Of the three new students who joined UMinho this school year with a grade average of 20, one entered Informatics Engineering. This is Rui Pedro Oliveira, who came from Colégio D. Diogo de Sousa, in Braga. “It was logical to choose UMinho, because it is a national reference in Computer […]
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The American Society of Ergonomics and Human Factors (HFES) awarded a team from the Engineering and Architecture Schools of the University of Minho for the best article of 2019 in the journal Ergonomics in Design, with a system that identifies surgical instruments left in patients. This is the first time […]
The University of Minho is the Portuguese entity with the most patent applications, according to the “Barometer Inventa – Patents Made in Portugal 2020”. The result reinforces the role of this academy as one of the main drivers of innovation in the country and its strong link to the economic […]
European project “Climalert”, coordinated by UMinho, presented at Greenfest A tool that alerts the farmer about climate change is being born, helping him to optimize crop irrigation and to anticipate or postpone harvests. It is called “Climalert” and is coordinated by the Center of Molecular and Environmental Biology (CBMA) of […]
The new version of the RAID platform will allow telecommunications operators to detect fraud in real time, which translates into greater security and quality of service for companies and customers. Improving the RAID platform, a system marketed by the telecommunications analyst Mobileum for the comprehensive risk management in companies, thus […]
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 […]
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 […]