Projects we support

It may seem like child's play, but this is a very serious matter: using a cartoon series to teach healthy eating.

This is a company from a traditional sector with a stake in education technology. It has twice won the top international innovation prize, the Worlddidac Award, in 2006 with the Uni_Net interactive desk and in 2008 with the Netboard interactive station.

The iBUS project brings together the Portuguese cork, leather, design and engineering industries in the construction of lighter, more comfortable, self-sufficient buses.

A intelligent protective clothing system made up of elements allowing thermal control even in extremely adverse environmental conditions, multi-layer, multi-purpose structures to cover interior walls, a multi-purpose jacket with high thermal insulation, heating strips and technology for monitoring vital signs and locating and reporting events or alarms, a wool-based textile covering for car seats to generate a new, more comfortable and sustainable interior design and a textile system for interior and exterior light and colour effects are some of the intelligent textiles made in Portugal and developed in projects supported by COMPETE in its incentive scheme for technology research and development.

The Sea Life Centre is an international tourist attraction that shows all aspects of marine life and its interaction with different elements in a series of environments recreated in individual tanks, each devoted to a particular theme. All together they tell the story of underwater life.

The thirteenth Textile Industry Forum will be held at Alfândega do Porto on 28 September, as part of the Têxtil Moda 2012 project. Its theme is “Increase exports |export with value |win the world”.