Projects
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...
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEMS BASED ON INNOVATIVE MINE WASTE RECYCLING START project primary objective is to build an innovation ecosystem in the European Union (EU) based on the development of sustainable and economically viable thermoelectric (TE) waste heat harvesting systems to be applied in heavy industry and in maritime industry as well as primary power source for off-grid sensors and IoT devices. This objective will be achieved by incorporating abundant sulphides (mainly tetrahedrite mineral series), at present an environment hazard in mine tailings, collected in five European countries, in the production of advanced sulphide p-type TE thermoelements. In contrast, current...
Geosphere INfrastructures for QUestions into Integrated REsearch Geo-INQUIRE will provide and enhance access to selected key data, products, and services, enabling the dynamic processes within the geosphere to be monitored and modelled at new levels of spatial and temporal detail and precision. Geo-INQUIRE aims to overcome cross-domain barriers, especially the land-sea-atmosphere environments, and will exploit innovative data management techniques, modelling and simulations methods, developments in AI and big data, and extend existing data infrastructures to disseminate these resources to the wider scientific community, including the EOSC landscape. Geo-INQUIRE benefits from a unique partnership of 51 partners consisting of major national...
Open Universal Science The Open and Universal Science (OPUS) project will develop coordination and support measures to reform the assessment of research and researchers at Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) and Research Funding Organisations (RFOs) towards a system that incentivises and rewards researchers to practise Open Science.We understand the term ‘Open Science’ to refer to practices providing open access to research outputs, early and open sharing of research, participation in open peer-review, measures to ensure reproducibility of results, involving all stakeholders in cocreation. We henceforth in this proposal employ this interpretation of Open Science with a specific focus on reforming the...
CRM-geothermal: Raw materials from geothermal fluids: occurrence, enrichment, extraction Geothermal fluids often carry high amounts of elements that the EU considers as 'critical' raw materials (CRM). Preliminary calculations show that even a single well has the potential to produce single-digit percentages of the EU needs. Combined extraction of heat and minerals maximises returns on investment, minimises environmental impact, requires no additional land use, leaves no mining legacies, has near-zero carbon footprint, and enables domestic supplies of CRM.To assess overall supply potential, CRM-geothermal will enlarge an existing geothermal fluid atlas by collecting new data and sampling wells for their CRM content...
Improving Digital Empowerment for Active Healthy Living The Improving Digital Empowerment for Active Healthy Living project (IDEAHL) aims at developing and testing new models and approaches of (digital) health literacy ((d)HL) intervention development and application through the co-creation of a comprehensive and inclusive EU (d)HL Strategy. The IDEAHL consortium is composed of 14 multi-disciplinary partners from 10 EU Member States, which work hand in hand with patients, citizens, and the broad socio-economic sector at local level.The project will first conduct an extensive mapping of health literacy (HL) and (d)HL research, initiatives, and projects in the EU and beyond. It will...