Three students from the School of Engineering of UMinho were recognized and awarded with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s New Talent Scholarships, an elite and highly competitive program that aims to create a new generation of successful researchers in Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Technologies and Mathematics. Mafalda Alves, a 5th year student […]
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Equipment was presented on 13 November and promises to be a solution for difficult cases, hitherto referred to wheelchairs. The School of Engineering of the University of Minho (EEUM) presented an intelligent walker online on 13 November to improve the locomotion of patients and physical rehabilitation therapy. The innovation, already […]
The app Smart Pedestrian Assistant (SPA) is a pedestrian navigation tool developed as part of the project SPN: Smart Pedestrian Net – Smart cities are walkable: SPN – a model to plan a pedestrian network and a pedestrian navigation system. This app allows the users to define daily or occasional […]
GermiSafeBOX54 is a product created by the company Thermopista from Braga, accompanied and tested in partnership with the Centre of Biological Engineering of EEUM and the Physics Department of UMinho. It is a technologically advanced sterilization box that allows the complete elimination of bacteria, viruses or fungi that cling to […]
The thesis of the student of the PhD Programme in Sustainable Built Environment, Mário José Dias Meireles is entitled “Sustainable Urban Mobility centred on the use of bicycles. A digital, integrated, shared and intelligent system” was recently reported by some media, as it indicates that almost seven out of ten […]
Researchers from EEUM and INESC TEC participate in the ENSICO initiative, Association for the Teaching of Computing, which aims to invest in the teaching of Computer Science in Portuguese schools, supporting the creation of innovative practices in the digital age through new teaching tools, materials and learning software. José Nuno […]
The scientist Felismina Moreira, from the BioMark Group of the Center for Biological Engineering of EEUM, in partnership with other universities and a company, is developing innovative, fast and low cost tests to monitor antibodies to Covid-19, in serum or saliva. The major innovation of the TecniCov Project, which received […]
Vegan trainers made from coffee grounds, recycled rubber, natural coconut and pineapple fibres, among others, for an environmentally conscious public, but that simultaneously appreciates design and comfort. This is the proposal created and developed by Re-Coffee, a project of young entrepreneurs started in Vila Nova de Famalicão from an “epiphany” […]
The project EcoBioInks4SmartTextiles, which is being developed by the Centre of Biological Engineering in partnership with CeNTI, the highlight of the 90 Seconds of Science programme, with the Responsible Researcher, Tatiana Aguiar, who clarifies how the development of fluorescent paints for application in clothing and textiles can make counterfeiting difficult, […]
Automaise is a cloud platform that uses artificial intelligence to automate business processes, making them more efficient in solving complex problems and making decisions. The company was founded in October 2017 by Ernesto Pedrosa and Carlos Oliveira, former students of Systems Engineering and Computer Science at EEUM, and is incubated […]
The platform that was born in the School of Engineering of the University of Minho converts industrial waste into new products, from furniture to footwear was one of the finalists for the European prize. The Portuguese platform Fibrenamics Green was one of the 25 finalists for the European Commission’s Regiostars […]
Rui Almeida and Sofia Paiva (DTx) led by professor and researcher Jorge Cabral and supported by Sérgio Branco (all ALGORITMI researchers) have just won a podium position in the local final of the EDP University Challenge. This podium rewards the best groups, with no differentiation between 1st, 2nd and 3rd […]