SDG 9 - Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Nova University Lisbon actively contributes to tackle the SDG 9 through research, and by challenging and enabling the NOVA Community to think about innovation and start-ups that may have a positive and long-term impact on society. It actively promots entrepreneurship and value creation, encouraging the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises. Check the list of NOVA’s successful Start-ups e Spin-offs.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Singularity University is a global learning and innovation community using exponential technologies to tackle the world’s biggest challenges. Its collaborative platform empowers individuals and organizations across the globe to learn, connect, and innovate breakthrough solutions using accelerating technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, and digital biology. It offers educational programs, courses, and summits; enterprise strategy, leadership, and innovation programs; programs to support and scale startups and promote social impact; and online news and content. SBE is a country partner.
• European Innovation Academy is a non-profit organization that promotes capacitation of future entreprenerus and digital growth of companies. It is recognized as a leader in the area of education for tech entrepreneurship. In Portugal, the initiative had its first edition in 2017 and NOVA is an academic partner. Check the 2019 Edition sum up.
• NOVA TechShip is a single hub for all the entrepreneurship activities and opportunities ongoing at the NOVA School of Science and Technology, re-inventing university education by bringing together academics and entrepreneurs.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

NOVA's 9 Academic Units develop programs and initiatives with direct impact in our community. Get in touch, participate!

RESEARCH

NOVA contributes significantly to the research into the area of SDG9. Learn more about the following research projects:

• DIGISMART | FCT NOVA

ERC Grant project,  DIGISMART is a Multifunctional Digital Materials Platform for Smart Integrated Applications. DIGISMART aims to revolutionize the way in which integrated circuits and electronic components are made, without using silicon, while simultaneously exploiting eco-friendly materials with exceptional properties at nano scale.

• B-LigZymes | ITQB NOVA

B-LigZymes is an international, interdisciplinary and intersectorial platform that directly addresses current limitations in lignin degradation by generating technological and economical solutions inspired by fundamental research.

PUBLICATIONS

• Ad Futuram Regis memoriam: para um projeto de recuperação, valorização e musealização do túmulo do rei D. Dinis
• Souls of Stone. Funerary Sculpture: From Creation to Musealization
• Determinants adoption of computer-assisted auditing tools (CAATs)
• Interactive guidelines: Public communication of data-based research in cities
• Ethics of artificial intelligence: Challenges
• Learning programming using educational robotics
• Autonomic emotional responses to food: Private label brands versus National Brands
• Community radio stations sustainability model: An open-source solution
• Factors influencing charter flight departure delay
• Challenges and Opportunities for Spatial Data Infrastructure Development in Mozambique
• In the next decade Portuguese firms can four times increase their investment on research and development: Fiction or reality?
• Touch-Interactive Flexible Sustainable Energy Harvester and Self-Powered Smart Card
• A combined use of TRIZ methodology and eco-compass tool as a sustainable innovation model
• ICT for external stakeholder management: sociomateriality from a power perspective
• Institutional work and infrastructure public–private partnerships (PPPs): the roles of religious symbolic work and power in implementing PPP projects

EDUCATION

NOVA University Lisbon has a strong formative offer, distinguished by quality and variety, linked to the SDGs. It supports the integration of interdisciplinarity and sustainability in all our study cycles.

INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE IN NUMBERS

Contribution for SDG 9 in 2019: