Porto Design Factory

Empowering a new generation of global innovators

What do we do?

The world faces tremendous challenges and is filled with endless possibilities. To face them and make a meaningful impact in the world, we should raise a generation that is able to meet these challenges and find innovative solutions for tomorrow's problems. Embracing this as a call to action, Porto Design Factory is a leading co-learning and co-creation platform focused on empowering a new generation of global innovators, responsible entrepreneurs and future change makers.
Porto Design Factory is established in P.Porto to nurture leaders and innovators to anticipate, serve or solve societal and economic needs, through an integrated inter-disciplinary education + innovation + acceleration model, focused on developing the skills required by an ever-changing world and determined to co-create new knowledge, new ideas and new solutions.

Academic and Scientific Partners

Porto Design Factory is part of Design Factory Global Network, that is composed by 11 factories over 4 continents:
- Aalto University (Helsinki)
- Tongji University (Shanghai)
- Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne)
- Universidade Católica (Santiago do Chile)
- Tallinn Technology University (Tallinn)
- Riga Technical University (Riga)
- NHL (Leeuwarden)
- Underwood College (Seul)
- Phila U (Filadélfia)
- Pace University (Nova York)
- CERN (Genebra)
- Politécnico do Porto (Porto)