The University of Beira Interior (UBI) is a recent public university in Portugal but also a national and international landmark institution in the educational, research, innovation, business and entrepreneurship fields.
The evolution of the number of educational programs and the number of students has been increasing, having surpassed the 7000 students from across the country and 400 from all over the world. UBI presents 27 first cycle programs, 47 second cycle programs and 26 third cycle programs.
UBI has various learning and R&D facilities, structured in 5 Faculties – Sciences, Engineering, Social and Human Sciences, Arts and Letters and Health Sciences – and 14 R&D units that had been carefully implemented and range from aeronautics to computing, electro mechanics, health, mathematics, optics, education, psychology, telecommunications, textile and paper materials and management and entrepreneurship. NECE- Research Unit in Business Sciences is one of these Research Unit.
The NECE mission is to catalyze and drive pioneering research in the business sciences integrating knowledge and methods from across the fields of business science. NECE aims to achieve this high level of scientific merit, of international benchmark standard, by promoting quality in research and developing new collaborative networks to enhance the R&D unit’s profile, particularly, in the international research panorama.
This R&D unit seeks to support research strongly related to main sectors, firms and other institutions in its region, as well as increase the prevailing level of internationalisation, whether through disseminating research, establishing partnerships for research and advanced training or through contributing to international research projects.