The city of Guimarães has been chosen to host the Portuguese hub of the European Confederation of Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratories (CAIRNE), which brings together more than 27,000 members from 487 institutions in 39 countries. The new centre aims to strengthen Portugal’s position on the international stage in this field […]
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Between 13 and 17 October, the José de Guimarães International Arts Centre (CIAJG) hosted the 2nd edition of Techstars Startup Week Guimarães, a leading event in innovation and entrepreneurship. For five days, entrepreneurs, students, investors and anyone interested in innovation and entrepreneurship had the opportunity to participate in lectures, round […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
Nearly 30 world-renowned experts from around the world travelled to Portugal to discuss advances in the fields of computer science theory and programming languages. Members of the IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi gathered in Viana do Castelo for an initiative organised by INESC TEC. The capital […]
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 […]
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 […]