Mobilizing Agendas with estimated GDP contribution between 2.5% and 3%

Dand according to the data to be announced in the framework of the 3rd Meeting of Mobilizing Agendas, promoted this afternoon by IAPMEI in Santa Maria da Feira, at 51 Agendas contracted under the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) represent EUR 5,400 million of eligible expenditure and EUR 3,200 million of incentive, of which over 2,000 million has already been paid.

In total, they cover 1,098 co-promotors, of which 874 companies and 224 entities of the scientific, technological and public system.

Mobilizing Agendas for Business Innovation are one of the pillars of the RRP and aim to mobilize and strengthen the country's scientific and technological capabilities through the implementation of collaborative projects covering the entire innovation cycle.

Based on consortia between companies and academic, scientific and/or technological institutions, they involve the strategic areas of “Aeronautics, Space and Tourism”, “Pants, Textiles and Clothing”, “Energy”, “Habitat, Construction, Ceramics and Glass”, “Materials, Materials and Natural Stone”, “Natural Resources and Environment”, “Health”, “Technologies and Their Applications”, “Transport, Mobility and Logistics”.

The balance sheet released today points out that of the 1,270 new products, processes or services (PPS) contracted, 1,087 were completed, “with very good execution or good execution”, corresponding to about 90%. The average financial execution rate for the expenditure presented is 53%.

According to IAPMEI, the Mobilising Agendas “are one of the main instruments of sustainable economic transformation supported by the PRR, promoting the transfer of knowledge to the market, productive investment, the creation of qualified employment, the development of new PPS and the strengthening of the competitiveness of the national economy”.

“ Assent in collaborative models, the agendas mobilized companies, entities of the scientific and technological system and public entities, contributing to the modernization and reindustrialization of the economy, to the digital and climate transition and to the creation of new value chains ", emphasizes.

The 3rd Meeting of Mobilizing Agendas, which takes place today under the motto “Innovation moves the country”, aims to demonstrate the results achieved by consortia and “the ability to transform knowledge into products, processes and services with market potential”.

The event will also show concrete results in areas such as sustainable mobility, space, health, biotechnology, energy, industrial digitization, sea economy, forest, semiconductors, digital games, construction and advanced materials.

Among these examples, there are solutions such as Portuguese satellites, artificial intelligence applied to spatial traffic management, complex injectable drugs, new generation battery technologies, electrical mobility solutions, telemedicine and enhancement of natural resources through bioeconomy.

Results that support IAPMEI “show the role of Mobilizing Agendas in transforming knowledge into innovation, innovation into industrial capacity and industrial capacity in economic growth”.

Cited in a statement, the Minister of Economics and Territorial Cohesion, Castro Almeida, states that the Mobilizing Agendas “are platforms of collaboration that have been demonstrating that Portugal can transform scientific knowledge into economic value”, stressing that “the right way is to generate innovative products and services that position Portugal in chains of greater added value”.