Welcome to IT Porto! We are a research center at the University of Porto, which is affiliated with the Instituto de Telecomunicações, a national institute with sixty different locations and about 150 researchers with a PhD working on a wide range of topics related to communications engineering.

IT Porto was launched in January 2007 by three professors of the Department of Computer Science (João Barros, Miguel Coimbra, Miguel Rodrigues) and has since grown steadily to a full bodied institute with more than 50 members and a strong presence both in the School of Sciences (FCUP) and the School of Engineering (FEUP).

Mission: Alongside with the other IT sites, the mission of IT-Porto is the creation and dissemination of scientific knowledge in the field of telecommunications. As such, our site is actively dedicated to foster higher education by recruiting, hosting and tutoring graduate and postgraduate students, as well as creating strong bonds with foreign institutions from which they benefit on a regular basis. IT-Porto students are encouraged to collaborate with both industrial and academic partners that have a strong position in fundamental and applied research in telecommunications, both at national and international level. On the other hand, cooperation among students is highly cherished.