Innovative and Sustainable Industries (ISI)
Coordinator: Maria Sameiro Faria Brandão Soares de Carvalho
The Thematic Line (TL) “Innovative and Sustainable Industries” aims at supporting public policies that leverage the Portuguese industrial sectors, including its companies, research centers, technical and vocational training organizations, startups and entrepreneurs, in their adoption development and adoption of intelligent systems for sustainability and competitiveness. This TL is targeting three different but complementary publics – Companies; Individuals (Highly specialized); Entrepreneurs and Startups – and has 3 main Strategic Objectives (SO).
SO1 – Increase the Competitiveness of Portuguese Industry in a Decarbonized Economy Enabled by Intelligence
ALGORITMI will support Portuguese companies, through the incorporation of Intelligent Systems (Intelligent Materials, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Big Data, IoT), to make the transformation by the design and development of disruptive Materials, Manufacturing Processes, Products and Supply Chains that are sustainable (Decarbonized, Symbiotic, Circular) and become competitive in an market arena that will only accept companies that contribute to reverse Climate Changes. Also, critical in this transformation will be the envisioning of new Business Models emerging from the disruptive technologies based on Intelligent Systems.
SO2 – Considerably Raise the Qualification, Training and Employment of Human Resources for an Intelligent and Sustainable Transformation in Industry
ALGORITMI will support the development and qualification of Human Resources with high technological and scientific skills that can be transferred to the Portuguese Industry. The lack of skilled professionals (young professional but also professionals with experience) could restrain the adoption of new technologies by industries, local authorities, and civil organizations. This TL intends to properly supply technological and scientific skills to develop a highly skilled and qualified labor force (human capital) so companies can effectively adopt intelligent systems to increase sustainability and competitiveness. The SO2 targets the development of skills within the following domains: Intelligent Systems (Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Big Data, IoT), Smart Material, Advanced Manufacturing Processes, Digitalization, Circular Economy, Climate Changes, and new Business Models.
SO3 – Contribute to Bootstrapping of Entrepreneurship and Emergence of Industry-focused Startups based on Intelligence and Sustainable Technology
ALGORITMI will strongly support Portuguese and international entrepreneurs, emerging from the science and technology ecosystems of the universities comprising this unit, to create their Startups with value propositions delivering Products and Services enabled by Intelligent Systems and oriented towards the sustainability of Portuguese industrial companies. These Startups will also need to create and deliver value through innovative business models.
