The PROCRYSTAL Project, coordinated by the School of Engineering of UMinho, aims to train a new generation of researchers specialized in crystallization, a technology with the potential to make the production of biopharmaceuticals more efficient, sustainable and accessible. Biopharmaceuticals – medicines whose active substance is of biological origin – are […]
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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 […]
The School of Engineering at the University of Minho has joined Ryanair’s network of academic partners in Portugal, as part of the airline’s strategy to recruit, train and develop the next generation of aircraft engineers in the country. Ryanair recently highlighted its growing investment in training talent in Portugal, through […]
Betweien, a spin-off from the School of Engineering, celebrates 15 years this September. And “September brings with it new beginnings: rooms that fill up again, new stories to tell, questions to discover and opportunities to learn. At Betweien, it is also at this time that we feel, in a special […]
Researcher at INESC TEC UMinho and visiting lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at EEUM presented the Institute’s work on ransomware analysis and protection to the cybersecurity community during the 12th meeting of OWASP Porto, the regional chapter of the Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) – an international […]
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 Daedalus team from MAST – Minho Aerospace Student’s Team – has been selected from 61 applications as one of the 25 teams taking part in the European Rocketry Challenge 2026, through the DAEDALUS project, and the students at the UMinho School of Engineering could not be more excited: “This […]
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; […]
The IngredientIA Project combines artificial intelligence, computational modelling and experimental micro-scale digestion systems to understand how food ingredients interact with the gut microbiota and to support the development of more effective and personalised foods. Combining artificial intelligence, computational modelling and micro-scale digestive simulation, the IngredientIA Project, coordinated by OmniumAI – […]
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 […]
The University of Minho is one of the institutions with the highest number of PhD students awarded Fulbright Commission scholarships this year to carry out research in the United States of America. Ana Rita Luz, from the Department of Economics, will be conducting research at the University of Michigan – […]
AMALIA, the first large-scale language model (LLM) developed from scratch in European Portuguese, was unveiled on 1 July 2026 at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon. The event featured speeches by the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, the Minister of State for State Reform, Gonçalo Matias, and the Minister for Education, […]