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INESC TEC and the ocean exploration: full steam ahead!
About 60M€, distributed by 18 projects, will be used to develop and transfer sea-related technologies until 2018. INESC TEC has been investing in the development of prototypes in this sector in order to create a cluster of technological competences for the sea in Portugal, more specifically for the deep sea. The Institute hopes to play a fundamental role in the extension of the Portuguese Continental Shelf.
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INESC TEC develops platform to assess security of the electrical system
As part of European project iTesla (Innovative Tools for Electrical System Security within Large Areas), which now comes to an end, INESC TEC has developed a flexible, modular and interoperable platform that makes it possible to assess the dynamic security of the power system in real time, for several contingencies and types of security problems, taking into consideration the uncertainty associated with the growing integration of renewable power.
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Managing Dialogue
"The institutes and research units owe to the country the improvement of their management models."