The board of ISISE – Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering – took office on 26 October at the Azurém campus of the University of Minho. José Manuel de Sena Cruz, Associate Professor with tenure in the Civil Engineering Department of the School of Engineering, was elected director […]

Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations discussed joint training programme with UMinho Tshilidzi Marwala, rector of the United Nations University (UNU), was received on 17 October at the UMinho Rectory building in Braga by Rui Vieira de Castro, rector of the University of Minho. The aim of the meeting was […]

The Student Ombudsman of the University of Minho, President of the Portuguese Network of Student Ombudsmen, and lecturer at the School of Engineering, Rosa Vasconcelos, was elected vice-coordinator of the Ibero-American Network of University Ombudsmen (RIdDU), which brings together 70 academies from 11 countries. She took up her new post […]

Aerospace Engineering is once again the higher education course with the highest average entry grade, in a group of 14 courses where only students with an average of more than 18 marks got a place. According to data provided by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES), the […]

Paulo Sampaio and Nelson Costa took office, as director and deputy director respectively, of the Department of Production and Systems, on May 16th. The ceremony took place in the meeting room of the Department of Production and Systems, where were present several elements of the department, and the presidency of […]

These honorary titles complete a list of 19 Honoris Causa doctorates already awarded to international reference personalities by our University. The University of Minho awarded last May 19th, the doctorate in Engineering Honoris Causa to the American Dava Newman and the entrepreneur José Ramos. The moment happened at the Azurém […]

Carlos Couto had the first European patent (1993) and José Covas the national patent (1996) for UMinho, with a new type of thermometer and a polymer sample collector to be transformed. The University of Minho has been at the forefront of innovation and economic valorisation of knowledge in its various […]

Paulo Flores, Full Professor at the School of Engineering of UMinho, was honoured at the University of Wichita, in the United States of America, for the 20 years of cooperation with that North-American institution. The distinction was held last April 24 at the University of Wichita, one of the most […]

Hélder Carvalho was reelected director of the Textile Engineering Department, with Joana Cunha remaining as deputy director. For the 2023-2025 biennium, António Dinis Marques will now join the team. The inauguration took place on March 31, at 11:30 am, in the meeting room of the department, in the presence of […]

The members of the Ethics Council and the Institutional Ombudsman of the University of Minho, João Álvaro Carvalho, took office this Friday, March 3, in Largo do Paço, Braga. The session was attended by the members of the General Council of UMinho, chaired by Joana Marques Vidal, and the rector, […]

The University of Minho and the Aeroclube do Alto Minho (AAM) signed a collaboration protocol aimed at developing projects in the area of aeronautics, such as training programmes, adaptation to the air environment, conferences and workshops. The agreement was formalised by the rector Rui Vieira de Castro and the president […]

Graça Maria Henriques Minas and João Miguel Clemente Sena Esteves were reelected director and deputy director, respectively, of the Department of Industrial Electronics, for the 2023-2024 biennium. The investiture ceremony took place on January 19th, in the department’s meeting room. The Department of Industrial Electronics (DEI) of the School of […]