The purpose of the respective project of the development of CTT-BIOTECH is to provide facilities and information and technological services to the relevant enterprises, in order to increase competitiveness and sustainable economic development on the food supplements sector (e.g. plant extracts, embedded probiotics, fortified jellies). As a result, one of the urgent requests of the University community is to provide a suitable space for a technology transfer center, which ensures a direct and fast relationship between the economic and university research environment. By doing so, it aims to optimise and facilitate current university activities, the stake being to raise the quality of academic life by providing such an endowment, indispensable to any institution.