The Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI) is an innovation technology institute established as an associated independent non-profit research and development organization, created through a partnership between the Carnegie Mellon University and the Government of Portugal, whose members are the CMU itself, the University of Madeira and the Madeira Tecnopolo, in order to provide a home for the many collaborations between these and several other partners, in both research and education.
We provide several ways for companies to connect and collaborate with us, ranging from course sponsorships, working directly with our students, to fully established research centres and initiatives. Please feel welcome to contact us for further information.
M-ITI research on low-cost community platforms for communication -- called Civic Media -- has won a coveted H2020 grant. It will investigate the implementation of a low-power radio network in rural Ireland, Romania and Portugal, with particular emphasis on the remote and rural areas of these countries. In Madeira and mainland Portugal, this type of innovation, once rooted in the communities, could represent an immediate alternative in the improvement of communications in the event of emergencies and catastrophes such as the last fires, in which the adequacy and unfortunately, with devastating consequences.
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