Empowering science and innovation in Portugal The 2024 edition of the TOP500 brings exciting news. The Deucalion supercomputer, inaugurated in September last year, is ranked for the first time, marking the debut of a Portuguese infrastructure in this distinction – with position #80 in energy efficiency of the Arm partition […]
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Manuel Padrão, Inês Silva, Beatriz Silva and Marta Ribeiro, students from EEUM’s Industrial Engineering and Management degree programme, won the JUMP competition, an ideas competition for new businesses promoted by the Municipality of Famalicão, in partnership with UPTEC, which aims to promote an entrepreneurial culture for the development of new […]
Oscar Carvalho and his team are developing an innovative line of research that integrates mechanical engineering knowledge into the field of medicine. With a revolutionary approach, the team is analysing the human body from a mechanical point of view, investigating all the body’s mechanisms and modes of operation as if […]
The LAR@Home team from the Automation and Robotics Laboratory at the University of Minho’s School of Engineering in Guimarães has secured first place in the RoboCup@Home league This was achieved at the RoboCup Portuguese Open 2024, which took place between 2nd and 5th May in Paredes de Coura. In one […]
The Department of Production and Systems of the School of Engineering received a visit from the consortium of the Erasmus+ project ReCap 4.0 – Reinforcing Non-University at the Tertiary Level in Engineering and Technology to Support Thailand Sustainable Smart Industry , as part of a group meeting that took place […]
Keep Solutions, a company specialising in information management and preservation, has created a platform for the Camões Library Network, which has adopted an integrated management solution for the network’s dozens of libraries, spread across 54 countries. Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, I.P. aims to be a “reference […]
The nationwide “Make Fashion Circular” clothing collection campaign is underway, an initiative promoted as part of the be@t project by MO in collaboration with ToBeGreen. This initiative aims to collect discarded garments to give them a second life through repair or recycling, integrating them back into the market. The “Make […]
Portugal launched the MH-1 satellite into space on Monday 4 March, three decades after the first Portuguese device went into space. Aeros MH-1, a 4.5-kilogram nano-satellite, took off at 10.05pm from SpaceX’s base in California (United States) on a Falcon 9 rocket. It will be positioned 510 kilometres from Planet […]
Cláudio Coutinho, a student on EEUM’s Biomedical Master’s degree – Biomaterials branch, carried out his master’s thesis project at IPO-Porto’s Radiotherapy service, in which, under the guidance of researchers from the School of Engineering, Vanessa Cardoso and Óscar Carvalho (CMEMS), he developed new materials using organic/inorganic waste to produce phantoms […]
The AEROS Constellation (AEROS) project aimed to develop a nano-satellite platform as a precursor to a future constellation to leverage scientific and economic synergies between space and the ocean. The project is made up of a consortium of Portuguese companies, research institutes and universities, which in addition to the University […]
PIEP – Polo de Inovação em Engenharia de Polímeros, in partnership with the School of Engineering at the University of Minho, has created the PIEP Academy to qualify the plastics and polymers sector in Portugal. The aim is to affirm the competitiveness and visibility of this sector, which has 43,000 […]
The University of Minho in Braga hosted the public session to present the White Paper “Artificial Intelligence (AI): social concerns, ethical proposals and political guidelines”. The initiative, organised by the National Ethics Council for the Life Sciences (CNECV), featured a round table with experts José Manuel Machado (Director of EEUM’s […]