What We Do

Objectives

1. In accordance with its statutes, the association has the following general goals:
a) To promote and support the transfer of technology and knowledge to enterprises and institutions, thereby promoting development;
b) To promote and support scientific and technological research;
c) To promote and support exchanges between the general higher education facilities and other collective persons, in the interests of the development and transfer of technology and knowledge;
d) To promote the economic valuation of scientific knowledge;
e) To contribute toward promoting the image and development of higher education in general, through cooperation with several different entities;
f) To cooperate with enterprises and other entities in joint actions, which may involve other parties, through national or international TR&D projects;
g) To promote innovation and use of efficient technologies in a perspective of sustainable development, emphasizing energy sources and materials.

2. To achieve its goals, the association intervenes:
a) By participating in activities connected with society, namely those related to the diffusion and transfer of knowledge, as well as the economical valuation of scientific knowledge;
b) By promoting and energizing TR&D projects in cooperation with higher education institutions, research institutions and companies;
c) By identifying funding opportunities;
d) By identifying and developing partnership opportunities with companies and institutions;
e) By creating business opportunities;
f) By promoting training actions as well as scientific and technological upgrading;
g) By performing consulting actions;
h) By creating documentation centers for its members' perusal;
i) By supporting and/or editing publications for the diffusion of studies and projects;
j) By establishing contacts with similarly-focused organizations.

Areas of Activity

ATTCEI deals with Research and Innovation (R&I) in different areas of knowledge, to its associates' and partners' direct benefit.

Knowledge and technology transfer can have, in each concrete case, the final goal of performing Research and Innovation in the form of: a new PRODUCT; a new or improved PROCESS, or a new Organizational METHOD.

As an entity devoted to knowledge and technology transfer, ATTCEI, constituted by researchers and companies, works toward the development and introduction of more efficient technologies, as well as process optimization, in a perspective of rational and efficient use of equipment and HR, the reduction of energy consumption, materials, and costs.

Intervention and Collaboration

ATTCEI works in tandem with companies and other entities in joint actions, which may involve other parties of the following kinds: enterprises, local, regional, national or international. The institution may intervene through TR&D and Innovation, studies, training actions, consulting, process research and development, technology, prototyping, equipments, etc.

ATTCEI executes technology and knowledge transfer through its associates and Doctorate researchers and other specialists in several areas of knowledge, working in several Universities, Polytechnical Institutes and Research Centers.

ATTCEI incentivizes, facilitates and establishes contacts and partnerships between Researchers and Enterprises, with the purpose of developing ideas and projects that arise either from the companies' needs, aiming for solutions for the improvement and innovation of their processes and/or products, or by researchers who are looking for companies interested in applying their ideas, Research and Innovation.