Dispatch no. 12699/2024, issued by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers – Prime Minister’s Office, was published in the Diário da República on 24 October, setting out the composition of Portugal’s National Council for Science, Technology and Innovation. The CNCTI is responsible for collaborating in the development and sustainability […]
Monthly Archives: October 2024
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Researcher Ivone Martins, from the Centre for Biological Engineering at the University of Minho, won the 5th edition of the Zendal awards, in the human health category, for her project HERCULES – Bacteriophages against Alzheimer’s disease, receiving 40,000 euros. There were 123 applications from 10 countries for the two categories […]
Techstars Startup Week Guimarães took place from 21 to 25 October, for the first time in Portugal. This event brought together more than 40 speakers in various types of activities aimed at entrepreneurs, future entrepreneurs, students and investors. From talks, masterclasses and round tables to visits to UMinho interfaces working […]
Recognising the past, namely the community that has enabled the University of Minho’s Department of Information Systems (DSI) to grow over the last 25 years, while at the same time looking to the future, which will be one of revolution due to the constant changes in the digital world, without […]
Paulo Flores, full professor at the University of Minho’s School of Engineering, received the ‘Illustrious Personality of Mechanical Engineering’ award from the Ibero-American Federation of Mechanical Engineering for distinguishing himself in teaching and research in mechanical engineering. The award was presented on 23 October 2024 at the University of Conception […]
On 22 October, the Department of Civil Engineering took office in the meeting room at EEUM, with the re-election of Professor Rui Ramos as director and Professor Jorge Branco as deputy director. The ceremony was attended by the President and Vice-President of the School of Engineering, Professor Pedro Arezes and […]
On 18 October, the Advisory Board of the School of Engineering met in the meeting room of the Presidency of the EEUM. The agenda included a brief presentation of the EEUM’s activities over the last year, namely the integration of the School into various courses of the Alliance Project (postgraduate […]
“Engines of the New Economy – Net Zero, Creativity and Collaborative Innovation” was the theme of Economy Month in Guimarães, with a monthly agenda promoted by Guimarães City Council, full of initiatives, many of which involved members of the School of Engineering. For this edition of Economy Month, a programme […]
It’s already the third edition and it will continue to be a tradition for the aerospace engineering programme. The first lecture to mark the start of the academic year once again had a special guest. Carlos Batalha, a Colonel in the Air Force, spoke about the transformation that is taking […]
The 2nd Meeting of Civil Engineers was attended by 400 people in Guimarães On 10 October, the University of Minho hosted the II Meeting of Civil Engineers ‘Somos Globais’ (We are Global), which aimed to show how Portuguese civil engineering has projected itself in the world and with excellence. The […]
The ‘Optimisation and Wildfire’ conference, organised by the O3F project team – ‘An Optimisation Framework for Reducing Forest Fire’ (funded by FCT, Principal Investigator: Filipe Alvelos), in which the University of Minho, Aveiro and Lisbon participate, took place in Luso from 1 to 4 October. The conference had 58 participants […]
The School of Engineering celebrated its 49th anniversary on 4 October with a programme that aimed to pay tribute to those who have marked EEUM’s past, recognise those who currently contribute to its success, and plan for the future with the involvement of the entire academic community. At the ceremony, […]