Principal Investigator Bruce Tidor
Project Website http://www.mitportugal.org/
Project Start Date July 2006
Project End Date June 2017
The MIT Portugal Program is an international collaboration that demonstrates an investment in science, technology, and higher education can have a positive, lasting impact on the economy. We aim to address key societal issues through quality education and research.
MIT Portugal focuses on fostering research between MIT and Portuguese universities, research institutes, laboratories, companies, and other entities targeting the areas of: • Climate Science & Climate Change • Earth Systems: Oceans to Near Space • Digital Transformation in Manufacturing • Sustainable Cities
In all these areas, there’s an anchor of data science-intensive approaches and methodologies. The data-science driver should target the development of tools to collect, curate, and synthesize data with the goal of making the information available and useful for public and private users—including policy makers, consumers, businesses, and the public.
Research activities will be primarily promoted through calls for large-scale flagship research project proposals (with the duration of three to four years) and smaller seed exploratory projects (with a duration of one year).
First established in Portugal in October 2006 and renewed in 2013, MPP has been developing a research platform for cutting-edge concepts in emerging areas of science and technology that have included: Bioengineering, Sustainable Energy, Transportation Systems, Engineering Design, and Advanced Manufacturing. Phases I and II placed a strong emphasis on the aforementioned areas, offering PhD, Masters and Executive Masters programs to students from Portugal and around the globe.
The MIT Portugal post-graduate network brought together a dynamic consortium of universities across Portugal, with the best of MIT educational and research expertise, to create high quality teaching and research. The program provided students opportunities to study at – or collaborate with students and faculty at – five Portuguese universities and engineering schools, and to receive national degrees. Many doctoral students also had an opportunity to conduct research at MIT.