CERNAS

Research Center
for Natural Resources,
Envioronment and Society

About us

CERNAS – Research Center for Natural Resources, Environment and Society, is a research unit hosted by the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (IPC), the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco  (IPCB) and by the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu (IPV), financed by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT).

CERNAS has a scope focused on regional issues relating to the region of Central Portugal, in a multidisciplinary response to global issues by applying the capacity of their human and material resources to solve concrete problems.

We have all the conditions to claim the path of excellence, persisting in the growing autonomy of the development of our activities.