SDG 9 - Industry, innovation and infrastructure

INITIATIVES

NOVA University Lisbon contributes to tackle the SDG9 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.

• NOVA has a designated Pro-Rector that coordinates the area of Entrepreneurship and collaborates in the coordination of the areas of Social and Economic Value Creation and Research.

• Check the list of NOVA’s successful Start-ups e Spin-offs.

• Nova SBE joined forces with partner to launch the Social Equity Initiative, a partnership that aims to promote the social sector in Portugal in the long run, sketching a portrait of the sector and developing research and empowerment programs to support Portuguese social organizations.

• Other initiatives:

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Academic Contribution

Publications and Projects

NOVA contributes significantly to the research into the area of SDG9. Here are some examples of specific publications in this area:

• 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

In terms of specific projects in this area, learn more about the ERC Grant project DIGISMART - Multifunctional Digital Materials Platform for Smart Integrated Applications at FCT NOVA and the B-LigZymes, an international, interdisciplinary and intersectorial H2020 RISE at ITQB NOVA.

Learning

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