The Mountain Research Center is one of the research groups working within the Polytechnic Institute of Braganza,
in Braganza Portugal. Since the foundation of this center in 2003, more than a thousand research items
have been published throughout more than 40 international public funding’s, allowing the center to interact
internationally with many research groups from the academy and also with the private sector.
In all these years, we have had the commitment of disseminating science around the world, creating solid and
robust bonds and partnerships with both, academia and industrial innovator, and we are always looking for more
challenging collaborations.
In this sense, the mountain research center gathers di erent ways to keep evolving our main mission of Science
dissemination. In the present moment, where we all are involved in ghting against the current problem
the world is facing, we have decided to join the scienti c community adopting the available resources in order
to keep the owing communication of our works.
Therefore, one of our responses was the creation of the rst edition of the Natural Product Applications Online
Congress, which focuses on the dissemination of works involved in the cosmetic, food, and health industries.
Thanks to all of you in less than a month the congress reached more than 450 registration from universities
and important companies from di erent parts of the world.
The NPA congress received and processed more than 200 communications, from which the scienti c committee
has selected and referred each of them to their appropriate type for communication considering the limited
time we will have ahead.
All the submitted works were divided into three main categories, Oral, Pitch, and Poster communications which
add them up to our 9 Keynote lectures, and one special oral communication.
We could not thank you more for your participations, and we hope to see you next year on the second edition
of the Natural Product Applications Congress.
