A research, development and innovation (RDI) project, which aims through a set of critical phases to respond to the challenges identified, such as management, digital transformation, the transition to the bioeconomy, the reduction of environmental impacts and sustainability.
Taking advantage of the “Excellence in the production organization” initiative, an RDI project will be developed which, through different critical phases, can identify the areas/themes with a real impact on production organizations, focused on the necessary dual green and digital transition, capable of simultaneously contributing to improving the food trade balance in an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable manner. This project therefore appears to be fundamental to the modernization of the cereals sector, which, faced with the growing and repeated demands placed on it on a daily basis, must modernize and enhance national production, as this is the only way to increase the competitiveness of its producers and their organizations in a globalized world.

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The “Accelerate and Transform Tourism Agenda” was one of the projects selected under the Mobilizing Agendas for business innovation of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR). This agenda is promoted by a business and academic consortium of 44 entities, jointly promoted by the Confederation of Tourism of Portugal (CTP), Turismo de Portugal and NEST – Tourism Innovation Centre, and proposes to develop and implement an advanced and innovative concept of “Costumer Journey”, which will involve the implementation of disruptive and innovative solutions in selected focuses throughout the tourist experience. The recommended solutions intend to cover both the tourist attraction phase and the complete journey throughout the experience, including after the end of the experience.

It is intended, thus, to contribute to the change of the profile of specialization in the area of Tourism and in the Portuguese economy in general, to provide companies with greater technological capacity and innovation, also allowing a requalification and specialization of human resources and the reduction of CO2 emissions, taking into account the necessary climate transition.

To achieve this objective, the project/Agenda will focus on 8 implementing axes, namely:

1. Digitization directed to the entry and exit of tourists – Airports (digital pillar);
2. Digitization of Territories (digital pillar);
3. Conversation with the Tourist (digital pillar);
4. Experience 5.0;
5. Digitalization – Tourist experience (digital pillar);
6. Digital and Ecological Transformation in Mobility;
7. Sustainability of the Tourism Sector;
8. Management, Promotion and Communication Agenda.

It is intended to achieve a high level of digitalization and sustainability in tourism.

With its “Clean Energy for All Europeans” (PESCO) package, the European Commission has formally recognised and instrumentally presented community energy projects, including definitions of “Renewable Energy Communities” (RECs) and “Citizens’ Communities for Energy” (CEC). The new concepts introduced in PESCO pave the way for a more active role for EU citizens in energy markets. In order to fully realise the benefits envisaged by PESCO, it is necessary to overcome a myriad of obstacles and to make progress in clarifying and rationalising the concepts of REC and ECC, allowing for their adoption by all concerned citizens.

Motivated by this challenge, COMMUNITAS will promote energy citizenship, allowing citizens to take control of their own path to sustainability, becoming an active element of the energy system.

The project will provide a knowledge base that will provide users with technical, administrative and legal information on the Energy Communities (EC), simplifying the creation and expansion of this concept. COMMUNITAS will also provide an innovative set of tools – capitalizing on technologies such as IoT, Blockchain and Cloud Computing – to unlock active citizen participation in energy markets and communities (all integrated into an open, digital and “one-stop-shop” central COMMUNITAS (CCP) platform), enabling EC members to have an aggregate position in energy markets or exploit ancillary services using different energy assets or load profiles of the community.

Being a project that aims to put citizens at the center of energy markets, COMMUNITAS has citizens at the center of its own approach: citizens will be involved in the Social and Political Laboratories throughout the project, so as to frequently integrate their reactions, desires and needs into the project’s developments.

CIM Viseu Dão Lafões application to the Operational Program of the Central Region (CENTRO-06-1406-FEDER-000111) designated “Soft Mobility in Viseu Dão Lafões – Intermunicipal Project for the Promotion of Sustainable Multimodal Urban Mobility” has approved.

In this context, CIM Viseu Dão Lafões intends to implement a Mobility Management Platform of the region (Smart Mobility), which ensures the monitoring and support of mobility management, supporting transport operations appropriate to the articulation between urban territories and territories of low population density, including flexible transport solutions and soft mobility and, in the near future, through the appropriate connectors, interoperability with more use cases and other innovative areas, in particular with subsystems that compete, especially in more urban areas, for smarter and more efficient management of territories.

The activities to be developed are as follows:

1. Detailed analysis of the different data repositories existing in the context of mobility (bikesharing, public transport, flexible transport system, traffic feeds, public parking, electric charging), with regard to: data typology (internal and external); storage mode; cleaning and treatment needs; update protocols; transformation and visualization models; and their internal and external interoperability;
2. Elaboration of a proposal for a basic architecture and a data and information management model necessary to ensure the quality, timeliness and stability of the repositories that will be integrated into the open data initiative (a model that, with the necessary adaptations, will also have to be ensured by external partners, if any);
3. Elaboration of a state of the art of alternatives in terms of open data spatial platforms, currently in production that can be adapted to the identified objectives regardless of their architecture with regard to the basic model (open source or hybrid code);
4. Elaboration of a model proposal to be followed in the implementation of the Smart Mobility platform, including the integration of the different internal sources in the bottom-up strand and the aggregation of external sources in the top-down strands;
5. Development of analytical models on existing data internally and on those capable of being integrated externally, within the scope of mobility;
6. Identification, characterization and development of dynamic dashboards adapted in the triple strand intermunicipal/municipal platform on the web;
7. Implementation of a cockpit / management dashboard (web and smartphone), aiming to cover the need to provide information publicly, ensuring an information service of the territory by municipality, in the context of mobility, with a situation of the dynamics of the municipality;
8. Support for the development of a mobility management platform for the region (Smart Mobility), which will ensure, in the near future, and through the appropriate connectors, its interoperability with more use cases and other innovative areas, namely with the subsystems that compete, especially in the most urban areas, for a smarter and more efficient management of the territories.

The platform to be implemented will aim to contribute to monitoring and supporting the management of mobility in the region, supporting the information of transport operations appropriate to the articulation between urban territories and territories of low population density, including flexible transport and soft mobility solutions.

Provision of technical support services for the preparation of the Study of the Integration of Digital Strategies in the Management of Packaging Waste in the context of Smart Regions, within the scope of the Oeste + Recicla project, funded by the Program “Environment, Climate Change and Low Carbon Economy”, of the EEA Grants 2014-2021.

The Project aims to establish a deposit refund system for non-reusable beverage bottles in Portugal. The objective is to increase the application of circular economy principles in specific sectors, in production and consumption, through the implementation of a deposit and return system for plastic bottles in all Municipalities of the West Region involving a partner from Norway – Empower, an entity with experience in building a global plastic waste ecosystem based on the same philosophy as the Norwegian bottle deposit system through the use of technology.

The incentive system consists of awarding a prize to the final consumer for the return of non-reusable plastic beverage packaging, with a view to guaranteeing its forwarding for recycling and the production of high quality recycled material, compatible with the necessary requirements for the incorporation in the production of new beverage bottles, promoting the maximization of the circularity of recovered materials.

The general objectives of the Project are:

1. Increase the application of circular economy principles in the beverage bottle sector;
2. Contribute to the implementation of deposit solutions for plastic bottles;
3. Contribute to the implementation of the pilot deposit refund system for non-reusable beverage packaging, namely plastic bottles;
4. Contribute to the selective collection of non-reusable plastic beverage packaging waste, aiming to achieve a direct positive impact on collection rates, the quality of the material collected and the quality of recycled materials, generating opportunities for the recycling sector and the recycled materials market;
5. Contribute to the increase in the collection and recycling of beverage bottles, with a view to meeting European and national targets for the selective collection of beverage bottles and the recycling of plastic packaging waste;
6. Promote and develop advanced reverse logistics systems for the recovery of packaging that will include any categories of beverages sold on the national market for the final customer, as well as plastic/metal packaging;
7. Promote the involvement of the population, through a communication plan, which disseminates and publicizes the pilot project and which includes information and awareness actions inducing the adoption of sustainable and circular behaviors;
8. Disseminate the project’s best practices to involve new public and private actors in the development and implementation of solutions for depositing plastic bottles.

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The Defense data repository is fed almost entirely by data entered into the National Defense Integrated Management System (SIGDN), in the areas of Human Resources, Finance and Logistics, which are collected and processed by the General Staff of the Armed Forces (EMGFA), the Armed Forces Branches, IASFA and the Central Services of the Ministry of National Defense.
To these transactional data are added analytical data, originating from the SIGDN system transactional data, which after extracted from the source system and transformed by routines run daily, are loaded into their own data structures, forming a Data Warehouse, which allows for the analysis of data from various perspectives, as well as to observe its evolution over time, thus taking greater advantage of the large volume of data, which would not otherwise be possible.
The ability to create more value from all this National Defense data, taking advantage of modern tools with advanced analytical capabilities in predictive and prescriptive aspects, using emerging technologies of machine learning and artificial intelligence, making them available to users in a very accessible, flexible, self-service and reusable way, allowing them to make more and, above all, better decisions, are the structural changes that this project aims to achieve.
The intention is to make stored data available in the form of valuable and reliable information to support decision making. For this purpose, data internal to the National Defense may be complemented by external data of various kinds, structured and unstructured, making use of data from other Public Administration bodies or any other source.

The project aims to provide the Intermunicipal Community of the West with the first integrated analytical platform for intermunicipal territorial intelligence that, in a big data and data science approach, will offer the ability to collect, store, process and analyze data from operating systems and networks of municipal sensors integrated with the data generated by the public Wi-Fi networks of the municipalities covered, change the tourism and hospitality planning and management paradigm in a Smart & Sustainable Tourism approach.

Understanding the interaction of people with the territory of CIM Oeste, based on data from the registration and use of Wi-Fi access points (involving the space and time dimensions in the analysis), the project will provide an application that better the experience of those who visit , lives and works in the intermunicipal community taking advantage of the crossing of data from municipal operating systems with data originating from Wi-Fi networks, aiming to provide dynamic information in space and time and supporting contextual marketing actions.

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The “SMARTBEACH” project aims to increase the maritime safety capacity, to increase the safety of bathers and other users of the space corresponding to the Maritime Public Domain, to improve the prevention and safeguard of human life, and also provide electronic services to the public administration and citizens.

The project will make it possible to transform the way in which the State acquires, treats, shares and uses information relating to the enjoyment of the coastline, especially in beach and bathing areas, particularly in terms of prevention, safety, flow management, planning and management economic activities, with a direct impact on the security of citizens.

The SMARTBEACH Project aims to develop an IT platform that collects and handles all the information available in the various bodies and structures of the National Maritime Authority and Local Authorities, as well as other public entities such as the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) and of the Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests (ICNF), with responsibilities in the field of safety and management of the territory on the coastline, allowing its insertion in a database, enabling its analysis and relationship with internal and external information, developing interfaces with other systems. This territorial intelligence platform (pilot project) will provide territories with an analytical tool capable of supporting governance in prevention, security, planning and management decisions.

As a pilot, the Oeste region was selected for its tourist potential, as well as for the conditions offered by its beaches, due to its conditions and population density.

The “SMARTBEACH” project aims to increase the maritime safety capacity, to increase the safety of bathers and other users of the space corresponding to the Maritime Public Domain, to improve the prevention and safeguard of human life, and also provide electronic services to the public administration and citizens.

The project will make it possible to transform the way in which the State acquires, treats, shares and uses information relating to the enjoyment of the coastline, especially in beach and bathing areas, particularly in terms of prevention, safety, flow management, planning and management economic activities, with a direct impact on the security of citizens.

The SMARTBEACH Project aims to develop an IT platform that collects and handles all the information available in the various bodies and structures of the National Maritime Authority and Local Authorities, as well as other public entities such as the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) and of the Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests (ICNF), with responsibilities in the field of safety and management of the territory on the coastline, allowing its insertion in a database, enabling its analysis and relationship with internal and external information, developing interfaces with other systems. This territorial intelligence platform (pilot project) will provide territories with an analytical tool capable of supporting governance in prevention, security, planning and management decisions.

As a pilot, the Oeste region was selected for its tourist potential, as well as for the conditions offered by its beaches, due to its conditions and population density.

The Região Inteligente do Algarve (RIA) was a challenge launched at the 1st meeting of the Regional Innovation Council of the Algarve (CIRA), this Council being an advisory body to the Algarve Regional Coordination and Development Commission (CCDR Algarve), foreseen in the Regional Strategy for Research and Innovation for Intelligent Specialization (RIS3 Algarve) involving about 70 entities. After approval by CIRA members, a working group was created composed of supra-municipal entities and specialists to discuss this issue and point out ways to achieve the RIA.

This application aims, therefore, to strengthen the training of the entities that integrate the partnership, namely the respective technical teams, but also to contribute to the training of regional stakeholders, involving them and making them an effective part of the joint construction processes of the Algarve Smart Region, based on the digitization of the economy and the promotion of regional development.

For the materialization of this application, the importance of networking is highlighted, being presented by a partnership led by CCDR Algarve and with the following entities: Universidade do Algarve, Algarve Tourism Region and Algarve Intermunicipal Community (CIM Algarve) .

More specifically, provide the Observatory with a strategy for the development of a data infrastructure that will support the creation of online monitoring dashboards on the evolution of tracking indicators.

Activities to be developed:

• Constitution (creation and implementation) of a virtual platform for the National Desertification Observatory;
• Creation and development of an open data portal on desertification that gathers, in a single point, of free access, without charging the user, the information obtained within the scope of the Observatory’s activity, with interconnection to the relevant databases of other entities;
• Promotion and monitoring of the constitution and operation of online monitoring panels (dashboards), supported by the open data portal, for monitoring the relevant indicators in the context of the National Observatory for Desertification;
• Implementation of support activities.

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The operation involves a global investment of around 2.2 million euros, with 80% ERDF co-financing, aiming to deepen the simplification and dematerialization of processes, in a logic of harmonization between the various municipalities in the region and to consolidate the investments made in making available integrated public services online, through new platforms for interaction with citizens, companies and visitors.

The project consists of four major components:

• Process management: Process reengineering and architecture in specific areas of municipal services such as customer service, archiving and documents digitalization, occurrence management and event management, in a logic of simplification and dematerialization of processes.
• Communication: Provision of new tools for interacting with citizens, economic agents and tourists, through the creation of supramunicipal electronic platforms for the areas of occurrence management and event management and the development of new municipal portals that are more interactive and compatible with mobile devices;
• Image and dissemination: Creation of a corporate image, implementation of actions to promote and disseminate the activities of the project and the holding of a seminar to share experiences and good practices at national level;
• Project management: Coordination of the physical and financial execution of the application and representation of the partnership with the Management Authority of CRESC ALGARVE 2020.

The Competitive Intelligence Center (CIC), is an Alentejo-scale R&I project, focused on valuing knowledge, using data, and transferring it to economic and business activities, from sectors and ranks of endogenous resources, with a view to technological development of companies, their internationalization and the promotion of competitiveness in national and international markets.

Through the analysis and management of information and data science, it is intended, in an analytical way, to create a competitive advantage, lacking, in what concerns the forecasts of demand and profile of the markets, substantiating itself in knowledge. This knowledge is transferred to companies, processing in the technological development of their products and services, adapting them to new patterns of demand and market trends, through for example a new packaging, a differentiating use of the product or even a new storage solution.