The Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute is an Innovation Institute of the University of Madeira.

Our vision is to become an influential and internationally recognized center of excellence for research and education in interactive technologies and to advance the strategic development of the University and of the region of Madeira through solutions and approaches with economic impact and scientific significance.

In pursuit of this vision, we strive to build national and international collaboration and partnerships with business and industry as well as other research and educational institutions. We seek to develop creative synergies between education and both practical research and exploratory development while remaining firmly anchored in the realizable and the practicable.

Our fourfold mission is:

• to develop capacity in a sustainable setting that welcomes interdisciplinary research and innovation in interactive systems and services through communications, network, and information technologies.

• to advance education in the fields of human-computer interaction and software engineering through international multidisciplinary graduate programs that develop new leaders and pioneers.

• to explore and expand the potential of technology to enhance human communication by designing and developing novel systems and services and by investigating their use and effectiveness in real-world contexts.

• to bridge the gaps between software engineering, interaction design, and service design by developing practical tools and techniques, theory and practices centered on meeting genuine human needs.

Madeira-ITI, launched in January 2010, is a not-for-profit organisation supported by the University of Madeira, Madeira Tecnopolo, and Carnegie Mellon University. Madeira-ITI is an outgrowth from the Carnegie Mellon Portugal International Partnership.