Participating Institutions

	The Faculty of Sciences and Technology (FCT NOVA), Campus of Caparica is one of the most prestigious Portuguese engineering and science public schools and it is engaged in extensive research activity developed in 16 research centres involving 1600 PhD and Master’s students of the total enrolment of 7800. With a total of 550 academic staff (90% holding a Ph.D) and 180 non-academic staff, FCT NOVA is organized in 14 departments and 14 support services. Link: http://www.fct.unl.pt/en
	The LIBPhys-UNL is the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa group of the research unit LIBPhys (Laboratory for Instrumentation, Biomedical Engineering and Radiation Physics). The R&D activities of LIBPhys are developed in the areas of atomic, molecular, nuclear physics and electronic & industrial automation instrumentation with applications to analytical methods, radiation detection, and biomedical engineering. Link: http://www.libphys.fct.unl.pt
	Volkswagen Autoeuropa is one of automobile production plants of German Volkswagen Group. It operates in the region of Palmela and started the production in 1995. It represents the largest foreign investment to date made in Portugal, having a very positive impact on the national and regional economy. Volkswagen Autoeuropa incorporates the values set by Volkswagen: value creation, innovation and responsibility. Link: https://www.volkswagenautoeuropa.pt/
	NGNS is an enterprise of technological ideas, observant of the market and its demands, that promotes innovation by developing solutions and equipments, according to the needs of its clients, using new concepts and avant-garde technologies. Its aim is the conception of technologically advanced solutions that generate process efficiency and promote business. Link: http://www.ngns-is.com/eng/Empresa_eng.html
	Plux creates innovative products for OEMs, clinicians and researchers, by developing advanced biosignals monitoring platforms that integrates wearable body sensors combined with wireless connectivity, algorithms and software applications. Link: http://www.plux.info/index.php/en/
	NMT – Tecnologia, Inovação e Consultoria, S.A., is a technological basis company, which emerged in late 2007, with the “NeoMediTec” project, approved and funded by the Innovation Agency (ADI), under the initiative NEOTEC – New Technology based companies. At the same time, we recorded our first trademark, NeoMediTec®. Since NMT creation, we have been devoted almost exclusively to research and development of devices in the Health and Biomedical Engineering areas, being registered in the business sector CAE 72190: Other research and development of physical and natural sciences. Link: http://www.madanparque.pt/pt/empresa/nmt
	The NOVA Medical School\|Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (NMS\|FCM) is Universidade NOVA de Lisboa’s (NOVA) medical school since 1977. With 1.679 undergraduate students (25% of whom attend or attended international mobility programmes), NMS\|FCM has 356 postgraduate students and 414 professors and researchers (30% of whom with a PhD degree). Link: http://www.fcm.unl.pt/