The To-Be-Green spin-off and the CVR – Centre for Waste Valorisation interface are part of a new project that was launched in Guimarães, during the European Week for Waste Prevention, entitled “Collecting and Valuing” and that foresees a strong campaign of awareness, collection and valuation of masks. This is an […]

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 […]

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 […]

The social distancing and lockdown measures imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on individual well-being, namely psychological well-being. In order to address the needs of those who are most vulnerable, EEUM’s High-Assurance Software Laboratory (Haslab) joined OutSystems and the Psychology Association of the University of Minho (APsi-UMinho) and […]

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 […]

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 […]