The Business Research Unit congratulates Raúl Laureano from the Data Analytics research group for his participation in a national project to use artificial intelligence to reduce red tape and the time entrepreneurs wait to obtain European funds.

This project is being led by IAPMEI (the Portuguese Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation) and by AICEP (the Portuguese Agency for Investment and Foreign Trade) and counts with the support of 300 000€ from Portugal 2020 funds, via the COMPETE 2020 Programme and specifically the fund for the digital transformation of the Portuguese administration (SAMA). ISCTE-IUL is going to be the scientific and technical partner of the project, with the participation of researchers from 3 research units: DINÂMIA, ISTAR and BRU.