In accordance with the College of Porto, the School of Engineering (FEUP) has signed a strategic settlement with NTU’s Singapore Centre for 3D Printing (SC3DP), strengthening a partnership that started with a Memorandum of Understanding in June 2025. The Collaboration Settlement creates a long-term framework for joint analysis, researcher mobility, and built-in doctoral coaching in additive manufacturing.
The signing, attended by Rector António Sousa Pereira, affirmed his pivotal position in initiating and enabling this collaboration. In the course of the workshop ‘Additive Manufacturing Processes and Applied sciences’, FEUP Director Rui Calçada said that this protocol marks a decisive step in FEUP’s worldwide positioning in additive manufacturing. He highlighted the chance to merge FEUP’s strengths – from sustainable supplies to superior design, digitalisation, and synthetic intelligence – with SC3DP’s infrastructure and trade community. Calçada added that prolonged analysis internships in Singapore and the joint growth of the ADAPT doctoral program will strengthen expertise coaching and FEUP’s capability to generate information with actual societal influence.
The workshop additionally launched ADAPT – Superior Doctoral Programme in Additive Manufacturing Processes and Applied sciences, designed by FEUP and SC3DP. ADAPT goals to coach high researchers in sustainable and useful supplies, automation and clever course of management, generative design, digital twins, explainable AI, and sustainability utilized to additive manufacturing. This system addresses the standard fragmentation of AM analysis by integrating supplies, processes, and digitalisation, and by partaking industrial companions in Portugal and Singapore.
The settlement additionally defines FEUP’s participation within the Singapore Analysis Attachment Programme (SRAP). Between 2026 and 2029, NTU will host six to 10 FEUP doctoral college students for one- to two-year analysis internships, providing entry to superior laboratories and deep hyperlinks with Singapore’s industrial ecosystem.
In accordance with FEUP’s Affiliate Director for Internationalisation, Gil Gonçalves, this cooperation aligns with FEUP’s technique of fostering rigorous, long-term partnerships with sturdy innovation potential. He emphasised that the settlement expands doctoral mobility, strengthens joint analysis networks, and positions FEUP inside a worldwide consortium of excellence in additive manufacturing. By ADAPT, FEUP reinforces interdisciplinary STEM coaching and will increase the worldwide influence of its analysis.
