Providing services, Connection to the market
The Interface Centres are independent research and technological organizations, which facilitate knowledge transfer and promote linkages between Higher Education Institutions and Companies.
They provide services in the fields of science, technology and innovation intermediation with the goal of increasing the capacity of knowledge dissemination and assimilation of new products by the market.
ANI, the Portuguese National Innovation Agency, is responsible for the support and recognition process of the Interface Centres.
Twenty-eight Interface Centres were formally recognized in 2017:
- Digital Technologies
- IT – Telecommunications Institute
- INESC TEC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science
- CCG/ZGDV - Centre for Computer Graphics
- IPN – Pedro Nunes Institute
- UNINOVA – Institute for the Development of New Technologies
- ISQ – Institute for Welding and Quality
- Materials and Nanotechnologies
- INOV-INESC - New Technologies Institute
- CITEVE – Technological Centre for the Textile Industry
- CTCOR – Technological Centre for the Cork Industry
- CTIC – Technological Centre for the Leather products industry
- CeNTI - Innovative Smart Materials and Devices
- Production Technologies
- CATIM - Technological Centre for the metal working industry
- INESC TEC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science
- CENTIMFE – Technological Centre for the Mouldmaking, Special Tooling and Plastic Industries
- CTCP – The Footwear Technology Centre of Portugal
- ISQ – Institute for Welding and Quality
- Energy and Sustainability
- RAIZ - Forest and Paper Research Institute
- AEMITEQ – Association for Technological Development and Quality
- IBET - Institute of Experimental and Technological Biology
- CTCOR - Technological Centre for the Cork Industry
- CATIM - Technological Centre for the metal working industry
- INEGI - Institute for Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management
- CVR - Centre for Waste Valorisation
- CTCV - Technological Centre of Ceramics and Glass
- ITeCons - The Institute for Research and Technological Development in Construction, Energy, Environment and Sustainability
- COTHN - Centro Operativo e Tecnológico Hortofrutícola Nacional
- COTR - Centro Operativo e de Tecnologia de Regadio
- WavEC - Offshore Renewables
- Biotechnologies and Life Sciences
- COTR - Centro Operativo e de Tecnologia de Regadio
- COTHN - Centro Operativo e Tecnológico Hortofrutícola Nacional
- AIBILI - Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research on Light and Image
- IBET - Institute of Experimental and Technological Biology
- Transports and Mobility