The best high school students were in contact with the presidential team and EEUM researchers from December 16-18. The initiative, called “The Best Student at UMinho”, presented UMinho’s training offer in an online model and highlighted the research being done in this academy, which they may take part in. The […]
Elections for student representatives on the School Council of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, through the electronic voting system eVotUM, took place on January 11. For the election of the representative of the students of the 1st cycle or 1st, 2nd and 3rd years of the […]
“How to break the chain of transmission with Stayaway Covid” was the theme of the initiative of the program “Fighting the Pandemic with UM Knowledge”. The initiative “Fighting the Pandemic with UM Knowledge” promoted, in the late afternoon of January 26, another conversation on “How to break the chain of […]
A sustainable footwear brand, made of coffee grounds and other recycled or vegan materials, to reduce the ecological footprint. Grain by grain, you can make a difference. In the case of Re-Coffee’s first collection, the lees of some 33 espresso coffees, the most likely destination was the landfill, were used […]
Helena Leite, alumna of Systems Engineering and IT and Chief Operating Officer of Inetum, a multinational company specialized in the development and implementation of software solutions for e-commerce, digital banking, insurance market, among others, was elected one of the 25 leading women in software in Europe. In professional terms, alumna […]
This month, schools in Guimarães county began receiving ecopoints for the collection of community and disposable masks. After this collection, the CVR – Centre for Waste Valorisation will create products and solutions that can be used that are based on the textile fibres of these materials, recovering this waste in […]
It was patent until January 20th, in the main nave of building 2 of the School of Engineering, the exhibition of the works developed by the students of the 1st year in Design and Fashion Marketing within the Interdisciplinary Project in Design I – Dress a tale. The project aimed, […]
If covid does not allow gatherings, instead of investing in the usual Christmas dinner, F3M, from Braga, decided to use this money to support the traditional commerce, financing the employees themselves, so that they could help the local shopkeepers to overcome the “terrible difficulties” they face. For the Christmas celebrations, […]
On 13 January, the new management team of the Department of Industrial Electronics for the biennium 2021-2022 took office in the meeting room of the Presidency of the School of Engineering. Graça Maria Henriques Minas took office as Department Director, with João Miguel Clemente Sena Esteves as Deputy Director. Besides […]
The history of the powerful genetic publishing technique, which was this year recognised with the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and which may in the near future be the solution to many diseases that are now incurable, began more than 3 billion years ago when the first bacteria and bacteriophages, the […]
Madalena Alves, professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho and director of CEB – Centre of Biological Engineering, is one of the two new representatives of the Portuguese State on the Board of INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory. Elvira Fortunato, full professor at FCT NOVA, […]