A multidisciplinary team from NOVA School of Science and Technology (FCT NOVA), from the areas of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Physics, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, are part of a group of Portuguese volunteers who managed to develop an open-source pulmonary ventilator for intensive care, with a production value below the standard.

NOVA is the first Portuguese university to join IN-PART, a platform for promoting technology and innovation that currently connects around 230 universities and research institutes from around the world to more than 5500 companies. Through a matchmaking method, the platform seeks to establish a link between the knowledge produced in the academic world and the needs of the market.