Portugal and Carnegie Mellon to launch major research and education collaboration

The Portuguese Government and Carnegie Mellon University announced plans to enter into a long-term collaboration to significantly expand research and education in the area of information and communication technologies. This collaboration will include an emphasis on information processing and networking, including applications to critical infrastructures and risk assessment, as well as complementary areas of applied mathematics, technology, innovation and policy. The collaboration will result in the creation of a joint Information and Communication Technologies Institute, an international "virtual" institution with poles in Portugal (ICTI@Portugal) and at Carnegie Mellon (ICTI@CMU). The long-term collaboration agreement was signed on October 27th, 2006.

• CMU-Portugal joint press release, de 27 de Outubro de 2006, documento em Inglês
  (PDF file, 4 pages, 48 KB)
• Report on the Assessment of Portugal-Carnegie-Mellon University Potential Collaborations
  (PDF file, 65 pages, 364 KB)
• CMU-Portugal Collaboration: Program Overview
  (PDF file, 77 pages, 514 KB)