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 […]
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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 […]
With the aim of improving the quality of life of patients who are bedridden or have reduced mobility, in hospital and home environments, the 4noPressure project brought together leading organisations and institutions to empower the future of health textiles in response to critical challenges faced by these patients, such as […]
A team led by Professor Miguel Azenha and researcher José Granja, linked to the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Minho and the SC-DiCE Cluster of the Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE), is carrying out research into platforms for streamlining digital urban licensing processes […]
On 23 November, the CHARMIE robot was put to work in the Engineering I bar at the University of Minho’s Azurém campus in Guimarães. The CHARMIE robot is a project created by the Automation and Robotics Laboratory of the Industrial Electronics Department of the University of Minho’s School of Engineering, […]
INOV.AM is an Additive Manufacturing Innovation mobilisation programme, made up of companies from various sectors of activity and a number of entities from the national scientific system, including UMinho’s School of Engineering, aimed at development in various areas of intervention including: new materials, advanced additive manufacturing processes, advanced post-production processes, […]
Is it possible to innovate even further with a non-alcoholic beer? Researchers from EEUM’s Centre of Biological Engineering in partnership with the Super Bock Group and the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto have proved that it is. This partnership is at the origin of the search for […]
The secretary of the Resilience Engineering Association, Pedro Ferreira, and the presidents of the Portuguese and Brazilian Ergonomics associations, Teresa Cotrim and Lucy Mara Baú respectively, will open the 1st Luso-Brazilian Seminar on Resilience Engineering this Thursday. The initiative took place on 28 September, online, and featured a dozen guest […]
The University of Minho’s School of Engineering is coordinating a European project worth around five million euros that is looking for natural-based technological solutions to protect critical infrastructures. The initiative involves five European cities, including Aveiro, and aims to minimise the effects of climate change. The project is called NBSINFRA […]
The pertinence of runtime security is rapidly engaging companies and institutions worldwide, that are becoming more aware of their vulnerabilities and consequences of attacks, in the age of digital transformation affecting workflows across industries. With the different skillsets and expertise of the FISHY Consortium partners, the impact of the novelty […]
In our daily lives, we barely notice the structures that support sectors like commerce, banking, or others, as well as high transactional data loads. In general, we only become aware of them during disruptions, which end up influencing the normal functioning of said services. In order to improve the performance […]
The European project REcube – REthink, REvive, REuse aims to develop and transmit the knowledge necessary for a sustainable, integrated and holistic approach to the conservation and renovation of reinforced concrete heritage in Europe. Within the scope of the REcube project, the students of the Degree in Civil Engineering, Maria […]