stands out due to the solid theoretical and applied nature of its studies and knowledge transfer initiatives geared towards teaching and research activities.
Funded by FCT
Coordinator: Pedro Gamito
HEI-Lab - Human-Environment Interaction Lab is an R&D unit at Lusófona University. We develop, apply and converge knowledge from Psychology, Information and Computer Sciences, as well as Media and Communications in a transdisciplinary scientific perspective that aims to push the boundaries of excellence in the study of human-involved bidirectional interaction. The HEI-Lab infrastructures in Lisbon and Porto provide access to state-of-the-art equipment and software, including eye-trackers, psychophysiology devices, motion capture systems, EEG, fNIRS, software for analysing facial expressions, VR headsets, and a VR-based biofeedback system. Based on solid scientific foundations and innovative scientific methods, the results are translated into social, educational and healthcare contexts, with considerable societal impact.
Funded by FCT
Coordinator: José Francisco de Faria Costa
CEAD's ultimate objectives are to organise, promote and coordinate scientific research in the area of legal sciences and related sciences. The centre aims to disseminate knowledge in the area of legal sciences and related sciences, through publications, scientific meetings and other appropriate means endowed with independence, a critical spirit, but never neglecting scientific rigour or the credibility of its work.
Through partnerships and scientific exchange with other institutions and researchers, both national and foreign, the aim is to create a network of scientific and cultural extension in order to provide services to the community. In this way, we assume responsibility for building science as a heritage, contributing to the progress of this knowledge at the service of the community.
Coordinator: António Costa Pinto
LusoGlobe seeks to study, analyse and understand the global challenges facing contemporary societies today. A systematic and multidisciplinary approach to these challenges is particularly crucial when new political and social demands have forced traditional concepts of democracy, development, citizenship, identity and sovereignty to be confronted with the emergence of new analytical approaches and new actors.
In this sense, LusoGlobe seeks to respond to the existing gap in Portuguese academia and at the same time take advantage of the synergies that already exist within ULusófona. Indeed, as the largest private university in Portugal, ULusófona has privileged access to Portuguese-speaking countries and, due to its intercontinental dimension, this interface provides a platform from which to observe and investigate challenges that are global in nature and scope, such as the digitalisation of societies, the new security agenda, international migration and socio-cultural diversity and threats to democracy. LusoGlobe is therefore a multi-interdisciplinary and trans-regional scientific space that observes, questions, systematises and innovates on these challenges in different continents, regions and countries. It will also make it possible to articulate and maximise scientific research challenges related to the global Global Challenges Research system.
UI&D Hubs
Coordinator: António Labisa Palmeira
CIDEFES is the reference research group in Sports Behaviour, Physical Education and Exercise and Health Sciences. Our mission is carried out using the scientific method as the common language of teaching, learning and practice, with regard to the development of applied science in Sport, Physical Education and Exercise and Health.
Coordinator: Marko Beko
COPELABS is a research unit of the Lusófona University, originally established as a new unit in Portugal, having received the classification of ‘Good’ in the last FCT evaluation (2018), in the category of small multidisciplinary unit.
Funded by FCT
Coordinator: Elói Figueiredo
The Civil Research Group has focused on five research topics: structural health monitoring, hygrothermal behaviour of buildings, sustainable building materials, materials and design of ecological road infrastructures, and nature-based solutions.
- Design ID - Design Research Group
Coordinator: Alexandra Cruchinho
Coordinator: Laurentina Pedroso
I-MVET comprises the research staff of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Lusófona University. The scientific and technological activities developed at I-MVET focus on important and innovative aspects of research in the areas of Welfare, Clinical, Biomedical Sciences and One Health.
Coordinator: Diana Dias
The Intrepid Lab is a Centre of CETRAD, which includes FCESE, ECEO and ISMAT, and whose main facilities are located on the Porto campus of Lusófona University.
The Intrepid Lab is a transdisciplinary management research centre that aims to collaborate with the scientific and business community to develop research projects with scientific and societal relevance. The centre currently has 10 integrated researchers, 3 integrated young researchers, 8 integrated doctoral students, and 40 collaborating members involved in research projects supported by the Foundation for Science and Technology, the José Neves Foundation, EDULOG- Belmiro de Azevedo Foundation, the European Space Agency, and the Horizon Europe programme.
Coordinator: José Oliveira Santos
The Asset Management and Systems Engineering Research Centre is made up of a multidisciplinary team of around two dozen researchers with academic and professional experience in the fields of engineering, economics, management and sustainability, using scientific methods of decision support, optimisation, forecasting, simulation, statistics, mathematics and artificial intelligence, and with experience in their application in a wide variety of industries, including production, health, the environment, retail, transport, energy and public services.
Coordinator: Carlos Guimarães
The TerrA.ID Research Group is organised around practice-oriented research that investigates the urgent conditions of our time with regard to architecture and the built environment.
Our aim is to provide society, from a wide range of backgrounds, with tools for carrying out spatial research and critical analysis on issues of conflict, media, ecology and territorial studies. TerrA.ID is home to theoretical and practical research based on doctoral, master's and activist academic relations with society.
Autonomous Research Groups
Coordinator: Adília Charmier
BioRG is an interdisciplinary team that promotes research innovation in bioengineering and sustainability through academic and industrial collaborations.
- Design ID - Design Research Group
Coordinator: Alexandra Cruchinho
You should contact the director of the center in your area of interest directly to find out about the requirements and formalities.
Lusófona University provides its researchers with 52 work infrastructures, divided between 28 Classroom Laboratories and 20 Research Laboratories at the Lisbon University Centre, and the remaining 4 Classroom and Research Laboratories at the Porto University Centre.
These laboratories, which have more than 190 pieces of equipment, are:
Centre for Research in Biosciences and Health Technologies (CBIOS);
Centre for Research and Development in Industrial Engineering, Management and Sustainability (EIGES) - laboratories D.1.12, D.3.1 and D.3.2 belonging to the European Research Project - DeepTech Lab - CATCHER (FE);
BioRG - Biomedical Research Group - Laboratories D.1.14 and D.1.15 (FE);
Beer Production Unit - Laboratory E.2.1 (FE);
Clinical Analyses and Histopathology Laboratory (FMV);
Marine Biology Research Laboratory -T.03 (EPCV).
Yes, from WebVPN access, with the Lusófona University student or lecturer login, using the following address: webvpn.ulusofona.pt (for further instructions, please consult the following manual available here).
Through its libraries, Universidade Lusófona has paper resources as well as electronic resources, including the online bibliographic catalogue, reference and full-text databases, which can be consulted on the Library's website, https://biblioteca.ulusofona.pt/.
The reference databases include:
- B-On;
- EBSCO;
- Scopus;
- WebOfScience
Yes, there is an Ethics Committee (EC) at the Lusophone Institute for Research and Development (ILIND). The purpose of this Committee is to promote and enhance the ethical standards of ILIND and UI&D, and it is responsible for drawing up proposals, opinions and recommendations on ethical issues. To contact this Commission, please send an email to
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Yes, COFAC currently has a Gender and Diversity Plan.
You can acess it here.
Yes. Joint Order No. 6/2020 defines the use of the FCT Platform, Science Vitae, as the only repository for collecting and managing the curricular information of the Lusófona Group's teachers and researchers.
The use of this platform has become imperative in our institution since 31 March 2020.
The aim is to define a single repository for the management of teachers' curricular information, which is easy to update and makes all the scientific production of each teacher and researcher available.
Including for the evaluation and accreditation of institutions and study programmes.
ILIND organises several "Open Days" dedicated exclusively to funding opportunities and application support. Registration takes place via the employee portal. In addition, ILIND publishes its fortnightly newsletter, which publicises funding opportunities, events and news about the Lusophone community.
All researchers have various funding opportunities at their disposal, including the following:
National Programmes / Funding Bodies
- Agência de Inovação
- Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
- Fundação Fulbright
- Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
- Portugal 2030
- BIAL
- PRR
- Fundação Oriente
International Programmes / Funding Bodies
- CYTED - Programa Ibero-Americano de Ciência e Tecnologia para o Desenvolvimento
- Erasmus+
- Europa Criativa
- European Cooperation in Science and Technology
- European Science Foundation
- Horizon Europe
- III Health Programme
- Interreg Europe
- Interreg sudoe
- Interreg Mediterranean
- Interreg Atlantic Area
- Fundação La Caixa
- UNESCO - Media Defence Fund
- Save our Seas Foundation
- Aliph Foundation
- European Cultural Foundation - Culture of Solidarity Fund
- COST
- Filmmakers Without Borders
- Fund for Innovation in Development
- The Conservation, Food & Health Foundation
- FORD Foundation
COFAC currently has two internal initiatives to increase and/or encourage research:
- Seed Funding Programme ILIND
The aim of this competition is to stimulate the development of research activities and excellence among researchers from the Lusófona Group's research and development units (UI&Ds), funded by the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology. It is intended to fund innovative exploratory projects, preferably with a strong interdisciplinary component in any area of knowledge that could result in larger-scale projects to be submitted for funding from other organisations, led and presented by PhD researchers who are part of the UI&Ds.
- Fazer + Programme: Science and Innovation Support Programme
- The "Excellence in Research" competition to support research and innovation projects in Lusophone education, through the provision of a fund to support R&D projects with an innovative and interdisciplinary nature that promote collaboration in this field between lecturers and doctoral or master's students from the HEIs involved.
- The "Best innovative pedagogical practice" award to support the development and implementation of innovative pedagogical practices that encourage experimentation and transversal and group work in curricular units of any training cycle.
- The "Good research practices in teaching" award to encourage the integration of R&D activities into the content of curricular units in any cycle of training, with particular emphasis on the initial cycles where it is important to stimulate new research practices in all the multiplicity of forms that this can and should take today.