Establishment of contact and cooperation networks with European counterparts – with a view to promoting and developing programs of mutual interest (eg Memoranda of Understanding established with Romanian and Polish colleges and schools within the scope of ECVET). Increase and deepening of relations between CINEL and regional, national, European and international economic agents linked to the Center's areas of intervention (Electronics, Robotics, Telecommunications, Renewable Energies and Information Systems) - Economic agents are all individuals, institutions or set of institutions that, through their decisions and actions, taken rationally, somehow influence the economy. As CINEL is a Professional Training Centre, it intends to continue to strengthen its relationship with all agents, in order to always be aware of the real needs of the sector. Alignment of CINEL's strategic priorities with the Portugal 2020 Strategy, as a professional training operator that integrates the network of IEFP Centers and implements training policies aligned with such priorities. CINEL has as its specific objective the internationalization of the network of companies for FPCT, of its training courses, so that placing Trainees, who wish to do so, in international companies is a current option.
Insertion of the Center into regional, national, European and international innovation networks (in which the focus is on Portuguese-speaking countries) – CINEL, as a Vocational Training Center that is constantly updating its training offer to meet developments technological, intends to continue to increase its innovation networks, in order to enable the expansion of its action force through the union with other companies or institutions. The knowledge that an entity has must also be transferable, appropriable and have the ability to generate or aggregate new knowledge. In the same way that learning occurs collectively, innovation can also be developed in a collaborative way, with the main advantages of the network being i) the quick access to new technologies through its information channels and ii) the socialization of ideas through the approximation among the associated institutions.