ISQ is a private, service oriented and non-profit making technical and scientific organisation, with a staff of 600, which provides consultancy services, performs R&D in several scientific areas and also renders technical inspections and laboratory testing to industry. ISQ's main areas of expertise are: Materials and Joining Processes, Design and Fabrication, Metrology, Industrial Automation, Maintenance and Structural Integrity of Industrial Plants, Non Destructive Testing, Quality Assurance, Energy and Environment and Gas Infrastructure Inspection.

ISQ provides technologically advanced and traditional engineering services as well as training and technology transfer to different manufacturing industries in Portugal and abroad. Over the past ten years, ISQ has been involved in several High Tech research projects (more than two hundred), nationally and EC funded whose results have provided a strong know-how in the different areas of ISQ activity and have helped to increase national competitiveness of industry. The NDT (Non Destructive Testing Group) of ISQ will be the main technical group to be involved in the work to be carried out within this project.

Role
Analyses LRUT needs survey (WP-A), non contact transducer design (WP-B), assist in preparation of course Technician notes and defect library (WP-H), Project Management (WP-J).