The University of Minho has 66 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. The list, called ‘World’s Top 2% Scientists 2024’, includes 223,000 researchers, 889 of whom are […]
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The ERA Chair REACTORS_5.0 project, coordinated by António Vicente, vice-president and full professor of the School of Engineering at the University of Minho and researcher at the Centre of Biological Engineering (CEB), has been funded with 2.5 million euros from the Horizon Europe Programme for the next five years. The […]
Saghir Amin, Joao Rocha, Vitor Monteiro and Nuno Costa are the co-authors of “Three-Level Zero-Voltage Transition Interleaved Buck Converter with DC Transformer-based Isolation for EV Fast Charging Stations”, which won the Best Paper Award at the Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems – DoCEIS 2024, which took […]
“A Machine Learning Approach for Points of Interest Extraction and Event Classification” won the Best Student Paper Award at the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations – AIAI 2024, which took place from 27 to 30 June in Corfu, Greece. This was a joint project between the […]
167 students were honoured with a scholarship equal to their tuition fee at the UMinho Excellence Scholarship Award Ceremony The University of Minho’s Excellence Scholarship Award Ceremony took place on 19 June at 3.30pm in the medieval hall of Largo do Paço in Braga. 167 students were honoured for their […]
The University of Minho is one of the institutions with the most PhD students awarded Fulbright Commission grants this year to carry out research in the United States of America. The students honoured are from the fields of Psychology, Neurosciences, Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Engineering. Four of the scholarships […]
Manuel Padrão, Inês Silva, Beatriz Silva and Marta Ribeiro, students from EEUM’s Industrial Engineering and Management degree programme, won the JUMP competition, an ideas competition for new businesses promoted by the Municipality of Famalicão, in partnership with UPTEC, which aims to promote an entrepreneurial culture for the development of new […]
The LAR@Home team from the Automation and Robotics Laboratory at the University of Minho’s School of Engineering in Guimarães has secured first place in the RoboCup@Home league This was achieved at the RoboCup Portuguese Open 2024, which took place between 2nd and 5th May in Paredes de Coura. In one […]
It received 250,000 euros for a project to reconcile privacy and transparency in digital services. A team from the University of Minho’s School of Engineering and the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC) won 2nd place in the “IN3+ Prize, One Million for Innovation”, with […]
Luís Barros, a PhD student in Electronic and Computer Engineering at the ALGORITMI Centre of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, won 2nd place in the APREN 2023 Award, in the category of best PhD Thesis. The work, entitled “Smart Power Conditioners for Electric Railway Power Grids“, […]
The UMinho Scientific Research Initiation Award 2023 ceremony took place on 12 December at the Gualtar campus in Braga. Twenty-seven undergraduate and first-year integrated master’s students have been developing their scientific projects over the last few months, involved in teams of recognised merit at UMinho, and then presented their results […]
Researcher Clarisse Nobre, from UMinho’s Centre of Biological Engineering (CEB), won the National Innovation Agency’s Born from Knowledge Award for her project cLabel+: Clean Label, which aims to transform calorific sugars (sucrose) into healthy sugars with high functional value (prebiotics) in finished foods. The winners of the various categories of […]