C2TN is a research centre of
Excellence in the areas of Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, Radiation Protection,
Earth Systems, Radioactivity, Cultural Heritage and Advanced Materials. It
gathers researchers, teachers, students and other collaborators, with knowledge
and competences in leading and cutting edge, multidisciplinary and innovative
topics in the aforementioned areas. The C2TN teams
operate equipment, laboratories and infrastructures, some of them unique in
Portugal. The C2TN members have a longstanding record of collaboration with foreign
and national entities and stakeholders in sectors such as academia, research,
health, industry, business and entrepreneurship, with professional societies
and associations, municipalities, etc., in the framework of fundamental and
applied research activities and of provision of advanced technical services.
C2TN´s mission encompasses the development of leading edge scientific
research and technological development activities in its areas of expertise and
the promotion of innovation and of scientific dissemination and outreach
in the sustained promotion of activities of excellence in Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I) in its scientific and technological areas of expertise;
of consortia, institutions and international and national organizations involved in advanced and innovative studies and approaches of societal topics and challenges;
to a knowledge based national economy, products and services.
The strategy of C2TN, always
targeting more excellence in its Research, Development and Innovation
(RD&I) activities, consists in putting forward and encouraging:
of the research activities,
through the active participation of
researchers in Technology Platforms, consortia, networks of excellence,
clusters, international and national organizations and associations in its
scientific and technological areas of expertise, fostering collaborative and
cooperation links with these institutions and earning and enjoying the “primus inter pares” status;
promoting the development: i)
of applied research; ii) of the
application of knowledge to the solution of problems
of societal and socio-economic relevance; iii) of new activities of cooperation; iv) of the strengthening of
on-going activities with the industrial, business and entrepreneurship sectors.
Particularly, promoting approaches of topics that address societal challenges, undertaking RD&I activities
to solve problems
in areas such as Materials, Health, Environment,
Cultural Heritage, Security, Energy, amongst other strategic and priority
areas;
communication of the potential
and applications of Nuclear Sciences
and of Ionizing Radiation Technologies, at different levels in the society and
among the corporate sector;
exercising the cycle action-reflexion- planning and the
assessment i) of the impact of internationalization in the excellence of
RD&I, ii) of the impact of the activities of RD&I in the business and
social organization; iii) of the impact of outreach and dissemination of the
RD&I activities in strengthening a knowledge based society.
The type of activities and ideas embodied by these axes
are in line with the pillars around which the European funding programmes are
articulated (in the framework of the Programme HORIZON 2020) and are supported
by funding instruments and by the operational reality of national Programmes
using European Structural Funds, as well as by the type of structure and
organization of similar institutions in other countries and by the comments and
recommendation of the International Advisory Board of C2TN
arising from the strategic
positioning and the increase of the
participation of research teams in the activities of the aforementioned
international and national institutions, aiming at the substantial increase of
funding that will allow to address and
partially solve the scarcity of human resources and to guarantee their renewal,
to mitigate the precarious contractual link of some C2TN staff
members, to purchase new equipment and to repair existing equipment,
laboratories and infrastructures;
Stimulating the participation
of researchers in activities,
projects and programmes of RD&I, promoting the presentation of results in
international Conferences and encouraging the establishment of new cooperation
links as well as the strengthening of the existing ones;
by a proactive and effective attitude in the promotion of
the Nuclear Sciences and Technologies, encompassing outreach and dissemination
activities, internally (at IST) and externally, nationwide and in the
international scene, using instruments such as the website, the Information and
Communication Technologies, the social media, education and training
initiatives, Conferences, Workshops, Courses and Symposia.
promoting periodic
meetings of the Thematic Strands on
leading edge, multidisciplinary and transversal scientific topics in the
domains in which the C2TN activities are undertaken, establishing ad-hoc Working Groups gathering researchers
of different research groups, featuring skills and competences with synergistic potential.
by submitting to the Departments of Universities and
Higher Education establishments, proposals of Master´s degree dissertation
topics and associated programmes of work, that will result in an increase of
the number of students performing their Master´s degree and Ph.D. dissertations
under the supervision of C2TN researchers. Such
increment will also be possible by a higher number of funded projects and the
establishment of new collaborative links with academia and research centres and
will benefit from an effective and proactive outreach and dissemination of
the C2TN´s activities.