The Daedalus team from MAST – Minho Aerospace Student’s Team – has been selected from 61 applications as one of the 25 teams taking part in the European Rocketry Challenge 2026, through the DAEDALUS project, and the students at the UMinho School of Engineering could not be more excited: “This […]
The University of Minho’s rectorate team attended the Annual Conference of the European ARQUS alliance, which took place on 8 and 9 July at Maynooth University, Ireland. The opening ceremony was attended by the Rector of UMinho, Pedro Arezes, who chaired the first plenary session, on the theme ‘Personal Impact; […]
On July 8th, in the presence of several members of the academic community, the new direction of the Department of Polymer Engineering was sworn in, with Professor Júlio Viana as director and Professor Carla Martins as deputy director, for the 2026/2027 biennium. The Department of Polymer Engineering (DEP) was created […]
The IngredientIA Project combines artificial intelligence, computational modelling and experimental micro-scale digestion systems to understand how food ingredients interact with the gut microbiota and to support the development of more effective and personalised foods. Combining artificial intelligence, computational modelling and micro-scale digestive simulation, the IngredientIA Project, coordinated by OmniumAI – […]
A robot developed at EEUM in Guimarães took second place at RoboCup 2026 in South Korea, amongst the world’s best service robotics teams. The CHARMIE robot, developed by the Automation and Robotics Laboratory at the University of Minho (UMinho), was crowned world runner-up in the RoboCup@Home competition, part of RoboCup […]
247 participants from 35 countries gathered in Guimarães to discuss the future of open-source computational simulation Ten years after it was first held in Guimarães, the international OpenFOAM community returned to the city for the 21st OpenFOAM Workshop (OFW21), which took place between 29 June and 3 July at the […]
The University of Minho is one of the institutions with the highest number of PhD students awarded Fulbright Commission scholarships this year to carry out research in the United States of America. Ana Rita Luz, from the Department of Economics, will be conducting research at the University of Michigan – […]
AMALIA, the first large-scale language model (LLM) developed from scratch in European Portuguese, was unveiled on 1 July 2026 at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon. The event featured speeches by the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, the Minister of State for State Reform, Gonçalo Matias, and the Minister for Education, […]
Turning the Iberian Peninsula into a European benchmark in quantum technologies and artificial intelligence: this is the goal of Quantum IberIA, a cross-border cooperation project that brings together 17 entities from both countries, including the INESC TEC UMinho Hub and CMEMS-UMinho, from the School of Engineering of the University of […]
Researcher Paulo Lourenço, from the Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE) of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, received on June 30 a grant of 150 thousand euros from the European Research Council (ERC), to bring to the market a new advanced platform that […]
As part of the “Engineering & Art” initiative and also part of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the School of Engineering, the photographic exhibition “The New Fools”, by Leonor Lapa, senior technician of the School of Engineering, is on exhibition in the months of June and July, in the central nave […]
About 90 undergraduate and master’s students in Aerospace Engineering at the School of Engineering of UMinho made their first flight in an academic context on June 27, at the Alto Minho aerodrome (Cerval), in Vila Nova de Cerveira. The “flight window” ran from 12:45 pm to 3:30 pm. In the […]