The VII Ibero-American Congress on Entrepreneurship, Energy, Environment and Technology (VII
CIEEMAT), coordinated by the Federal Centre of Technological Education from Rio de Janeiro
(CEFET/RJ), was held for the third time in Portugal, and for the second time in the city of Bragança, under
the organization of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB), the Research Centre in Digitalization and
Intelligent Robotics (CeDRI), the Mountain Research Centre (CIMO) and the Associated Laboratory for
Sustainability and Technology in Inland Regions (SusTEC). The event aims to consolidate the Luso-
Brazilian and Ibero-American cooperation in those areas, gathering the multinational contribution and
enhancing collaboration in academic and scientific fields.
The VII CIEEMAT took place on July 6-8, 2022 and had the Energy Transition as its specific theme.
The current energy context and the transition of energy generation and consumption typologies are
unavoidable in defining the profiles of national and international societies and energy policies. The
dynamism to which the energy sector is currently subjected is imposed by environmental and safety
concerns, the fluctuation of the fossil fuels price and shifting technologies, which translates into
challenges and opportunities across various sectors as research and innovation, education, policy and
environmental governance. The opportunities and challenges of the energy transition are outlined, for
instance, in the exploitation of natural assets, the decarbonisation of the economy and the transport
sector and the flexibility of energy infrastructure through smart grids.
The VII CIEEMAT followed a program addressing various perspectives of action of higher education
institutions and R&D units and their cooperation with society: i) the academic perspective (why, what
and how to teach the challenges of energy transition); ii) the perspective of international cooperation,
defining new cooperation programs between Portugal and Brazil in the energy field, with emphasis on
the Brazilian EnergIF program and its potential for international cooperation with Portugal; iii) and the
research and innovation perspective, with the contribution of academic experts and the business sector
regarding the challenges that the necessary and emerging energy transition poses.
At the same time, the VII CIEEMAT provided also a forum to disseminate and share ongoing research in
various academic and scientific institutions, through oral communications in the areas of sustainable
urban mobility, energy generation and self-consumption, environmental challenges, decarbonisation and
climate change.
