It’s a showcase for the best of what’s being done at the University of Minho’s School of Engineering (EEUM). On 19 September, the main hall of the Azurém campus in Guimarães hosted four dozen spin-offs, start-ups and interfaces in the areas of engineering, technology and design, as well as inspiring […]
Spin-offs
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The University of Minho spin-off, KEEP SOLUTIONS, was the company selected in an international tender to implement a cultural heritage management platform for the Ministry of Justice. This portal will integrate a library management system (45 associated libraries), a historical archive management system (nine associated entities) and a system dedicated […]
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 […]
Natura Matéria, a UMinho spin-off mentored by the professors of the School of Engineering, Aires de Camões, Rute Eires, and Paulo Mendonça from the School of Architecture, Art and Design, is committed to sustainable construction and hemp can guarantee thermal comfort, humidity regulation, flexibility and adaptability. “Hemp is truly a […]
Four researchers who left the School of Engineering of the University of Minho founded a company that bets on the creation of new materials through waste from various industries. It can be cutlery, glasses or components for machinery. All made from waste. Report on the spin-off UMinho B4Logic on RTP […]
Nothing could predict that Filipe Macieira and Francisco Pereira, two colleagues on the Biological Engineering course in Food Technology at the School of Engineering at the University of Minho, would dedicate themselves to the production of craft beer. After a decade they have a solid, Portuguese brand full of original […]
CTT won the CSR Coups de Coeur 2022 award, from PostEurop, in the Environmental category, with the mask recycling project against Covid-19, an initiative of the UMinho spin-off To-Be-Green, which the company joined in July 2021. According to João Bento, CTT’s CEO, “giving a second life to protective masks is […]
Keep Solutions, UMinho spin-off from the School of Engineering, which develops advanced solutions for information management and preservation, has distributed 78 thousand euros from 2021 profits to its 25 employees, an average of 3,130 euros each. In a statement, the company said that it has been developing this profit distribution […]
Platform created by Keep Solutions for CIM Alto Minho aggregates 300,000 documents The 300,000 documents from the public libraries of the ten municipalities of Alto Minho are now added to the search portal bibliotecas.altominho.pt. The project was developed by Keep Solutions (technological spin-off of the School of Engineering of the […]