AICEP - Portuguese Trade & Investment Agency is the public body that promotes the attraction of productive inward investment and the internationalization of the Portuguese economy, fostering export growth and the international expansion of Portuguese companies. AICEP has offices in Portugal and an external network in around 50 countries.
As a one-stop shop agency, AICEP:
- Identifies international business opportunities and provides a key insight to Portuguese companies on the best way to approach foreign markets, offering specialised information, training programmes and business matching services.
- Supports the development of the internationalization processes of Portuguese companies, particularly SMEs, by supporting the creation and development of strategies to broaden their local customers and providers.
- Welcomes national and international investment projects in Portugal, providing advice and tailored information to the investors, monitoring all stages of the projects and redirecting them, if necessary, to other entities according to the project profile.
It also promotes the training of young Portuguese talent through the inov contacto international internship programme, contributing to the internationalisation of the Portuguese economy and raising Portugal's profile worldwide.
AICEP includes aicep Global Parques, the Industrial Parks Management entity, which advises on the best location for investment projects.
AICEP is also a founding member of the ETPOA - European Trade Promotion Organisations' Association, an international association that aims to promote the interests of European trade promotion organisations (TPOs) before European institutions and other competent bodies.
