In this context, through its Universities and Research Institutes, CEU aims to promote and support research activity in the university and business environment and disseminate the results obtained in the social environment. This objective also fits with the institution's commitment to research and internationalisation.
Activities carried out through the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research include: co-ordination of the doctoral programmes, calls for predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowship applications, researcher mobility grants, management of six-year research period assessments by the national committee for the evaluation of research actions (CNEAI) and internal grants for research projects, amongst others.