20 years of Science and Innovation
Projects
Ongoing projects
RNA communication across kingdoms: new mechanisms and strategies in pathogen control (exRNA-PATH)
Reference: CA20110
LEPABE coordinator: Laura Cerqueira (MC Member)
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: COST - European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Start date: 04-10-2021 End date: 03-10-2025
Project Leader: University of Edinburgh Institute of Immunology & Infection Research
Other partners: LEPABE/FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto; Ludwig-Maximilians University LMUGroßhadener Strasse 2-4Germany
Project website: https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA20110/#tabs+Name:Description
SurfSAFE - Surface modification to increase microbial SAFEty in the food industry
Reference: 952471
LEPABE coordinator: Filipe Mergulhão
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: H2020|SEWP - H2020|Spreading Excellence and Widening participation
Start date: 01-01-2021 End date: 31-12-2023
Total funding: 898.205,00 € LEPABE funding: 394.850,00 €
Project leader: LEPABE/FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Partner institution: Copenhagen University; Manchester Metropolitan University; University Medical Center Groningen
Reference: Aquatic/0007/2020
LEPABE coordinator: Luís Melo
Funding entity: FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Funding program: ERA-NET - European Research Area networks
Start date: 31-08-2021 End date: 30-08-2024
Total funding: 1.475.213,00 € LEPABE funding: 99.880,00 €
Project leader: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Partner institution: LEPABE/FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto; Dresden University of Technology; Laboratoire Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement; Technical University Of Denmark; Universidade de São Paulo
112CO2 - Low temperature catalytic methane decomposition for COx-free hydrogen production
Reference: 952219
LEPABE coordinator: Adélio Mendes
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: H2020|ES|FETPROACT - H2020|Excellence Science|FET Proactive
Start date: 01-09-2020 End date: 29-02-2024
Total funding: 3.585.178,70 € LEPABE funding: 790.216,85 €
Project leader: LEPABE/FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Industry partners: PAUL WURTH SA; Pixel Voltaic Lda; QUANTIS
Partner institution: Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt E. V.
Project website: www.112co2.eu
EMPOWER - European methanol powered fuel cell CHP
Reference: 875081
LEPABE coordinator: Adélio Mendes
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: H2020|FUEL CELLS and HYDROGEN 2 JOINT UNDERTAKING
Start date: 01-01-2020 End date: 31-12-2022
Total funding: 1.499.876,20 € LEPABE funding: 194.881,25 €
Project leader: Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus VTT
Industry partners: Blue World Technologies APs; CATATOR AB; THT CONTROL OY
Partner institution: LEPABE/FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Project website: www.empower-euproject.eu
Reference: CA16215
LEPABE coordinator: Guillaume Erny
Funding entity: COST Association
Funding program: COST Action (OC-2016-2-21500)
Start date: 03-10-2017 End date: 02-04-2022
Total funding: 680.000 € LEPABE funding: 100.000 €
Project leader: LEPABE/FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Industry partners: EVM Project Management Experts S.L.; Kode Srl; MicruX Technologies; Paraytec Ltd; Team Intellect; WynSep SAS
Partner institutions: Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas; Czech Academy of Sciences; Dublin City University; INL - International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory; K-Plan; National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics; Pharmelp; Rigas Tehniska Universitate; Tallinn University of Technology; Technical University of Crete; Universidad Alicante; Universidade de Helsínquia; Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Università degli Studi di Firenze; Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza; Universita Komenskeho V Bratislave; Université de Genève; Uppsala Universitet
Project website: www.portasap.eu
Concluded projects
Reference: 810685
LEPABE coordinator: Nuno F. Azevedo
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: Horizon 2020
Start date: 01-08-2018 End date: 31-01-2022
Total funding: 960.853,75 € LEPABE funding: 475.978,75 €
Project leader: LEPABE/FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Partner institution: University of Southern Denmark; Universiteit Gent
Project website: www.delnam.com
Reference: 0302_CVMAR_I_1_P
LEPABE coordinator: Luís Melo
Funding entity: FEDER
Funding program: EP - INTERREG V A Espanha Portugal (POCTEP)
Start date: 03-07-2017 End date: 31-12-2020
Total funding: 2.131.757,07 € LEPABE funding: 149.829,27 €
Project leader: Universidade do Minho
Industry partners: Stemmatters: Biotecnologia e Medicina Regenerativa, S.A; Celtalga Extract, S.L.; Grupo tecnológico Arbinova, S.L.U.; Iuvenor Lab, S.L.; Bialactis Biotech, S.L.; Smart Inovation, Lda.; SARSPEC, Lda.; DevelopBiosystem, S.L.
Partner institutions: LEPABE/FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto; Universidad de Vigo; Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas - Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR); Universidad de Santiago de Compostela; Universidade Católica Portuguesa – Centro Regional do Porto; Laboratório Ibérico Internacional de Nanotecnologia (INL); Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (FCUP); Centro Tecnológico del Mar (Fundación CETMAR)
Project website: cvmari.cetmar.org/?lang=en
Reference: 722467
LEPABE coordinator: Nuno F. Azevedo
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: H2020|ES|MSC - H2020|Excellence Science|Marie Curie
Start date: 01-01-2017 End date: 31-12-2020
Total funding: 2.265.900,10 € LEPABE funding: 238.356,36 €
Project leader: University of Helsinki
Partner institutions: LEPABE/FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto; Academic Medical Center; Aptuit Center for Drug Discovery & Development; Universiteit Gent; University of Antwerp; Voxdale BVBA; Warsaw University of Technology
Project website: printaid-etn.eu
Reference: ERA-MIN/0004/2015
LEPABE coordinator: Olga Nunes
Funding entity: FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Funding program: ERA-MIN is an ERA-NET network on the Industrial Handling of Raw Materials for European Industries, supported by the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme
Start date: 01-06-2016 End date: 31-12-2019
Total funding: 549.694,00 € LEPABE funding: 12.611,00 €
Project leader: Universidade de Coimbra
Industry partners: Beralt Tin And Wolfram Portugal, S.A.; EDM- Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro; GT Ingenieria S.A.; Geoplano, S.A.
Partner institutions: LEPABE/FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto; National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences (Roménia); National Research and Development Institute for Nonferrous and Rare Metals (Roménia); Universidad Nacional de San Luis (Argentina); Direction de Mineria de la Provincia de San Luis (Argentina); Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (Argentina)
PEMFC-SUDOE - Energy sustainability in the SUDOE region: Network SUDOE-PEMFC
Reference: SOE1/P1/E0293
LEPABE coordinator: Adélio Mendes
Funding entity: Interreg SUDOE
Start date: 01-07-2016 End date: 30-06-2019
Total funding: 1.359.500,00 € LEPABE funding: 87.445,00 €
Project leader: Universidad de Cantabria
Industry partners: APRIA, Systems S.L.; ARIEMA, Energia y Medioambiente S.L.; NanoInnova Technologies
Partner institutions: LEPABE/Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Institut de la Filtration et des Techniques Séparatives; Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse; Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, I.P.
GOTSolar - New technological advances for the third generation of Solar cells
Reference: 687008
LEPABE coordinator: Adélio Mendes
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: H2020|ES|FET - H2020|Excellence Science|FET
Start date: 01-01-2016 End date: 31-01-2019
Total funding: 2.993.404,00 € LEPABE funding: 670.046,00 €
Project leader: LEPABE/FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Industry partners: Dyesol UK; EFACEC Engenharia e Sistemas, S.A.
Partner institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Instytut Chemii Fizycznej Polskiej Akademii Nauk; University of Ulm
Project website: www.gotsolar.eu
Reference: INN-INDIGO/0001/2014
LEPABE coordinator: Luís Melo
Funding entity: H2020/ FCT
Funding program: ERA-NET - European Research Area networks
Start date: 02-10-2015 End date: 31-01-2019
Total funding: 199.944,00 € LEPABE funding: 199.944,00 €
Project leader: LEPABE/FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Bi-DSC - Building Integrated Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
Reference: 321315
LEPABE coordinator: Adélio Mendes
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: FP7 - European Commission
Start date: 01-03-2013 End date: 31-08-2018
Total funding: 1.989.300,00 € LEPABE funding: 1.989.300,00 €
Project leader: LEPABE/FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Project website: www.bi-dsc.pt
Reference: 621196
LEPABE coordinator: Adélio Mendes
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: FP7 - European Commission
Start date: 01-04-2014 End date: 31-07-2018
Total funding: 4.193.548,00 € LEPABE funding: 147.445,60 €
Project leader: Fundacion Tecnalia Research & Innovation Tecnalia
Industry partners: HyGear B.V.; ICI Caldaie S.p.A.; QUANTIS SÀRL
Partner institutions: LEPABE/Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto; Commissariat à l'Ènergie Atomique; Eindhoven University of Technology; Politecnico di Milano; Universitá Degli Studi di Salerno
Project website: www.fluidcell.eu
Flexible Glass-Based Proton Exchange Membrane and MEA for High Temperature PEMFC
Reference: FCT/MOST/China - 441.00
LEPABE coordinator: Marta Boaventura
Funding entity: China / FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Funding program: Acordo de Cooperação Portugal / China (MOST)
Start date: 01-04-2015 End date: 31-05-2018
Total funding: 14.400,00 € LEPABE funding: 14.400,00 €
Project leader: LEPABE/FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
ECoMarE - Emerging Contaminants in complex matrices from Marine
Reference: OTMED_MIO_ECOMARE_JIMENEZ
LEPABE coordinator: Nuno Ratola
Funding entity: OT-Med (France)
Funding program: OT- Med CALL 2017: SUPPORT TO SCIENTIFC EVENTS, MOBILITY AND SMALL
Start date: 01-11-2017 End date: 30-04-2018
Total funding: 7.890 € LEPABE funding: 3.945 €
Other partners: FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto; University of Helsinki
REELCOOP - Research Cooperation in Renewable Energy Technologies for Electricity Generation
Reference: 608466
LEPABE coordinator: Adélio Mendes
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: FP7 - European Commission
Start date: 01-09-2013 End date: 28-02-2018
Total funding: 7.476.483,00 € LEPABE funding: 690.600,00 €
Industry partners: IER - Ciemat; Laterizi Gambettola srl; Manitowoc Crane Group Portugal Lda.; Onyx Solar Energy S.L.
Other partners: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V.; Ecole Nationale d'Ingenieurs de Tunis; Institut de Recherche en Energie Solaire et Energies Nouvelles; Universidade de Évora; University of Reading; Yasar University
Project website: www.reelcoop.com
New and emerging challenges and opportunities in wastewater reuse
Reference: ES1403
LEPABE coordinator: Olga C. Nunes
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: COST - European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Start date: 2014 End date: 2018
Other partners: FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Reference: 621218
LEPABE coordinator: Adélio Mendes
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: FP7 - European Commission
Start date: 01-05-2014 End date: 31-10-2017
Total funding: 4.807.698,00 € LEPABE funding: 376.248,00 €
Industry partners: Genport power solutions; Powercell Sweden AB
Other partners: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland; FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto; Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH
Project website: pembeyond.eu
Reference: TRANSCAN/0001/2012
LEPABE coordinator: Manuel Neto Coelho
Funding entity: FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Funding program: Projectos de Cooperação Internacional
Start date: 24-04-2014 End date: 23-07-2017
Total funding: 1.132.539,00 € LEPABE funding: 179.084,00 €
Industry partners: SINTEF
Other partners: Medizinische Universität Innsbruck; EWIV- Central European Society for Anticancer Drug Research; FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto; Universitätsklinikum Erlangen
PECDEMO - Photoelectrochemical Demonstrator Device for Solar Hydrogen Generation
Reference: 621252
LEPABE coordinator: Adélio Mendes
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: FP7 - European Commission
Start date: 01-04-2014 End date: 31-03-2017
Total funding: 3.207.509,00 € LEPABE funding: 374.696,00 €
Industry partners: EVONIK Industries AG; Solaronix S.A.
Other partners: Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, GmbH; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V.; Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto; TECHNION - Israel Institute of Technology
Project website: pecdemo.epfl.ch
ITEACH - Improving Teaching Effectiveness in Chemical Engineering Education
Reference: 539959-LLP-1-2013-1-UK-ERASMUS-EQR
LEPABE coordinator: Luís Miguel Madeira
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: LLP - Lifelong Learning Programme
Start date: 01-10-2013 End date: 31-03-2017
Total funding: 532.915,00 € LEPABE funding: 70.056,00 €
Other partners: University of Newcastle Upon Tyne; Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto; International Balkan University; Slovak University of Technology; Technische Universität Dortmund; Université de Lorraine
Project website: www.iteach-chemeng.eu
Reference: 316296
LEPABE coordinator: Sofia Sousa
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: FP7 - European Commission
Start date: 01-10-2012 End date: 31-03-2016
Total funding: 1.615.224,00 € LEPABE funding: 13.320,00 €
Other partners: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Reference: 303476
LEPABE coordinator: Adélio Mendes
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: FP7 - European Commission
Start date: 01-09-2012 End date: 28-02-2016
Total funding: 4.220.237,00 € LEPABE funding: 486.089,00 €
Industry partners: INOVAMAIS - Serviços de Consultadoria em Inovação Tecnológica, S.A.; Rhodia Operations; Serenergy A/S
Other partners: FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche; GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTRE; Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus VTT; Universidade Politecnica de Valencia
EC2E2N2 - European Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Education Network 2
Reference: 526259-LLP-1-2012-1-FR-ERASMUS-ENW
LEPABE coordinator: Luís Miguel Madeira
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: LLP - Lifelong Learning Programme
Start date: 2012 End date: 2015
Total funding: 600.000,00 € LEPABE funding: 4.441,00 €
Other partners: École Supérieure de Chimie Physique Électronique de Lyon; Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
NOVOMAR - Consolidation of the Multipolar Centre for Valorization of Marine Resources
Reference: 0687_NOVOMAR_1_P
LEPABE coordinator: Luís Melo
Funding entity: Autoridade de Gestão do Programa Operacional de Cooperação Transfronteiriça Espanha-Portugal
Funding program: Programa Operacional de Cooperação Transfronteiriça Espanha-Portugal
Start date: 01-07-2013 End date: 31-10-2015
Total funding: 1.200.000,00 € LEPABE funding: 93.000,00 €
Other partners: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto; Universidade do Minho; Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas; Association for the Advancement of Tissue Engineering and Cell Based Technologies; CIIMAR-Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiente; Escola Superior de Biotecnologia da Universidade Católica Portuguesa; Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto; Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas de Abel Salazar
AIFooST - Analysis for improvement of the food safety training in the food and agricultural sector
Reference: 2013-1-TR1-LEO04-47850 5
LEPABE coordinator: Arminda Alves
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: LLP - Lifelong Learning Programme
Start date: 01-08-2013 End date: 31-07-2015
Total funding: 77.200,00 € LEPABE funding: 17.000,00 €
Industry partners: Betelgeux, SL
Other partners: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Development and characterization of titania-graphene composite photocatalysts
Reference: FCT/CAPES 4.4.1.00.01/2012
LEPABE coordinator: Luísa Andrade
Funding entity: FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Funding program: Acordo de Cooperação Portugal / Brasil (CAPES)
Start date: 01-01-2013 End date: 31-12-2014
Total funding: 2.250,00 € LEPABE funding: 2.250,00 €
Other partners: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
SUSCLEAN - Sustainable Cleaning and Disinfection in Fresh-Cut Food Industries
Reference: 287514
LEPABE coordinator: Luís Melo
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: FP7 - European Commission
Start date: 01-01-2012 End date: 31-12-2014
Total funding: 3.859.573,00 € LEPABE funding: 304.160,00 €
Industry partners: AD Nucleis; AguaCure Limited; Freeze-Agro-Ingenierie; Innosieve Diagnostics BV; INRA TRANSFERT S.A.; Jürgen Löhrke GmbH; REALCO; SinapTec; TOP B.V.; Vitacress Portugal - Sgps S.a
Other partners: FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique; Asociación de Investigación de la Industria Agroalimentaria; Association pour le Développement de la Recherche Appliquée aux Industries Agro-Alimentaires des Régions du Nord; Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V.; Technische Universitat Braunschweig
Reference: 217976
LEPABE coordinator: Luís Melo
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: FP7 - European Commission
Start date: 01-02-2009 End date: 31-01-2013
Total funding: 7.447.708,00 € LEPABE funding: 559.160,00 €
Industry partners: Kelda Group Ltd; Three Valleys Water
Other partners: FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto; Université Henri Poincaré Nancy 1; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Centre National du Machinisme Agricole, du Génie Rural des Eaux et des Forêts; Commissariat à l'Ènergie Atomique; GIE Anjou-Recherche; IWW Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wasserforschung gGmbH; KANSANTERVEYSLAITOS; Monitoring Systems Ltd; Rigas Tehniska Universitate; SATEILYTURVAKESKUS; University of Southampton
Development of carbon-nanomaterials for the treatment of effluents by advanced oxidation processes
Reference: E-24/11
LEPABE coordinator: Luís Miguel Madeira
Funding entity: CRUP - Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas
Funding program: Acções Integradas Luso-Espanholas
Start date: 01-01-2011 End date: 31-12-2012
Total funding: 4.000,00 € LEPABE funding: 4.000,00 €
Other partners: FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto; Universidad de Granada
EC2E2N - European Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Education Network
Reference: 155975-LLP-1-2009-1-FR-ERASMUS
LEPABE coordinator: Sebastião Feyo de Azevedo
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: LLP - Lifelong Learning Programme
Start date: 01-10-2009 End date: 30-09-2012
Total funding: 1.767.250,00 € LEPABE funding: 4.441,00 €
Other partners: École Supérieure de Chimie Physique Électronique de Lyon; Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Ecopharmabuilding - Eco-Innovation of Pharmaceutical Buildings Supporting in Sustainable LCA Tools
Reference: ECO/08/239082/SI2.540164
LEPABE coordinator: Teresa Mata
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: CIP - Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme
Start date: 01-10-2009 End date: 30-09-2012
Total funding: 1.526.550,00 € LEPABE funding: 100.417,00 €
Industry partners: Altair Ingeniería; Praxis Pharmaceuticals S.A.; Remoin Pharmaceutical System Plants
Other partners: Fundacion Tecnalia Research & Innovation Tecnalia; Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
NanoPEC - Nanostructured photoelectrodes for energy conversion
Reference: 227179
LEPABE coordinator: Adélio Mendes
Funding entity: European Commission
Funding program: FP7 - European Commission
Start date: 01-01-2009 End date: 31-12-2011
Total funding: 3.599.879,00 € LEPABE funding: 356.872,00 €
Industry partners: ENI S.P.A.
Other partners: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Eidgenoessische Materialpruefungs- Und Forschungsanstalt; TECHNION - Israel Institute of Technology; Technische Universiteit Delft; Universitet I Oslo; Uniwersytet Warszawski; Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Characetrization of molinate degrading enzymes
Reference: Acção Nº A-5/10
LEPABE coordinator: Olga C. Nunes
Funding entity: CRUP - Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas
Funding program: Acções Integradas Luso-Alemãs
Start date: 01-01-2010 End date: 31-12-2011
Total funding: 2.500,00 € LEPABE funding: 2.500,00 €
Other partners: FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Functional nanoparticles for stabilization of amyloid beta-peptides
Reference: E 34/09
LEPABE coordinator: Maria do Carmo Pereira
Funding entity: CRUP - Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas
Funding program: Acções Integradas Luso-Espanholas
Start date: 01-01-2009 End date: 31-12-2010
Total funding: 4.000,00 € LEPABE funding: 4.000,00 €
Other partners: FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
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