Since scientific research is considered to be a foundational element of its activity and the quest to articulate the research and teaching activities in COFAC’s education institutions, Lusófona University created ILIND – Lusophone Institute for Research and Development. This is a research organic unit, with the following goals:

To foster research and development (R&D) initiatives, and disseminate knowledge in the different scientific areas it addresses;
To coordinate and systematize the research activities carried out by the R&D research units of the above-mentioned education institutions, ensuring, namely, that the process of preparing, submitting and managing research projects is followed, as well as support to the processes undertaken by individual researchers;
To coordinate the R&D and advanced training process at the level of doctoral programmes in the different research units of the education institutions, taking as starting point the common scientific areas of training;
To promote the scientific exchange with institutions and researchers, national, foreign and international;
To apply to obtain logistic and financial resources suitable to the undertaking of the R&D activities directly carried out as well as those that come under the purview of the units of the education institutions whose research activities it coordinates;
To foster the submission of interdisciplinary projects, involving the research units of all education institutions;
To create networks for scientific and cultural outreach and for the provision of services to the community.