The world’s largest exercise dedicated to drones took place in Troia, and the Vice-President of the School of Engineering, Professor Raúl Fangueiro, was there representing EEUM. Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping Augmented by Maritime Unmmanned Systems (REPMUS) is the world’s largest operational experimentation exercise with unmanned systems (aka drones) and was […]
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Over the weekend of 27-29 September, the University of Minho hosted Greenfest for the first time, ‘the biggest sustainability event in the country’. There were three days full of activities for kids and adults, such as conferences, workshops, showcookings, shows, ecomarket, nature activities and wellness sessions. The programme was free […]
Bruna Oliveira, a Master’s student in Chemical and Biological Engineering at EEUM, was the student with the best classification out of the 80 applications received. The full list of EEUM students honoured also includes: Rita Maria da Costa Miranda Bruno Miguel Oliveira Pereira Eva Miriam Pires de Castro Diana Abreu […]
Two students from the University of Minho won awards in the 15th edition of the Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge ideas competition, the final of which took place on 25 September at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. Diogo Martins, from the BiRDLab laboratory in the Industrial Electronics Department […]
The University of Minho has 66 scientists in the group of the 2% most cited in the world over the last year, according to a study by Stanford University (USA) and the Elsevier publishing group. The list, called ‘World’s Top 2% Scientists 2024’, includes 223,000 researchers, 889 of whom are […]
It’s a showcase for the best of what’s being done at the University of Minho’s School of Engineering (EEUM). On 19 September, the main hall of the Azurém campus in Guimarães hosted four dozen spin-offs, start-ups and interfaces in the areas of engineering, technology and design, as well as inspiring […]
Could a single filamentous fungus transform the food and cosmetics industries, making them more environmentally friendly and economically competitive? Work carried out by scientists from the Centre of Biological Engineering (CEB) at the University of Minho has been analysing the use of a microorganism to produce natural flavours from simple […]
The ERA Chair REACTORS_5.0 project, coordinated by António Vicente, vice-president and full professor of the School of Engineering at the University of Minho and researcher at the Centre of Biological Engineering (CEB), has been funded with 2.5 million euros from the Horizon Europe Programme for the next five years. The […]
The National Earth Observation Conference – Terra em Foco took place on 12 and 13 September at the University of Minho in Braga, bringing together more than 200 participants from academia, industry and policymakers. It was the meeting point for the Portuguese community in the field, covering topics such as […]
The initiative brought together around 200 experts from 20 countries over five days in Viana do Castelo The School of Engineering of the University of Minho (EEUM), in partnership with the School of Technology and Management of the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo (IPVC), organised the 23rd edition of […]