SI-PASS UMinho – Supplemental Instruction-Peer Assisted Study Sessions – is a collaborative learning program for academic success, based on collaborative study sessions promoted by student leaders, previously selected and trained, and accompanied by a supervisor. The University of Minho is the first higher education institution in Portugal to implement SI-PASS, […]
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António Gomes Correia, professor emeritus of the Department of Civil Engineering of the School of Engineering of UMinho (EEUM), was appointed editor emeritus of “Transportation Geotechnics”, a scientific journal of international reference in this area. António Gomes Correia founded and was editor for 10 years of this publication of the […]
Led by CEB and in partnership with ICVS and the University of Vigo, the CheMAP project uses genetic screening to identify mechanisms that make triple-negative breast cancer (one of the most aggressive) resistant to chemotherapy, to find genetic vulnerabilities in these tumor cells and potential therapeutic targets. It lasts until […]
The work by INESC TEC and University of Minho researchers examines whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) can already replace traditional methods for deciding how a database responds to queries. Luís França and José Pereira, researchers at INESC TEC and the University of Minho, received the Best Paper award at INForum 2026 […]
Alaize Dall’Orsoletta, researcher at the ALGORITMI Centre, was awarded the Most Cited Paper award at the 21st Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems – 2026 SDEWES Conference, which took place in Gran Canaria, Spain. The researcher received the award for the article entitled “Low-carbon technologies and […]
Braga hosted the European Researchers’ Night with more than 200 activities More than 900 teachers, researchers and students were involved in the initiative, which took place at Forum Braga, with almost ten hours of free scientific programming. The School of Sciences of the University of Minho (ECUM) organized on the […]
As part of the celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the DPS, on September 25th, IDEATHON began, an initiative that places students and companies at the center of a challenge of innovation, collaboration and solving real problems. The opening session was attended by the Director of the DPS, Paulo Sampaio, […]
Infraestruturas de Portugal (IP) transformed 1630 kilos of end-of-life uniforms into 362 new items, as part of a project developed in partnership with ToBeGreen, a spin-off of the School of Engineering of UMinho dedicated to the circular economy. The process made it possible to give a new use to textile […]
From 22 to 24 September, the School of Medicine, on the Gualtar Campus, hosted the UMinho Research & Innovation Open Days, an event that brought together researchers, students, companies, entrepreneurs, investors and decision-makers to make known the most relevant things being done at the University in the areas of research, […]
The Department of Informatics of the University of Minho has been celebrating, throughout 2026/2027, the 50th anniversary of the regular teaching of Informatics and its Engineering at UMinho. A path of which the entire academic community of the School of Engineering is proud, which marked successive generations of students and […]
The Roadmap for Innovation of the Northern Regional Coordination and Development Commission (CCDR-N) passed on September 21 through the municipality of Guimarães, to learn about projects of excellence in the areas of science, sustainability and urban regeneration. The program started at 10:00 am at the University of Minho, on the […]
The ALGORITMI Center, through LASI – Associated Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, organized between September 17th and 19th the INISTA Conference 2026 (International Conference on INnovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications). The event brought together experts in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Guimarães, namely teachers, researchers and professionals from […]