O Centro de Incubação e Aceleração de Faro integra o Núcleo do Algarve da ANJE, constituindo assim uma infraestrutura essencialmente vocacionada para os jovens e para o exercício da atividade empresarial. Beneficiando desta dinâmica associativa, o centro reúne condições de excelência para a germinação de novos negócios no mercado algarvio. The Faro Incubation and Acceleration Center is part of ANJE's Algarve Nucleus, thus constituting an infrastructure essentially geared towards young people and the pursuit of business activity. Benefiting from this associative dynamic, the center brings together conditions of excellence for the germination of new businesses in the Algarve market.

CRIA is the Division of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer of the University of Algarve, aiming to promote relations between the university and the industry, increase the technology and knowledge transfer, support the establishment of new firms, generalize the use of industrial property rights mechanisms and developing technological infrastructures to enhance specific research fields in the Algarve.CRIA was born in 2003, from the need of creating a service to support the development of advanced business ideas and inventions born at the university that could migrate to the market.The intervention areas of CRIA are: Intellectual Property (IP) and Licensing Support, Commercialization and Technology Transfer, Entrepreneurship and Business Development, European Projects and Studies.

Located in the south of Portugal, in a region of Mediterranean climate sought by thousands of tourists, the University of Algarve (UAlg) is headquartered in Faro, the capital of the Algarve. Its privileged location next to the International Airport of Faro and the great number of new air routes connecting to the main Portuguese cities (Porto and Lisbon), Europe and the World, as well as the excellent conditions that, together with the region, have to offer, this academy acquires a central and international status, visible in the streets of the city of Faro, which receives annually about 1,700 international students from more than 84 nationalities.
The UAlg has been multiplying and consolidating its training offer in its three campuses, two in the city of Faro and one in Portimão, and offers undergraduate and integrated master's degrees, masters and doctorates, which are distributed in its major areas of training: Arts, Communication and Heritage; Social and Education Sciences; Science and Health Technologies; Exact and Natural Sciences; Economics, Management and Tourism; Engineering and Technologies. With classrooms and study rooms, amphitheatres and laboratories for teaching and research activities, libraries with online access, Wi-Fi in all campuses, accommodation for more than 600 students, catering services, medical services, cultural and sporting activities, the University of Algarve and the region provide the ideal conditions to study, investigate, undertake and foster personal enrichment.
Scientific research has been a fundamental factor for the development of the University, placing it in a trajectory of national and international affirmation. The excellence of its research and development activities translates into a dense network of partnerships established with universities and R&D institutions from around the world in a wide range of fields.

The UALG TEC CAMPUS - Business Accelerator of the University of Algarve has as its main objective the dynamization and expansion of the technological ecosystem of the region (Algarve Tech Hub), at the national and international level, for the areas of information technology, promoting a favourable change in the economy and society at regional and national levels.