The Sea Center of the Science and Technology Park of University of Porto (UPTEC MAR) operates as a business incubator or space to accommodate operators and/or institutions with maritime vocation, promoting technological entrepreneurship, providing services and joint research support and helping the dissemination of scientific and technological cooperation with civil society.

Being responsible for the incubation of technology-based companies connected with the sea, this center is part of the Park of Science and Technology of the Sea of University of Porto (at the Oporto Port), which will host several other facilities (as R&D and scientific publication) connected to the large range of scientific production related to the sea within the University of Porto. This structure involves, in addition to UPTEC, the University of Porto, the Port Administration of Douro and Leixões (APDL) and the Municipality of Matosinhos.

Already four companies are based at this incubation center, however with the current construction of new infrastructures and the evolution of this project, it is predicable that new project will join this cluster, allowing the development and application of new technologies to the marine environment, the promotion of entrepreneurship in technology-based economic activities of the Sea, and the evolution of new processes of technology transfer through cooperation between companies and the existing R & D located at this center.

To get to know more information about each company currently incubated at UPTEC MAR, please visit our companies pages.