The Regional Directorate for Science, Innovation and Development (DRCID) was created on April 11th, 2024, through the Regional Regulatory Decree n.º 3/2024/A. It's the XIV Regional Government of the Azores' body responsible for ensuring the legal and technical conditions for promoting the Azores as a knowledge-based society, leveraged in the foundations of basic and applied scientific research, as well as in technological based innovation.
We develop our work in the framework of the Vice-Presidency of the Regional Government of the Azores.
The DRCID is headed by a regional director, Doctor Rute Dias Gregório.
The work carried out by DRCID is financed by the Region’s annual budget and the European Investment Fund and Structural Funds.
In 2025, DRCTD has a budget of 8.174.500 EUR* to conduct actions, projects and funding on the following action lines: Science, Technology, Innovation, Development and Scientific dissemination.
*(cf. Regional Annual Budget for 2025, approved by the Regional Regulatory Decree n.º 4/2025/A, on January 13th, 2025).
Under the direct responsibility of the Vice-Presidency of the Regional Government of the Azores, the DRCID has two service directorates:
- the Directorate for Services of Science and Planning (DSCP), which is responsible for coordinating and developing the actions in the fields of science, dissemination of scientific culture and knowledge-based society within the Azores' Scientific and Technological System, as well as managing and planning DRCID's activities.
- the Directorate for Services of Research, Innovation and Development (DSRID), which is responsible for coordinating and developing the regional policies in the fields of research, innovation and development.
The DSCP also supervises the Administrative and Financial Support Division, while the DSRID supervises the Core Support Structure for the Implementation of the Intermediate Organism.
Throughout its services, the Regional Directorate for Science, Innovation and Development has a staff of 31 workers, including 23 senior technicians, 2 IT Specialists and 6 technical assistants.