The Hungarian-Portuguese Space Industrial Workshop Programme, involving Portugal Space, the AED Cluster and the UMinho School of Engineering, took place on 4 and 5 December. On 4 December, received by Hungarian ambassador Dr Emília Fábián, the Hungarian delegation was made up of László Csurgai Horváth, from Budapest University of Technology […]
Researcher Clarisse Nobre, from UMinho’s Centre of Biological Engineering (CEB), won the National Innovation Agency’s Born from Knowledge Award for her project cLabel+: Clean Label, which aims to transform calorific sugars (sucrose) into healthy sugars with high functional value (prebiotics) in finished foods. The winners of the various categories of […]
Community using open-source library management programme meets at Gualtar campus On 28 and 29 November, the University of Minho (UMinho) hosted the 2nd Meeting of the Koha Portugal Community. The B1 auditorium, in CP 2 of the Gualtar campus, brought together a wide range of information professionals to discuss the […]
The Braga District Office and the Regional Council of the College of Computer Engineering organised the event “Today’s solutions and tomorrow’s questions” at the Computer Science Department of the UMinho School of Engineering on 28 November. As part of the Computer Engineering Month organised by the Braga District Delegation, the […]
Between 20 and 25 November, the Centre for Biological Engineering and the Department of Biological Engineering at the University of Minho (CEB-DEB-UMinho) opened their doors to the 2023 edition of Science and Technology Week, an initiative promoted by the Ciência Viva Programme. This initiative is aimed at the school public […]
On 23 November, the CHARMIE robot was put to work in the Engineering I bar at the University of Minho’s Azurém campus in Guimarães. The CHARMIE robot is a project created by the Automation and Robotics Laboratory of the Industrial Electronics Department of the University of Minho’s School of Engineering, […]
The School of Engineering of the University of Minho (EEUM) presented the cultural initiative “Engineering and Art” on 23 November at the B-Lounge of the General Library on the Azurém campus in Guimarães. The event was part of UMinho’s 50th anniversary programme and was supported by the Documentation and Library […]
On 22 November, the University of Minho and the University of Vigo (Galicia) held a Research Forum to showcase their projects in 11 scientific areas and deepen cooperation. The initiative took place in the Zulmira Simões auditorium of the UMinho School of Medicine, on the Gualtar campus in Braga. The […]
E-REDES has signed a protocol for the Top Women Scholarship mentoring programme with 11 higher education institutions, including the UMinho School of Engineering. This initiative is aimed at final-year students from 23 master’s programmes in electrical and computer engineering from the north to the south of the country. In total, […]
INOV.AM is an Additive Manufacturing Innovation mobilisation programme, made up of companies from various sectors of activity and a number of entities from the national scientific system, including UMinho’s School of Engineering, aimed at development in various areas of intervention including: new materials, advanced additive manufacturing processes, advanced post-production processes, […]
The University of Minho is the national institution with the most requests for “patent families”, according to the “Barómetro Inventa 2023 – Patentes Made in Portugal”. The university’s 69 registrations include medical, biotechnological, autonomous driving, manufacturing, production and construction innovations, among others. The results reinforce the role of UMinho and […]
On 20 November, the Chair of the School of Engineering hosted Thomas Olsson and Lars Montellius from Lund University. The purpose of the meeting was to share institutional models for recognising and rewarding teaching excellence. The meeting began with an intervention by Professor Pedro Arezes, President of the School of […]