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Activity Funded

GeoBioSciences GeoTechnologies and GeoEngineering

GeoBioCiências, GeoTecnologias e GeoEngenharias

Reference
UID/04035/2025
Project Start Date
2025-01-01
Project End Date
2029-12-31
Principal Investigator
Scientific Area
Exact sciences
Funding Program
Avaliação UID 2023/2024

Abstract

Our 2025-2029 plan harnesses interdisciplinary expertise for innovative, sustainable natural resource management, ensuring societal well-being and environmental protection. Our main goal is to improve applied and fundamental research focused on primary raw materials for environmental and economic sustainability as a strategic vector. As mineral raw materials are increasingly Critical we will improve geological mapping algorithms for evaluation and mapping of metal grades in mineral deposits and mining residuals, aiming to improve mine ores and reuse mining and quarry residuals for new products. Geo-Environmental Studies will be carried out aiming to Characterize Environmental Processes (natural environments and how organisms interact within these processes), perform Geochemical and biological analyses (monitor environmental systems, evaluate ecological health, and identify stressors). Geotechnical modelling and management of geotechnical assets in infrastructures, assessing landslide hazard and risk assessment of natural and anthropic slopes and use of remote sensing data. Most of our main contributions are focused on Sustainable Development Goals 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 17, where technology transfer and on-job training are included. We will try to enlarge the collaboration with the industry and designing projects of mutual interest and seeking co-financing in regional programs or European programs, beyond the advanced training mainly in foreign institutions or even in Portuguese ones, allowing more scholarships to young students to perform their thesis within our PhD programs as well our Long Life Learning programs. Special attention will continue to be given to radiogenic isotope geology, geodynamics of crustal provinces, marine geology, palaeontology, soil sciences and geophysical support to georesources and geoenvironments but also to cultural heritage, geoheritage and geoconservation. We will promote the research of the paleobiodiversity (invertebrates and vertebrates) from Paleozoic to Quaternary, build a complete petrological, geochemical and geochronological GIS database for the Iberian Massif domains, their respective Peri-Gondwanan equivalents in Central Europe and the cratonic sources in Gondwana and Laurasia, and improve knowledge, evaluation and tourism promotion of Portugal geoheritage. Agro-industrial research will enlarge collaboration with industry (on raw materials, components and final products). We will continue our research activities on: Restoration and rehabilitation of built heritage, using geophysical, (bio)geochemical and mineralogical approaches; Studies on petrological, structural and metallogenic studies in the Iberian Variscan basement; magmatism, metamorphism and geodynamic evolution of crustal provinces of Brazil and Iran; Mineralogy and chemistry of Martian samples and their analogs; Medical Geology and Urban Geochemistry (inc. Atmospheric, Industrial and Urban Dust).

Institutions

Main Institutions

  • GeoBioCiências, GeoTecnologias e GeoEngenharias (GeoBioTec/UA)
  • Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

Other Institutions

  • Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI)
  • Universidade Nova de Lisboa Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT (NOVA.ID.FCT)

Funding 736.715,09 €

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) - Portugal

736.715,09 €