CTVC is a tech innovation center bringing together specialists in a collaborative structure. We function as a platform where researchers, developers and other professionals share resources, knowledge and opportunities. We develop R&D projects together, creating conditions for professional progression and sustainable development of tech projects.
The cooperative promotes software development in strategic areas such as EdTech and eGovernance, focusing on improving internal processes.
The Atlas Program trains and supports new professionals in transitioning to an independent and autonomous career.
Establish protocols and build bridges at local level, including academic institutions and innovation agents, to create a technological ecosystem that serves the community and our members.
We organize programming introduction workshops and are expanding new educational initiatives to bring people of various ages closer to the technical side of technological development.
It is a collective of autonomous professionals established under the legal framework of a cooperative, i.e., a private law society, but non-profit. The generated surpluses are not distributed as profit, but reinvested, applied for collective benefit, in accordance with cooperative principles. It is a collaborative company, where workers are also the owners. It integrates components of an agency, research center and collaborative workspace, without limiting itself to any of these, orienting itself as a shared resource management system and a space for collective action. The mission of the cooperative is to promote the well-being of its members and transform the community through technology.
Decisions in the cooperative are made democratically in assemblies, where all members have the right to vote.
We sustain the cooperative through three main ways: (i) economic participation of members (e.g., quotas or purchase of shares), (ii) projects carried out directly by the cooperative as a service provider, as long as they are aligned with its objectives, and, above all, by (iii) the autonomous professional activity of cooperatives who choose to domicile their income in the cooperative — which allows them, if they so wish, to access an employment contract and benefit from a more favorable contributory framework.
Our identity is deeply rooted in Viana do Castelo and, currently, our action is concentrated in the municipality. However, we have as a future objective to aggregate members from the entire district, gradually expanding our impact. Despite the focus being primarily local, we maintain contact with the national and international cooperative ecosystem, seeking to bring value and contribute to strengthening the cooperative movement. We work so that Viana do Castelo can participate in a new wave of cooperative innovation.
One idea at a time.
