DSTelecom S.A. was founded in 2008, with the objective of deploying open fiber optic networks to sell its access to telecom operators working with end users (through services such as triple-play, i.e. television, internet and telephone). The company is wholly owned by DST Telecomunicações, SGPS, S.A., which was created as a sub-holding of the DST Group for the telecommunications sector and, since 2018, has been owned by DST - SGPS, S.A. (with a 46.3% stake) and CUBE II Communications SARL (with a 53.7% stake). The company is defined as a wholesaler and its activity has allowed the DST Group to enter the telecommunications business. The DST Group, whose origins date back to the 40's, has a large number of companies present in the areas of Engineering and Construction, Environment, Renewable Energies, Telecommunications and a new business area of creation and innovation called Ventures.

Vision: To develop in a sustainable way, especially in low population density areas, open communication networks.

Mission: To free people from geographical barriers by building a digital world.

Fapajal has a papermaking tradition that goes back to 1755 and that today is focused on the production of tissue paper. Its offer includes a wide range of base reels and transformed products. Headquartered in São Julião do Tojal, Loures, it relies on the contribution of more than 150  employees and about 50 outsourced employees, and proudly says that people are one of Fapajal's greatest assets.

BYSTEEL FS is a DST Group company, established in 2016, with headquarters in Braga, Portugal, which activity consists in designing, engineering, developing, producing and assembling facade systems.

Created in order to address the increasing demand in the market for facade systems, mainly abroad, Bysteel FS aims to become one of the most trusted facade companies in Europe and to be known as the number one partner for the most demanding projects and innovative ideas.

The University's mission is to generate, disseminate, and apply knowledge, based on freedom of thought and plurality of critical exercises, promoting higher education and contributing to the construction of a model of society based on humanistic principles, which has knowledge, creativity, and innovation as factors of growth, sustainable development, well-being, and solidarity.

IT is a private, non-profit, association of six Portuguese universities, one polytechnic, one public telecom operator and one telecom equipment manufacturer, established in 1992 with a mission to create and share scientific knowledge in telecommunications at world level and to host and tutor graduate and post-graduate students. IT earned the statute of Associated Laboratory in 2001.

IT is organized around three main sites: Aveiro, Coimbra and Lisbon with delegations in Covilhã, Leiria, Lisbon and Porto. IT hosts more than 300 (PhD holding) researchers, 7 of which are Fellows of IEEE, and 3 Fellows of the IET, 200 PhD Students and 200 MSc students.

IT expertise spans all areas of telecommunications including wireless and optical communications, networks and multimedia and enabling sciences and technologies from applied mathematics and quantum information, to electronics including organic electronics to instrumentation and measurements.