On October 15, in a ceremony held in Barcelona, the “la Caixa” Foundation distinguished Miguel Gama, from the Center for Biological Engineering (CEB) of the School of Engineering of UMinho, awarding a sum of 150 thousand euros from the “CaixaImpulse for Innovation in Health”. Miguel Gama will lead a project […]
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Vanessa Cardoso, assistant researcher at the Center for Research in Electromechanical Microsystems (CMEMS) at EEUM, was at the Tec2Med Summit, representing the University of Minho. The congress had as its theme “Action over Reaction | Building Preventive Healthcare Systems” and took place on the 10th and 11th of October, at […]
The ceremony of the UMinho Award for Initiation in Scientific Research 2026 took place on October 9, from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm, in auditorium B1 (building 2) of the Gualtar campus, in Braga. The opening was attended by the Vice-Rector for Education and Academic Organization, Cristina Dias. Two dozen […]
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 […]
Researchers Estela Bicho, Flora Ferreira, Paulo Barbosa and Wolfram Erlhagen received the Best Paper Award by the European Neural Networks Society, for the article “A Dynamic Neural Field Model of Chronotopic Map Formation” at ICANN26- 35th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks. The conference took place from 14 to 17 […]
The UMinho Aquatic Racing (UMar) student team won the “Rookie of the Year” award in the second edition of the “Portugal Boat Challenge”, an engineering and nautical sustainability competition that took place from 4 to 6 September in Coimbra. Composed of students from various Engineering courses at UMinho, based in […]
Solfarcos, Biofabics, and Cozecare were distinguished in the 4th edition of the National Innovation Award. SOLFARCOS -Soluções Farmacêuticas e Cosméticas, Lda., a UMinho spin-off founded by members of the EEUM, won the Sustainability and Social Impact category with an innovative nanotechnological platform for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, capable of […]
The University of Minho’s rectorate team attended the Annual Conference of the European ARQUS alliance, which took place on 8 and 9 July at Maynooth University, Ireland. The opening ceremony was attended by the Rector of UMinho, Pedro Arezes, who chaired the first plenary session, on the theme ‘Personal Impact; […]
A robot developed at EEUM in Guimarães took second place at RoboCup 2026 in South Korea, amongst the world’s best service robotics teams. The CHARMIE robot, developed by the Automation and Robotics Laboratory at the University of Minho (UMinho), was crowned world runner-up in the RoboCup@Home competition, part of RoboCup […]
Rafael Pinto, PhD student in Materials Engineering at EEUM, won the Upcell Young Scientist Award 2026 for developing a sustainable, solid-state, 3D-printed lithium battery that has improved performance and efficiency and with applications ranging from medical devices to portable electronics. This is a European award that recognizes young researchers with […]
Initiative distinguishes the best teaching and learning practices at UMinho and will take three teachers to the “European First Year Experience Conference”. The University of Minho announced the attribution of the EPIC UMinho Pedagogical Innovation Award to professors Celina Leão, from the School of Engineering, Cristina Aguiar, from the School […]