About Us
ATTCEI is a proven non-profit association, pioneer in Portugal, in its mission and specific goals, which are linked with knowledge and technology transfer, open to collaboration from any individual citizen and any entity which aims to contribute toward the technological and economical development of Portugal and the association's goals.
This association was founded on November 3rd 2009, by Professors from the Escola Superior de Tecnologia of Setúbal, and is currently mostly constituted by individual and collective associates. Among the individual associates we include Professors and Researchers from various Research Centers, from University and Polytechnical Institutes, as well as other specialists in different areas of knowledge and technical and scientific know-how.
Any singular person, national or foreign, who is interested in developing ATTCEI's goals and accepts its statutes can become an ordinary member of the association. The association also contemplates honorary members, who may be singular or collective persons.
Vision
We live in a globalized world, where competitivity has rapidly become the key to the development and growth of enterprises, the economy and the country. Innovation and technological development are paramount to maintaining the competitivity and internationalization of enterprises.
The Portuguese economic tissue is known to be mostly comprised of small and medium companies, which do not possess their own means to carry out research, thereby limiting their ability for innovation and development. On the other hand, there remains a large gap between businesses and centers of knowledge, namely Research Centers, Universities and Polytechnical Institutes. This reality is responsible for making the development and growth of the Portuguese economy a more difficult endeavor.
ATTCEI and its associates are certain of the importance and need to work toward an approximation and close cooperation between Enterprises, Researchers and Higher Education and Research Institutions, so as to transfer technology, knowledge and innovation to companies and society, which would result in mutual benefits that are recognizable to all.
Mission
The Judicial Regime of the Higher Education Institutions (Law number 62/2007) holds that the duty of Higher Education Institutions includes the participation in "activities connecting them to society, namely the spreading and transfer of knowledge, as well as the economic valuation of scientific knowledge".
ATTCEI, as an interface entity, aims to contribute toward the Transfer of Technology and Knowledge to Enterprises and Institutions.
Thus, ATTCEI's purpose is to energize, in a structured and directed manner, the diffusion and transfer of technology and knowledge that exists in National and International Higher Education Institutions and Scientific Systems to businesses and other institutions.
ATTCEI promotes Applied Investigation in innovative areas of interest to companies, higher education institutions and society itself.
ATTCEI aims to tackle these challenges, with the primary goal of continually developing its activity in the areas of research and transfer of technology and knowledge in several areas, namely engineering and business organization, playing the role of an energizing force and a facilitator for the interaction between the many agents of development.
Values
ATTCEI aims to perform with excellence, assuming the principles of ethics, confidentiality and confidence as a basis for its actions and the relationship between enterprises and Investigators. The organization builds partnerships based on competence, shared responsibility and reciprocal interest in concrete objectives and projects in Investigation and Innovation, allowing for the solution of complex problems and responding, in an adequate and timely manner, to requests from enterprises and other associate and partner entities.
As a pioneer in this difficult task of connecting companies and research and knowledge centers, ATTCEI also aims to create a "demonstration effect" through its actions, which raises interest in the launch of new entities with an identical mission and goals.