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 […]
Under the theme “Engineering for a Sustainable Future”, the School of Engineering at the University of Minho hosted VEM 2024 – Experience UMinho, welcoming 32 high school students from the Minho region, selected for their outstanding academic performance in the 11th and 12th grades. This year’s activities focused on three […]
On the afternoon of December 19, a solidarity soiree organized by the Biomedical Engineering Student Office (GAEB) took place in Auditorium B1 of Pedagogical Complex 2 on the University of Minho’s Gualtar campus. This initiative involved users of Lar de Santo Adrião and Lar ResiSenior Gold, allowing them to spend […]
Hub aims to provide advanced and specialized training to boost digital transformation in Portugal. On December 19, the CCG/ZGDV Institute, a national benchmark in innovation and technology, launched the Technology and Innovation Training Hub – Tech Training Hub, an advanced and specialized training service aimed at empowering professionals and organizations […]
The Demo Day of the 2nd edition of the Empreender@Braga Program took place on December 16, from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., at the Braga Youth Center, and admission was free. The event supported by Startup Braga culminated a training program, with six bootcamps and talks from November 18 to […]
The School of Engineering at the University of Minho plans to launch its PROMETHEUS-1 (PROMETEU-1) satellite in January 2025 from the Vanderberg spaceport in California, USA, on a Space X Falcon 9 rocket. The space object will remain at an altitude of around 500 kilometers and will collect useful data […]
The inauguration of the EEUM Production and Information Systems Department Directors’ Gallery, located in building 11 on the Azurém campus of the University of Minho, took place on 11 December. The event brought together members of the academic community in a celebration that highlighted the department’s fundamental role over the […]
On December 10, a delegation made up of members of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, the University of Miskolc, the Institute of Metallurgy, Plastic Forming and Nanotechnology , the Bay Zoltán Foundation, and the Hungarian Embassy in Portugal, visited the 2C2T – Center for Textile Science and Technology […]
UMinho’s Vice-rector for Research and Innovation, Eugénio Campos Ferreira, Professors Filomena Soares, Paulo Lourenço and Madalena Alves (also President of the Foundation for Science and Technology) and the Vice-president of UMinho’s General Council, António Carlos Rodrigues received the insignia and diplomas as new members of the Academy of Engineering. The […]
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 School of Engineering at the University of Minho is the best in the country for biomedical engineering and 34th in Europe globally, according to the second edition of EngiRank – European Ranking of Engineering Programs, which evaluated 184 universities with engineering and technology courses in the European Union, Norway […]