Provides support to the graduate and post-graduate training in Biology, as well as to the R&D undertaken in the domains of Maritime Biology, Ecology, Environmental Sustainability, Fish Nutrition and Aquaculture.

Shall aggregate the elements of acquisition and registration of meteorological/climatic data, support of graduate and post-graduate training, research, knowledge dissemination and museology.

Historic garden; Areas of lakes; Area of park; A garden of succulents; An area of greenhouses with tropical plants, subtropical, orchids and succulents .

Shall promote R&D activities in Astronomy, in Space and Earth Sciences and in Geographic Engineering, within an integrated strategy with the research units of University of Porto that operate in these areas.

Shall guarantee an unitary purpose to the overall science museological heritage existent in the faculties museological poles and to enhance its valorisation looking for scientific and educative objectives.

Incorporates different collections from the previous museologic centres of FCUP in the areas of Geology and Mineralogy, Zoology, Archaeology and Ethnography, as well as the Botanic Garden and the Herbarium.

To contribute to the promotion of the history of Philosophy and Science and to the preserving of the memory of University of Porto by permitting the access of the academic community and of the public in general to its bibliographic, archival and iconographic collections.