Two researchers from the School of Engineering of the University of Minho have defined a set of evacuation strategies against the activity of a volcano in central Mexico, one of the most populated and seismic areas in the world. The study by Rafael Ramírez Eudave and Tiago Miguel Ferreira was […]
Solution will enable a more efficient therapy to be applied, improving the response of the NHS. Secondary infections, very common in patients with respiratory viral diseases such as COVID-19, are responsible for a high number of recorded deaths, as well as for the worsening of the clinical situation. And antibiotic […]
Vítor Espírito Santo, alumnus of the School of Engineering, is developing meat from cells, in California, USA. He runs the Cellular Agriculture Department at “Eat Just”, one of the 80 companies in the world dedicated to lab-grown meat. Singapore was the first country in the world to approve the marketing […]
The embryo of 21st century networked entertainment, the MOOsaico platform was created in 1994 by UMinho students and was once the only one in the world with bilingual support. It is the oldest virtual environment in Portugal and was, for some time, the only one in the world with multilingual […]
The researcher of the Center of Biological Engineering and professor and Vice-Dean of the School of Engineering innovates in eco-packaging, functional and bioactive compounds, and nano-systems for food. António Augusto Martins de Oliveira Soares Vicente was born in Porto 49 years ago. He grew up in the city, but from […]
Founded in 2017 by two School of Engineering Alumni, Automaise once again raises investment from HCapital, Bright Pixel and Armilar Venture Partners to increase the team and the international bet Automaise from Braga has just closed a seed funding round in the amount of one million euros, led by HCapital […]
Elections for student representatives on the School Council of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, through the electronic voting system eVotUM, took place on January 11. For the election of the representative of the students of the 1st cycle or 1st, 2nd and 3rd years of the […]
“How to break the chain of transmission with Stayaway Covid” was the theme of the initiative of the program “Fighting the Pandemic with UM Knowledge”. The initiative “Fighting the Pandemic with UM Knowledge” promoted, in the late afternoon of January 26, another conversation on “How to break the chain of […]
A sustainable footwear brand, made of coffee grounds and other recycled or vegan materials, to reduce the ecological footprint. Grain by grain, you can make a difference. In the case of Re-Coffee’s first collection, the lees of some 33 espresso coffees, the most likely destination was the landfill, were used […]
Helena Leite, alumna of Systems Engineering and IT and Chief Operating Officer of Inetum, a multinational company specialized in the development and implementation of software solutions for e-commerce, digital banking, insurance market, among others, was elected one of the 25 leading women in software in Europe. In professional terms, alumna […]
This month, schools in Guimarães county began receiving ecopoints for the collection of community and disposable masks. After this collection, the CVR – Centre for Waste Valorisation will create products and solutions that can be used that are based on the textile fibres of these materials, recovering this waste in […]
It was patent until January 20th, in the main nave of building 2 of the School of Engineering, the exhibition of the works developed by the students of the 1st year in Design and Fashion Marketing within the Interdisciplinary Project in Design I – Dress a tale. The project aimed, […]