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On April 28 and 29, the Clean Energy for EU Island Secretariat will organise the Energy Academy, in Madeira, dedicated to the Portuguese islands. With this event, the Secretariat team - together with RdA Climate Solutions and the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC) - aims to support the inhabitants of the islands to select, assess, execute and communicate their energy transition projects.

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The Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International Institute of Astronautical Sciences (IIAS) to establish a partnership covering six areas of intervention: science, technology, engineering, mathematics, education, and space research.

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Lung cancer is one of the most common and deadliest in the world. The biopsy is the method used for its diagnosis and characterisation, and although it allows obtaining valuable information, it could lead to certain clinical issues. The LuCaS (Lung cancer screening - A non-invasive methodology for early diagnosis) project aims to make decision support systems in the characterisation of lung cancer more objective and quantitative. 

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According to the Portuguese Road Safety Authority, car accidents have a very significant impact on our society, with drowsiness being one of the main causes of accidents in Portugal. This was the basis for the development of the project AUTOMOTIVE – AUTOmatic multimodal drowsiness detection for smart VEhicles, which focused on the study and development of methodologies for driver monitoring, with particular emphasis on fatigue and drowsiness detection, using sensors on the steering wheel. 

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C4MiR – Control Module for Multiple Mixed-signal Resources Management is the name of the Portuguese technology developed by INESC TEC in partnership with the University of Porto (U.Porto), whose patent family has just been sold internationally. C4MiR will have a strong impact on the electronics industry, since it allows testing and calibrating sensors part of wearable devices, thus improving their lifetime while reducing time production and the costs of electronic chips.