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"International Cooperation in Research: a Case Study”

The Institution

International Cooperation

Research Performance and Impact

Research & Innovation

International Cooperation in Research

1983 Bragança Polytechnic Institute (IPB) School of Agriculture (ESA) School of Education (ESE)

1990 School of Technology and Management (ESTiG)

1995 School of Communication, Administration and Tourism (EsACT) (Mirandela)

2001 School of Health (ESSa) (integration of the Nursing School,1971)

The Institution

IPB

32 Years

5 Schools

7000 Students

>20000 Graduates

The Institution

33 Technological Specialization Courses (short first cycle)

42 Bachelor programs (1st Cycle)

36 Master programs (2nd Cycle)

PhD programmes in cooperation with national and international HEI

IPB Degree Programmes

Study areas:

Arts, Communication and Multimedia

Agriculture Sciences and Natural Resources

Business Sciences and Law

Education and Teachers Training

Health Sciences and Social Protection

Technologies, Engineering

Tourism, Sports and Leisure

Please consult the IPB ECTS Guide (Course Catalogue) for degree programmes (course structure and course contents) at .

IPB Degree Programmes

International

Cooperation

Angola, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cape Verde, China, Czech Republic, East Timor, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania,

Mexico, Mozambique, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, São Tomé and Príncipe, Slovakia, Spain and Turkey

An International Community


Mobility Program (Erasmus)

Since 15 years ago, involving 22 European countries;

In the Top 100 of HEI receiving visiting professors;

In the Top 500 of HEI with higher students mobility;

IPB is the Portuguese HEI with the highest number of Erasmus Intensive

Programmes: since 2007, 14 IPs as coordinator and 16 IPs as partner.


Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership: Improvement of Innovative Teaching Methods in the Fields of Technology and Chemical Engineering According to the Best Standards of the Bologna Process, with Cracow University of Technology (Poland) (2014-2017). Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership: Experimental Education Competence, with Kauno Kolegija University of Applied Sciences (Lithuania) (2014-2017). Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership: Business Education for Sustainability: Teaching Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Local and Regional Development, with International University College (Bulgaria) (2014-2017). Tempus IV: Leading and Managing Change in Higher Education, with International University College (Bulgaria) (2012-2015). Comenius Multilateral Project: Interactive Teaching Materials Across Culture and Technology (2012-2015), with Ludwigsburg University of Education (Germany) (2012-2015). Comenius Multilateral Network: Chemistry Is All Around Network, with University of Genova (Itália) (2012-2014).


ERASMUS-MUNDUS External Cooperation Window: Educational Exchange Network for Higher Academia Gap Narrowing Between Central/South America and Europe, with Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain) (2009-2013) Thematic Network: Dieticians Improving the Education and Training Standards, with University of Plymouth (UK) (2006-2009 and 2010-2013). Leonardo da Vinci - Transfer of Innovation: Validation of immigrants’ vocational skills and competences in tourism and services as an integration warrant in the EU”, with International Management Institute (Bulgaria) (2010-2012). Key Activity 1: Implement Agriculture Qualifications, with Università degli Studi “Guglielmo Marconi” Telemática (Italy) (2010-2012). Leonardo da Vinci - Pilot Project: Educational strategies for the promotion of Natural heritage, with GeoCultural Park of Eastern Aegean (Greece) (2006-2009). Erasmus Curricular Development: Development and implementation of Joint Programme in International Business Management, with Klaipeda College of Social Sciences (Lithuania) (2006-2009).

Certification and

Evaluation

Institutional Certification and Evaluation

First evaluation process, June 2007: “(…) At national level, IPB is one of the more successful polytechnics, and competes in some areas with the best of universities. (...)”

Follow-up, March 2012: “(…) IPB has made significant progress over the last five years, thanks to the commitment of leadership and staff, and their ability to develop and implement institutional reform. The Team would like to stress the enormous potential of IPB: it is an excellent example of how learning and research do not stop at the door of schools and departments.(...)”

Institutional Certification and Evaluation

Research and

Technological

Development


RESEARCH INDICATORS:

Output (O): Total number of documents published in scholarly journals indexed in Scopus. This is a size-dependent indicator.

International Collaboration (IC): Institution's output ratio produced in collaboration with foreign institutions. This is a size-independent indicator.

Normalized Impact (NI): Normalized Impact of led output. The normalization of the citation values is done on an individual article level. This is a size-

independent indicator.

High Quality Publications (Q1): Ratio of publications that an institution publishes in the most influential scholarly journals of the world, those ranked in

the first quartile (25%) in their categories as ordered by SCImago Journal Rank (SJRII) indicator. This is a size-independent indicator.

Specialization Index (Spec): Indicates the extent of thematic concentration/dispersion of an institution’s scientific output. This indicator is size-

independent.

Excellence Rate (Exc): Indicates the amount (in %) of an institution’s scientific output that is included into the set of the 10% of the most cited papers in

their respective scientific fields. It is a measure of high quality output of research institutions. This is a size-independent indicator.

Scientific Leadership (Lead): Indicates the percentage of an institution’s output as main contributor, that is, the amount of papers in which the

corresponding author belongs to the institution. This is a size-independent indicator.

Excellence with Leadership (EwL): Excellence with Leadership indicates the amount of documents in the Excellence rate in which the institution is the

main contributor. This is a size-independent indicator.


COUNTRY RANKING:

16/42 Higher Education Institutions

4/15 Public Polytechnics

http://www.scimagoir.com/sir_iber.php


INDICATORS RANKING:

IC: 24/42 (HEI); 6/15 (PP)

NI: 2/42 (HEI); 1/15 (PP)

Q1: 16/42 (HEI); 1/15 (PP)

Spec: 21/42 (HEI); 7/15 (PP)

Exc: 6/42 (HEI); 1/15 (PP)

Lead: 3/42 (HEI); 1/15 (PP)

EwL: 1/42 (HEI); 1/15 (PP)

Number 1 in 5 out of 7 indicators for the public Polytechnics



INNOVATION INDICATORS (2014):

Innovative Knowledge: Scientific publication output from an institution cited in patents.

This indicator is size-dependent.

http://www.scimagoir.com/innovation.php?rankingtype=innovation&indicator=Innovative Knowledge&sector=&country=PRT&display=table&page=2&year=2008


INNOVATION INDICATORS (2014):

Technological Impact: Percentage of the scientific publication output cited in patents.

This indicator is size-independent

http://www.scimagoir.com/innovation.php?rankingtype=innovation&indicator=Technological Impact&sector=&country=PRT&display=table&page=2&year=2008


Teaching

& Learning

Research Knowledge

Transfer

International

Orientation

Regional

Engagement

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The Academic Staff

Qualified academic staff

335 FTE Lecturers, from wich 218 hold a Ph.D. degree

25

38% of researchers are integrated members of research units or associated

laboratories;

16% of researchers are invited members of research units or associated

laboratories;

46% of researchers are not integrated members of R&D units.

The Researchers Community

The Research Centers

Mountain Research Center (CIMO)

CIMO aims at studying and valorising mountain natural resources, forest and agriculture ecosystems, and local products in order to develop sustainable systems economically, socially and environmentally.

Research groups (56 PhD):

- Food Safety and Technology (FST); - Marginal Land Ecosystem Services (MLES); - Mountain Farming Systems (MFS).


Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM (Pole)

The mission of LSRE-LCM is to contribute for the development of scientific and technological know-how in the Chemical Engineering areas of Separation and Reaction Processes, Product Engineering, Catalysis and Carbon Materials, Thermodynamics and Environmental Engineering.

Research groups (56 PhD, from which 10 the IPB pole):

- Cyclic Adsorption/Reaction Processes; - Product Engineering; - Thermodynamics & Environment; - Catalysis and Carbon Materials.


Research Center on Sports, Health Sciences and Human Development ( CIDESD, Pole)

Research groups (45 PhD):

- Sports performance (performance analysis, genetic, physiological and biomechanical analysis, strength and conditioning); - Health/physical activity and health, health systems and services/health promotion); - Professional and pedagogical intervention.


Other R&I units based at IPB:

Centre of Competences in Communication, Administration and Tourism

Centre for Research and Intervention in the Elderly Community

Applied Research Unit on Management (41 PhD)


AREAS OF RESEARCH: 1st level CORDIS list

31

AREAS OF RESEARCH: 2nd level CORDIS list



Sectors


Keywords


Societal Challenges (H2020)


Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies (H2020)





The TRADEIT project is a multidisciplinary, multi-sectorial

collaborative project supporting a Network of stakeholders

in Traditional Food Production in the areas of

Collaboration, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Knowledge

and Technology to increase the competitiveness and inter-

regional advantage of participating SMEs.

The SIMWOOD project aims to increase the mobilisation of

wood from forests and woodlands in Europe. The project

reaches out to stakeholders and regional initiatives with the

aim of ‘waking up’ and mobilising forest owners, promoting

collaborative forest management and ensuring sustainable

forest functions.


The GRACE project is in line with the current need to

build modular, intelligent and distributed manufacturing

control systems. The GRACE system will act at the

Distributed Control System (DCS) and Manufacturing

Execution System (MES) levels, implementing the sharing

of process critical information between and inside the two

layers. This results in a more efficient management of

resources and a higher final product quality.

The ARUM project aims to improve planning and control

systems for complex, small-lot products manufacturing,

such as aircraft, aircraft interiors, and ships. ARUM

proposes to develop an intelligent Enterprise Service-

Based platform (i-ESB). The platform will integrate a

service-based architecture with a knowledge-based Multi-

Agent System.


How to promote International Cooperation in the field of Research and Innovation????


A case study: the AgroAli@EU project

The Mission of IPB includes the promotion of R&D activities, namely in cooperation with

enterprises, and the contribution to the development of Portugal and the TMAD Region. To

this end IPB offers its technical, technological and scientific competences to the community

in general.

Issues:

1) The relatively low participation of Portuguese HEI and SMEs in the 7FP;

2) The still relatively low interaction between Portuguese HEI and SMEs in the context of

R&D activities;

Objective of the Call for Proposals (QREN):

To promote the participation of Portuguese Organisations, namely SMEs, in the 7FP.


Strategy defined to tackle the objectives of this specific Call for Proposals:

1) Select an economic activity relevant to the Country and the Region;

2) Establish partnerships with the major stakeholders.

Sector: Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology.

Partners: National Agrifood Cluster (PortugalFoods), Federation of Portuguese Agrifood

Industry (FIPA) and Regional Enterprises Association (NERBA)



Project implementation strategy:

1) Collection of needs and opportunities of the Portuguese agrifood sector;

2) Dissemination of information about the opportunities offered by the 7FP;

3) Definition of R&D topics of interest in face of the identified needs/opportunities and of the

planned 7FP Calls;

4) Setting-up of a partner search/offer communication system;

5) Promotion and support to the participation in 7FP project proposals (involvement in

consortia, proposal development, and negotiation of successful applications).



Action plan (activities):

1) Organisation of information dissemination sessions, and of brokerage and

partnering events, in collaboration with the strategic partners;

2) Participation in events organised by international organisations with the

objective of promoting the set-up of consortia for 7FP applications;

3) Support to the elaboration, submission and negotiation of project proposals.

Timeframe: 01/07/2012 - 31/01/2014



Major results:

Organisation of 9 events (North and Centre Portugal)



Major results:

Participation in 3 international events:

1) Forest-based Sector Technology Platform: “2012 Joint Partnering Event for FP7

Projects and Cost Actions in the Area of the Forest-Based Bio-Economy”;

2) DG Research and Innovation: National Info Day “2013 KBBE Funding Opportunities”;

3) DG Research and Innovation: “Info Day and Brokerage Event on Call FP7-KBBE-7-

2013”.



Major results:

Promotion of 17 7FP applications (target was 10 applications);

Participation of 12 Portuguese organisations (from which 10 SMEs from the North, Centre

and Alentejo Regions) in 7FP proposals, with a total budget of 5,762,304 €;

Five proposals were approved (target was 4, success rate: 29% - national average: 19%),

representing a total budget of 1,889,426 € for the Portuguese partners (i.e. 33% of the

budget applied for).

Return on Investment: 19.6 (euros of FP7 budget per euro invested)





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