University Fernando Pessoa and its teaching staff participate in several R&D projects.

European projects:

• European Commission – DG MOVE
  • CIVITAS ELAN (finished)

Projects supported by Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian:

• Measuring value in oncology
• Health in prision: program to promote health literacy among peers in the prison context

Projects supported by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia:

• ACCuseD – Renal Cancer detection: a translational metabolomics research based on Volatile Organic Compounds fingerprinting
• BONAMIDI – Bone response to nanostructured and micropatterned surfaces in zirconia dental implants
• CD-ROM PO.EX: Portuguese experimental poetry, notebooks and catalogues (finished)
• Children and justice: an analysis of children’s understanding of legal terminology and court proceedings
• Computational studies of organic reactions catalysed by transition metals
• DYNOZONE – Total column and surface ozone variability over the Iberian Peninsula: Dynamical and Chemical atmospheric factors (finished)
• Hybrid Photobioreactors, Containing Microstructured Optical Fibres Aimed at Operating with Microalgae (OPTIC-ALGAE)
• IGaSHH – Impact of Gas Station Benzene Emissions on Human Health
• Improvements in cerebral blood perfusion and perfusion of body organs during anesthesia
• Ionic liquids as active ingredients
• Management of indoor air quality in health units
• Navigating by fungi associated with marine organisms: bioprospecting and synthesis of secondary metabolites and analogues as chemotherapeutic agents
• PO.EX’70-80 – Digital Archive for Portuguese Experimental Literature (finished)
• Portuguese theorization of journalism: from the origins to April 1974
• RhinAir – Rhinovirus Environmental related Epidemiology
• SafeHomeHealthCare: Interference-free Home Health-Care Smart Spaces using Search Algorithms and Meta-Reality Reflection
• The triumph of bakelite – contributions to a history of plastics in Portugal
• Validation and optimization of MALDI-TOF for identification and tracking of clinically relevant Escherichia coli clones and antibiotic resistance mechanisms: a translational approach
• WeGIx Project – Wellbeing Global Index

Projects supported by Fundação Ensino e Cultura Fernando Pessoa:

• Biopsychosocial determinants of the quality of life of individuals with multiple sclerosis in Portugal and Brazil
• Clinical practice at UFP’s Pedagogical Clinic of Psychology as a research context in psychotherapy
• Development of psychologists in training and in the exercise of their professional practice
• Diagnosis of the school environment: evaluate to intervene
• Domestic violence, victim support and justice
• Drug addict victimization
• Evaluation of professional satisfaction of health professionals in primary health care
• Local Security Diagnosis
• Permanent Observatory Violence and Crime
• The knots and the ties: Parental risk factors for internalized and externalized problems in children and adolescents
• Weather station

Other collaborative projects:

• A Search Engine for Electronic Literature
• Arts and Poetries: Creation, Archive and Education
• Brazilian Youth
• Smoking cessation project for nurses
• Consortium on Electronic Literature
• Political and economic elites of contemporary Portugal
• Designing scientific & artistic transmedia publications
• Empowerment of the person with type 2 diabetes
• Ex Machina: Inscription and Literature
• Homelessness Encampment Assessment and Mitigation in Contra Costa, CA
• IgestSaúde: Computer application for self-management of the person with chronic illness at home
• Work-related musculoskeletal injuries – implementation of a multifactorial program
• Local Security Diagnosis Guinea-Bissau
• Measurement in health
• MEDOANET – Mediterranean Open Access Network
• NarTrans – Transmedial narratives: new forms of audiovisual fiction, informative communication and performance in the digital age
• Mental health, health and family professionals
• UNESCO Chair in Youth, Education and Society (812)
• VoW – Value of Wave and Ocean Culture

Other European projects:

• Lifelong Learning Programme
  • EUFICCS (European Use of Full-Immersion, Culture, Content, Service approach for Language Learning)
  • EUPRHA (European Universities on Professionalization on Humanitarian Action)
  • WaRe – Waterfront Regeneration
• Lifelong Learning Programme – Erasmus Intensive Programme
  • Cultural Management Policies and Practices for the Creative Use of Cultural Heritage
• Erasmus Intensive Programme
  • European Digital Literatures
• Erasmus Mundus Programme
  • TEMPO (Trans-European Project On Education for Sustainable Development)
• Erasmus+ Programme
  • Connect 2.0 (Intercultural Learning Network)
  • RiUscire (Socio-Cultural University Network for Instruction and Retention at Prison)
• Marie Curie Programme
  • HIRESOMI (Training in Methods and Devices for Non-Invasive High Resolution Optical Measurements and Imaging)
  • Women@IR-WeBIND network