The University of Porto (Universidade do Porto) is a the biggest Portuguese public university located in Oporto, Portugal, founded in March 22, 1911, and composed of 14 Faculties and a post-graduate business school (Architecture, Arts, Biomedical Sciences, Dental Medicine, Economics, Engineering, Fine Arts, Food and Nutritional Sciences, Law, Medicine, Pharmacy, Psychology and Educational Sciences, Science, and Sports).
More than 30 000 students (4 000 postgraduate) attend the courses provided by U.Porto, among 63 graduate degree courses, 160 master courses, and doctoral degree and other specialization courses, supported by 2300 lecturers and a technical and administrative staff of 1600 people.
The development of strong links with the community (national and international) is one of the University's main concerns. For this, the U.Porto Innovation – University of Porto Innovation office, located in the rectorate of the University of Porto, is the Technology Transfer Office of University of Porto. It acts as an interface between the members of the University and the community in order to contribute to a social involvement of the University within the society (companies, independent research groups, other universities, etc.), through series of activities such as: promotion of interdisciplinary R&D; protection and valorization of R&D results; involvement of all U.Porto´s stakeholders in the process of technology transfer and in building an entrepreneurship culture; granting and encouraging the innovation already initiated; stimulation of U.Porto’s researchers to apply to national and international funding programmes.
