The research of Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL) is aligned around three thematic lines on “Climate Change”, “Dynamics of Solid Earth” and “Energy and Terrestrial Resources”. The Iberian Peninsula and the enlarged Portuguese continental shelf constitute natural laboratories for world-class Geoscience studies within these thematic lines, addressing the sustainable use of energy, water and raw materials, the management of natural hazards, taking into account environmental and social conditions, and the opening of a new ocean frontier.
The Interactive Tecnologies Institute
(ITI) develops its activity in the area of human-computer interaction, a scientific sub-area of computer engineering that integrates contributions from other scientific areas such as design, psychology, social sciences, arts, humanities and the life sciences.
The Center for Marine and Environmental Sciences (MARE) is one of the largest national research units, classified as excellent by the FCT. MARE has 7 hubs spread across the country, one of which is in Madeira, hosted by ARDITI. MARE-Madeira currently has several ongoing projects in the most diverse areas of research, such as coastal ecology, marine litter, fisheries, climate change and human-related stress factors and impacts on coastal ecosystems.
NOVA LINCS, a leading research lab in the field of Computer Science and Informatics, is hosted at the Departamento de Informática – NOVA School of Science and Technology | FCT NOVA – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, a pioneering national institution. With a wide reach, NOVA LINCS has branches at Universidade de Évora, Universidade da Beira Interior, ISEL, and Universidade da Madeira. These branches contribute to the diverse research landscape of NOVA LINCS, which comprises four Research Groups: Computer Systems, Knowledge-Based Systems, Multimodal Systems, and Software Systems. At the University of Madeira, The Madeira NOVA LINCS branch is home to three Research Groups: M-KRR-G Group, Neurorehablab, and Enterprise Engineering group-EELab. These Research Groups focus on Artificial Intelligence, Health and Well-Being, and Enterprise Engineering, respectively. The Novalincs branch at the University of Madeira contribuited in advancing research in these domains.
