The project “Citizen-Led Accessible Environmental Routes/Personalised Accessible Routes for Health and Safety – CLEAR PATHS”, led by Giorgio Pace (School of Sciences, UMinho), Dalila Durães, Miguel Nóbrega (both from the School of Engineering, UMinho) and Andrea Ribeiro (Higher Institute of Health), has been approved for funding by the scientific committee […]
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Agreement signed in Sintra provides for scientific observation from low Earth orbit by Prometheus-2 and a new space data infrastructure at UMinho The Portuguese Air Force Academy (AFA) and the University of Minho are set to develop, launch and operate the academic satellite “Prometheus-2” in the coming months. This space […]
A series of interviews with members of the School of Engineering’s new Advisory Board. In this edition, we interview Engineer Fernando de Almeida Santos, President of the Portuguese Engineers’ Order. The Advisory Board of the School of Engineering at the University of Minho (EEUM) acts as an advisory body to […]
Manuel Padrão and Francisco Martins, creators of the “first smart platform for continuous mental health support”, called “Cozecare”, have just won first prize in SpinUM – the University of Minho Business Ideas Competition. Second prize goes to Eduardo Silva, Guilherme Santos and Pedro Ferreira Borges, for the innovation “SEIVA”, which […]
Campus.ly, developed by Samuel Anjos, is unique in that it cross-references students’ grades, exam results and profiles with geographical and financial filters – and was recently available to try out at the UMinho stand at the Qualifica fair, where EEUM was in attendance. The University of Minho took part in […]
On 25 March, IdeaLab’s Pitch Day took place; this is the TecMinho programme that supports the development of business ideas at the University of Minho. During the session, 13 entrepreneurial teams presented their proposals in the form of brief ‘elevator pitches’ to a panel of invited experts. This provided an […]
Keep Solutions, a Braga-based company and UMinho spin-off originating from the EEUM Department of Computer Science, has distributed €180,000 of its 2025 profits amongst its 36 staff members – meaning each received an average of €5,036. In a statement sent to the media, the Braga-based technology firm highlights that, since […]
The 1st Edition of the AEROSPACE–UMINHO Industrial Series kicked off on 25 March. This new series of Industry Lectures & Technical Deep Dives will bring some of the leading experts in the aerospace sector – from industry, research centres and government agencies – to the Azurém campus of the University […]
As part of the celebrations marking the Rector’s team’s first 100 days in office, an event open to the entire academic community took place on 13 March, which included the inauguration of the UMinho Seed co-creation space on the Azurém campus. The Pro-Rector for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Transfer, Professor […]
On 12 March, the InventUM initiative, organised by the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the UMinho School of Engineering, took place in the main auditorium on the Azurém campus. The event brought together guests from academia, the world of entrepreneurship, public institutions and the student movement to reflect on how […]
Aware of the negative impacts of Storm Kristin on 28 January in the Leiria region, the Research Group on Masonry and Historic Buildings (HMS) at ISISE, the School of Engineering’s Research Centre, has, on its own initiative, formed a task force to assess the effects of the storm. The task […]
INESC TEC took part in CENTRA 9, a meeting of the international CENTRA (Collaborations to Enable Transnational Cyberinfrastructure Applications) network, which brings together research centres, institutes and laboratories from various regions to advance transnational cyberinfrastructures and their applications – a critical pillar for the progress of high-performance computing (HPC) and […]