CESAM  - Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies
Research areas: Atmospheric Processes and Modelling, Environment Processes and Pollutants, Functional Biodiversity, Ecotoxicology, Stress Biology, Adaptation Biology and Ecological Processes, Marine and Estuarine Ecology, Oceanography and Marine Geology, Coastal Zone Planning and Management
Unit coordinator: Ana Isabel Lillebø
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CIC-DIGITAL - Centre for Research in Communication, Information and Digital Culture
Research areas: Media, Information, Technologies and Societal Challenges, Culture, Globalization, Mediation and Arts
Pole coordinator: Fernando Ramos
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CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials
Research areas: Inorganic Functional Nanomaterials and Organic-Inorganic Hybrids, Multifunctional Ferroic Ceramics and Nanostructures, Materials for Energy and Functional Surfaces, Biorefineries, Biobased Materials and Recycling and Biomedical and Biomimetic Materials
Unit coordinator: João Rocha
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CIDMA - Centre of Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications
Research areas: Algebra and Geometry, Complex and Hypercomplex Analysis, Functional Analysis and Applications, History of Mathematics, Mathematical Theory of Systems and Control, Optimization, Graph Theory and Combinatorics and Probability and Statistics
Unit coordinator: António Caetano
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CIDTFF - Research Centre for Didatics and Technology in Teacher Education
Research areas: Education, Didatics, Supervision, Evaluation, Society and Training
Unit coordinator: Maria Helena Araújo e Sá
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CLLC - Centre for Languages, Literature and Cultures
Research areas: Literary and Cultural Studies, Education, Science of Languages
Unit coordinator: Teresa Cortez
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CINTESIS - Center for Health technology and Services Research
Research areas: Clinical & Health Services Research, Ageing & Neurosciences Research, Diagnosis, Disease & Therapeutics Research and Data & Methods Research
Pole coordinator: Óscar Ribeiro
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CIPES - Center for Research in Higher Education Policies
Research areas: Higher Education, System Level Policies, Institutional and Organisational Analysis and Resources, Performance and Human Capital
Pole coordinator: Teresa Carvalho
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GEOBIOTEC - GeoBioSciences, GeoTechnologies and GeoEngineering
Research areas: Lithospheric Evolution, Complex Environmental Systems, Georessources, Geotechnics and Geomaterials
Unit coordinator: Fernando Rocha
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GOVCOPP - Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies
Research areas: Public Policies, Competitiveness, Local and Regional Innovation Systems, Territory, Development and Tourism
Unit coordinator: Anabela Botelho
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IBIMED - Institute of Biomedicine of Aveiro
Research areas: Human ageing, Protein aggregation, Epigenome, Ageing related diseases, Systems biomedicine, Clinical studies
Unit coordinator: Manuel Santos
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ID+ - Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture
Research areas: Design, Art, Media and Culture
Pole coordinator: Vasco Branco
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IEETA - Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro
Research area: Embedded Systems, Computing and Control,Information Systems and Telematics, Signal Processing
Unit coordinator: Armando Pinho
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INET-Md - Institute of Ethnomusicology - Centre of Music and Dance Studies
Research areas: Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies, Historical and Cultural Studies in Music, Dance Studies, Creation, Theory and Music Technologies, Performance Studies and performance as Artistic Research, Education and Music in Community
Pole coordinator: Susana Sardo
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I3N - FSCOSD - Institute for Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication - Physics of Semicondutors, Optoelectronics and Disordered Systems
Research areas: Modelling of materials behaviour, Nanofabrication and micro-technologies, Nano and microstructured polymer-based systems and Physical characterization of self-assembled nanostructures
Unit coordinator: Armando Neves
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IT - Telecommunications Institute
Research areas: Wireless Communications, Optical Communications, Networks and Multimedia  and Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies
Unit coordinator: José Neves and José Rodrigues Ferreira da Rocha
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QOPNA  - Organic Chemistry, Natural and Agro-foods Products
Research areas: Food Science and Biochemistry, Mass Spectometry, Organic Chemistry and Natural Products
Unit coordinator: Francisco Amado
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RISCO - Aveiro Research Centre of Risks and Sustainability in Construction
Research areas: Risks in the Built Environment, Construction Sustainability, Built Heritage Conservation and Restoration
Unit coordinator: Paulo Cachim
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TEMA - Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation
Research areas: Advanced Mechanical Engineering and Fracture Mechanics, Applied Energy, Biomechanics, Nanoengineering, Transportation Technology and Simulation Software Research and Development
Unit coordinator: António Bastos
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