Luís Filipe Cunha, Ricardo Campos and Alípio Jorge won the Best Student Paper Award at the 22nd Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA’23), with the article “Event Extraction for Portuguese: A QA-driven Approach using ACE-2005”. EPIA’23 took place between 5th and 8th September 2023 in the Azores, on the island […]
The pertinence of runtime security is rapidly engaging companies and institutions worldwide, that are becoming more aware of their vulnerabilities and consequences of attacks, in the age of digital transformation affecting workflows across industries. With the different skillsets and expertise of the FISHY Consortium partners, the impact of the novelty […]
For the 2023/24 academic year, UMinho offered a total of 3,013 places in the National Competition for Access to Higher Education and the Local Competition (the latter for the Music degree, with 46 places). In the National Competition, UMinho expanded its places, now admitting 25 more students than the previous […]
In our daily lives, we barely notice the structures that support sectors like commerce, banking, or others, as well as high transactional data loads. In general, we only become aware of them during disruptions, which end up influencing the normal functioning of said services. In order to improve the performance […]
Aerospace Engineering is once again the higher education course with the highest average entry grade, in a group of 14 courses where only students with an average of more than 18 marks got a place. According to data provided by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES), the […]
The Formula Student Portugal competition took place from 1 to 5 August at the Castelo Branco Motorsport Park (PDMCB), a unique facility in the country that includes several circuits for motorsport. Formula Student Portugal is a new Formula Student event taking place in Portugal. Its aim is to stimulate the […]
On 20 and 21 July, the public exams for Habilitation in the branch of knowledge in Industrial and Systems Engineering, requested by Dr Paula Fernanda Varandas Ferreira, took place in the Hall of Acts of the Azurém Campus of the University of Minho, Guimarães, having been unanimously approved. The jury […]
A team from the Algoritmi Centre of the School of Engineering of UMinho was distinguished with one of the “Best Paper Awards” of the international conferences MIS4TEL, PAAMS, DCAI, BLOCKCHAIN, ISAmI, PACCBB and DECON, held from 12 to 14 July in Guimarães. The events brought together more than 300 experts […]
323 secondary school students, from Brazil, Italy and Luxembourg, but also from Caminha to the Azores, participated in another edition of Summer on Campus, at the University of Minho, between 17 and 21 July. The participants were distributed among 25 scientific and recreational activities organised by the various Schools and […]
From 30/6 to 8/7, the Vice-President of the School of Engineering and President of the Pedagogical Council, Professor Lígia Rodrigues, joined the team from the University of Minho, which, at the invitation of the Zhejiang Chinese Medical University and the Chinese Embassy, was part of the Entourage of Portuguese Educators […]
The School of Engineering of the University of Minho (EEUM) presented the cultural initiative “Engineering and Art”, on 12 July, in the B-Lounge space of the General Library of the Gualtar campus, in Braga. The event was part of UMinho’s Fiftieth Anniversary programme, and was supported by the Documentation and […]
The European project REcube – REthink, REvive, REuse aims to develop and transmit the knowledge necessary for a sustainable, integrated and holistic approach to the conservation and renovation of reinforced concrete heritage in Europe. Within the scope of the REcube project, the students of the Degree in Civil Engineering, Maria […]