Much has been said recently about the Covid Stayaway app, an application that was officially presented on September 1, which aims to track the potential contagion networks by Covid-19, and which after three weeks of its availability already had over 1 million downloads. We already know that it is a […]
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Platform created by Keep Solutions for CIM Alto Minho aggregates 300,000 documents The 300,000 documents from the public libraries of the ten municipalities of Alto Minho are now added to the search portal bibliotecas.altominho.pt. The project was developed by Keep Solutions (technological spin-off of the School of Engineering of the […]
A team of researchers from the Department of Civil Engineering of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho and the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, supported by the Municipality of Arcos de Valdevez, began the study of the fojos do lobo da Serra da Peneda, […]
Researchers João Tiago Paulo (INESC TEC/UMinho), Vinicius Vielmo Cogo and Alysson Neves Bessani (both from ULisboa) have created a technology that can allow faster and cheaper studies in genome sequencing and with 75% less storage space in data. The study was published in “IEEE”. They combined a new technique of […]
2C2T from EEUM and Citeve are part of a consortium that created the first protective mask that inactivates the new coronavirus. The first textile and reusable mask with proven capacity to inactivate the new coronavirus, responsible for Covid-19, was created in Portugal, in a cooperation project between the business, academic […]
Ecofoot is the only Portuguese among 64 SMEs now funded under the European Ecological Pact Ecofoot, born in the School of Engineering of the University of Minho (EEUM), is the first Portuguese company funded by the European Innovation Council under the European Ecological Pact (Green Deal). Its dyeing technology, “H2Color-Aux”, […]
The YPACK project was evaluated by the European Commission’s Innovation Radar as “Business Ready”, in terms of market maturity, revealing itself as an innovation that brings together concrete market-oriented ideas. In terms of “market creation potential”, the innovation presented by the YPACK was classified as “Noteworthy”. Innovation Radar is a […]
The SPM Prize on World Materials Day 2019 was awarded by the thesis of Ana Carina Ferreira Lopes, student of the Integrated Master in Polymer Engineering at EEUM, with the title “Study and evaluation of different combinations of virgin and processed PA material for Selective Laser Sintering technology”. This thesis […]
Advanced computing (High Performance Computing – HPC) provides more resources and better performance than ordinary computers, in order to solve complex engineering and scientific problems, while contributing to technological developments in several areas, such as healthcare, environment and natural sciences. Actually, these services have been expanding and diversifying the range […]
The ‘Fibrenamics Green’ platform, created at the University of Minho for product development using industrial waste, is one of the 25 finalists for the European Commission’s Regiostars 2020 Awards, known today, which distinguish good practice supported by EU funds. Developed by the International Fibrenamics Platform of the University of Minho, […]
Paulo Novais, Full Professor of the Department of Informatics, received the Medal of the São Torcato Village for professional and academic merit. The medal was awarded in the Commemoration Ceremony of the 25 years of the elevation of São Torcato to Vila, in the past 21st. The session was attended […]
Joana Azeredo is the first Portuguese and the fourth in the world with this nomination and at an unusual stage of her career Joana Azeredo, from the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, is expected to be the first Portuguese researcher with her nickname associated with a virus. […]