UMinho Engineering leads the way in patents in Portugal The University of Minho is the national institution with the most applications for ‘patent families’, according to the ‘Inventa Barometer 2024 – Patents Made in Portugal’, which has just been released by the consultancy Inventa International. The academy’s 29 registrations include […]
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It’s an innovation that will improve food safety and help prevent health risks. The Myco-ProAffinity Project, led by the CEB, is creating an innovative solution so that food reaches our tables more safely. How? By developing a technological platform that uses specific proteins to identify and remove mycotoxins, an invisible […]
The presentation of the projects of the candidates for the UMinho Initiation in Scientific Research Award took place on December 5 at UMinho’s Gualtar campus, with the participation of the School of Engineering’s research centers, 2C2T, ALGORITMI, CEB, CMEMS and CTAC. Thirty undergraduate and first-year integrated master’s students have developed […]
The ‘Optimisation and Wildfire’ conference, organised by the O3F project team – ‘An Optimisation Framework for Reducing Forest Fire’ (funded by FCT, Principal Investigator: Filipe Alvelos), in which the University of Minho, Aveiro and Lisbon participate, took place in Luso from 1 to 4 October. The conference had 58 participants […]
The University of Minho has 66 scientists in the group of the 2% most cited in the world over the last year, according to a study by Stanford University (USA) and the Elsevier publishing group. The list, called ‘World’s Top 2% Scientists 2024’, includes 223,000 researchers, 889 of whom are […]
Could a single filamentous fungus transform the food and cosmetics industries, making them more environmentally friendly and economically competitive? Work carried out by scientists from the Centre of Biological Engineering (CEB) at the University of Minho has been analysing the use of a microorganism to produce natural flavours from simple […]
The initiative brought together around 200 experts from 20 countries over five days in Viana do Castelo The School of Engineering of the University of Minho (EEUM), in partnership with the School of Technology and Management of the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo (IPVC), organised the 23rd edition of […]
A group of teachers and students from the 1st year of the Master’s in Industrial Engineering and Management took part in the 2nd edition of the EGALITARIAN project, which took place from 26 to 30 August in Denmark. In addition to the University of Minho, the EGALITARIAN project, funded by […]
An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale was felt in Portugal, from Viseu to the Algarve, with its epicentre off the coast of Sines, at dawn (05h11) on 26 August. The quake was also felt in Spain, Gibraltar and Morocco, and there were then five smaller aftershocks. Civil Protection […]
As part of the Thermochemical Processes course unit of the master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Specialisation in Environmental Energy Technologies, taught by EEUM lecturer Francisco Brito, 18 students presented their projects on 12 June. Hybrid Rocket Engine was the project of students Clara Pinto, Diana Gomes, Eduardo Barbosa, Gonçalo Araújo, […]
The Summer School “Digital Transformation in the Wine Industry”, which took place from 30 June to 6 July at the Azurém campus of the University of Minho, welcomed a group of twenty students from four European universities: University of Minho (Portugal), University of Münster (Germany), University of Graz (Austria) and […]
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 […]