The University of Minho is one of the 22 partners of the José Neves Foundation (FJN) under the “Income Share Agreement FJN” (ISA FJN) programme. A pioneer at national level, this programme aims to support access to training and the acquisition of skills by the Portuguese population through the award […]
Monthly Archives: September 2020
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The American Society of Ergonomics and Human Factors (HFES) awarded a team from the Engineering and Architecture Schools of the University of Minho for the best article of 2019 in the journal Ergonomics in Design, with a system that identifies surgical instruments left in patients. This is the first time […]
The University of Minho is the Portuguese entity with the most patent applications, according to the “Barometer Inventa – Patents Made in Portugal 2020”. The result reinforces the role of this academy as one of the main drivers of innovation in the country and its strong link to the economic […]
European project “Climalert”, coordinated by UMinho, presented at Greenfest A tool that alerts the farmer about climate change is being born, helping him to optimize crop irrigation and to anticipate or postpone harvests. It is called “Climalert” and is coordinated by the Center of Molecular and Environmental Biology (CBMA) of […]
The habilitation exams took place on September 22nd and 23rd by videoconference Colibri of FCCN. On 22nd and 23rd September, online, the aggregation exams of the Electronic and Computer Engineering Knowledge Branch required by Cristina Manuela Peixoto dos Santos, Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial Electronics of EEUM took […]
The new version of the RAID platform will allow telecommunications operators to detect fraud in real time, which translates into greater security and quality of service for companies and customers. Improving the RAID platform, a system marketed by the telecommunications analyst Mobileum for the comprehensive risk management in companies, thus […]
Much has been said recently about the Covid Stayaway app, an application that was officially presented on September 1, which aims to track the potential contagion networks by Covid-19, and which after three weeks of its availability already had over 1 million downloads. We already know that it is a […]
Platform created by Keep Solutions for CIM Alto Minho aggregates 300,000 documents The 300,000 documents from the public libraries of the ten municipalities of Alto Minho are now added to the search portal bibliotecas.altominho.pt. The project was developed by Keep Solutions (technological spin-off of the School of Engineering of the […]
On September 10, the Presidency of the School of Engineering met with the members of the new Advisory Board of EEUM, an advisory body for strategic definition issues, at the Azurém campus. The meeting aimed to present the organizational structure of the institution, its human and physical resources, as well […]
In the context of the official visit to the exhibitions of “Contextile – Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art” that takes place in Guimarães until October 25th, Domingos Bragança, president of the city council, informed the Prime Minister António Costa that the Municipality of Guimarães and the University of Minho are […]
A team of researchers from the Department of Civil Engineering of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho and the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, supported by the Municipality of Arcos de Valdevez, began the study of the fojos do lobo da Serra da Peneda, […]
Researchers João Tiago Paulo (INESC TEC/UMinho), Vinicius Vielmo Cogo and Alysson Neves Bessani (both from ULisboa) have created a technology that can allow faster and cheaper studies in genome sequencing and with 75% less storage space in data. The study was published in “IEEE”. They combined a new technique of […]