The Student Ombudsman at the University of Minho and President of the Portuguese Network of Student Ombudsmen (RPE), Rosa Vasconcelos, has been elected coordinator of the Ibero-American Network of University Ombudsmen (RIdDU), which brings together 70 academies from 11 countries. She took office for the 2025-2027 term during the 5th […]
Monthly Archives: September 2025
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The University of Minho has 69 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, 37 of whom are researchers at the School of Engineering. The list, called ‘World’s Top […]
The Senhora da Oliveira Hospital in Guimarães is a finalist in the first edition of the European Funds Awards 2025, in the ‘Smarter Portugal’ category, with its ‘Smart Hospital Infection Control’ project, considered one of the most innovative initiatives financed by EU funds. The application is competing alongside four others: […]
On 25 September, the results of the scientific project ‘INHAVIT – Sustainable approaches to the rehabilitation and revitalisation of the built cultural heritage of the Montesinho Natural Park’, located in the municipalities of Bragança and Vinhais, were announced. The session was held in the main auditorium of the University of […]
Paulo Cortez was recently awarded the distinction ‘2025 Portuguese Excellence Professor of Artificial Intelligence in Spain’ by the Ramón Areces Foundation. This distinction, awarded by the Spanish entity, recognises the outstanding research career in the field of Artificial Intelligence of the researcher at the ALGORITMI Centre, lecturer at the Department […]
Tun’Obebes, the female engineering choir of the University of Minho, presented “Muralha”, a new original song that pays tribute to the city of Guimarães and academic life in the “cradle city”. The single premiered exclusively on YouTube, accompanied by an official video clip recorded in various emblematic settings in Guimarães. […]
The second phase of the Minho Innovation & Technology Hub (MITH) in Guimarães was announced by the Casais Group on 22 September and focuses on the construction of commercial and service infrastructure and the strengthening of housing infrastructure. António Carlos Rodrigues, CEO of the Casais Group, said that ‘with the […]
Cláudia Almeida Silva, a researcher at CMEMS, was awarded the Young Researcher Award at the European Materials Research Society Fall Meeting 2025 (E-MRS Fall Meeting 2025), which took place in Warsaw, Poland, between 15 and 18 September 2025. The PhD student in Materials Engineering, who conducts her research under the […]
The School of Engineering of the University of Minho (EEUM) organised the 3rd Inovar & Empreender Exhibition on 17 September, in the central hall of the Azurém campus in Guimarães. In addition to the exhibition of around 50 start-ups and interfaces linked to this academy, the programme included tributes, a […]
An article by researcher Filipe Alvelos was awarded the Isabel Themido 2025 Prize for the best article published by members of the Portuguese Operational Research Association (APDIO) in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Together with André Bergsten, from the University of São Paulo, the researcher from the ALGORITMI Centre, Department of […]
Diogo Costa, a student in the Doctoral Programme in Electronic and Computer Engineering, was awarded the Best Presentation Award at the latest RTCSA 2025. With his paper ‘Beyond the Bermuda Triangle of Contention: IOMMU Interference in Mixed Criticality Systems’, the member of the ALGORITMI Centre stood out in Singapore at […]
João Pedro Couto, professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, was honoured on 3 July in London (United Kingdom) with the Charles Manby Award – awarded by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), a world-renowned civil engineering organisation – for co-authoring the best scientific article of […]