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Activity Funded

Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development

Centro para o Desenvolvimento Rápido e Sustentado de Produto

Reference
UID/04044/2025
Project Start Date
2025-01-01
Project End Date
2029-12-31
Principal Investigator
Funding Program
Avaliação UID 2023/2024

Abstract

The Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development (CDRSP) of the Polytechnic of Leiria (IPL) is a leading research center that aims to contribute to scientific and technological development through new products, materials, and more sustainable, effective, and efficient processes. The CDRSP is an organic research unit of the IPL. It was founded in May 2007 to promote economic competitiveness, social cohesion, and sustainable development through new, more efficient, sustainable products, materials, and processes. Since 2021, CDRSP is part of the Advanced Production and Intelligent Systems (ARISE) Associated Laboratory (AL). ARISE is an association of five R&D Units, interfacing public entities of 3 Universities – Coimbra, Minho, and Porto, through the R&D Units CEMMPRE, ISR-C, ISISE, SYSTEC – and one Higher Education institution – IPL, through CDRSP. Research, advanced training, and consultancy services are essential areas that complement the CDRSP’s strategy. The CDRSP’s activities cover diverse areas, but it has focused much of its work on the additive manufacturing, processing, and characterization of new materials for applications in engineering fields like mechanical, biomedical, automotive, aeronautics, and civil. This center is effectively growing in the number of research projects, technical reports, scientific papers, and books, among others. This growing process has been supported by the entry of new members and new scholarship holders as a strategy to increment internal skills and competencies. The strategic research program aims to consolidate and reinforce the national and international position of CDRSP as a leading research group in direct digital manufacturing based on additive technologies and moving towards the fully integrated concept of added-value manufacturing. These outputs are mainly due to the multidisciplinary nature of the CDRSP’s research teams. These include researchers from different scientific backgrounds, like those based on mathematical and computational methods, advanced materials, and innovative manufacturing processes. CDRSP will increase the involvement in postgraduate programs and courses. CDRSP uses a scholarship scheme to attract the highest-quality students and researchers. CDRSP will reinforce the existing strong structure of national and international partnerships to work with the best ideas and people in the world through active engagement in national and international projects and conference organizations. To support industrial development and economic growth in Portugal, CDRSP will maintain and develop new dissemination methodologies and technology transfer to meet the demands of the changing world. Each component of CDRSP strategy reinforces the internationalization of CDRSP and positions it as a global center in Direct Digital Manufacturing.

Institutions

Main Institutions

  • Universidade de Leiria e Oeste Centro para o Desenvolvimento Rápido e Sustentado de Produto (CDRsp)
  • Universidade de Leiria e Oeste (ULO)

Funding 1.097.552,06 €

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

1.097.552,06 €