ADAI
Association for the Development of Industrial Aerodynamics
The Association for the Development of Industrial Aerodynamics (ADAI) is a non-profit private institution created in 1990, associated to the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra (UC), which promotes activities of research, development, demonstration, training, specialized consulting and services to the industry.
ADAI is structured in two research groups, namely ‘Energy, Environment and Comfort’ and ‘Forest Fires and Detonics’, carrying out activities in three laboratories:
1) Laboratory of Industrial Aerodynamics (LAI, 1986), located near Polo II of the UC
2) Laboratory of Forest Fires Studies (LEIF, 1995), located at the airfield of Lousã
3) Laboratory of Energetics and Detonics (LEDAP), located in Condeixa-a-Nova
Since 2006, ADAI is one of the four participant and management institutions of LAETA, the Associate Laboratory of Energy, Transports, and Aeronautics, awarded the category of ‘Excellent’ by the National Foundation for Sciences and Technology (FCT, I.P.) in the scope of the Multi-Annual Financing Program of R&D Units.
ISR
Institute of Systems and Robotics
The Institute of Systems and Robotics – University of Coimbra (ISR-UC), founded in 1992 promotes advanced multidisciplinary R&D in several areas of science and technology. ISR-UC is organized in seven activity areas with significant scientific and technological synergies: Human-Centered Mobile Robotics, Field Robotics, Medical Systems and Robotics, Computational Intelligence and Control, Artificial Perception and Cognition, Visual Perception, and Intelligent Energy Systems.
ISR-UC has strong links with industry, both national and international companies, and a vast experience at promoting the creation of spin-offs. ISR-UC has a strong interaction with some of the best research centers around the World, participating in large international projects. ISR also participates in networks of excellence in the robotics area (e.g. IROS, ICRA, IEEE ITSC, RO-MAN). ISR-UC has interaction with strong national and international industries (e.g. Google, PSA Group, Efacec power and automation equipment, Portucel paper group, CIMPOR cement group, EDP Electric Utility, National Money Authority Casa da Moeda, Brisa Motorways, Schneider Electric, ABB Corporate Research, and WEG). In the last evaluations ISR-UC received a rating of Excellent by the FCT International Panel.
ADDF
Association for the Development of the Physics Department of the University of Coimbra
The Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Departamento de Física (ADDF), is a nonprofit oriented organization created in 2000 by the Physics Department of the University of Coimbra, as a complementary tool to manage the scientific projects of its members. Along its existence, ADDF has managed over one hundred scientific projects, funded by different institutions, and has been repeatedly successfully audited.
The main purpose of ADDF is to provide its members a proactive, responsive, administrative support which in practice turns out to be a fundamental service as well as a success factor to their projects and initiatives.
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