Vítor Espírito Santo, alumnus of the School of Engineering, is developing meat from cells, in California, USA. He runs the Cellular Agriculture Department at “Eat Just”, one of the 80 companies in the world dedicated to lab-grown meat. Singapore was the first country in the world to approve the marketing […]
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The embryo of 21st century networked entertainment, the MOOsaico platform was created in 1994 by UMinho students and was once the only one in the world with bilingual support. It is the oldest virtual environment in Portugal and was, for some time, the only one in the world with multilingual […]
The researcher of the Center of Biological Engineering and professor and Vice-Dean of the School of Engineering innovates in eco-packaging, functional and bioactive compounds, and nano-systems for food. António Augusto Martins de Oliveira Soares Vicente was born in Porto 49 years ago. He grew up in the city, but from […]
Founded in 2017 by two School of Engineering Alumni, Automaise once again raises investment from HCapital, Bright Pixel and Armilar Venture Partners to increase the team and the international bet Automaise from Braga has just closed a seed funding round in the amount of one million euros, led by HCapital […]
Helena Leite, alumna of Systems Engineering and IT and Chief Operating Officer of Inetum, a multinational company specialized in the development and implementation of software solutions for e-commerce, digital banking, insurance market, among others, was elected one of the 25 leading women in software in Europe. In professional terms, alumna […]
It was patent until January 20th, in the main nave of building 2 of the School of Engineering, the exhibition of the works developed by the students of the 1st year in Design and Fashion Marketing within the Interdisciplinary Project in Design I – Dress a tale. The project aimed, […]
Rafaela Cunha, Fashion Design and Marketing student, was the winner of the IV Young Creators Competition 2020 promoted by the Municipality of Braga. Diana Pereira and Luana Silva, also students of Design and Fashion Marketing at the School of Engineering, were finalists in this contest, making it more challenging for […]
The project CirMAt – CIRcular aggregates for sustainable road and building MATerials led by the dst group and having as partners the ISISE research center of the UMinho School of Engineering, the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) was highlighted at European level […]
The Global Ocean Accounts Partnership aims to establish the state of marine ecosystems and the social and economic impact they have on communities and countries where they operate Tiago Miranda and Eduardo Pereira, professors of the Department of Civil Engineering of EEUM, are the only Portuguese members of the “Global […]
The CoronaSurveys project, with Carlos Baquero – researcher at High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab) and professor at EEUM -, was one of the five finalists of the international competition COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge. Selected among more than 115 people and 50 organisations, CoronaSurveys earned a prize of $5K; the presentation of […]
Catarina Noronha wants to change her look on fashion and create collective memories. For this, the alumna of the School of Engineering of UMinho thought Modar-te, a creative nucleus that aims to contribute to a city with a more open look for art and design. The project intends to create […]
Sérgio Miguel da Silva Coelho is a student of the Integrated Master in Industrial Electronic Engineering and Computers at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, where he is working on the thesis “Development of a Micro-Inverter for Renewable Energy Systems in Distributed Micro-Networks”, which earned him an […]