Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) is the Engineering School of the Technical University of Lisbon, which is committed to education and research in various areas of engineering and technology. It has an academic staff of approximately 800, about 8000 undergraduate students, 750 MSc. students and 250 Ph.D. students.

The Unit of Marine Technology and Engineering is a Research Unit of Instituto Superior Técnico, with total research personnel of around 35, organized in five groups: Marine Environment, Dynamics of Marine Vehicles and Structures, Marine Structures, Computer Aided Ship Design and Safety, Reliability and Maintainability. Four of the five groups will be contributing to the present project.

This Unit was involved in about 20 European projects having been the co-ordinator of 2 of them. Its role in this project is to be Technical Co-ordinator and responsible of WP6.