COMEGI is a research centre devoted to the promotion of advanced research on Management Sciences, Markets and Technology Management of the Universidade Lusíada (UL) embracing the units of Lisbon, Porto and Vila Nova de Famalicão and contributing also to the scientific background of higher degrees offered by this University on the areas of Management, Industrial Management, Marketing, Decision Sciences and Public Markets.

This centre, COMEGI, stems from the previous existing research centre of the UL, CLEGI, which was devoted just to industrial management, being the mission of COMEGI to promote advanced research on Management Sciences: 

1. Including the major area of Public Systems with the purpose of studying public markets as well as the most relevant features of the labour market and vocational training;
2. Pursuing research lines on E-Business, Marketing and Consumer Behaviour giving special attention to analytical modelling, field surveying and experimental testing;
3. Developing advanced research on the areas of Human Resources Management, Leadership, Sustainability, Motivation and Performance Assessment;
4. Promoting advanced research on Societal Reporting, Auditing, Financial Control and Prediction for private companies;
5. Developing advanced research on Technology Management including operations management, industrial systems and competitiveness.

Therefore, this Mission implies an innovative approach integrating interdisciplinary advanced know-how on multiple Sciences such as Organizational Theory, Operational Research, Marketing, Public Procurement, Human Resources, Technology and Industrial Systems, Financial Control.

 The strategy adopted by COMEGI is based on three major scientific principles:

1.  A systemic approach to understand, to diagnose and to recommend better strategies and actions.
2. An interdisciplinary integration of multiple knowledge stemming from the nature of COMEGI.
3. A “problem oriented-approach” following the so-called Mode 2 of Research which implies that research should be based on real problems and systems.

The dissemination of results is also planned to include the organization of conferences and meetings, as well as technical visits and workshops, for both academic and industry public. 
Actually, COMEGI gives high priority to the cooperation with different institutions and companies intensifying collaboration to foster mutual benefits.
This centre was evaluated by a highly qualified interdisciplinary panel of FCT in the end of 2019 and although being a centre just set up on 2018, the Pannel rated “Good” with several encouraging comments and a few recommendations. The Pannel recommended that COMEGI should have a clearer focus for the research being carried out and also that international cooperation, community services and research grants should be incremented. 

During this period, Set 2019-Set 2020, these recommendations were already implemented and so this report shows that:

1. Diversity of research topics was reduced. 
2. Several research international projects were started. 
3. Four research grants were awarded and several more are under process 
4. A new lab is being acquired to facilitate the development of community services.