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Austin, Texas, United States of America www,utaustinportugal.org

Established by the Texas constitution in 1876, The University of Texas System consists of nine academic universities and six health institutions. The University of Texas at Austin, the flagship of the UT System, enrolls about 50,000 students, making it one of the largest universities in the world. UT Austin has 16 colleges and schools with 2,500 faculty and annual research funding of over $500 million. Its mission and core purpose: To transform lives for the benefit of society through the core values of learning, discovery, freedom, leadership, individual opportunity and responsibility http://www. utexas.edu.

The UT Austin | Portugal International Collaboratory for Emerging Technologies (CoLab) was launched by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) on March 22, 2007 as part of a national strategy to promote Portuguese scientific and technological capacity and to reinforce the status of Portugal’s scientific institutions at an international level The five- year collaboration is working to increase the excellence of Portuguese research and postgraduate studies in emerging state-of-the-art research and education with particular emphasis within and across academic programs in advanced digital media and mathematics. CoLab also supports The University Technology Enterprise Network (UTEN) that is the focus of this annual report. The intention is to strengthen collaborative research and advanced education in the short term as well as to institutionalize these collaborative programs so they are sustainable.

● MIT | Portugal

Massachusetts Institute of Technology CoLab Boston, Massachusetts, United States www.mitportugal.org

The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st _century.

The Institute is committed to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge, and to working with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the world’s great challenges. MIT is a world-class educational institution. Teaching and research, with relevance to the practical world as a guiding principle, continue to be its primary purpose. MIT is independent, coeducational, and privately endowed. Its five schools and one college encompass numerous academic departments, divi- sions, and degree-granting programs, as well as inter- disciplinary centers, laboratories, and programs of America whose work cuts across traditional departmental boundaries.

The MIT | Portugal Program is an international collaboration seeking to demonstrate that an investment in science, technology and higher education can have a positive, lasting impact on the economy by addressing key societal issues through quality education and research in the emerging field of engineering systems. The program has targeted bioengineering systems, engineering design and advanced manufacturing, sustainable energy systems, and transportation systems and as key areas for economic development and societal impact.

● Carnegie Mellon | Portugal

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America www.cmuportugal.org

The Carnegie Mellon Portugal program has partnered with University Technology Enterprise Network Portugal (UTEN Portugal) and created multiple opportunities for collaboration which included numerous training workshops, a Professional Development Study program and most recently an Entrepreneurship in Residence (EIR) pilot program. The joint collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University, through the CMU Portugal, and the Portuguese institutions through UTEN started in 2008.

The organization of strategic events in technology transfer and entrepreneurship areas, with the presence of several speakers from Carnegie Mellon University in Portugal, enabled the creation of critical mass for these areas inside the Portuguese universities. Currently there is a solid bridge between the U.S. university stakeholders, and the Portuguese universities TTO’s and even with some entrepreneurs.

Carnegie Mellon University is a global research university of more than 10,000 students, 70,000 alumni, and 4,000 faculty and staff. Recognized for its world-class arts and technology programs, collaboration across disciplines and innovative leadership in education, Carnegie Mellon is consistently a top-ranked university.

The Information and Communications Technologies Institute (ICTI) is a partnership between Carnegie Mellon and several universities and high-tech corporate research groups in Portugal, and Portugal’s national science and technology foundation, the FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia). ICTI offers students unique dual-degree masters and doctoral programs. Graduates are conferred degrees from Carnegie Mellon and the partner Portuguese institution. The intellectual focus and theme of the Carnegie Mellon|Portugal partnership is information and communication technologies, broken out into four broad areas:

1. Information processing and networking 2. Sensing technologies & networking 3. Technology, management & policy

4. Basic sciences including applied mathematics.

● Fraunhofer | Portugal

Munich, Germany www.fraunhofer.pt

The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft undertakes applied research of direct utility to private and public enterprise and of wide benefit to society. Customers include industry, the service sector, and public administration. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft encompasses more than 80 research units, including 60 Fraunhofer Institutes, at different locations in Germany. The majority of the 20,000 staff are scientists and engineers.

The annual research budget totals €1.8 billion. Of this sum, €1.5 billion is generated through contract research. Two-thirds of the research revenue is derived from contracts with industry and from publicly financed research projects. One-third is contributed by the German federal and Länder governments in the form of institutional funding.

Portugal (through the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation and the Knowledge Society Agency), and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft established a long term collaboration focused on emerging technologies, exploring mutual interests in science and technology oriented towards social well-being, economic growth and quality of life.

Fraunhofer Portugal was created to drive the collaboration framework and to establish a new institute in Portugal—FhP AICOS the Research Center for Assistive Information and Communication Solutions, with focus in 2 activity areas: Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) and Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). This collaboration will promote continuous and systematic cooperative actions between Fraunhofer Institutes, R&D institutions in Portugal, and customers.

Editors: Marco Bravo and David V. Gibson, IC² Institute, The University of Texas at Austin Manuscript Editors: Maria Oliveira, Fátima Ramalho, and Joana Ferreira, UTEN Portugal Design & Layout: Margaret Cotrofeld, IC² Institute, The University of Texas at Austin

Content and photographs were contributed by José Manuel Mendonça, Marco Bravo, David Gibson, Margaret Cotrofeld, Maria Oliveira, Fátima Ramalho, Gregory Pogue, Aurora Teixeira, James Jarrett, James Vance, Cliff Zintgraff, Joana Ferreira, Heath Naquin, Rosemary French, and Keela Thomson; as well as participants in the training weeks, international workshops, round tables, brainstorms; the international interns and their hosts, and university spin-out companies. Similarly the efforts of many were needed to coordinate the activities and events described in this report. Our appreciation goes out to all, as well as to you, the reader.

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