The Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores - Investigação e Desenvolvimento (INESC-ID, English: Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering - Research and Development) is a non-profit, privately owned institution of public interest, in
Lisbon
Lisbon ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131, as of 2023, within its administrative limits and 3,028,000 within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, metropolis, as of 2025. Lisbon is mainlan ...
,
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...
, dedicated to advanced research and development in the domains of electronics, energy, telecommunications and information technologies. It was awarded the status of Associate Laboratory of the Portuguese Ministry for Science and Technology in 2005.
History and organization
INESC-ID was founded in 2000, from a branch of the ''Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores'' (INESC), and was awarded in 2005 with the status of "Laboratório Associado". The founding associates are INESC and
Instituto Superior Técnico
The Instituto Superior Técnico (IST, also known as Técnico, and stylized TÉCNICO LISBOA; English: ) is the school of engineering and technology of the University of Lisbon. It was founded as an autonomous school in 1911, and was integrated in ...
(
IST #REDIRECT Ist
{{redirect category shell, {{R from other capitalisation{{R from ambiguous page ...
), the engineering school of the
University of Lisbon
The University of Lisbon (ULisboa; ) is a public university, public research university in Lisbon, and Portugal's largest university. It was founded in 1911, but the university's present structure dates to the 2013 merger of the former Universit ...
.
Since its inception, INESC-ID has been involved in several research projects and contracts at national and international level. INESC-ID has participated in more than 50 research projects funded by the
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are Geography of the European Union, located primarily in Europe. The u ...
, being responsible for and coordinating at least 4,
and more than 190 by national entities.
The general management of the organization is ensured by the Board of Directors, designated by the general Council, and by the President of the Scientific Council.
Research areas
With the aim of advancing the state of the art in computers, energy, telecommunications, and information systems, more than 100 PhD researchers and 200 other fellows and technical staff, mainly with electrical engineering and computer science background, organize their activities in 11 main research areas:
* Artificial Intelligence for People and Society;
* Automated Reasoning and Software Reliability;
* Communication Networks;
* Distributed, Parallel and Secure Systems;
* Graphics and Interaction;
*Green Energy and Smart Converters;
*High-Performance Computing Architectures and Systems;
*Human Language Technologies;
*Information and Decision Support Systems;
*Nano-Electronic Circuits and Systems;
*Sustainable Power Systems.
References
External links
INESC-ID official websiteINESC official website
IST official website
{{authority control
Research institutes in Portugal