Eureka Lightweighting Call 2025

15 May – 23 Oct 2025

Project cooperationUpdated on 14 May 2025

Research, Development, Innovation, Training, and Consulting Partnerships

Diana Delgado

Research Manager at Lusófona University

Lisboa, Portugal

About

We offer:

  • A diverse pool of researchers and experts in manufacturing using advanced analytical models and tools

  • Experience in coordinating and participating in EU-funded and consultancy R&D&I projects

  • State‐of‐the‐art facilities (e.g., LabEGI, Deep Tech Lab, MovLab, and LabTEC) that facilitate effective knowledge transfer, practical applications, and strategic collaborations with our industry partners

  • Continuing education, lifelong learning, and re-skilling and up-skilling tailored courses for industrial professionals

We develop innovative solutions in the following areas:

  • Production Planning and Control Problems

  • Scheduling and Sequencing

  • Supply Chain, Transportation and Logistics

  • Energy and Resource Efficiency & Sustainability

  • Product and Process Design Optimization

  • Smart Manufacturing, Digital Twins & Industry 4.0

  • Quality Control, Maintenance and Reliability

  • Nanoengineering

Core analytical competences include:

  • Problem structuring and modeling approaches

  • Decision analysis (multicriteria, value, utility, risk, uncertainty, portfolio analyses)

  • Exact & Metaheuristic Optimization procedures (linear, integer, nonlinear, multiobjective, constraint programming, stochastic programming)

  • Network, Graphs, and Project Management

  • Prediction, Forecasting, Causal Inference, and Econometrics

  • Simulation (Monte Carlo, discrete-event, system dynamics, agents, cellular automaton, continuous)

  • Benefit-Cost and Risk Analyses

  • Business Intelligence

  • Artificial intelligence (machine learning, prediction, classification, clustering, neural networks, reinforcement learning)

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