Research Projects

BLOCKCHAIN.PT – Descentralizar Portugal com Blockchain

Agenda "Decentralize Portugal with Blockchain” brought together several blockchain organizations, creating a cluster of 24 Portuguese blockchain companies, 15 Research and Technology Organisations, 5 Public Entities, 2 Associations and 10 other Associated Partners, connected by business and technology, aiming to become global players and, thus, contributing to a significant change in the specialization profile of the Portuguese economy

by investing on cutting-edge technology and hiring highly qualified personnel.

The project is expected to launch 26 innovative products worldwide, increasing Portuguese exports. 

Potential - PilOTs for EuropeaN digiTal Identity wALlet (Grant agreement no: 101102655)

POTENTIAL is a large-scale pilot selected by the European Commission to experiment digital identity through Europe. POTENTIAL aims at fostering innovation, collaboration and growth in six digital identity sectors (governmental services, banking, telecommunications, driving license, electronic signature and health). Its goals are to: 1) Collaboratively develop interoperable national digital wallets accessible across Europe in a fully secure manner; 2) Streamline online procedures such as opening a bank account, renting a car or signing documents electronically; and 3) Forge stronger ties across Europe and help people, businesses and governments to work together more efficiently.

EUPLe - Enabling UBL and eDelivery in a Peppol Logistics Environment

The objective of the EUPLe Project is to enable logistics operators to communicate seamlessly and to exchange data interoperable, fast, reliable, secure and cost-effective through a network of eDelivery access points.

The EUPLe project seeks to develop a Peppol logistics network, based on the “CEF eDelivery Building Block”, in Portugal, Denmark and Finland and to create the embryo of the Peppol logistics network, a global approach to interoperability in Logistics using UBL.

The Portuguese Ports Association (APP) is managing the JUL project (Janela Única Logística), a national project that involves all Portuguese seaports. The JUL system is being installed in all Portuguese seaports and aims to extend nationally. The JUL system decided to adopt eDelivery building blocks as an interoperability infrastructure within the collaborative ecosystem of Portuguese ports. 

Project Lisbon Urban Services

Survey of the current situation of the Information Systems Architecture of the Urban Hygiene Services of Lisbon City Council 

SIGA SNS Project

Strategic advice on the implementation of the SIGA SNS project .Support in the survey in the definition and management of the SIGA SNS project, namely training-action, adoption of methodologies, best practices and process modeling tools, requirements specification, and acceptance test specification 

DE4A – Digital Europe for All (Grant agreement no: 870635) 

The objective of the DE4A Project is, in alignment with the Strategic Action Plan for Electronic Government 2016-2020, to facilitate the migration to cross-border European Digital Public Services, between sectors and with different participants, reinforcing confidence in public institutions and triggering multiple positive impacts in terms of efficiency and reduced administrative costs and costs. DE4A aims to develop fully online procedures accessible through Single Digital Gateway (SDG), based on an extended interoperability toolbox, an open environment and platform and for collaboration and innovation, developing standards for implementing principles such as only-once and reusing blocks of the European digital infrastructure 

eidas2Business – Making Private businesses benefit from eIDAS (Agreement Nº INEA/CEF/ICT/A2016/1271456)

 The objective of the eidas2Business Project is the development of authentication services in Portugal in accordance with the eIDAS regulation

Its main objectives are:

- Additional development of the National eIDAS node 

- Atenticação.gov from  AMA compliant with eIDAS

- Oney online services compliant with eIDAS

- SIBS as eIDAS Network Authentication Provider

e-Ark  (Grant agreement no: 620998)

 The purpose of the E-ARK Project is to pilot archive services by keeping records authentic and preserved over time. In the scope of the project will be addressed the three main areas of archiving - information acquisition, preservation and reuse. E-ARK aims to demonstrate the potential benefits to European public administrations, public services, citizens and businesses by providing easy and efficient access to archived information.

The project brings together European national archives, R & D institutions, archival software solutions providers and services providers and government agencies, and international associative organizations representing the communities that benefit from the project.

The main goal is to provide a common, robust, replicable, and scalable approach to meet the needs of many types of organizations, public and private, large and small, and that generate different types of data. 

DataStorm– Large-Scale Data Management in Cloud Environments (EXCL/EEI-ESS/0257/2012)

Datastorm focuses on creating a critical mass of scientists and engineers to address the design, implementation and operation of software systems for large-scale data management. It is intended that they collect and integrate data from heterogeneous, public and proprietary sources, from which large and complex graphs can be derived. From these graphs patterns can then be extracted, from which knowledge can be inferred. 

eSens – Electronic Simple European Networked Services 

The objective of the e-SENS project is to improve access to cross-border public services within the European Union and to promote the development of the digital single market. E-SENS envisages the development of an infrastructure for the interoperability of public services in Europe from the results of existing projects: e-Codex, epSOS, SPOCS, STORK, PEPPOL, which have already demonstrated that the provision of cross-border services has no of being complicated. E-SENS will consolidate, improve and extend the already developed solutions, in order to create multifunction components that can be used in various domains. The focus will be on key components such as e-ID, e-Documents, e-Delivery, semantics and e-Signatures.

These modules were tested in real situations, within different domain such as e-health, e-justice, e-procurement, and enterprise life cycle, among others. Finally, e-SENS allowed the creation of generic and reusable modules, which will allow fluid electronic communication in several areas of public administration.

4C - Collaboration to Clarify the Cost of Curation (FP7-CSA-4C)

The 4C project aims to help organizations across Europe to invest more effectively in curation and digital preservation. Research in digital preservation and curation tends to emphasize the cost and complexity of this activity. The 4C project clarifies the benefits of this investment, including the determination of "risk", "value", "quality" and "sustainability".

This is intended to make clear to organizations the most effective ways to manage their digital assets over time, and the potential to create new low-cost solutions and services in this area.

STORK2.0 – Secure idenTity acrOss boRders linKed 2.0 (project n. 297263, CIP-ICT-PSP-2011-5)

STORK 2.0 aims to contribute to the achievement of a unique European electronic identification. This project builds on the results of STORK, establishing interoperability of different national approaches to eID and addresses not only attributes of individual citizens as legal identities and mandates.

EuDML – The European Digital Mathematics Library (CIP-ICT-PSP.2009.2.4, Grant agreement n. 250.503)

The goal of the EuDML project is to provide a Digital Mathematical Library (DML) for the global scientific community as a public service to help scientists locate information that is distributed across multiple digital repositories and discover information related to their work in an optimized, comprehensiveness in mathematics.

The project provides a multilingual service for searching and browsing the content of existing European mathematical portals based on a rich metadata repository, metadata aggregation, and full text of heterogeneous and multilingual collections of digital content.

SPOCS – Simple Procedures Online for Cross-border Services

The purpose of the SPOCS project is to build the second generation of single points of contact through the availability of electronic procedures and services. The main objective is to ensure cross-border interoperability between existing electronic services (https://www.eu-spocs.eu/).

TIMBUS – Digital Preservation for Timeless Business Processes and Services (FP7-ICT2009-6, n.º 269940)

The TIMBUS project aims to contribute to the increase of knowledge in digital preservation (DP) through the definition of activities, processes and tools

that guarantee the continuous access to services and software necessary to reproduce the organizational context.

One of the fundamental requirements that this project intends to address is to preserve the functional and non-functional specifications of services and software along with their dependencies.

C4E – Cloud for Europe (Grant agreement no: 610650)

Cloud for Europe (C4E) addresses the objectives of a European Cloud program. The project provides an overview of the requirements of public organizations and use cases for Cloud Computing in Europe. The main objectives of C4E are to remove obstacles to the adoption and harmonization of the requirements of different public bodies beyond national boundaries. 

STORK – Secure idenTity acrOss boRders linKed

The purpose of the STORK project is to establish a European Interoperability Platform for Electronic Identification (eID) that allows citizens to establish new cross-border e-relations through the use of National eID mechanisms (https://www.eid-stork.eu/), ICT PSP call identifier: ICT-PSP/2007/1, Grant agreement no.: 224993

PT - Scientific Cooperation Protocol 

Development of research works applied to the technological and organizational contexts of PT Comunicações, namely through the insertion of masters students in this context.

INIR (Instituto de Infra-Estruturas Rodoviárias, I.P.) - Definition and Implementation of Enterprise Architecture

Program of Research and Development activities applied to the "organizational bootstrap" process of the InIR, in a methodological reference of "Research - Action", according to the best concepts of Business Architecture and the practices of Organizational Engineering.

COMBINE (COMponent-Based INteroperable Enterprise system development) IST-1999-20893 

Support the development of business systems based on models - using components. This project has developed methods, tools and infrastructures, and solutions for modeling, designing, implementing, testing and executing business components.

Modify (Modeling Organization Dynamics using a Combined Business and System Framework) FCT Ref. 34565/99 

The MODIFY project proposes an integrated approach to the development, integration and evolution of component-based enterprise systems. The architecture proposed by this project took into consideration principles of Software Engineering and Business Processes due to its rigorous requirements in Modeling, adaptation, composition and configuration in dynamic environments. The objectives of the project include the execution of four tasks: (1) identification of concepts in the business domain; (2) identification of concepts in the system domain; (3) creation of a configurable and adaptable architecture based on business and system concepts, and (4) integration of results into a validated software prototype in a real case study