ISR, in a partnership with three other partner research institutions, IN+, IMAR-Azores and CREMINER is, since November 2001, an Associate Laboratory.

The status of Associate Laboratory is awarded by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education for a period of 10 years with a mid term evaluation, in recognition of the high scientific merit of the institution (and its partner institutions) according to external international and independent evaluations, and on the basis of the proven capacity for cooperating, on a steady, competent and efficient form, in the implementation of the specific objectives of the national scientific and technological policies.

Presently, the number of these reference institutions is 25, covering several scientific and technological fields, like: Medical and Biomedical Sciences, Environmental sciences, Earth and Marine sciences, Engineering, Social Sciences, Material Sciences, Biotechnology, Physics, ... These 25 Associate Laboratories constitute the Associate Laboratories' Council (CLA), a think tank and consulting body of the Government representing more than 4000 researchers.

As an Associate Laboratory ISR-Lisbon is organized around 4 thematic areas:

A – Technologies for Ocean Exploration
B – Monitoring and Surveillance using Robotic Agents
C – Sustainable Technologies and Environmental Systems
D – Signal Processing for Communication Networks and Multimedia

Brief presentation of the thematic areas (in portuguese)

In 2007, the ISR-Lisbon Associate Laboratory activities are supported by a team of 349 elements, including 86 researchers with Ph.D.

Associate Laboratory – Activities Reports:

2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2003-2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010

Information for the media (in Portuguese) - March 2007 | (pdf) 2.8MB