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Since its beginning, the University of Aveiro has transformed itself into one of the most dynamic and innovative national universities. It has around 14,000 students and around 1,700 highly qualified teaching staff, who employ practical and experimental teaching methods. The University of Aveiro offers a variety of undergraduate degrees and over 100 graduate degree programmes.

Electronics and Telecommunications; Engineering; Mathematics; Health and Life Sciences; Environment and Planning; Economics and Management; Communications and Art; Education and Humanities; and Social Sciences are the key scientific and technological fields of the university.

The University of Aveiro is also a place for research, where innovative products and solutions are developed not only to contribute to the advance of science and technology, but also for the public good. Partnerships with companies and other national and international organisations are established, both for collaborative research and the provision of services.

The mission of the University of Aveiro is to create knowledge and extend its access to and for the community, through teaching, research and co-operation with society. The Technology Transfer Unit of the University of Aveiro (UATEC) helps meet the above-mentioned purposes – the latter, in particular. Its mission is to support the University of Aveiro in its aim of being a national excellence centre of knowledge creation and dissemination through:

• Promotion of its technologies in the marketplace
• Intellectual property management and prosecution
• Identification of industry needs
• Promotion of entrepreneurship
• Support of technology-based company creation.

Through these means, UATEC will help foster the social-economic development of the region by making it competitive at the national and international levels.

For more information, contact:

Technology Transfer Unit
University of Aveiro
Campus Universitário de Santiago, Edifício da Reitoria
3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Tel: +351 234 370 887
E-mail: uatec@ua.pt
Website: www.ua.pt/uatec