About
Lusófona is the largest private university in Portugal. Established in 1989, it encompasses an integrated educational, research, and innovation ecosystem with campus and facilities spread across the whole country and internationally to the Portuguese-speaking community, reaching institutions in Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, and Guinea-Bissau. Lusófona institutions gather more than 75,000 students. Lusófona excels in the manufacturing sector by combining academic excellence, applied research, and innovation, along with 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.
Our Industrial Engineering Research Unit (https://www.rcm2.pt/) includes about 80 researchers who develop innovative solutions, using advanced analytical models and tools, to solve industrial challenges.
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)
We coordinate and participate in several EU applied research projects with over 50 research centers, 20 universities, and 200 industrial organizations, both nationally and internationally.
We offer a unique educational portfolio with 14 PhD programs and 89 Master’s programs, with a strong focus on Industrial Engineering and related fields, and provide continuing education, lifelong learning, and re-skilling and up-skilling tailored courses for industrial professionals.
Fighting Crime and Terrorism
HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-FCT-01: Improving capabilities of law enforcement to counter climate-related challengesHORIZON-CL3-2026-01-FCT-02: Open topic on preventing and countering the misuse of emerging technologies for criminal purposes, including issues related to lawful access to dataHORIZON-CL3-2026-01-FCT-03: Missing persons: prevention and investigationHORIZON-CL3-2026-01-FCT-04: Crime prevention approaches, online and off-line, tackling the nexus between addictions and crimeHORIZON-CL3-2026-01-FCT-05: Enhancing the security of citizens against terrorism and lone-actor violence in confined spaces such as schoolsHORIZON-CL3-2026-01-FCT-06: Prevention and mitigation of misuse of synthetic biology for bioterrorism purposes
Border Management
HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-BM-01: Advanced border surveillance and situational awarenessHORIZON-CL3-2026-01-BM-02: Accessible and available travel facilitationHORIZON-CL3-2026-01-BM-03: Reliability of age assessment methods in the context of security and border management
Resilient Infrastructure
HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-INFRA-01: Tools and processes to support stress tests of critical infrastructureHORIZON-CL3-2026-01-INFRA-02: Security challenges of the green transition in urban und peri urban areasHORIZON-CL3-2026-01-INFRA-03: Targeted innovative capabilities for the resilience of critical entities to natural and human-induced disasters, including hybrid scenarios
Disaster-resilient society
HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-DRS-01: Designing new ways of risk awareness and enhanced disaster preparednessHORIZON-CL3-2026-01-DRS-02: Multi-hazard approach and cumulative / cascading impactsHORIZON-CL3-2026-01-DRS-03: Development of innovative tools, processes, equipment and technologies through responses to disasters and emergencies for search and rescue in hazardous conditionsHORIZON-CL3-2026-01-DRS-04: Open topic on driving innovation uptake of disaster risk solutionsHORIZON-CL3-2026-01-DRS-05: Climate security and civil preparedness – new ways to develop pre- and post-crisis climate-change related scenarios for a more resilient Europe
Support to Security Research and Innovation
HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-SSRI-01: Open topic on supporting disruptive technological innovations for civil securityHORIZON-CL3-2026-01-SSRI-02: Demand-led innovation in securityHORIZON-CL3-2026-01-SSRI-03: Public procurement of innovation for securityHORIZON-CL3-2026-01-SSRI-04: Development of ecosystem and next-generation capabilities for a secured European Critical Communication System in civil security
Cybersecurity
HORIZON-CL3-2026-02-CS-ECCC-01:Approaches and tools for security in software and hardware development and assessmentHORIZON-CL3-2026-02-CS-ECCC-02:Enhancing the Security, Privacy and Robustness of AI Models and Systems (SecureAI)HORIZON-CL3-2026-02-CS-ECCC-03:Advanced cryptographic schemes and High-Assurance high-speed cryptographic implementations