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- 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 13 Research and Development Units, spread across all the University's schools and faculties.
- BioRG - Bioengineering and Sustainability Research Group
Coordinator: Adília Charmier
BioRG is an interdisciplinary team that promotes research innovation in bioengineering and sustainability through academic and industrial collaborations.
- CBIOS - Biosciences and Health Technologies Research Centre
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
- CeiED - Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Education and Development
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
- CEAD - Francisco Suárez Centre for Advanced Studies in Law
Coordinator: José Francisco de Faria Costa
CEAD Francisco Suárez is an organic research unit in Law, shared by the Faculty of Law of the Lusófona University - CUL, the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the Lusófona University - CUP, and the Department of Law and Social Sciences of the Manuel Teixeira Gomes Higher Institute. CEAD has its headquarters on the campus of Universidade Lusófona - Centro Universitário de Lisboa and two centres, one at Universidade Lusófona - Centro Universitário do Porto and the other at Instituto Superior Manuel Teixeira Gomes (ISMAT).
- CICANT - Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies
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
- CRGroup - Civil Research Group
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.
- COPELABS - Research Centre for People-Centred Computing and Cognition
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
- Design ID - Design Research Group
Coordinator: Alexandra Cruchinho
- Hei-LAB - Human Environment Interaction Lab
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.
- I-MVET - Research in Veterinary Medicine at Universidade Lusófona
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.
- IntrepidLab - Research for Business and Society
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.
- LusoGlobe - Global Challenges Research Centre
Coordinator: António Costa Pinto
- RCM2+ - Asset Management and Systems Engineering Research Centre
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.
- Terr.A.ID - Territory, Architecture and Environment Research Centre
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.
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.
It is up to the faculty member and/or researcher to prepare the application for funding. However, Universidade Lusófona, through the PMO department, provides support to check that the budget is in line. At the same time, the science manager of the UI&D or ILIND are also available to check that the information complies with the funding organisation's requests and provide all the institutional information necessary for the application.
The process of submitting an application for funding is divided into 6 stages:
- Registration of the institution on the funding platform, if it doesn't already exist, the researcher must request the registration of the Institution from ILIND or the science manager of their UI to the email:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . - The researcher/science manager must inform ILIND via email (
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) of the intention to submit an application. - The researcher must send the budget to the PMO, via email (
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ), for validation, at least 5 working days before the submission deadline. - A statement of institutional commitment, indicating that COFAC accepts and/or supports the project in question, must be requested at least 5 working days before the submission deadline, to the Administration (
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) with ILIND CC, by the science manager or the researcher. - Finally, the application must be submitted by the researcher.
- Inform about the actual submission of the application/project, since some calls require the endorsement/validation of the COFAC in very short periods of time, without which the application will not be considered eligible.
Each application has its own deadline, so the researcher should confirm this information with the funding organisation.
ULusófona provides technical support in drawing up budgets for R&D projects. UI&Ds that have a science manager should contact him or her; the rest should contact ILIND.
ULusófona subscribes to Crowdhelix, an open innovation platform that establishes links between an international network of researchers and innovative companies so that they can plan, realise and exploit collaborative projects. This is a key resource for the University and its researchers, enabling the creation of long-lasting and mutually beneficial collaborative networks in various areas of research. https://crowdhelix.com/