Universidad Politécnica de Madrid – Life Supporting Technologies (LST)

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) is the largest Spanish technological university as well as a renowned European institution. With two recognitions as Campus of International Excellence, it is outstanding in its research activity. Together with its training of highly-qualified professionals, it is competitive at an international level.

More than 2,400 researchers carry out their activity at the UPM, grouped in 216 Research Groups, 10 Research Centres and 55 Laboratories. All of them are committed to transforming the generated knowledge into advances applied to the production sector.

The intense collaboration with governmental bodies and industry guarantees that research at the UPM offers real solutions to real-world problems. UPM is  committed to transferring the knowledge to society that is generated through its research structures.

UPM has 355 research and education collaboration agreements with institutions all around the world—established through a devoted vice-rectorate for International Relationships. Furthermore, it is a member of the Santander Bank initiative Universia, the largest Ibero-American network of universities.

The dynamism of R&D&I activity at the UPM—together with the transfer of knowledge to society—is at the core of its strategy. These two commitments place it among the Spanish universities with the greatest research activity and first in the capture of external resources in a competitive regime.

Life Supporting Technologies (LifeSTech) is an applied research, development and innovation group at UPM. Its activities are devoted to the design, development and evaluation of ICT-based services and applications. LifeSTech also aims at the creation, promotion and transference-to-market of new ideas, methods and technological solutions for people’s lives with a multi-domain perspective—at home and at work.

LifeSTech has formal collaborations with overseas institutions such as Harvard University, Georgia Tech, and University of Houston in the USA, OCAD University in Canada, Beijing Institute of Technology in China, NUS in Singapore, Industrial Research Institute in Taiwan. It also has research agreements with universities, hospitals and health institutions across Europe, and IT organizations such as Vodafone and ASUS, thus contributing to globalized research activity.

LifeSTech has strong experience as coordinator, technical/quality manager and participant in more than 150 National and EU R&D funded projects (FP5, FP6, FP7 and H2020). The group is active in IoT, big data and machine learning in the domains of e-education, materials, manufacturing and transportation and is highly involved in the healthcare area with their “Prescription and adherence action at regional level”, “Integrated care” and “Age-friendly environment” groups. LifeSTech is also a core partner of the EIT Health initiative funded by the European Institute of Technology, where it coordinates the EIT Health Living Lab and Test Beds accelerator initiative.

LifeSTech members regularly publish in peer reviewed journals and are invited to give keynotes or present papers at international conferences like IEEE, BHI, EMBC, TeleMed & eHealth, ATA, at meetings of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing, as well as other national and international scientific conferences, workshops, and symposia.