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.