Project Portugal 2020

2SMART – engineered Smart materials for Smart citizens is an integrated program that intends to develop smart solutions of engineering and design, to improve quality of life and health of citizens. 2SMART fits in the - Climate-neutral and smart cities - mission of Horizon Europe, where the “cities and metropolitan areas”, as centers of economic activity, knowledge generation, innovation and new technologies, impact upon the quality of life of citizens who live and/or work in them and they are major contributors to global challenges. Besides the purpose of fulfilling one of the Horizon Europe missions, this project is strongly aligned with the RIS3 – Norte, in several priority axes, as (1) reinforcing the research, technological development and innovation, by aiming specific objectives such as to increase the scientific production with internationally recognized quality; (2) strengthening the transfer of scientific and technological knowledge to the economic sector and (3) targeting, among others, the area of Advanced Production Systems, by Advanced Production Systems”, by developing new innovative products. It will profit from the complementary competences and (material and human) resources of the participating research units of the University of Porto, creating synergies from fundamental to applied research, where art and innovation combine. Together the 4 R&D units, three of which evaluated as Excellent by 2017 FCT’s Evaluation Exercise (LEPABE – Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy; LSRE-LCM, Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering – Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials; CEFT – Transport Phenomena Research Centre and i2ADS – Research Institute in Arts, Design and Society) will link their knowledge and resources to provide the Northern Region of Portugal with efficient solutions towards improving the quality of life of citizens.