The University of Minho has granted spin-off status (young academic company) to PhotoUP and NeuroMech Systems, reinforcing its commitment to knowledge transfer and an innovation ecosystem with economic and social impact for the country. UMinho now has 51 active spin-offs in a wide range of areas, almost half of which […]
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Between 13 and 17 October, the José de Guimarães International Arts Centre (CIAJG) hosted the 2nd edition of Techstars Startup Week Guimarães, a leading event in innovation and entrepreneurship. For five days, entrepreneurs, students, investors and anyone interested in innovation and entrepreneurship had the opportunity to participate in lectures, round […]
Initiative promoted by TecMinho awarded prizes and services totalling 6370 euros A system that uses microalgae to convert biogas into biomethane, providing clean and sustainable energy, has won 1st prize in SpinUM – the University of Minho’s Business Ideas Competition. The project is called ‘PhotoUp’ and involves researchers Leandro Madureira, […]
The Demo Day of the 2nd edition of the Empreender@Braga Program took place on December 16, from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., at the Braga Youth Center, and admission was free. The event supported by Startup Braga culminated a training program, with six bootcamps and talks from November 18 to […]
The Arqus European University Alliance, of which UMinho is a member, is promoting the fifth edition of the Arqus International Innovators Awards initiative, which aims to identify and promote start-up and university-based companies with a view to internationalisation. The previous edition was won by our spin-off Karion Therapeutics. In 2024 […]
Manuel Padrão, Inês Silva, Beatriz Silva and Marta Ribeiro, students from EEUM’s Industrial Engineering and Management degree programme, won the JUMP competition, an ideas competition for new businesses promoted by the Municipality of Famalicão, in partnership with UPTEC, which aims to promote an entrepreneurial culture for the development of new […]
PIEP – Polo de Inovação em Engenharia de Polímeros, in partnership with the School of Engineering at the University of Minho, has created the PIEP Academy to qualify the plastics and polymers sector in Portugal. The aim is to affirm the competitiveness and visibility of this sector, which has 43,000 […]
The Proef-dstelecom/Algoritmi Workshop 2023 was held on 14 December at UMinho’s Gualtar campus in Braga. The Proef-dstelecom/Algoritmi chair is sponsored by two large Portuguese companies: Proef Group and dstelecom. It aims to enable teaching and research projects in the area of the “Future of Telecommunications Networks” and to disseminate its […]
New innovative projects developed at the University of Minho were awarded in SpinUM – Business Ideas Competition, organized by TecMinho. Screen4Health”, “Move+” and “CodArte” were the ideas awarded with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes, respectively, in the ceremony that took place on March 29th 2023 at the University of […]
“The color of my fear” is the name of the new digital book developed by the spin-off originated from EEUM, with the purpose of raising children’s awareness of the recent European conflict. On the company’s website you can read that this book and music, built in a concerted way and […]
The month of February was marked by the visit of several committees of companies operating in sectors associated with Engineering, which came to visit and learn about some of the Research Centres of the School of Engineering, its laboratories and resources. The most recent visit was from the Portuguese group […]
TO-BE-GREEN, a spin-off of the School of Engineering, joined CTT to promote the recycling of used disposable masks, extending the useful life of these products by giving them a new life. This project aims to reduce the environmental impact associated with the use of masks for protection against the Covid-19 […]