Vision
To be the asset management connective for policymakers, educators, and industry leaders of the Pan-Iberian space.
Mission
Boost the Pan-Iberian engineering asset management ecosystem and nurture a collaborative environment for sharing ideas, best practices, and shaping forward-thinking policies.
Asset management applied to engineering assets
CONGREGA enables meaningful conversations and boosts synergies across sectors that are vital to deliver essential services and sustain societal functions.
Asset management is key in environments that intensively depend on engineering assets such as critical infrastructure, equipment, machinery, cyber-physical systems, and building facilities.
AECO
Banking & financial market infrastructure
Defence
Digital infrastructure
Drinking water
Energy
Health
Higher education and research
Industrial processing
Logistics
Public administration
Real estate
Space
Transport
Wastewater
Fostering multistakeholder collaboration
CONGREGA interconnects actors of the quintuple innovation helix towards multistakeholder collaboration.
60+ entities actively engaged with CONGREGA
Industry: business and public sector
Academy: education and research
Government, civil society and natural environment
Event-oriented ecosystem
CONGREGA events aim at triggering collaboration of thinkers and doers to address asset management challenges.
The CONGREGA ecosystem strengthens and extends that collaboration beyond the dates of the event.
CONGREGA events unlock the sharing of experiences, state-of-the-art knowledge and solutions enabling excellence in asset management (applied to engineering assets).
Congress editions
19th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management
2nd Ibero-American Congress on Engineering Asset Management
3rd Portuguese Congress on Engineering Asset Management
Forum Braga, Braga, Portugal
1st Ibero-American Congress on Engineering Asset Management
2nd Portuguese Congress on Engineering Asset Management
FIL Meeting Centre, Lisbon, Portugal
Previous keynote speakers
Abel Gomes
Project Director at Applus
Alfonso Lacerda
Managing Director Spain at EVORA IT Solutions
Carlos Manuel Martins
Chair of the Board of Directors of EPAL
Celso de Azevedo
CEO at ASSETSMAN
Cristiano Martincigh
Regional Director Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa at Copperleaf
David Mckewon
Honorary Vice President of The Institute of Asset Management
Edmea Adell
Chairperson of IFRAMI and member of ISSO/TC 251 Asset Management
Hugo Espírito Santo
Secretary of State for Infrastructure
Isabel Rodríguez Ramos
Director of Construction Knowledge Area Mediterranean Region at Applus
Isabel Pardo de Vera
Ex-Secretary os State for Transport, Mobilit and Urban Agenda
Ex-Chairwoman of ADIF
Joe Amadi-Echendu
Chair of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management
Nuno Medeiros
Head of Asset Management at EPAL
Rogério Colaço
Dean of Instituto Superior Técnico
Tiago Fernandes
Business Development Manager – Industry 4.0 at SAP
What do participants say about the CONGREGA events?
Knowledge
Design your own EAM training journey with professional development courses, accredited academic programs and open access materials, co-created by experienced doers and thinkers from the Pan-Iberian space and beyond.
The catalogue of offerings seeks to promote the wide-ranging multidisciplinary EAM body of knowledge and a shared understanding that it must be progressively integrated throughout one’s lifelong learning and competence development journey.
For more information or showcasing your knowledge sharing solution for the Pan-Iberian space contact info@congrega.eu.
Professional development courses
Professional development courses are designed to advance professional skills and abilities with validated tools and frameworks supported by insights and tips of organizations and expert individuals.
Asset managment professional training program (Tecnico+/FUNDEC, PT)
This training program offered by Tecnico Lisboa (University of Lisbon) is co-designed by academics, industry professionals and governmental officials, specially for decision-makers and senior or junior professionals involved in the planning, design, construction/rehabilitation, operation and/or maintenance of infrastructures and building portfolios.
The training program emphasizes the integration of engineering, economics and management skills, to optimise the value that is derived from engineering assets throughout their entire life cycle.
18 September 2025, Lisbon, Portugal
Fundamentals of Asset Management
25 September 2025, Lisbon, Portugal
Asset Management: Sistematization and Auditing
2 October 2025, Lisbon, Portugal
Asset Management: Resilience, Sustainability and strategy
16 October 2025, Lisbon, Portugal
30 October 2025, Lisbon, Portugal
Asset Management: Life cycle assessments
13 November 2025, Lisbon, Portugal
Asset Management: Data and Information
9 and 23 October 2025, 6 and 20 November, Lisbon, Portugal (online)
4 December 2025, Lisbon, Portugal
Training programs on maintenance within asset management (University of Seville/INGEMAN, SP)
The University of Seville and INGEMAN collaborate to offer credited and non-credited training in reliability engineering and maintenance within asset management.
Endoursed Trainers & Courses (The IAM, EN)
Find out more about The IAM endorsed training courses and how they could benefit you.
Academic programs
Higher educational institutions (HEI’s) seeking to better organize, establish and attain maturity in delivering the EAM body of knowledge are encouraged to use the ISEAM process for recognizing Engineering Asset Management academic programs.
MSc in Enginnering and Management of Physical Assets (ISEC, PT)
This MSc in Enginnering and Management of Physical Assets offered by the Polytechnic University of Coimbra (Portugal) aims to prepare graduates to serve products and services industries, such as catering, hospital, transportation, food, chemical and oil & gas, among others.
Open access materials
Open access materials are key to disseminate the asset management transdisciplinary approach to engineering assets and asset systems.
Open access materials in Portuguese/Spanish
CONGREGA+ (Youtube Channel)
El Viage de Gestión de Activos (The IAM Big Picture)
CONGREGA Book of Abstracts (2024, 2022)
Journal of Engineering Assets (Revista Ativos de Engenharia)
ISO/TC 251 website (publications and case studies)