VdA supports as part of its social responsibility program and its intervention in several projects related to the Sea Economy, the Innovation and Creativity Festival, held in Lisbon on 16 November, and where they were handed the awards to the winners Challenge of the Sea, an initiative promoted by Portugal Telecom (PT), to whom VdA has given legal advice on this project.

Margarida Couto, responsible for VdA Social Responsibility program, was one of the attendance at the ceremony to which the Secretary of State of the Sea, Manuel Pinto de Abreu, also attended among other experts in the sector.