A cooperation protocol between the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL) and the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), was signed in 2008 and it envisaged the promotion of the exchange of post-graduate students, the teaching/research staff mobility, common co-ordination and supervision and the education and science materials exchange, among other topics.

This agreement between ITAS-KIT and FCT-UNL defines the conditions and mutual commitment of these institutions in establishing a Joint Doctoral Initiative on Technology Assessment, developed and organized jointly by the parties.