Coimbra iParque

Additional facilities such as a data center, several conference halls and meeting rooms of different sizes, a restaurant and a green park were in the initial plans.

The park was also intended to offer a range of specialized services to support business development, internationalization and establishment of foreign companies.

The Coimbra iParque was founded in order to connect these initiatives and businesses and work with them, establishing cooperation networks, creating synergies and competitive advantages.

It intended to create a new concept of competition based on the collective efforts of a number of institutional initiatives that were credible and promote the attraction of highly educated human resources and investment, turning Coimbra into a new technology-based business hub on par with some of the most innovative and entrepreneurial small and mid-sized European university towns (i.e. Leiden, Leuven, Lund, Turku or Uppsala to name a few).

Between 2011 and 2017, the park became the headquarters of a small number of companies and applied research centers with expertise in the fields of ICT, health, nanotech, cleantech and green building.