Since its creation in 1993, the CCG/ZGDV has assisted, accompanied and helped the World in its continuous, rapid and accentuated change. In 1993 and for almost a decade, computer graphics and traditionally related technologies made CCG/ZGDV a pioneering institution in Portugal in the promotion and transfer of those technologies to the economy and society in general. From the 2000s, with the headquarters of the CCG/ZGDV on the Azurém Campus of the University of Minho, the foundations were laid for transversal action in all subdomains of Information and Communication Technologies, giving rise to its current structure, embodied in four research and innovation departments in the areas of computer graphics, ubiquitous computing, person-computer interaction and information engineering, which combine refined scientific skills in artificial intelligence and information visualization with excellent prototyping capabilities and development of complex computational solutions.

This evolution of CCG/ZGDV has been the result of its permanent and intense effort towards the innovation of its partners and customers, with operations as diverse as the software industry, the industrial processes and equipment goods industry, the defence industry and aeronautics, the forestry industry and precision agriculture, the circular economy and energy, health and the environment, smart cities and urban mobility, e-governance, creative industries and tourism, education and culture.