Researcher at INESC TEC UMinho and visiting lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at EEUM presented the Institute’s work on ransomware analysis and protection to the cybersecurity community during the 12th meeting of OWASP Porto, the regional chapter of the Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) – an international […]
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Solfarcos, Biofabics, and Cozecare were distinguished in the 4th edition of the National Innovation Award. SOLFARCOS -Soluções Farmacêuticas e Cosméticas, Lda., a UMinho spin-off founded by members of the EEUM, won the Sustainability and Social Impact category with an innovative nanotechnological platform for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, capable of […]
The Order of Engineers – Northern Region (OERN) awarded 52 Master’s Prizes to Engineering students from public higher education institutions in the Northern Region, in a ceremony held on July 2nd. The awards, worth 1,000 euros each, distinguish academic merit and strengthen the link between higher education and the business […]
The Daedalus team from MAST – Minho Aerospace Student’s Team – has been selected from 61 applications as one of the 25 teams taking part in the European Rocketry Challenge 2026, through the DAEDALUS project, and the students at the UMinho School of Engineering could not be more excited: “This […]
The University of Minho’s rectorate team attended the Annual Conference of the European ARQUS alliance, which took place on 8 and 9 July at Maynooth University, Ireland. The opening ceremony was attended by the Rector of UMinho, Pedro Arezes, who chaired the first plenary session, on the theme ‘Personal Impact; […]
The IngredientIA Project combines artificial intelligence, computational modelling and experimental micro-scale digestion systems to understand how food ingredients interact with the gut microbiota and to support the development of more effective and personalised foods. Combining artificial intelligence, computational modelling and micro-scale digestive simulation, the IngredientIA Project, coordinated by OmniumAI – […]
A robot developed at EEUM in Guimarães took second place at RoboCup 2026 in South Korea, amongst the world’s best service robotics teams. The CHARMIE robot, developed by the Automation and Robotics Laboratory at the University of Minho (UMinho), was crowned world runner-up in the RoboCup@Home competition, part of RoboCup […]
The University of Minho is one of the institutions with the highest number of PhD students awarded Fulbright Commission scholarships this year to carry out research in the United States of America. Ana Rita Luz, from the Department of Economics, will be conducting research at the University of Michigan – […]
AMALIA, the first large-scale language model (LLM) developed from scratch in European Portuguese, was unveiled on 1 July 2026 at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon. The event featured speeches by the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, the Minister of State for State Reform, Gonçalo Matias, and the Minister for Education, […]
Researcher Paulo Lourenço, from the Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE) of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, received on June 30 a grant of 150 thousand euros from the European Research Council (ERC), to bring to the market a new advanced platform that […]
From assessing Portuguese municipal councils to evaluating more than 3000 public service portals worldwide, the work of INESC TEC researchers Diogo Ribeiro, doctoral student at EEUM, and João Marco Silva, lecturer from EEUM, puts the cybersecurity of public administration at the centre of the debate. Municipal council websites are now […]
From a best poster award to contributions on four distinct fronts. That is how INESC TEC made its mark at EuroSys 2026, one of the most prestigious international conferences in computer systems. The highlight was the presentation of the paper “MinatoLoader: Accelerating Machine Learning Training Through Efficient Data Preprocessing”, authored […]