The University of Minho is one of the institutions with the highest number of PhD students awarded Fulbright Commission scholarships this year to carry out research in the United States of America. Ana Rita Luz, from the Department of Economics, will be conducting research at the University of Michigan – […]
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Researcher Paulo Lourenço, from the Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE) of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, received on June 30 a grant of 150 thousand euros from the European Research Council (ERC), to bring to the market a new advanced platform that […]
From assessing Portuguese municipal councils to evaluating more than 3000 public service portals worldwide, the work of INESC TEC researchers Diogo Ribeiro, doctoral student at EEUM, and João Marco Silva, lecturer from EEUM, puts the cybersecurity of public administration at the centre of the debate. Municipal council websites are now […]
From a best poster award to contributions on four distinct fronts. That is how INESC TEC made its mark at EuroSys 2026, one of the most prestigious international conferences in computer systems. The highlight was the presentation of the paper “MinatoLoader: Accelerating Machine Learning Training Through Efficient Data Preprocessing”, authored […]
Rui Oliveira, lecture at the Informatics Department at the School of Engineering and Director of INESC TEC, attended the second edition of the AI Compute Summit, held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The event, organised by The Economist, brought together business leaders, researchers and policymakers to discuss the future of computing […]
The 1st Edition of the AEROSPACE–UMINHO Industrial Series kicked off on 25 March. This new series of Industry Lectures & Technical Deep Dives will bring some of the leading experts in the aerospace sector – from industry, research centres and government agencies – to the Azurém campus of the University […]
Aware of the negative impacts of Storm Kristin on 28 January in the Leiria region, the Research Group on Masonry and Historic Buildings (HMS) at ISISE, the School of Engineering’s Research Centre, has, on its own initiative, formed a task force to assess the effects of the storm. The task […]
INESC TEC took part in CENTRA 9, a meeting of the international CENTRA (Collaborations to Enable Transnational Cyberinfrastructure Applications) network, which brings together research centres, institutes and laboratories from various regions to advance transnational cyberinfrastructures and their applications – a critical pillar for the progress of high-performance computing (HPC) and […]
António Calos Silva Abelha, Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, was unanimously approved by the members of the Jury in the Habilitation Exams in the field of Computer Science, held on 5 December 2025. The jury was chaired by Dr. Luís Manuel Dias Coelho […]
The University of Minho, reaffirming its commitment to the generation, dissemination and application of knowledge for the benefit of society, announces the creation of a Therapeutic Phage Production Laboratory. This pioneering project comes in response to the growing need for innovative solutions to tackle the global crisis of antibiotic resistance, […]
A study by the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, conducted by Pamela Sant’Anna, evaluated a sample of 54 municipal solid waste (MSW) collection workers from three municipalities in northern Portugal and concluded that 85% of them reported musculoskeletal pain in the last year, especially in the lower […]
The city of Guimarães has been chosen to host the Portuguese hub of the European Confederation of Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratories (CAIRNE), which brings together more than 27,000 members from 487 institutions in 39 countries. The new centre aims to strengthen Portugal’s position on the international stage in this field […]