The 2025 edition of VEM – Vamos Experimentar a UMInho (Let’s Try UMInho), entitled Engineering for a Better Future, was attended by 30 students from schools in the region, coming from 10 cities and 14 schools. The distribution across the 10 cities was as follows: Barcelos 8 students, Guimarães 5 […]
Monthly Archives: December 2025
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The University of Minho has granted spin-off status (young academic company) to PhotoUP and NeuroMech Systems, reinforcing its commitment to knowledge transfer and an innovation ecosystem with economic and social impact for the country. UMinho now has 51 active spin-offs in a wide range of areas, almost half of which […]
The President of the School of Engineering, Professor António Vicente, was interviewed in December by the Northern Region Engineers Association. Access the full interview here and find out the EEUM President’s perspective on various topics, including the role of engineering in the country’s strategic and political decision-making.
On 18 November, ShanghaiRanking published its Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2025, including more than 2,000 universities from 92 countries, assessed in 57 areas of teaching and research. The University of Minho achieved its highest rankings in the areas of Textile Engineering (22nd place worldwide), Civil Engineering (Top 75) and […]
At a time when the complexity and popularity of data-driven applications are growing at an unprecedented rate, INESC TEC UMinho and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) are collaborating on a project to tackle one of the most debated challenges in the field: the efficiency of the data-processing systems that support these […]
The BANKSY project, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), promises to innovate the way we deal with contexts characterised by incomplete, uncertain or even contradictory information. With a planned duration of three years, the project is the result of a partnership between INESC TEC, CIDMA, the […]
António Calos Silva Abelha, Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, was unanimously approved by the members of the Jury in the Habilitation Exams in the field of Computer Science, held on 5 December 2025. The jury was chaired by Dr. Luís Manuel Dias Coelho […]
Portuguese Microbiology and Biotechnology societies recognise the impact of both scientists in their respective fields Researchers Nelson Lima and José António Teixeira, from the School of Engineering’s Centre of Biological Engineering (CEB), were honoured by the Portuguese Society of Microbiology and the Portuguese Society of Biotechnology for their significant contributions […]
The Automation and Robotics Laboratory (LAR) at the University of Minho is once again celebrating the spirit of solidarity this season with its now traditional initiative to adapt electronic toys for children with special needs. From 15 to 17 December, Building 8-b on the Azurém Campus will be transformed into […]
The Stand4Heritage project, coordinated by Paulo Lourenço, researcher at ISISE – Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering at the School of Engineering, was featured on the CNN Innovation programme. STAND4HERITAGE (New STANDards for seismic assessment of built cultural HERITAGE) ambitiously engages in introducing new standards for safeguarding built […]
João Gaspar Cunha’s project envisages a new generation of neuroadaptive robotic partners João Gaspar Cunha, a PhD student in Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Minho, won the ‘Best Innovation in HRI NeuroDesign Award’ at the international ‘IEEE RO-MAN’ conference held in the Netherlands. The award recognises pioneering […]
The scientific article “GIS-based methodology for prioritization of preparedness interventions on road transport under wildfire events”, co-authored by researchers from the Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Engineering Structures (ISISE), was awarded the VII Jose Maria Sarriegi Scientific Dissemination Award (call 2025). This prestigious award, given by a jury composed […]