Future Cities Project Email & Phone Number

The Center of Competence for Future Cities is a platform for scientific and technological collaboration aiming to promote the development of research and innovation projects.The Center of Competence for Future Cities of the University of Porto is a multidisciplinary platform that brings together researchers from the Faculties of Engineering, Psychology and Science as well as from several research units of the University of Aveiro, the Telecommunications Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).Future Cities is a European project funded under the FP7 capacities programme which aims at unlocking the full potential of interdisciplinary research in urban technologies, as well as strengthening knowledge transfer activities in close cooperation with local and global industrial partners.A key goal is to turn the city of Porto into an urban-scale living lab, where researchers, companies and startups can develop and test technologies, products and services, exploring subjects such as: sustainable mobility, urban-scale sensing, safety and privacy, as well as quality of life for citizens and their families. The project aims to work in a very interdisciplinary manner, engaging not only engineers and computer scientists, but also psychologists, urban studies specialists, and social scientists.

Listed skills include Information Technology, Technology Integration, Sustainability, Cloud Computing, and 1 others.

• The Future Cities Project

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  Oct 2012 - Present