The Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA) is one of the faculties of the Universidade de Lisboa. The core mission of ISA is Higher Education, R&D, and Technology Transfer in the scientific fields of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Engineering, Food Science and Engineering, Animal Production Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Biology, and Landscape Architecture. Within Higher Education, ISA is attended by 1500 undergraduate, master and PhD students.
The 130 professors and 125 Researchers are PhD graduates with recognized scientific work published in international journals, books, and conferences. Presently, is involved in 94 R&D projects, 44 internationals, which ISA is the leading partner in 4 international project and 20 national projects, financed by EC and national funds and also in several projects concerning Technology Transfer.