Funded Projects

1. Project “Development of a Performance Index for Supply Chain Sustainability through Digital Transformation” funded by the ADiT-Lab research unit at the Polytechnic University of Viana do Castelo. (BII scholarship for students, lasting eight months).
2. Project “Sustainable Development Goals in Alto Minho Using SIG and Spatial Analysis” funded by the ADiT-Lab research unit at the Polytechnic University of Viana do Castelo. (BII scholarship, lasting 8 months).
3. Project Link me up – 1000 ideas – Support System for the Co-creation of Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship

As a member of an extended partnership of polytechnics that are part of Demola-Portugal, IPVC is committed to developing co-creation projects between higher education and companies geared towards innovation and the challenges of the future. Demola-Portugal is being developed as part of an international platform – Demola Global – which was initially established in Tampere, Finland and now operates in several other countries around the world.

The Demola project aims to establish a new way of connecting higher education institutions to society and the economy. Companies/organisations interested in innovation pose problems and challenge higher education students to create solutions. One of the most innovative aspects of the Demola methodology is that it involves students, teacher-facilitators and business professionals working together to solve real challenges, producing value (with and for) the local community.

This project involves two applications:

POCH – Training facilitators (teachers) – 14 polytechnics (+ Setúbal)

COMPETE – Project LinkMeUp 1000 ideas – Promoting Entrepreneurship under the programme – Support System for the co-creation of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship, SIAC, Compete.

The project LinkMeUp 1000 ideas has two main areas of activity:

         – The process of co-creating innovation (Demola)

         – The creation of an ideas competition (Poliempreende)

Project Sanitop360º– Integration of information flows and forecasting models for inbound and outbound volumes – funded by the Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation, supported by the European Commission. FEDER, Project – 45549 – Sanitop – MATERIAL SANITARIO LDA, under 06/SI/2019 – SI QPME (Incentive System for the Qualification and Internationalisation of SMEs) (Funding: €26,000) May 2021 to May 2022.

4. Project Alto Minho 4.0 – The aim of this project is to boost the competitiveness of 10 companies in the Alto Minho region by encouraging the adoption of Industry 4.0 tools in various areas: Strategy & Management Control; Business Digitalisation; Distribution & Logistics; Optimisation & Quality and Performance Assessment. The action plan is tailored to the needs of companies, enabling them to access digitalisation services and solutions for their business in a competitive and sustainable way. As part of this project, a Logistics and Distribution Study will also be carried out.

Project funded by PORTUGAL 2020 / Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation. Ref: POCI-02-0853-FEDER-041192.