On 26 May, the School of Engineering received a delegation from the company Continental AG from Hanover, which was interested in getting to know the activities carried out at UMinho in some of its areas of activity.

The delegation was made up of Burkhard Wies – Vice President R&D Innovation & Applied Research, Thorsten Torbrügge – Head of Expertfield Compounding Technologies, Ali Karimi – Principal Engineer Material Simulation, Marta Malainho – Head of R&D Specialty Tires at Continental de Lousado, Catarina Vieira – Head of R&D Compound and Material Development at Continental de Lousado, Eduarda Silva – Head of R&D Digital Tire Technologies and Field Intelligence at Continental de Lousado,  Florian Pfaff – Head of R&D Process Development at Continental de Lousado, Waldemar Bender – Head of R&D Continental de Lousado and Viviana Silva – HR Continental Mabor Lousado, had the opportunity to interact and learn more about the areas of activity and projects of Interfaces Dtx, TecMinho, CVR, Fibrenamics and PIEP, as well as EEUM’s R&D Centres Algoritmi, CMEMS, IPC and 2C2T.

The expectation is that this interaction will result in new collaborative projects involving the School of Engineering’s innovation ecosystem.