The Automation and Robotics Laboratory (LAR) of UMinho’s School of Engineering and botnroll.com organised RoboParty 2024 from 21 to 23 March, with 111 teams from all over the country, as well as teams from Brazil and Spain. The educational event teaches how to create/build autonomous mobile robots in a simple […]
Monthly Archives: March 2024
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Keep Solutions, a company specialising in information management and preservation, has created a platform for the Camões Library Network, which has adopted an integrated management solution for the network’s dozens of libraries, spread across 54 countries. Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, I.P. aims to be a “reference […]
Paulo Sampaio, Associate Professor at the School of Engineering’s Production and Systems Department and researcher at the ALGORITMI Centre, was elected president of the Portuguese Association for Quality (APQ) last week. A lecturer and researcher in the areas of Quality and Organisational Excellence, Paulo Sampaio, who has received several awards, […]
Ana Marinho won the national university indoor track championship in the 3,000 metres with a time of 9:40:89 minutes, representing the University of Minho, on 3 February. The 3rd year engineering student also took 4th place in the 800 metres with a mark of 2:17:03 m at the National University […]
Alfonso Valencia, who co-founded and led the International Society for Computational Biology (the only one of its kind in the world), gave the inaugural lecture of the XIII Bioinformatics Open Days at the University of Minho on 14 March, at the Gualtar campus in Braga. The director of the Bioinformatics […]
The nationwide “Make Fashion Circular” clothing collection campaign is underway, an initiative promoted as part of the be@t project by MO in collaboration with ToBeGreen. This initiative aims to collect discarded garments to give them a second life through repair or recycling, integrating them back into the market. The “Make […]
On 15 March, the Presidency of the School of Engineering at the University of Minho awarded the first scholarship as part of the AcTex – Academia do Têxtil (Textile Academy) vocational training project. AcTex is run by large companies in the textile sector and arises from the need for specialised […]
On the afternoon of 5th March, the Collaboration Protocol between the Municipality of Guimarães and CEiiA, which lays the foundations for the commitment to set up the Guimarães Space Hub, was signed in the auditorium of the Jordão Theatre. The “New Space” was the main theme of the speeches made […]
UMinho presented its Sports Merit Awards on 6 March. Combining sporting excellence with academic success earned 71 students the award. The University of Minho (UMinho) once again honoured students who combined sporting excellence with academic success in 2022/2023. A total of 71 student athletes who achieved excellent results in 13 […]
Portugal launched the MH-1 satellite into space on Monday 4 March, three decades after the first Portuguese device went into space. Aeros MH-1, a 4.5-kilogram nano-satellite, took off at 10.05pm from SpaceX’s base in California (United States) on a Falcon 9 rocket. It will be positioned 510 kilometres from Planet […]
Afonsina – Tuna de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho brought the Cidade Berço – Festival of Academic Tunas back to the city of Guimarães. Since its first edition in 1999, Cidade Berço – Festival de Tunas Académicas has made it possible to present to the Guimarães and Minho communities the […]
The “Engineering Olympics” competitive event organised by the IEEE Uminho Student Branch took place on 6 and 7 February at the Azurém Campus. The Engineering Olympics brought together students from the most diverse areas of Engineering at the University of Minho for two days to compete against each other and […]