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Country Portugal
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Short name ULusófona
About Universidade Lusófona
ULusófona has education and research activities across several scientific domains. The University currently offers 67 bachelor degrees, 87 master’s degrees, of which 9 are Erasmus Mundus European Joint degrees, and 12 Ph.D. degrees, that along with several lifelong learning programmes, constitute the bulk of the University’s educational offer, supported by 11 R&D Units or Research Groups (the BIOFIN team is part of RCM2+, Research Center for Asset Management and Systems Engineering).
Lusófona University advocates equal opportunities, and at present has a body of more than 16900 students, of which roughly 25% are Master and Ph.D. level students, and 1 671 teaching and research staff, articulated in the 15 Faculties and Schools which constitute the main institutional units of the University.
The University has a strong international profile, stemming directly from its mission’s focus to the development of Portuguese-speaking countries, as well as its distinguished reputation for excellence in education, research, and innovation on a global scale.
Universidade Lusófona's role in the project
ULusófona (RCM2+) lead on BIOFIN is Prof. Francisco Silva Pinto and Prof Rui Cunha Marques, who will work across Work Packages providing expertise on Operations Research, e.g. Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis and Multiple Objective Optimization, under Utilities Operations, Governance, and Regulation for nature-positive investment. Additionally, they facilitate engagement with NBS stakeholders across Learning Sites #2, #3, and #4. The team authored over 700 publications, the most recent, ‘A framework for enabling conditions for wastewater reuse’.
