ISQ and Portugal Ventures have signed a Collaboration Protocol that aims to establish a partnership to identify innovative business opportunities and boost the Portuguese entrepreneurial ecosystem, which represents, according to recent data from Startup Portugal, 1.1% of the national Bruno Internal Product (GDP). This partnership consists of pooling efforts to establish the necessary synergies to…
ISQ and SGS Portugal have just established a partnership to respond to the accredited certification market for masks for social use. ISQ, through its laboratory activities, and SGS Portugal, as a certification body, join forces to give an excellent and independent response to the Portuguese industry, where masks already mean 8 % in exports from…
The wind generation sector is one of the segments of the industry that has experienced rapid global growth. Studies point to the existence of more than 300,000 wind turbines installed worldwide. The blades of wind turbines are elements of sophisticated design, which have complex curves. Based on structures of several layers of varying thickness, they…
The theme of clean energy and sustainable development is at the heart of ISQ's concerns, both for the market, through the provision of services to industry with innovative solutions developed by R&D teams, as well as participation in major national and international projects. "We have just invested more than half a million euros in a…
ISQ is part of the consortium that will develop the world's first nanosatellite called uPGRADE, a 2.6 M investment dedicated to gravimetry and terpherical density studies. The consortium is part of Spin.Works (development leader), University of Texas at Austin (UTA), Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) and University of Minho (UMinho). "The partnership was officially initiated today…
The world has changed and the timeline for the future is shorter. The future is today and the need to form (upskilling and reskilling) has become urgent, and cannot be postponed. The professions of the future go through digital skills combined with soft skills. For this reason, despite having a diversity of areas of knowledge…
After developing the SHIFTo4.0 Program, a project that allowed us to diagnose and support companies in the creation of an action plan that would make them more competitive in the context of Economy 4.0, ISQ is now launching an innovative Program called SHIFT2Future. "The goal is to strengthen the awareness of SMEs for a new…
ISQ is supporting CERN, the world's largest Particle Physics Laboratory, located in Switzerland, with consulting and testing of the semi-filter mask that this laboratory is developing. The services are provided in the framework of the recommendations proposed by the European Union (EU 2020/403 of 13 March 2020), and in accordance with international conformity assessment and…
In the case of lung ventilators and used safely, they must be in accordance with a number of requirements, including those related to electrical safety or electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). THE ISQ carries out CEM tests, which are essential to ensure the proper functioning of the ventilators, preventing them from suffering or causing interference in other…
"Portuguese industry produces one million masks every day with the priority of supplying the domestic market, but it is beginning to export," according to Pedro Siza Vieira, Minister of State, Economy and Digital Transition. The mask became our new accessory in public spaces. In this context, the ISQ considered it essential to make available the…