One of the most important aspects of the collaboration between UT Austin and Portuguese institutions is the opportunity for collaborative research between Portuguese and UT professors. The program announces an annual call for research proposals, which fund collaborative teams composed of Portuguese researchers, UT Austin researchers, and industry professionals from Portugal. Not only does this funding program promote collaboration between Portugal and UT, it also encourages collaboration across institutional boundaries within Portugal.  Projects include extensive involvement by graduate students and industrial partners.  Several projects present an opportunity to create commercial products and patents.

The Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) conducted two rounds of competitive R&D grants in 2008-2009 and 2009-2010. The grant recipients are listed below.

Advanced Computing

• Irregular applications for multicore processors
• Patient-specific cardiovascular modeling & analysis (Project SIMCARD)
• INTELLIPave - An Evolutionary Intelligence Approach to Asphalt Pavement Modeling
• Modeling the sub-filter scalar dissipation near the Turbulent/Non Turbulent interface in jets: applications to combustion

Digital Media

• Kinetic controller driven music systems
• Digital Inclusion
• INVITE: social Identity and partNership in VIrTual Environments
• LIFEisGAME: LearnIng of Facial Emotions usIng serious GAMEs
• REACTION - Retrieval, Extraction, and Aggregation Computing Technology for Integrating and Organizing
• Project Breadcrumbs
• ImTV - On-Demand Immersive-TV for Communities of Media Producers and Consumers
• iDTV-HEALTH: Inclusive services to promote health and wellness via digital interactive television
• SEE-THROUGH-SOUND: The perception and cognition of space and its features by mapping visual information into sound and sound structures

Mathematics

• Applied mathematics: from dynamical systems to cryptography
• Mathematical modeling and endoscopic image processing
• Nonlinear partial differential equations
• Reaction-diffusion in porous media

Please see the Research Projects page for more detail on the funded projects and the Opportunities page for information on past and upcoming calls.