To promote the development of applied research projects, in order to disseminate new knowledge, in close collaboration with the business community and in partnership with higher education institutions and other research-oriented entities duly accredited and evaluated in their respective areas of intervention;

To promote interdisciplinary dialogue and multidisciplinary studies in the scientific domains addressed by our different research areas;

To develop the exchange and scientific cooperation with similar institutions, namely through the participation in thematic research networks, national and international;

To promote investigation and support the activity developed by our researchers, integrating them in the proposed scientific areas;

To promote the dissemination of knowledge through the publication of books, book chapters, and papers in journals indexed in the main bibliographic bases, and of books and book chapters of a pedagogical nature;

To ensure the dissemination of the work conducted, not included in the previous paragraph, to the scientific community and the general public, through seminars, congresses, conference cycles, training courses and/or the publication of monographic editions and scientific journals.