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Applied Digital Transformation Laboratory

Laboratório de Transformação Digital Aplicada

Reference
UID/06121/2025
Project Start Date
2025-01-01
Project End Date
2029-12-31
Principal Investigator
Scientific Area
Natural sciences
Funding Program
Avaliação UID 2023/2024

Abstract

The Applied Digital Transformation Laboratory (ADiT-Lab) is a research and development (R&D) unit, based at the IPVC, and focused on the societal Digital Transformation (DT). ADiT-Lab's aims to contribute to the advancement of regional, national, and international knowledge with a focus on DT for sustainability. ADiT-Lab goals are A) Improving quality of life of citizens; B) Digital preservation of cultural heritage; C) Improving of organizational process; D) Reduction of the ecological footprint. Therefore, ADiT-Lab acts and has applications in several research domains such as intelligent environments, interactive media, organizational processes, and cybersecurity. To accomplish this the group of 19 Integrated Members and 18 collaborator researchers relies on the multidisciplinary skills of its researchers in the areas of information and communication technologies and electronics, as well as the complementary knowledge of researchers in areas such as health, mathematics, or energy. ADiT-Lab also has 6 collaborating members invited from foreign institutions and hosts master's and doctoral students, integrated as grant holders in research projects and in partnership with universities in other countries. The ADiT-Lab Vision also encompasses the aim to become a research centre recognized by FCT in the current evaluation. In order to achieve this Vision, ADiT-Lab established 5 key lines of intervention for the next 5 years: 1. Improve Scientific Production – The research group work on the number of publications by each researcher and in co-publications, and also with degree, MSc, PhD, and PostDoc students, focusing publications the quality of publications in ranked conferences and on journals with a JCR impact factor or in SJR Q1 and Q2; 2. Diversify and reinforce its funding sources – Continuing to successful apply for both national and international projects funds and competitive calls, and maintaining its involvement in other types of projects such as Erasmus+, and Interreg; 3. Strengthen collaborations with other national and international entities – Continuing and increasing national and international networks and partnerships with other R&D units, aiming to achieve new opportunities for new projects and further R&D collaborations and other activities, such as advanced training courses and seminars in the DT area; 4. Promote the development of scientific careers – Reinforcing the ADiT-Lab involvement in the IPVC Masters and PhD programme proposal, PhD co-supervision, collaborating with national and international Universities, along with the FCT tenure programme and award grants for researchers; 5. Reinforce technology transfer and outreach activities – Increasing the various services provided to national companies, the master's theses completion together with companies, the range of services such as training and seminars for companies, and the development of short courses (specialized training) in the area of Digital Transformation.

Institutions

Main Institutions

  • APPLIED DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION LABORATORY (ADiT-Lab)
  • Universidade Politécnica de Viana do Castelo (IPVC)

Funding 180.431,49 €

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

180.431,49 €