SITILabs had its first General Assembly on May 02.05.2013, to approve its bylaws. This process, which was first formalized in October 2nd 2012, completes the legal process of becoming a private non-profit association model.

The first assembly held together the five founders, being COFAC c.r.l. - the founding entity - represented by Dr. Conceição Soeiro, who praised the initiative of the development of a model that seems to be capable of assisting in the strenthening of R&D activities developed within the context of University Lusófona.

As a private non-profit association founded by COFAC c.r.l., SITILABS is an R&D unit of University Lusofona dedicated to the dissemination and development of research in Informatics Sciences, SITILABS is focused on informatics systems and technologies, considering user-centricity as a core aspect that drives its R&D activities in networking and systmes; digital media; digital economy.

Until the end of 2013, SITILABS expects to have its new model fully operational, both in legal and administrative terms, thus becoming a role model for other units of similar nature in ULHT, and outside.

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SITILABS provides spinning-off support to its members in the form of scientific and technological couching; initial infrastructure conditions; project management assistance, and also access to partner investors.

A SITILABS economic activity spin-off is therefore based on scientific knowledge and/or technological know-how developed within SITILABS, University Lusófona. The SITILABS spin-off starts from a concept or an existing prototype and translates results in a commercial exploitation possibility, e.g. product or service. SITILABS keeps perpetual rights for scientific and academic exploitation.

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SITILABS participated in the 7thCost IC0906 WiNeMo meeting, which took place in University of Coimbra, 14/15th May 2013.  In the meeting, SITILABS provided a demo of ICON, by Bruno Batista, and delivered a talk entitled "dLife: Opportunistic Routing", by Waldir Moreira. Paulo Mendes also represented the unit as the Portuguese MC member.