Duration: 2022-2023
CISeD Team Members:
José Carlos Metrôlho
Pedro Silva
Funding:
POCH
PORTUGAL2020
UNIÃO EUROPEIA Fundo Social Europeu
Duration: 2022 – 2024
CISeD Team members
Valter Alves
Funding:
Erasmus+
The aim of this Erasmus + EARLY project is to raise awareness and skills of pre-service and in-service preschool teachers of 3-7 year old children about distance education for Early Childhood Education, by developing resources, like, a manual for early education online labs including dynamic content which is linked to a distance learning module and enriched with robotics to practice in classrooms as well as in distance learning. The project will also assist preschool teachers to improve their professional profiles by giving hands-on training supported with digital teaching tools and robots. The project will also provide a higher education modular course curriculum, using open-source coding tools and various robotics kits tested for those age-groups. The process wil be developed as a design-based research process, including several contributions from stakeholders and experts.
Duration: 2022 – 2023
Cised team members
António Pinto
Bruno Ferreira
Carlos Quental
Cristina Romão
Daniel Azevedo
Filipe Caldeira
Isabel Brás
Isabel Martins
Luísa Augusto
Maria Antunes
Steven Abrantes
Duration: 2022 – 2025
Cised team members
António Figueiredo
Carlos Pereira
Rui Duarte
Duration: 2022 – 2023
Cised team members
Cristina Wanzeller Filipe Caldeira
Isabel Martins
Principal Researcher:
Pedro Manuel Nogueira Reis
António Pedro Soares Pinto
Duration: 2021 – 2023
A revisão da literatura identifica o efeito do poder de mercado do sistema bancário nos custos de financiamento da empresa (Wang et al., 2020; Abubakr & Esposito, 2012; Han et al., 2015), na estrutura de capital das pequenas empresas (Degryse et al., 2012), da inclusão financeira – acesso adequado, atempado e a custos reduzidos a um conjunto de produtos e serviços financeiros regulados, aumentando o bem-estar financeiro (Banco de Portugal, 2017) – e no desempenho da empresa (Chauvet & Jacolin, 2017). Contudo, pelo que seja do nosso conhecimento, ainda não foi realizado qualquer estudo que avalie o impacto das possíveis combinações das relações com as diversas instituições bancárias, bem como com as características dos seus detentores de capital, com as quais as empresas estabelecem relações, na sua atividade. O estudo incide sobre Pequenas e Médias Empresas (PME´s), que representam cerca de 99,9% do tecido empresarial português em 2019 (PORDATA, 2021) e 99,9% do tecido empresarial espanhol em janeiro de 2020 (MINISTERIO DE INDUSTRIA, COMERCIO Y TURISMO, 2021), constituindo este o grande impulso e motivação para a realização desta investigação. Para além, das características da carteira de credores de financiamento remunerado, o estudo contempla diferentes variáveis de controlo, tais como, a idade das empresas, o número de empregados, total de ativos, localização da empresa, quantidade de bancos de relação da empresa, entre outras características que se tornem relevantes para a análise.
OBJETIVOS
Este estudo procura avaliar de que forma as características das principais instituições bancárias que concedem crédito à empresa e, as relações de combinação entre elas, condicionam a estrutura de capital, os custos de financiamento e o desempenho das empresas, nomeadamente, nas de menor dimensão. Para além deste objetivo, também as características dos detentores de capital que controlam as instituições financeiras com as quais as empresas estabelecem relação será propósito de análise, no que respeita à sua influência na atividade financeira e operacional da empresa.
O universo da amostra em análise, será constituído por PME’s ibéricas, recolhido na base de dados SABI – Bureau Van Dijk, com recurso à análise de dados seccionados. Pretende-se também, aferir a prevalência, ou não, de diferenças significativas no comportamento das empresas portuguesas e espanholas.
Os dados serão analisados recorrendo a técnicas de inferência estatística como testes de hipóteses paramétricos e não paramétricos, regressão multivariada com recurso a equações simultâneas, modelando pelo estimador de 2 ou 3 estágios dos mínimos quadrados, procurando dar resposta às questões em investigação.
Principal Researcher:
José Silva
Duration: 2021 – 2023
Cised team members
Olga Contente
Serafim Oliveira
Daniel Gaspar
The constant changes in the contextual environment and the continuous globalization cause changes in the market, which push the companies to look for new technologies to increase productivity and profitability. In addition, customer requirements force companies to make their production systems more flexible, efficient and competitive.
It is due to these changes that the need arises to implement interconnected systems, integrated into an industrial IoT platform (IIoT - Industrial Internet of Things), supported by the connection of equipment and production systems so that companies can create networks along the value chain and thus control and command processes independently and in real-time.
The implementation in organizations of intelligent and interconnected ecosystems allows making decisions in a decentralized way. However, it is necessary to provide tools to assist in decision-making, monitoring operations, and reducing errors by the operator.
This project aims to respond to this challenge with the application of solutions developed in augmented reality (AR) in an industrial environment.
The integration of AR in a production system allows to reduce production errors and increase the efficiency of product development since there is constant monitoring during the performance of tasks.
This project is based on three fundamental objectives.
One of the objectives of this project is the implementation of solutions developed in AR, in various industrial applications, namely, in carrying out maintenance interventions (inspection with remote support or access to instructions in virtual windows), in guiding employees through procedures, either be it the first time or a recurring task, using holographic step-by-step instructions and issuing alerts to users with the details necessary for the execution of operations.
The other objective is the integration of the AR system with an existing IIoT platform, which will allow obtaining and viewing in real-time the desired information for each equipment, such as the operating temperature, energy consumption, or the condition of the components. that integrate the equipment.
It is also the objective of this project to develop the best visualization solution taking into account the particularities of each application so that the interaction with the projections is fluid and with reduced latency.
Digital objects, from industrial equipment, will be developed using programming algorithms and spatial digitization for referencing the anchoring points of the real space where these objects are immersed.
Duration: 2021 – 2023
CISeD Team Members:
Isabel Oliveira
Luísa Augusto
Rui Pedro Monteiro Amaro Duarte
Funding
Compete2020; Portugal2020; União Europeia – FSE
Link Me Up - 1000 ideas, Support System for the co-creation of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship, is a project that brings together 13 Portuguese Polytechnic Institutes to promote the entrepreneurial spirit entrepreneurship through the training of young students and/or entrepreneurs with a view to increasing the quality of employment and the creation of innovative companies.
CISeD Team Members:
Bruno Ferreira
Cristina Romão
Ricardo Gama
Rui Pedro Duarte
Steven Lopes Abrantes
Serafim Oliveira
Duration: 2021 – 2023
Funding
FEDER
InovC+ is a regional project that promotes the valorization and transfer of scientific and technological knowledge, promoting interaction between the 19 partners of this initiative (higher education institutions, scientific interface entities and innovation parks) and the regional economy and consolidating the innovation ecosystem of the Central Region. This project will fund several activities with this purpose, from which we highlight the technology shows, the business ideas contest ARRISCA C+, proofs of concept, awareness and training actions for the promotion of the transfer culture, and protection of scientific knowledge with transfer potential.
