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A R&D center of the University of the Azores headed to the study the marine living resources in the Azores. This center is composed by PhD members (integrated) and non-PhD members (collaborators).
The Azores for All team brings together professionals who are passionate about accessible tourism, totally available to listen to their customers’ needs and propose, in several languages, the best solutions for an unforgettable holiday in the Azores. We offer information, services and activities adapted to residents and tourists who with or without special needs visit the Azores. We work with private groups, travel agencies and tour operators. We are a tourist entertainment company and maritime-tourism operator pioneering the implementation and promotion of social and inclusive tourism in the Azores.
The Azores Development and Training Association (ADFMA), as the manager of the Azores Sea School (Escola do Mar dos Açores), guides its strategic action by the construction and implementation of training actions aimed at seafarers, other professionals associated with the blue economy and other learning communities.
Our mission is based on a logic of proximity, territorial cohesion and innovation, inviting the participation of local actors in the construction of responses to local challenges. Using the national and community support available to us, we create strategies to support your ambition and achieve the objectives of small businesses, institutions and local authorities. We seek to project an image of our territory and its quality local products, through individual initiatives and partnerships/cooperation with other regional, national and international local development associations, as well as by the representation of technicians and board members, in events which aim above all at…
Access Azores is a non-profit organization based in the city of Horta, Faial Island, Azores, Portugal (Faial is one of the nine islands of the Azores, and the Azores one of the nine outermost regions of Europe). Based in Horta, we work in the territory of the triangle (Faial, Pico, and São Jorge Islands), due to the proximity between the islands, having a good relationship with governmental entities and other civil organizations and associations: adult education, cultural, creative, tourism, sport, social, scientific, scholar, technological, entrepreneur, and business sectors.
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ponta Delgada – Commercial Association of São Miguel and Santa Maria Islands (Azores Islands, Portugal) – is a private, non-profit association that builds on the former Ponta Delgada Business Association. The CCIPD was created on the 25th of November 1835. CCIPD takes as members natural and legal persons that pursue activities related to trade, industry, tourism and service sector and that are domiciled, based or permanent represented in S. Miguel and S. Maria Islands. CCIPD assumes the role of representing and defending its member’s interests, promoting the economic activity and rendering services to…
AREAT is regional association of tourism animation companies of the Azores is a non-profit association, composed by individual business and companies, which have their headquarters and develop their business activity in the Azores archipelago. The purpose of the association is: a) Defend, affirm; promote the rights of its members; b) To ensure the representation of its members before public and private entities at regional, national, European and international level; c) Ensure appropriate training, information and advisory support models for quality and innovation requirements of its members; d) Encourage the exchange of information between members; e) To promote the debate on…
In 2015 the Azorean Biodiversity Group was recognized by the University of the Azores as a regional Research Centre. At a national level, Azorean Biodiversity Group is a regional sub-group of the CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES (cE3c), based in Lisbon and awarded with the Classification of EXCELLENT by FCT in July of 2019. cE3c’s main objective is to perform research that addresses societal challenges in ecology, evolution and the environment, the three Es in the centre’s name, for the 2015-2020 period covering the EU 2020 Horizon. The Azorean Biodiversity Group is subdivided in two main groups with…
As the executive body of the municipality, the City Council is responsible for the day-to-day management and planning of the municipality duties and agenda. It is a collegiate body, composed by the Mayor (President) and a variable number of councilors, to whom may be assigned executive responsibilities or not. The mayor is usually the name who heads the most voted list on the local elections. The team is made up by the mayor and the aldermen are also referred to as a municipal executive or as a city councilor. In the Municipality of Lajes do Pico, the Executive is made…
The University of the Azores integrates three campus located on the islands of São Miguel, Terceira and Faial, and comprises university and polytechnic units. Its teaching, research, services and cultural extension activities cover the most diverse areas of Exact and Technological Sciences, Natural and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Agrarian Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities. As a result of its framework and regional, national and international priorities, the University of the Azores is currently focusing on differentiating areas of training and research, such as the sea, including fisheries and aquaculture, and natural hazards such as volcanology and seismology, climatology…
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The Azorean Regional Board of Engineers is the regional representant of the National Board of Engineers (“Ordem dos Engenheiros”), gathering engineers from 12 different main engineering specialties (“Colégios”), namely Agronomy, Environment, Civil, Electrotechnics, Forest, Geography/Survey, Geology/Mining, Informatics, Materials, Mechanics, Naval and Chemistry/Biology. Members of the Azorean Regional Board of Engineers are developing their professional activities in the most diverse regional institutions, including private companies, public administration (local, regional and national), University of the Azores, R&D institutes, cooperatives and producers associations, vocational schools, and NGOs.
The association’s main goals are to contribute to the promotion of surveys in the fields of Solidarity Economy, Social and Local Development and of the Social Integration Enterprises Network of the Azores, namely by congregating efforts in order to update and promote materials in these areas, as well as by establishing contact with and integrating other similar national and international associations and centres; also, to undertake regional, national and international events concerning Solidarity Economy, Social and Local Development and Employment for Social Integration; to create a digital platform bearing resources to support the study, knowledge and development of Solidarity Economy…
The Institute of Marine Research – IMAR is a non-profit private organisation created in 1991 as a network of 8 Public Portuguese Universities all deeply involved in Marine Science and Technology. IMAR aims to build on the synergies and complementarity between its members to generate interdisciplinary products and large-scale initiatives to create strong links with governmental and private organizations, and with the society, while empowering Portuguese marine sciences community, making it competitive on a European and international level. IMAR brings together specialists in physics, chemistry, biology, and geology, different areas of engineering and technology, and modelling. Due to its make-up,…