ISQ – Welding and Quality Institute
Portugal
Website: www.isqgroup.com/
Organisation type: Research and Technology Organization
About the partner:
ISQ, the Welding and Quality Institute, is a Portuguese research and technology organisation specialising in applied research, technological development and advanced engineering services for industry.
Its expertise spans materials, manufacturing, energy, sustainability, digitalisation, inspection, testing and metrology. ISQ helps companies and public organisations improve innovation, competitiveness, safety and quality. Through national and European research projects, it supports the development and deployment of safe, sustainable and low-carbon technologies and the transition towards a more circular economy.
Role in BRISA:
Leading Sustainability assessment, SSbD and skills programmes.
ISQ co-leads BRISA’s sustainability assessment, coordinating techno-economic assessment and social life cycle assessment across the industrial pilots. It develops the project’s SSbD scoring methodology, bringing together hazard, exposure, environmental and economic considerations in a decision support tool.
ISQ also leads training and knowledge transfer activities, developing modular, competency-based programmes for workers and professionals. These activities support the assessment and wider industrial adoption of BRISA’s innovations.
People involved:
Senior Researcher/SSbD assessment/Project Manager
Dr. Inês Meireles
Senior Researcher/SSbD assessment
Dr. Helena Monteiro
Senior Researcher/Project Manager
Dr. Joana Ortigueira
Researcher/Sustainability assessment
Tiago Silva
Researcher/Sustainability assessment
Dr. Cristiano Vieira
Researcher on training, Skills Development & Qualifications