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, […]
If covid does not allow gatherings, instead of investing in the usual Christmas dinner, F3M, from Braga, decided to use this money to support the traditional commerce, financing the employees themselves, so that they could help the local shopkeepers to overcome the “terrible difficulties” they face. For the Christmas celebrations, […]
On 13 January, the new management team of the Department of Industrial Electronics for the biennium 2021-2022 took office in the meeting room of the Presidency of the School of Engineering. Graça Maria Henriques Minas took office as Department Director, with João Miguel Clemente Sena Esteves as Deputy Director. Besides […]
The history of the powerful genetic publishing technique, which was this year recognised with the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and which may in the near future be the solution to many diseases that are now incurable, began more than 3 billion years ago when the first bacteria and bacteriophages, the […]
Madalena Alves, professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho and director of CEB – Centre of Biological Engineering, is one of the two new representatives of the Portuguese State on the Board of INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory. Elvira Fortunato, full professor at FCT NOVA, […]
Rafaela Cunha, Fashion Design and Marketing student, was the winner of the IV Young Creators Competition 2020 promoted by the Municipality of Braga. Diana Pereira and Luana Silva, also students of Design and Fashion Marketing at the School of Engineering, were finalists in this contest, making it more challenging for […]
The project CirMAt – CIRcular aggregates for sustainable road and building MATerials led by the dst group and having as partners the ISISE research center of the UMinho School of Engineering, the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) was highlighted at European level […]
The Global Ocean Accounts Partnership aims to establish the state of marine ecosystems and the social and economic impact they have on communities and countries where they operate Tiago Miranda and Eduardo Pereira, professors of the Department of Civil Engineering of EEUM, are the only Portuguese members of the “Global […]
The CoronaSurveys project, with Carlos Baquero – researcher at High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab) and professor at EEUM -, was one of the five finalists of the international competition COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge. Selected among more than 115 people and 50 organisations, CoronaSurveys earned a prize of $5K; the presentation of […]
The combination of sporting excellence and academic success is worth prizes to 17 students. The University of Minho (UMinho) once again awarded its students who combined sporting excellence with academic success in 2019/2020. 17 athletic students were distinguished with the Sports Merit Awards (PMD), which achieved excellence in 6 sports. […]
The best high school students were in contact with the presidential team and EEUM researchers from December 16-18. The initiative, called “The Best Student at UMinho”, presented UMinho’s training offer in an online model and highlighted the research being done in this academy, which they may take part in. The […]