"International Cooperation in Research: a Case Study

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1 "International Cooperation in Research: a Case Study

2 The Institution International Cooperation Research Performance and Impact Research & Innovation International Cooperation in Research

3 The Institution 1983 Bragança Polytechnic Institute (IPB) School of Agriculture (ESA) School of Education (ESE) 1990 School of Technology and Management (ESTiG) 1995 School of Communication, Administration and Tourism (EsACT) (Mirandela) 2001 School of Health (ESSa) (integration of the Nursing School,1971)

4 The Institution IPB 32 Years 5 Schools 7000 Students >20000 Graduates

5 IPB Degree Programmes 33 Technological Specialization Courses (short first cycle) 42 Bachelor programs (1 st Cycle) 36 Master programs (2 nd Cycle) PhD programmes in cooperation with national and international HEI

6 IPB Degree Programmes Study areas: Arts, Communication and Multimedia Agriculture Sciences and Natural Resources Business Sciences and Law Education and Teachers Training Health Sciences and Social Protection Technologies, Engineering Tourism, Sports and Leisure Please consult the IPB ECTS Guide (Course Catalogue) for degree programmes (course structure and course contents) at.

7 International Cooperation

8 An International Community Angola, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cape Verde, China, Czech Republic, East Timor, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Mozambique, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, São Tomé and Príncipe, Slovakia, Spain and Turkey

9 International Cooperation Mobility Program (Erasmus) Since 15 years ago, involving 22 European countries; In the Top 100 of HEI receiving visiting professors; In the Top 500 of HEI with higher students mobility; IPB is the Portuguese HEI with the highest number of Erasmus Intensive Programmes: since 2007, 14 IPs as coordinator and 16 IPs as partner.

10 International Cooperation Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership: Improvement of Innovative Teaching Methods in the Fields of Technology and Chemical Engineering According to the Best Standards of the Bologna Process, with Cracow University of Technology (Poland) ( ). Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership: Experimental Education Competence, with Kauno Kolegija University of Applied Sciences (Lithuania) ( ). Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership: Business Education for Sustainability: Teaching Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Local and Regional Development, with International University College (Bulgaria) ( ). Tempus IV: Leading and Managing Change in Higher Education, with International University College (Bulgaria) ( ). Comenius Multilateral Project: Interactive Teaching Materials Across Culture and Technology ( ), with Ludwigsburg University of Education (Germany) ( ). Comenius Multilateral Network: Chemistry Is All Around Network, with University of Genova (Itália) ( ).

11 International Cooperation ERASMUS-MUNDUS External Cooperation Window: Educational Exchange Network for Higher Academia Gap Narrowing Between Central/South America and Europe, with Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain) ( ) Thematic Network: Dieticians Improving the Education and Training Standards, with University of Plymouth (UK) ( and ). Leonardo da Vinci - Transfer of Innovation: Validation of immigrants vocational skills and competences in tourism and services as an integration warrant in the EU, with International Management Institute (Bulgaria) ( ). Key Activity 1: Implement Agriculture Qualifications, with Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi Telemática (Italy) ( ). Leonardo da Vinci - Pilot Project: Educational strategies for the promotion of Natural heritage, with GeoCultural Park of Eastern Aegean (Greece) ( ). Erasmus Curricular Development: Development and implementation of Joint Programme in International Business Management, with Klaipeda College of Social Sciences (Lithuania) ( ).

12 Certification and Evaluation

13 Institutional Certification and Evaluation

14 Institutional Certification and Evaluation First evaluation process, June 2007: ( ) At national level, IPB is one of the more successful polytechnics, and competes in some areas with the best of universities. (...) Follow-up, March 2012: ( ) IPB has made significant progress over the last five years, thanks to the commitment of leadership and staff, and their ability to develop and implement institutional reform. The Team would like to stress the enormous potential of IPB: it is an excellent example of how learning and research do not stop at the door of schools and departments.(...)

15 Research and Technological Development

16 Research Performance and Impact RESEARCH INDICATORS: Output (O): Total number of documents published in scholarly journals indexed in Scopus. This is a size-dependent indicator. International Collaboration (IC): Institution's output ratio produced in collaboration with foreign institutions. This is a size-independent indicator. Normalized Impact (NI): Normalized Impact of led output. The normalization of the citation values is done on an individual article level. This is a sizeindependent indicator. High Quality Publications (Q1): Ratio of publications that an institution publishes in the most influential scholarly journals of the world, those ranked in the first quartile (25%) in their categories as ordered by SCImago Journal Rank (SJRII) indicator. This is a size-independent indicator. Specialization Index (Spec): Indicates the extent of thematic concentration/dispersion of an institution s scientific output. This indicator is sizeindependent. Excellence Rate (Exc): Indicates the amount (in %) of an institution s scientific output that is included into the set of the 10% of the most cited papers in their respective scientific fields. It is a measure of high quality output of research institutions. This is a size-independent indicator. Scientific Leadership (Lead): Indicates the percentage of an institution s output as main contributor, that is, the amount of papers in which the corresponding author belongs to the institution. This is a size-independent indicator. Excellence with Leadership (EwL): Excellence with Leadership indicates the amount of documents in the Excellence rate in which the institution is the main contributor. This is a size-independent indicator.

17 Research Performance and Impact COUNTRY RANKING: 16/42 Higher Education Institutions 4/15 Public Polytechnics

18 Research Performance and Impact INDICATORS RANKING: IC: 24/42 (HEI); 6/15 (PP) NI: 2/42 (HEI); 1/15 (PP) Q1: 16/42 (HEI); 1/15 (PP) Spec: 21/42 (HEI); 7/15 (PP) Exc: 6/42 (HEI); 1/15 (PP) Lead: 3/42 (HEI); 1/15 (PP) EwL: 1/42 (HEI); 1/15 (PP) Number 1 in 5 out of 7 indicators for the public Polytechnics

19 Research Performance and Impact

20 Research Performance and Impact INNOVATION INDICATORS (2014): Innovative Knowledge: Scientific publication output from an institution cited in patents. This indicator is size-dependent.

21 Research Performance and Impact INNOVATION INDICATORS (2014): Technological Impact: Percentage of the scientific publication output cited in patents. This indicator is size-independent

22 Research Performance and Impact Teaching & Learning Research Knowledge Transfer International Orientation Regional Engagement

23 Research Performance and Impact

24 The Academic Staff Qualified academic staff 335 FTE Lecturers, from wich 218 hold a Ph.D. degree

25 The Researchers Community 38% of researchers are integrated members of research units or associated laboratories; 16% of researchers are invited members of research units or associated laboratories; 46% of researchers are not integrated members of R&D units. 25

26 The Research Centers Mountain Research Center (CIMO) CIMO aims at studying and valorising mountain natural resources, forest and agriculture ecosystems, and local products in order to develop sustainable systems economically, socially and environmentally. Research groups (56 PhD): - Food Safety and Technology (FST); - Marginal Land Ecosystem Services (MLES); - Mountain Farming Systems (MFS).

27 The Research Centers Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM (Pole) The mission of LSRE-LCM is to contribute for the development of scientific and technological know-how in the Chemical Engineering areas of Separation and Reaction Processes, Product Engineering, Catalysis and Carbon Materials, Thermodynamics and Environmental Engineering. Research groups (56 PhD, from which 10 the IPB pole): - Cyclic Adsorption/Reaction Processes; - Product Engineering; - Thermodynamics & Environment; - Catalysis and Carbon Materials.

28 The Research Centers Research Center on Sports, Health Sciences and Human Development ( CIDESD, Pole) Research groups (45 PhD): - Sports performance (performance analysis, genetic, physiological and biomechanical analysis, strength and conditioning); - Health/physical activity and health, health systems and services/health promotion); - Professional and pedagogical intervention.

29 The Research Centers Other R&I units based at IPB: Centre of Competences in Communication, Administration and Tourism Centre for Research and Intervention in the Elderly Community Applied Research Unit on Management (41 PhD)

30 AREAS OF RESEARCH: 1 st level CORDIS list Research & Innovation

31 Research & Innovation AREAS OF RESEARCH: 2 nd level CORDIS list 31

32 Sectors Research & Innovation

33 Keywords Research & Innovation

34 Societal Challenges (H2020) Research & Innovation

35 Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies (H2020) Research & Innovation

36 Research & Innovation

37 Research & Innovation

38 Research & Innovation

39 Research & Innovation The TRADEIT project is a multidisciplinary, multi-sectorial collaborative project supporting a Network of stakeholders in Traditional Food Production in the areas of Collaboration, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Knowledge and Technology to increase the competitiveness and interregional advantage of participating SMEs. The SIMWOOD project aims to increase the mobilisation of wood from forests and woodlands in Europe. The project reaches out to stakeholders and regional initiatives with the aim of waking up and mobilising forest owners, promoting collaborative forest management and ensuring sustainable forest functions.

40 Research & Innovation The GRACE project is in line with the current need to build modular, intelligent and distributed manufacturing control systems. The GRACE system will act at the Distributed Control System (DCS) and Manufacturing Execution System (MES) levels, implementing the sharing of process critical information between and inside the two layers. This results in a more efficient management of resources and a higher final product quality. The ARUM project aims to improve planning and control systems for complex, small-lot products manufacturing, such as aircraft, aircraft interiors, and ships. ARUM proposes to develop an intelligent Enterprise Service- Based platform (i-esb). The platform will integrate a service-based architecture with a knowledge-based Multi- Agent System.

41 International Cooperation in Research How to promote International Cooperation in the field of Research and Innovation????

42 International Cooperation in Research A case study: the AgroAli@EU project The Mission of IPB includes the promotion of R&D activities, namely in cooperation with enterprises, and the contribution to the development of Portugal and the TMAD Region. To this end IPB offers its technical, technological and scientific competences to the community in general. Issues: 1) The relatively low participation of Portuguese HEI and SMEs in the 7FP; 2) The still relatively low interaction between Portuguese HEI and SMEs in the context of R&D activities; Objective of the Call for Proposals (QREN): To promote the participation of Portuguese Organisations, namely SMEs, in the 7FP.

43 International Cooperation in Research A case study: the AgroAli@EU project Strategy defined to tackle the objectives of this specific Call for Proposals: 1) Select an economic activity relevant to the Country and the Region; 2) Establish partnerships with the major stakeholders. Sector: Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology. Partners: National Agrifood Cluster (PortugalFoods), Federation of Portuguese Agrifood Industry (FIPA) and Regional Enterprises Association (NERBA)

44 International Cooperation in Research A case study: the AgroAli@EU project Project implementation strategy: 1) Collection of needs and opportunities of the Portuguese agrifood sector; 2) Dissemination of information about the opportunities offered by the 7FP; 3) Definition of R&D topics of interest in face of the identified needs/opportunities and of the planned 7FP Calls; 4) Setting-up of a partner search/offer communication system; 5) Promotion and support to the participation in 7FP project proposals (involvement in consortia, proposal development, and negotiation of successful applications).

45 International Cooperation in Research A case study: the AgroAli@EU project Action plan (activities): 1) Organisation of information dissemination sessions, and of brokerage and partnering events, in collaboration with the strategic partners; 2) Participation in events organised by international organisations with the objective of promoting the set-up of consortia for 7FP applications; 3) Support to the elaboration, submission and negotiation of project proposals. Timeframe: 01/07/ /01/2014

46 International Cooperation in Research A case study: the AgroAli@EU project Major results: Organisation of 9 events (North and Centre Portugal)

47 International Cooperation in Research A case study: the AgroAli@EU project Major results: Participation in 3 international events: 1) Forest-based Sector Technology Platform: 2012 Joint Partnering Event for FP7 Projects and Cost Actions in the Area of the Forest-Based Bio-Economy ; 2) DG Research and Innovation: National Info Day 2013 KBBE Funding Opportunities ; 3) DG Research and Innovation: Info Day and Brokerage Event on Call FP7-KBBE

48 International Cooperation in Research A case study: the AgroAli@EU project Major results: Promotion of 17 7FP applications (target was 10 applications); Participation of 12 Portuguese organisations (from which 10 SMEs from the North, Centre and Alentejo Regions) in 7FP proposals, with a total budget of 5,762,304 ; Five proposals were approved (target was 4, success rate: 29% - national average: 19%), representing a total budget of 1,889,426 for the Portuguese partners (i.e. 33% of the budget applied for). Return on Investment: 19.6 (euros of FP7 budget per euro invested)

49 A case study: the project International Cooperation in Research

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