Project FCT-PRR - IVAR

This financing aims to support the acquisition of equipment or the completion of renovation and/or modernization projects of the Scientific Research Unit (UID), Institute for Research in Volcanology and Risk Assessment, with the acronym IVAR, of the University of the Azores, which is a multidisciplinary research unit whose activities revolve around the prevention and prediction of disasters, catastrophes and natural calamities, prioritizing technical cooperation and scientific, national and international, in the field of Volcanology and associated phenomena, including volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, steam explosions, gaseous emanations, atmospheric pollution and contamination of aquifers, slope movements, floods, floods and tsunamis, among others.

The Financing aims to update and restructure the Scientific Research Unit (UID), including its digital transformation and aims to acquire large scientific equipment, sets of scientific instruments, scientific files and data, other knowledge-based resources, computing and programming systems, communication networks that promote open access and/or other instrumental infrastructures to stimulate excellence in research and innovation activities.