On 30 October, the IDEA-UMinho Centre announced the projects funded under the second call for proposals for the 2025 edition of the Programme to Support Innovation and Development Projects in Teaching and Learning. Of the four winning projects in this second call for 2025, three are led by members of […]
Awards
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The UMinho Scientific Research Initiation Award Ceremony 2025 took place on the afternoon of 24 October in Auditorium B1 (Building 2) on the Gualtar campus in Braga. The opening ceremony was attended by the Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation, Sandra Paiva, and the Vice-Rector for Education and Academic Mobility, Hernâni […]
The “USludge4Fertilizer” project was selected from among 178 entries from 39 countries in the H2O & Sustainability Innovation Hub’s Call for Projects 2025 PhD student in Mechanical Engineering José Fernandes, from the School of Engineering at the University of Minho, and professors Hélder Puga (Mechanical Engineering) and Paulo Ramísio (Civil […]
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 […]
During the 7th International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Modelling and Simulation (AMMS 2025), held between 24 and 26 September in Athens, the article entitled ‘Biologically-plausible classification via a Dynamic Neural Field Self-Organising Map’ was awarded the Best Presentation Award. The work was authored by Paulo Barbosa, Flora Ferreira, Estela Bicho […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Maria Gabriela Jordão Oliveira, a final-year student on the Master’s in Physical Engineering, is the winner of the 2025 Alcino Lavrador Award, which recognises the best final-year student on any Master’s programme taught by the School of Engineering at the University of Minho. This is an annual award with a […]
Fernando Ribeiro, a researcher at the ALGORITMI Centre of the School of Engineering at the University of Minho, was honoured with the Gerhard Kraetzschmar Award at RoboCup 2025, which took place from 15 to 21 July in Salvador da Bahia. In Brazil, the professor from the Department of Industrial Electronics […]
Pedro Loureiro, a researcher at the ALGORITMI Centre, was awarded the Best Paper Award at the International Young Engineers Forum on Electrical and Computer Engineering (YEF-ECE 2025), an event held on 4 July in Lisbon. The master’s student in Industrial and Computer Engineering, who is developing his dissertation at GEPE, […]