Projects

Total Sum of Financing (4.712.437,98€)

Active Projects

FCT Mobility Project

Grant Number: FCT/Mobility/1301085672/2024-25
Execution Period: 2025-06-01 to 2026-08-31
Financing Program: FCT Mobility
Principal Institution: Universidade da Beira Interior
Funding Organization: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
Project Value: €4 795,00
Principal Investigator: Frederico Rodrigues

FCT Mobility Project

Grant Number: FCT/Mobility/1301085672/2024-25
Execution Period: 2025-06-01 to 2026-08-31
Financing Program: FCT Mobility
Principal Institution: Universidade da Beira Interior
Funding Organization: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
Project Value: €5 295,00
Principal Investigator: Mohammadmahdi Abdollahzadehsangroudi

Novel wind turbine ice protection/detection and flow control system based on Electroactive Dielectric Barrier Discharge plasma actuators

Grant Number: 2023.15318.PEX
Acronym: IceWindSolution
DOI / Website: DOI Link
Execution Period: 2025-02-01 to 2026-07-31
Financing Program: Exploratory Projects, FCT
Principal Institution: Universidade da Beira Interior
Funding Organization: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
Project Value: €49 917,03
Principal Investigator: Frederico Rodrigues
Consortium Function: Lead Research Partner

GreenAuto: Green innovation for the Automotive Industry, PPS15: Sistema de orientação do operador por RV/RA

Grant Number: 02/C05-i01.02/2022.PC644867037-00000013
Acronym: GreenAuto
DOI / Website: DOI Link
Execution Period: 2022-10-10 to 2025-12-31
Financing Program: Agendas Mobilizadoras, PRR – Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência
Principal Institution: Stellantis Mangualde
Funding Organization: IAPMEI
Project Value: 59,81 milhões €
ClusterDEM budget: 330 135,00€
Principal Investigator: José Páscoa
Co-PI: Frederico Rodrigues
Consortium Function: Lead Research Partner
Partners: Inklusion, IPV, 4iTEC, SENTINEL, IPN, UBI, FEUP

DIH – Connect5

Grant Number: 2022-C16i03-03-766
Acronym: DIH – Connect5
DOI / Website: DOI Link
Execution Period: 2024-01-15 to 2024-07-15
Financing Program: Digital Innovation Hub, PRR – Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência
Principal Institution: TICE.PT
Funding Organization: IAPMEI
Investment: 5.979.613,51 €
Incentive: 4.504.736,74€
Principal Investigator: Jose Pascoa
Co-PI: Mohammadmahdi Abdollahzadehsangroudi
Consortium Function: Partner
Partners: TICE.PT, Universidade de Aveiro, Universidade do Porto, Universidade de Coimbra, Universidade da Beira Interior, Politécnico de Leiria, Politécnico de Viseu, Associação dos Laboratórios Colaborativos em Transformação digital, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Universidade do Minho, CEIIA

Smart sustainable farms, foods and trade Digital Innovation Hub

Grant Number: 2022-C16i03-03-878
Acronym: SFT-EDIH
DOI / Website: DOI Link
Execution Period: 2022-10-10 to 2025-12-31
Financing Program: Digital Innovation Hub, PRR – Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência
Principal Institution: BGI – Building Global Innovators
Funding Organization: IAPMEI, ANI
Project Value: €5 939 252,12
Principal Investigator: Frederico Rodrigues
Consortium Function: Partner
Partners: GI SA, ADVID, Air Centre, APED, Beta-i, Colab4Food, CONFAGRI, COTEC, COTHN, FIPA, Food4Sustainability, Fraunhofer Portugal, INESC TEC, INIAV, InovTechAgro, ISA, ISEL, ISQ, Kiwa Sativa, Porgual Foods, PT-Maths-IN, SF Colab, SGS, Universidade da Beira Interior, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, UNINOVA, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

Renewable energy for transport vehicles, UNITA Starting Grant

Grant Number: UNITA Starting Grant ID: 177
DOI / Website: DOI Link
Execution Period: 2022-09-01 to 2025-08-31
Financing Program: UNITA-Universitas Montium (Task 2.3 – Starting Grants)
Principal Institution: Transilvania University of Brasov
Funding Organization: European Union
Project Value: €20 000,00
ClusterDEM budget: 5 000,00€
Principal Investigator: Frederico Rodrigues
Consortium Function: Lead Research Partner
Partners: Transilvania University of Brasov-Roménia, Universidade da Beira Interior-Portugal, University of Zaragoza-Espanha, West University of Timisoara-Roménia

Investigations on Electrohydrodynamic Atomization: High-Fidelity Simulations of Taylor Cone Jet Atomization for Optimized Electrospray Processes

Grant Number: 2023.10680.CPCA.A2
DOI / Website: DOI Link
Execution Period: 2024-06-01 to 2025-05-31
Financing Program: FCT_CPCA_2023_01
Principal Institution: Universidade da Beira Interior
Funding Organization: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
Project Value: 530,09 €
Principal Investigator: Sílvio Cândido

Past Projects

High-Fidelity Simulation of Atomization of Taylor Cone Jets for Electrospinning/Electrospray Application

Grant Number: 2022.73180.CPCA.A0
DOI / Website: DOI Link
Execution Period: 2023-07-01 to 2023-12-31
Financing Program: FCT_CPCA_2022_01
Principal Institution: Universidade da Beira Interior
Funding Organization: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
Project Value: 15.896,00 €
Principal Investigator: Sílvio Miguel Rodrigues Cândido

HPC-Powered Simulations for Flame and Combustion Control

Grant Number: 2023.10385.CPCA.A0
Acronym: HPC-SCAPE
DOI / Website: DOI Link
Execution Period: 2024-01-15 to 2024-07-15
Financing Program: FCT_CPCA_2023_01
Principal Institution: Universidade da Beira Interior
Funding Organization: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
Project Value: €634,04
Principal Investigator: Mohammadmahdi Abdollahzadehsangroudi

Smart blade based on printed sliding dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators and higher harmonic motion for ice removal of cycloidal wind turbine

Grant Number: CEECIND/03347/2017/CP1472/CT0001
DOI / Website: DOI Link
Execution Period: 2019-09-01 to 2023-12-31
Financing Program: CEEC IND 2017
Principal Institution: Universidade da Beira Interior
Funding Organization: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
Project Value: 190.641,11 €
Principal Investigator: Mohammadmahdi Abdollahzadehsangroudi

MOSIPO – Otimização do processo de pintura automóvel pelo desenvolvimento de modelos de simulação numéricos CFD e ANN e de um modelo de gestão integrado

Grant Number: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-072621
Acronym: MOSIPO
DOI / Website: DOI Link,DOI Link
Execution Period: 2021-04-01 to 2023-06-30
Financing Program: COMPETE 2020, FEDER
Principal Institution: CCEnergia
Funding Organization: FEDER
Project Value: 1.169.571,98€
ClusterDEM budget: 307 103,08€
Principal Investigator: José Páscoa
Consortium Function: Lead Research Partner
Partners: CCEnergia, Universidade de Évora

CCWT-Sistema propulsor de voo gerador de sustentação para aeronaves de decolagem e aterragem vertical/curta baseado em dispositivos rotativos e estacionários

Grant Number: CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-046295
Acronym: CCWT
DOI / Website: DOI Link, DOI Link2
Execution Period: 2020-09-01 to 2022-01-11
Financing Program: Programa Operacional Regional do Centro 2014-2020 (PO centro), PT2020
Principal Institution: Universidade da Beira Interior
Funding Organization: European Regional Development Fund (FEDER)
Project Value: € 45.200,00 €
Investigators: José Páscoa

INDTECH 4.0 – Novas tecnologias para fabricação inteligente

Grant Number: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-026653
Acronym: INDTECH 4.0
DOI / Website: DOI Link,DOI Link
Execution Period: 2018-03-01 to 2022-09-30
Financing Program: COMPETE 2020, FEDER
Principal Institution: Peugeot Citröen Automóveis Portugal, S.A.
Funding Organization: FEDER
Project Value: 8,595,632.45€
UBI budget: 845.110,55€
Principal Investigator at UBI: José Páscoa
Co-Principal Investigator: Fernando Santos
Consortium Function: Partner
Partners: MOTOFIL, S.A.,Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO, NEADVANCE – MACHINE VISION, S.A., ACTIVE SPACE TECHNOLOGIES – ACTIVIDADES AEROESPACIAIS, S.A., CRITICAL MANUFACTURING, S.A., RARI – CONSTRUÇÕES METÁLICAS, ENGENHARIA, PROJECTOS E SOLUÇÕES INDUSTRIAIS, S.A. – EM LIQUIDAÇÃO

NIPDBD-Sistema de deteção/proteção de gelo e controlo de escoamento baseado na impressão de atuadores a plasma de deslizamento com barreira dielétrica de descarga

Grant Number: CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-026633
Acronym: NIPDBD
DOI / Website: DOI Link, DOI Link
Execution Period: 2020-09-01 to 2019-01-28
Financing Program: Programa Operacional Regional do Centro 2014-2020 (PO centro), PT2020
Principal Institution: Universidade da Beira Interior
Funding Organization: European Regional Development Fund (FEDER)
Project Value: € 46.555,00 €
Investigators: José Páscoa, Mohammadmahdi Abdollahzadehsangroudi, Fred Rodrigues

CROP-Cycloidal Rotor Optimized for Propulsion

Grant Number: 323047
Acronym: CROP
DOI / Website: DOI Link
Execution Period: 2013-01-01 to 2014-12-31
Financing Program: FP7-TRANSPORT – Specific Programme “Cooperation”: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Principal Institution: UNIVERSIDADE DA BEIRA INTERIOR
Funding Organization: EU Directorate-General Research and Innovation
Project Value: € 780 846,20€
ClusterDEM budget: 162 250,00€
Principal Investigator: José Páscoa
Consortium Function: Leader
Partners: UUNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MODENA E REGGIO EMILI, IAT 21 INNOVATIVE AERONAUTICS TECHNOLOGIES GMBH, THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, GROB AIRCRAFT AG, POLITECNICO DI MILANO

ACHEON- Aerial Coanda High Efficiency Orienting-jet Nozzle

Grant Number: 309041
Acronym: ACHEON
DOI / Website: DOI Link
Execution Period: 2012-12-01 to 2014-11-30
Financing Program: FP7-TRANSPORT – Specific Programme “Cooperation”: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Principal Institution: UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MODENA E REGGIO EMILIA
Funding Organization: EU Directorate-General Research and Innovation
Project Value: € 773.196,32€
ClusterDEM budget: 94 400,00€
Principal Investigator: José Páscoa
Consortium Function: Partner
Partners: UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MODENA E REGGIO EMILIA, VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL, REGGIO EMILIA INNOVAZIONE SCARL, UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN, NIMBUS SRL

MAAT- Multibody Advanced Airship for Transport

Grant Number: 285602
Acronym: MAAT
DOI / Website: DOI Link
Execution Period: 2011-09-01 to 2015-02-28
Financing Program: FP7-TRANSPORT – Specific Programme “Cooperation”: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Principal Institution: UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MODENA E REGGIO EMILIA
Funding Organization: EU Directorate-General Research and Innovation
Project Value: € 5.071.720,77€
ClusterDEM budget: 327.750,00€
Principal Investigator: José Páscoa
Consortium Function: Partner
Partners: LogisticNetwork Consultants GmbH,THE UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION,SOUTHERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY,ENGYS LTD,UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN, ALMA MATER STUDIORUM – UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA, EDL S.A., ARESCOSMO S.P.A., VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL, POLITECNICO DI TORINO

EdGeWIsE – Energy and Water Systems Integration and Management

Grant Number: ERANETMED/0004/2014
Acronym:EdGeWIsE
DOI / Website: DOI Link
Execution Period: 2016-2019
Financing Program: ERANETMED JOINT CALL ON Renewable Energies, Water Resources and their connections for the Mediterranean Region
Principal Institution: University of Beira Interior
Funding Organization: European Union Era Net Med
Project Value: ???? €
Principal Investigator at UBI: António Espírito Santo
Investigator at ClusterDEM: José Páscoa
Consortium Function: Partner
Partners: Universite de Poitiers (France), Universite de Tunis (Tunisia), National Technical University of Athens (Greece), University of Cyprus (Cyprus),Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (Malta), Alexandria University (Egypt), ICOVI(Portugal), GB Solar (France), Green Energy Solutions Company (Egypt).

UNDULANT-Next- UNsteaDy boUndary LAyer flow coNTrol using plasma actuators of Next generation

Grant Number: P2020-PTDC/EMS-ENE/5742/2014
Acronym: UNDULANT-Next
DOI / Website: DOI Link
Execution Period: 2016-01-01 to 2019-04-16
Financing Program: Project Grants in all Scientific Domains – proposals funded through the FEDER budget
Principal Institution: UNIVERSIDADE DA BEIRA INTERIOR
Funding Organization: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Project Value: 67.368,00€
Principal Investigator: José Páscoa

HyperMHD- Magnetoplasmadynamic Flow Manipulation on Hypersonic and Reentry Vehicles

Grant Number: PTDC/EMSTRA/5728/2014
Acronym: HyperMHD
DOI / Website: DOI Link
Execution Period: 2016-01-01 to 2019
Financing Program: r Project Grants in all Scientific Domains – proposals funded through the FEDER budget
Principal Institution: UNIVERSIDADE DA BEIRA INTERIOR
Funding Organization: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Project Value: 59.796,00€
Principal Investigator: Carlos Manuel Cipriano Xisto

EMaDeS – Energia, Materiais e Desenvolvimento Sustentável

Grant Number: Centro-01-0145-FEDER-000017
Acronym:EMaDeS
DOI / Website: DOI Link
Execution Period: 2017 to 2021
Financing Program: ….
Principal Institution: Universidade da Beira Interior
Funding Organization: Centro 2020
Project Value: 1.377.090.00€
Principal Investigator at UBI: ….
Investigator at ClusterDEM: José Páscoa
Consortium Function: Leader of Fluid and Energy line

INFANTE-Satélite para aplicações marítimas e comunicações a partir de constelações

Grant Number: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-024534
Acronym:INFANTE
DOI / Website: DOI Link
Execution Period: 2017-02-11 to 2020-10-31
Financing Program: ….
Principal Institution:TEKEVER ASDS, LDA
Funding Organization: PT2020
Project Value: 9.170.960,90 €
Principal Investigator at UBI: ….
Investigator at ClusterDEM: José Páscoa
Consortium Function: Partner
Partners: ACTIVE AEROGELS, LDA; Active Space Technologies; CEIIA – Centro de Engenharia e Desenvolvimento; Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto; FHP – Frezite High Performance, Lda; Gmvis Skysoft, S.A; INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory; Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade; Instituto Pedro Nunes – Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimentos em Ciência e Tecnologia; Instituto Politécnico de Tomar; Instituto Superior Técnico ; IT – Instituto de Telecomunicações; OMNIDEA LDA; Spin.Works, S.A.; TEKEVER III COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, LDA; TEKEVER SPACE – SISTEMAS ESPACIAIS LDA; Universidade da Beira Interior; Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

SpaceProp- MHD Numerical Modelling in nozzles of MPD Thrusters for Space Propulsion

Grant Number: PTDC/CTE-SPA/114163/2009
Acronym: SpaceProp
DOI / Website: DOI Link
Execution Period: 2011-02-15 to 2014-06-14
Financing Program: Project Grants in all Scientific Domains
Principal Institution: Universidade da Beira Interior
Funding Organization: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Project Value:€ 45 581,00€
Principal Investigator: José Páscoa

Analysis of 3D Turbulent Flow Structures in an Industrial Pump

Acronym: PUMPFLOW-151
Execution Period: 2009-2010
Principal Investigator: José Páscoa
Partners: UBI / EFAFLU

Intelligent Inverse Design Method for LP-Turbine Blade Rows in Viscous Flow

Grant Number: PTDC/EME-MFE/66608/2006
Execution Period: 2007-2010
Principal Investigator: José Páscoa
Partners: UBI/IST

Three-dimensional Inverse Methods for Turbomachine Blade Rows

Grant Number: POCTI/EME/39717/2001
Execution Period: 2002-2005
Principal Investigator: José Páscoa
Partners: IST / UBI

Phase-control of Wave Energy Converters

Grant Number: POCTI/EME/34663/99
Execution Period: 2001-2004
Principal Investigator: José Páscoa
Partners: IST / UBI

Analysis and Design of Turbomachinery Cascades for Aeronautical Propulsion

Grant Number: PRAXIS XXI Refª. 3/3.1/CTAE/1940/95
Execution Period: 1997-2001
Principal Investigator: José Páscoa
Partners: IST / UBI

Projects with Research Institutions

Universita degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, UNIMORE, Italy. antonio.dumas@unimore.it

Univeristy of Hertfordshire, UoH, UK. y.k.chen@herts.ac.uk

Vrije Universiteit Brussels, VUB, Belgium. dean.vucinic@vub.ac.be

Politecnico di Torino, POLITO Italy. emilio.cafaro@polito.it

European Space Agency, ESTEC,

Netherland.
davide.nicolini@esa.int

Universita di Bologna, UNIBO, Italy. alessandro.ceruti@unibo.it

University of Lincoln, UoL, UK. cbingham@lincoln.ac.uk

Southern Federal University, SFU, Russia. pshichop@rambler.ru

Politecnico di Milano, POLIMI, Italy. pierangelo.masarati@polimi.it

University of Brunel, UoB, UK. Farbod.Khoshnoud@brunel.ac.uk

University of Hull, UoHull, UK. P.Stewart@hull.ac.uk

University of Sheffield, UoS, UK. g.jewell@sheffield.ac.uk

Clarkson University, USA. pmarzocc@clarkson.edu

Companies

Engys, Ltd. UK Francisco Campos, Director of Operations

LNC LogisticNetwork Consultants, GmbH. Lars Günsel, Consultant

Grob Aircraft – AG Grob, Germany. Alf Gerlach, Taining Systems

IAT21 – innovative aeronautics technologies GmbH IAT21, Austria. Meinhard Schwaiger, General Manager

Aero Sekur S.P.A. , Italy Lorenzo Fiore, Innovative Products

Esponential design Lab. S.A., Uruguay. Giorgio Gaviraghi, CEO

Nimbus s.r.l., Italy Francesco Grimaccia, R&D Director

Reggio Emilia Innovazione S.ar.l., Italy. Eliana Porreca, Technology Transfer office