Country Profile: Portugal
Dedicated design policy status
No
Design in other policy agendas
- Circular Economy Strategy – The National Action Plan for the Circular Economy (PAEC) includes strong references to design, particularly eco-design and circular design, with principles and proposed actions for integrating design into product lifecycles. [Championed]
- Digital Strategy – The National Digital Strategy briefly highlights design in the context of user-friendly and well-designed public services, but in a limited and generic way.
- CCI, innovation, industrial/development, architecture strategies – No strategies or references to design were identified. [Overlooked]
Observations
Portugal’s emerging policy attention to design is concentrated in the circular economy domain, where eco-design is explicitly recognised as a driver of sustainable transitions. Other strategies, such as digital transformation, reference design in a superficial manner and there is no evidence of a broader cross-sectoral approach. This indicates potential to build on the strong circular economy framing to position design more strategically across innovation and development agendas.