Project Partners

Instituto de Telecomunicações – Polo de Aveiro
Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) is a private, not-for-profit association of Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Aveiro, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal Telecom Inovação and Nokia Siemens Networks. In addition IT has partnership agreements with many other Universities and Polytechnics.
IT mission is to create and disseminate scientific knowledge and foster higher education and training in the field of telecommunications.
IT is organised around three main sites: Aveiro, Coimbra, Lisbon with delegations in Leiria, Covilhã, Lisbon and Oporto.
IT members (namely those holding a PhD) provided by the associates, are organized in small research groups according to their research interests. To concentrate efforts, maximize impact and, at the same time, preserve academic freedom, research groups are integrated into a small number of structuring thematic areas — Wireless communications, Optical communications, Networks and multimedia, Basic sciences and Enabling Technologies.
Most research groups fit well into one single area but in some cases they span over two or more areas.
Advanced laboratory facilities are available in most scientific areas.
In most cases research activities are carried out in the framework of national and international projects, in co-operation with similar research organizations worldwide.
In recognition of its achievements IT was awarded the status of Associate Laboratory in 2001.

Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra - Center for Informatics and Science of the University of Coimbra
Faculty of Sciences and Technology is the major faculty within the University of Coimbra, an indisputable reference in higher education and research in Portugal, due to the quality of the courses taught and to the advances achieved in pure and applied research in various areas of knowledge. The FCTUC holds 14 Departments, that cover the majority of the scientific areas of the Natural, Physical, and Exact Sciences, of Engineering, of Life, of Architecture and of Anthropology and, as enclosed establishments, the Museums of Natural History and of Physics, the Botanical Garden, the Geophysical Institute and the Astronomy Observatory. FCTUC offers to its students, around 7000, a wide and comprehensive group of graduate and postgraduate courses, master's degrees, and doctorate programs, as well as specific life-long training programs, with a teaching staff of about 500, whose high quality is widely recognized, developing their research activities in 20 integrated FCT Research Units and several Associated Research Units that constitute a national and international reference in the production of science in a vast number of fields. FCTUC explores also its scientific potential in the transfer of knowledge and to the development of businesses and industry, through the Pedro Nunes Institute (IPN), a well succeeded pioneer structure whose services are used within the scope of entrepreneurial incubation and entrepreneurship.