🌿BBTWINS - Digital Twins para a otimização dos processos da cadeia de valor agroalimentar e o fornecimento de biomassa de qualidade para o bioprocessamento. Horizonte 2020 da União Europeia, refª n.º 101023334. Consórcio: CTIC-CITA - Espanha - Coordenador do projeto, SOLTEC – Espanha, PANOIMAGE- Espanha, ZABALA – Espanha, ANGAZ – Polônia, cluBE- Grécia, STELVIOTECH – Alemanha, PORTESA – Espanha, VTT – Finland, DIMITRA – Grécia, VITO – Bélgica, CVR – Portugal, REVOLVE – Bélgica. Financiamento global: 4,053,705.00 €. Inicio: 01-06-2021. Fim: 31-05-2025.
🌿GOLD - Bridging the gap between phytoremediation solutions on Growing energy crops on contaminated LanDs and clean biofuel production (Project Number: 101006873, H2020-LC-SC3-RES-37-2020, EU), May 2021 – April 2025. Financiamento Total: 3000k€; UNL: 74k€ (International Project, National coordinator: AL Fernando, other participants, Maria Paula Duarte, Margarida Gonçalves, Leandro Gomes) https://www.gold-h2020.eu/
🌿PRODUTECH DIGITAL INNOVATION HUB. Financiamento: European Commision (50%) e IAPMEI, I.P. - Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação (50%) ao abrigo do financiamento dos Polos de Inovação Digital (PID). Montante de financiamento: 341,7 k€ para a UMinho. Financiamento global de 6,0 M€; Projeto no âmbito do Cluster PRODUTECH; 2022-2025. Responsável na UMinho: José Machado
🌿MIDAS - Utilization of Marginal lands for growing sustainable industrial crops and developing innovative bio-based products (Project Number: 101006873, HORIZON-CL6-2022-CIRCBIO-01-02, EU), November 2022 – October 2026. Financiamento Total: 7000k€; UNL: 163k€ (International Project, National coordinator: AL Fernando, other participants, Maria Paula Duarte, Margarida Gonçalves)
🌿MISCE - Mechatronics for Improving and Standardizing Competences in Engineering; KA220-HED - Cooperation partnerships in higher education. Start date: 01/01/2021; End date: 31/08/2025, Financiamento Total: 400 k€; umINHO: 50 k€ (International Project, participant, José Machado) https://www.iceponline.com/misce/
🌿HI_MOV: Corredor Tecnológico Transfronterizo de Movilidad con Hidrógeno Renovable; Interreg; Inicio: 1 Out 2023; fim: 31 Dez 2025; Financiamento 180 k€ (centro). responsável: JCTeixeira
🌿LCA CARE – Collect, Analyse, Report and Evolve for eco-innovative SMEs. ERASMUS-EDU-2023-PI-ALL-INNO. Grant agreement AMD-101139959-1. Project Start Date: 01/03/2024, Project End Date: 28/02/2027 (Participant Jorge Costa)
🌿MoreWood - Developing Sustainably Sourced and Recyclable Wood-Based Panels towards the Energy Efficiency and Zero-Emission Goal (Eurogia 2030 category of the European Union's EUREKA program). Participantes: Universidade NOVA de Lisboa – Portugal (Maria Margarida Gonçalves, Ana Luisa Fernando), Bio4Plas (João Pires), Financiamento global: 1,4 M €. Inicio: 01-05-2023. Fim: 01-05-2026.
🌿IASIS - Curing contaminated and saline land with Industrial crops and producing biomass for high-value applications (Project Number: 101157430, HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023-R-01, EU). Participantes: Universidade NOVA de Lisboa – Portugal (International Project, National coordinator: Ana Luisa Fernando, other participants, Maria Paula Duarte, Maria Margarida Gonçalves), Bio4Plas (João Pires) –Financiamento global: 4,9 M €. Inicio: 01-10-2024. Fim: 30-09-2028.
🌿Horizon Europe Micro-FloTec - Microscale enabled advanced flow and heat transfer technologies featuring high performance and low power consumption. Grant agreement ID: 101082394, Funded under HORIZON.1.2 - Program Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Call HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01, Topic HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01-01 - MSCA Staff Exchanges 2021, começo 1 Março 2023, final previsto 28 Fevereiro 2027, coordenador SABANCI UNIVERSITESI (Turquia), Orçamento global EU 437 000 €, 105 800 € (U. Aveiro). Francisco Brito - Researcher in the University of Aveiro team.
🌿BluePoint-Blue Circular Economy of Marine Plastics. Interreg Atlantic Area 2021-2027. Código do projeto: EAPA_0035/2022.
🌿ConsĂłrcio: Diputacion Foral de Gipuzkoa (Departamento de medioambiente y obras hidráulicas) – Espanha – Coordenador do Projeto, M.I.K.S.Coop (MIK)– Espanha, Gobierno del Principado de Asturias – Espanha, Atlantic Technological University (ATU Sligo) – Espanha, AgrupaciĂłn de Sociedades Asturianas de Trabajo Asociado Y EconomĂa Social – Espanha, Sociedad para el Desarrollo Regional de Cantabria (Sodercan) – Espanha, I Clean My Sea – França, CVR - Centro para a Valorização de ResĂduos – Portugal, École SupĂ©rieure des Technologies Industrielles AvancĂ©es – França, University Limerick (Electronic & computer Engineering) – Irlanda, LaboratĂłrio da Paisagem – Portugal, South East Business & Innovation Centre – Irlanda, DĂ©cathlon (Nabaiji) – França. Financiamento global: 3 363 464,31€; Apoio financeiro (ERDF): 2 522 598,23€. InĂcio: 01-11-2023. Fim: 30-06-2026. (International Project, participants, Cândida Vilarinho; Joana Carvalho; Lucas Nascimento; AndrĂ© Ribeiro)
🌿“Enhancement of the PDMS wettability using surfactants for organ-on-a-chip platforms.” Research Center for Biomedical Engineering, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan. Financiamento Total: 12.8k€. Inicio: 01-05-2022; fim: 31-03-2025. (International Project, Coordinator: R. A. Lima)
🌿M-ERA-NET2/0011/2016 – THERMOS - Sustainable Thermoelectric Modules based on Non-toxic Silicides and Sulphides for Recovery of Waste Heat to Power Generation, with University of Cyprus (coordinator), IST-ID. InĂcio: Junho 2017; Fim: Agosto 2020. Financiamento 331k€ (UM 44k€)
🌿MAGIC - Marginal lands for Growing Industrial Crops: Turning a burden into an opportunity (Project Number: 727698-2, H2020-RUR-2016-2, EU), July 2017 - December 2021. Financiamento Total: 6000 k€; UNL: 149k€ (International Project, National coordinator: AL Fernando)
🌿PANACEA - A thematic network to design the penetration PAth of Non-food Agricultural Crops into European Agriculture (Project Number: 773501, H2020-RUR-2017-1, EU), November 2017 – February 2021. Financiamento Total: 2000k€; UNL: 110 k€ (International Project, National coordinator: AL Fernando)
🌿Res2ValHum - Valorização de resĂduos orgânicos: produção de substâncias hĂşmicas. Programa: INTERREG V A Espanha-Portugal (POCTEP). Promotor: Universidade do Minho (Centro de QuĂmica). Parceiros: CVR; LIPOR; BRAVAL; SOGAMA (ES); CVAN (ES); UNIV SANTIAGO COMPOSTELA (ES). Orçamento global: 2.108.235,30€. Orçamento CVR: 152.881,59€. InĂcio: jun/2017; Fim: 31-03-2021.
🌿MAINGAP Manufactura innovadora en la EurorregiĂłn Galicia-Norte de Portugal INTERREG V A España Portugal (POCTEP) FEDER coordenador cientĂfico UMinho ConsĂłrcio CTAG, GAIN, UMinho, CEIIA, Financiamento global 965 kEur (UMinho 209k€), Janeiro de 2018 a Setembro de 2022.
🌿BBTWINS - Digital Twins para a otimização dos processos da cadeia de valor agroalimentar e o fornecimento de biomassa de qualidade para o bioprocessamento. Horizonte 2020 da União Europeia, refª n.º 101023334. Consórcio: CTIC-CITA - Espanha - Coordenador do projeto, SOLTEC – Espanha, PANOIMAGE- Espanha, ZABALA – Espanha, ANGAZ – Polônia, cluBE- Grécia, STELVIOTECH – Alemanha, PORTESA – Espanha, VTT – Finland, DIMITRA – Grécia, VITO – Bélgica, CVR – Portugal, REVOLVE – Bélgica. Financiamento global: 4,053,705.00 €. Inicio: 01-06-2021. Fim: 31-05-2025.
🌿GOLD - Bridging the gap between phytoremediation solutions on Growing energy crops on contaminated LanDs and clean biofuel production (Project Number: 101006873, H2020-LC-SC3-RES-37-2020, EU), May 2021 – April 2025. Financiamento Total: 3000k€; UNL: 74k€ (International Project, National coordinator: AL Fernando, other participants, Maria Paula Duarte, Margarida Gonçalves, Leandro Gomes) https://www.gold-h2020.eu/
🌿PRODUTECH DIGITAL INNOVATION HUB. Financiamento: European Commision (50%) e IAPMEI, I.P. - Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação (50%) ao abrigo do financiamento dos Polos de Inovação Digital (PID). Montante de financiamento: 341,7 k€ para a UMinho. Financiamento global de 6,0 M€; Projeto no âmbito do Cluster PRODUTECH; 2022-2025. Responsável na UMinho: José Machado
🌿MIDAS - Utilization of Marginal lands for growing sustainable industrial crops and developing innovative bio-based products (Project Number: 101006873, HORIZON-CL6-2022-CIRCBIO-01-02, EU), November 2022 – October 2026. Financiamento Total: 7000k€; UNL: 163k€ (International Project, National coordinator: AL Fernando, other participants, Maria Paula Duarte, Margarida Gonçalves)
🌿FlexFunction2Sustain | Innovation for nano-functionalised flexible plastic surfaces. Horizon2020, IA – Innovation Action, Grant agreement ID 862156, Start Date: 01 April 2020, End Date: 31 March 2024. Financiamento Total: 16163 k€; INL: 1365 k€ (International Project, participant, Victor Souza) https://flexfunction2sustain.eu/
🌿WASTE2H2: Waste to hydrogen. Horizon2020, Coordination and Support Action (CSA), Grant Agreement No 952593, call H2020-WIDESPREAD-2020-5, EU). Start date: 01/01/2021; End date: 31/12/2023, Financiamento Total: 900 k€; IPP: 250 k€ (International Project, participant, Leandro Gomes) http://waste2h2.eu/about/
🌿MISCE - Mechatronics for Improving and Standardizing Competences in Engineering; KA220-HED - Cooperation partnerships in higher education. Start date: 01/01/2021; End date: 31/08/2025, Financiamento Total: 400 k€; umINHO: 50 k€ (International Project, participant, José Machado) https://www.iceponline.com/misce/
🌿HI_MOV: Corredor Tecnológico Transfronterizo de Movilidad con Hidrógeno Renovable; Interreg; Inicio: 1 Out 2023; fim: 31 Dez 2025; Financiamento 180 k€ (centro). responsável: JCTeixeira
🌿LCA CARE – Collect, Analyse, Report and Evolve for eco-innovative SMEs. ERASMUS-EDU-2023-PI-ALL-INNO. Grant agreement AMD-101139959-1. Project Start Date: 01/03/2024, Project End Date: 28/02/2027 (Participant Jorge Costa)
🌿MoreWood - Developing Sustainably Sourced and Recyclable Wood-Based Panels towards the Energy Efficiency and Zero-Emission Goal (Eurogia 2030 category of the European Union's EUREKA program). Participantes: Universidade NOVA de Lisboa – Portugal (Maria Margarida Gonçalves, Ana Luisa Fernando), Bio4Plas (João Pires), Financiamento global: 1,4 M €. Inicio: 01-05-2023. Fim: 01-05-2026.
🌿IASIS - Curing contaminated and saline land with Industrial crops and producing biomass for high-value applications (Project Number: 101157430, HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023-R-01, EU). Participantes: Universidade NOVA de Lisboa – Portugal (International Project, National coordinator: Ana Luisa Fernando, other participants, Maria Paula Duarte, Maria Margarida Gonçalves), Bio4Plas (João Pires) –Financiamento global: 4,9 M €. Inicio: 01-10-2024. Fim: 30-09-2028.
🌿Horizon Europe Micro-FloTec - Microscale enabled advanced flow and heat transfer technologies featuring high performance and low power consumption. Grant agreement ID: 101082394, Funded under HORIZON.1.2 - Program Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Call HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01, Topic HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01-01 - MSCA Staff Exchanges 2021, começo 1 Março 2023, final previsto 28 Fevereiro 2027, coordenador SABANCI UNIVERSITESI (Turquia), Orçamento global EU 437 000 €, 105 800 € (U. Aveiro). Francisco Brito - Researcher in the University of Aveiro team.
🌿BluePoint-Blue Circular Economy of Marine Plastics. Interreg Atlantic Area 2021-2027. Código do projeto: EAPA_0035/2022.
🌿ConsĂłrcio: Diputacion Foral de Gipuzkoa (Departamento de medioambiente y obras hidráulicas) – Espanha – Coordenador do Projeto, M.I.K.S.Coop (MIK)– Espanha, Gobierno del Principado de Asturias – Espanha, Atlantic Technological University (ATU Sligo) – Espanha, AgrupaciĂłn de Sociedades Asturianas de Trabajo Asociado Y EconomĂa Social – Espanha, Sociedad para el Desarrollo Regional de Cantabria (Sodercan) – Espanha, I Clean My Sea – França, CVR - Centro para a Valorização de ResĂduos – Portugal, École SupĂ©rieure des Technologies Industrielles AvancĂ©es – França, University Limerick (Electronic & computer Engineering) – Irlanda, LaboratĂłrio da Paisagem – Portugal, South East Business & Innovation Centre – Irlanda, DĂ©cathlon (Nabaiji) – França. Financiamento global: 3 363 464,31€; Apoio financeiro (ERDF): 2 522 598,23€. InĂcio: 01-11-2023. Fim: 30-06-2026. (International Project, participants, Cândida Vilarinho; Joana Carvalho; Lucas Nascimento; AndrĂ© Ribeiro)
🌿MediOpuntia, Introducing cactus plantations (Opuntia spp.) and smart water management systems in marginal lands of Egypt and Morocco to drive rural renaissance in the Mediterranean Region (ERANETMED 3rd JOINT CALL, EU), May 2018 - April 2022. Financiamento Total: 400 k€ (UNL: 150 k€) (International Project, Coordinator: AL Fernando)
🌿PLANTMETALS COST Action, Member of Working Group 1 and Working Group 4. 2022/06/10 – Current, participant, Leandro Gomes
🌿WIRE COST Action, Member of Working Group 1, Working Group 2, Working Group 3, and Working Group 4. 2022/01/25 – Current, participant, Leandro Gomes, Ana Paula Ramos, Margarida Gonçalves, Ana Luisa Fernando
🌿“Enhancement of the PDMS wettability using surfactants for organ-on-a-chip platforms.” Research Center for Biomedical Engineering, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan. Financiamento Total: 12.8k€. Inicio: 01-05-2022; fim: 31-03-2025. (International Project, Coordinator: R. A. Lima)
🌿EcoPROLIVE - Ecofriendly PROcessing System for the full exploitation of OLIVE into novel products; Programa - Horizonte 2020; Entidades: Contactica; Isanatur Spain; Ingenieria para el Desarrollo Tecnologico; Universidad de Zaragoza; Universidad Autonoma de Madrid; Prometeo; Alma Mater Studiorum-Universita di Bologna; Evangelos Mihopoulos & SIA; CVR – Centro para a Valorização de ResĂduos;
Duração: 24 meses: InĂcio: Setembro de 2015;  Global Budget 1.999.500,00€
🌿SUMO - Sustainable Use of bioMass from Oleaginous processing; Programa: FP7 - ERANet-LAC; Entidades: - Azti tecnalia; Institute for Food and Environmental Research; National Institute of Industrial Technology; Centro de Estudios en Alimentos Procesados; National Agricultural and Livestock Research Institute; CVR – Centro para a Valorização de ResĂduos;
Duração: 24 meses: InĂcio: Outubro de 2016;  Global Budget: 792.560,00€
🌿BIOREG - Absorbing the Potential of Wood Waste in EU Regions and Industrial Bio-based Ecosystems (Project Number: 727958, H2020-BB-06-2016, EU).
January 2017, December 2019. Budget: 44.325,00€ (International, National coordinator).
🌿MAGIC - Marginal lands for Growing Industrial Crops: Turning a burden into an opportunity (Project Number: 727698-2, H2020-RUR-2016-2, EU).
July 2017, June 2021. Budget: 14.9375,00€ (International, National coordinator).
🌿PANACEA - A thematic network to design the penetration PAth of Non-food Agricultural Crops into European Agriculture (Project Number: 773501, H2020-RUR-2017-1, EU), expected to start in the 2nd semester 2017.
36 months. Budget: 110.125,00€ (International, National coordinator).
🌿Projeto de IC&DT Exhaust2Energy (Ref FCT) PTDC/EMS-ENE/3009/2014 - "Automotive Exhaust Heat Recovery with Thermal Control", com IST-ID, FEUP, UTAustin;
InĂcio Maio 2016; Responsável: Francisco Brito; Funding: 200.000,00€
🌿NanoQuito - Desenvolvimento de embalagens activas para produtos cárneos. Financiado pelo CNPq, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientĂfico e TecnolĂłgico Brasil.
01/10/2014 to 30/09/2018. 9.600,00€ (2.400,00€ por ano). (International, bilateral project with Brazil, National coordinator)
🌿International Summer School on Fluidic MEMS, DAAD/57164038; German Academic Exchange Service.
08/2015 - 09/2017.
🌿OPTIMA: Optimization of perennial grasses for biomass production in the Mediterranean Environment (FP7-KBBE 2011.3.1-02, projecto nº 289642, FP7-KBBE-2011-5, financiado pela União Europeia).
Outubro de 2011 a Setembro de 2015 (www.optimafp7.eu).
🌿FIBRA: Fiber Crops as a Sustainable Source of Bio-based Materials for Industrial Products in Europe and China (Projecto nº 311965, financiado pela União Europeia).
(http://www.fibrafp7.net) de 1 de Setembro de 2012 a 31 de Outubro de 2015.
🌿Waste Exhaust Energy Recovery of Internal Combustion Engines; FLAD/NSF Portugal-EUA Parcerias e Redes para Investigação 2013 com o tema Projeto 78/13; em conjunto com a University of Texas at Austin, Cockrell School of Engineering, Dep. de Engenharia Mecânica;
Financiamento: 7.000€; 1 Setembro 2013 - 31 Dezembro 2015.
🌿NanoQuito - Desenvolvimento de embalagens activas para produtos cárneos. Financiado pelo CNPq, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientĂfico e TecnolĂłgico Brasil.
01/10/2014 to 30/09/2018. (Local coordinator)
🌿PROVALUE - Promotion and capitalization of waste recovery solutions in the food industry of SUDOE area. SUDOE INTERREG IV-B. Other partners: AZTI, AIDIA, CRT CATAR CRITT, CENER, CITOLIVA, CVR, FIAB, ULLEIDA, CRT AGIR.
Completed: 2014
🌿UV-B radiation: A specific regulator of plant growth and food quality in a changing climate. EU/COST.
Completed: 2014
🌿Mineral - improved crop production for healthy food and feed. EU/COST.
Completed: 2014
🌿CaPolme - Maçãs Biofortificadas em Cálcio. PA 24060
Completed: 2014
