University of Porto

University of Porto (UPORTO) is Portugal’s second largest university and one of the most prestigious teaching and research institutions in the country. The Competences Center on Active and Heathy Ageing of University of Porto (Porto4Ageing) competency centre is a four-starred Reference Site and a Partner Plus of the former European Innovation Partnership and Healthy Ageing of the European Commission. The Porto4Ageing alliance is committed to promoting local convergence and improving the health innovation ecosystem, while reducing and overcoming existing bottlenecks. It is doing so by promoting joint work for high impact, thus bridging the gap between public and private actions and instruments and, ultimately, facilitating knowledge exchanges and scaling up of results (www.porto4ageing.up.pt).