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Entrepreneurial Research Initiatives 2013

Entrepreneurial Research Initiatives 2013
2nd Call for ERIs closed on December 16, 2014! More information is available here .
The Entrepreneurial Research Initiatives (ERIs) 2013 call resulted on the selection of six proposals: three of them focus on the development of health area apps, one suggests a new communication model between mobile devices and the other two are related to the management area and technological and industrial innovation policies.

The initiatives network includes more than 30 Portuguese institutions of higher education and research, Carnegie Mellon University and companies, from startups to multinationals.

The call had 21 applications submitted and the six proposals approved for funding have a total budget of approximately 6 million Euros for four years.
_______ An international innovation engine is a symbiotic relationship between researchers and industry partners, embedded in international knowledge and business networks, to create new ideas and to translate them into products, processes and services. _________

2013 Entrepreneurial Research Initiatives
Six proposals were approved for funding,
with a total budget of approximately 6 million Euros for four years.
Name of the ERI Portuguese PI

CMU

PI

Portuguese
Institutions
Organizations
AHA:
Augmented Human Assistance >>
Alexandre Bernardino
(ISR-IST-ID; IST-UL)

Daniel P. Siewiorek
(HCII);
Asim Smailagic
(HCII)
IST-ID;
FMH;
M-ITI;
NOVA.ID.FCT
PLUX;
YDreams Robotics

HYRAX:
Crowd-sourcing Mobile Devices to Develop Edge Clouds >>
Fernando Silva
(INESC TEC; FCUP)

Priya Narasimhan
(CS/ECE)

INESC TEC;
IT;
NOVA.ID.FCT

Geolink;
Wavecom;
YinzCam;

E4VALUE: Innovation Dynamics in Aeronautics and Embraer in Évora –
Towards a Distributed Platform for Entrepreneurial Initiatives, New Employment and Skills Development >>
Miguel Amaral
(IN+; IST-UL)

Granger Morgan
(EPP)

IST-ID
IDMEC
INESC TEC
CEIIA;
Embraer Portugal

INSIDE:
Intelligent Networked robot Systems for Symbiotic Interaction with Children with Impaired Development >>
Francisco Melo
(INESC ID; IST-UL)
Manuela Veloso
(CS)

INESC ID;
IST-ID;
NOVA.ID.FCT
Hospital Garcia de Orta;
IDMIND;
PLUX;
Voice Interaction
TEIPL:
Technology, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy Lab >>
Pedro Oliveira
(CLSBE/UCP)

Lee Branstetter
(SDS/Heinz)

CLSBE/UCP;
IMM-FMUL;
IST-UL

INNOSABI;
Microsoft;
NOVARTIS

VR2MARKET:
Towards a Mobile Wearable Health Surveillance Product for First Response and other Hazardous Professions >>
João Paulo Cunha
(INESC TEC; FEUP)

Fernando De la Torre
(RI)

INESC TEC;
IT;
UA

Biodevices;
Future Cities-UPorto;
Hospital de Gaia;
Petratex

Documents of the 2013 Call for ERIs:
Announcement of the Call by the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Terms of Reference for the Entrepreneurial Research Initiatives 2013 Call for Proposals
Application Guidelines for the Entrepreneurial Research Initiatives Call
Evaluation Panel and Proposals Evaluated

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Articles:
CMU Portugal Program Gets Its First Six Entrepreneurial Research Initiatives (June 2014)
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