active communities
24Barometer Dashboard
Algarve Digital Innovators Network.
Indicators on the communities that promote talent, technology, entrepreneurship, and collaboration in the Algarve.
Key indicators
members represented
5 839members per community (average)
243municipalities covered
16average age of communities
≈ 4 anosnew communities since 2024
10consultants, mentors, and investors
162members with foreign nationality
≈ 2/3average age of members
≈ 45 anosMethodology. The data are reported by the Algarve Digital Innovators Network, coordinated by Algarve Evolution as part of the Algarve Empreende 2026 project. The member count represents community members, not unique individuals across the network.
Context
The Algarve Digital Innovators Network (ADI), coordinated by Algarve Evolution as part of the Algarve Empreende 2026 project (Algarve 2030 Regional Programme), brings together the Algarve’s digital, technology and entrepreneurship communities. This dashboard presents the network’s main indicators, including community scale, territorial coverage, member profile and the sub-network of consultants, mentors and investors.
Communities and members
A network made of people and communities.
Community scale and thematic areas show a network with a strong presence in technology, remote work and entrepreneurship.
Members represented by community
members- Colagos630 members
- LOFT Community600 members
- Geek Sessions Faro545 members
- Lagos Digital Nomads543 members
- Algarve Evolution Network496 members
- Walking Club Algarve360 members
- Albufeira Digital Nomads350 members
- Portimão Digital Nomads350 members
- GDG Faro275 members
- GDG Lagos266 members
- Algarve Blockchain Community255 members
- Win Algarve200 members
- Faro Em Ação200 members
- Tavira Works150 members
- Flutter Faro125 members
- Artificial Intelligence Algarve120 members
- Algarve AI Agents80 members
- Financial Thinking80 members
- Cowork & Coffee Club65 members
- Impact Hackers60 members
- Wordpress Algarve50 members
- Lagos Remoters30 members
- Pears & Porches – Diginomads5 members
- Geek Girls Portugal – Faro4 members
Members reported by the communities; this does not represent unique people across the network.
Thematic areas of communities
%- Technology / software46 %
- Digital nomads / remote work42 %
- Entrepreneurship and innovation33 %
- Artificial intelligence13 %
- Women’s networks13 %
- Social impact8 %
- Blockchain / Web34 %
- Financial literacy4 %
A community may operate in more than one area.
Territorial distribution
Communities active across the 16 municipalities.
The network covers the whole Algarve; a community may operate in more than one municipality.
Communities active by municipality
comunidades- Faro15 comunidades
- Lagos7 comunidades
- Loulé6 comunidades
- Tavira6 comunidades
- Albufeira5 comunidades
- Lagoa5 comunidades
- Olhão5 comunidades
- Portimão5 comunidades
- São Brás de Alportel5 comunidades
- Silves5 comunidades
- Monchique4 comunidades
- Vila do Bispo4 comunidades
- Alcoutim3 comunidades
- Aljezur3 comunidades
- Castro Marim3 comunidades
- Vila Real de Santo António3 comunidades
Number of communities active in each municipality, according to the ADI Network territorial distribution map.
Member profile
Talent, qualifications and nationalities.
The network is predominantly male, highly qualified, and has a majority of members living in the Algarve.
Member profile
Predominant gender
MaleQualifications
HighResidence (majority)
AlgarveMember types
%- Entrepreneurs and founders67 %
- Freelancers54 %
- Digital nomads / remote workers50 %
- Students46 %
- Tech professionals / developers42 %
- SMEs and businesses21 %
- Investors13 %
Percentage of communities that include each profile.
Most represented nationalities
%- Portuguese35 %
- USA8 %
- United Kingdom7 %
- Germany6 %
- Italy6 %
- Brasil5 %
- Belgium4 %
- Netherlands4 %
- Ireland2 %
- South Africa2 %
- Canada2 %
- France2 %
- Other17 %
Around two-thirds of members have foreign nationality.
Support network
Consultants, mentors and investors.
The ATH sub-network provides specialised capacity to support communities and their members.
ATH sub-network — consultants, mentors and investors
people- Consultants and mentors144 people
- Investors18 people
Consultants, mentors, and investors available to support the network.
Community directory
The 24 ADI Network communities.
Communities and their operating base reported by the Algarve Digital Innovators Network. Network contacts and membership: Algarve Evolution.
| 1 | Albufeira Digital Nomads | Albufeira |
| 2 | Algarve Blockchain Community | Faro |
| 3 | Algarve Evolution Network | Regional |
| 4 | Artificial Intelligence Algarve | Faro |
| 5 | Colagos | Lagos |
| 6 | Flutter Faro | Faro |
| 7 | GDG Faro | Faro |
| 8 | GDG Lagos | Lagos |
| 9 | Geek Girls Portugal – Faro | Faro |
| 10 | Geek Sessions Faro | Faro |
| 11 | Impact Hackers | Faro |
| 12 | Lagos Digital Nomads | Lagos |
| 13 | Lagos Remoters | Lagos |
| 14 | LOFT Community | Algarve Central-Este |
| 15 | Pears & Porches – Diginomads | Silves |
| 16 | Portimão Digital Nomads | Portimão |
| 17 | Tavira Works | Tavira |
| 18 | Win Algarve | Lagoa |
| 19 | Wordpress Algarve | Faro |
| 20 | Financial Thinking | Regional |
| 21 | Cowork & Coffee Club | Faro |
| 22 | Walking Club Algarve | Regional |
| 23 | Faro Em Ação | Faro |
| 24 | Algarve AI Agents | Faro |
No community matches the search.
- ADI Network contacts and membership: Algarve Evolution — algarveevolution.pt/pt/algarveempreende · info@algarveevolution.pt.
- Source: Algarve Digital Innovators Network Development Plan, Algarve Evolution; reference data as of 1 July 2026.
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