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To understand the dynamics of citizens’ adaptation to the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal. This is the main objective of an initiative launched by the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto (ISPUP) and by INESC TEC, in partnership with the newspaper Público.
25th March 2020
The phone app meuparlamento.pt is one of the 40 winners of the World Summit Awards, an international competition that elects projects focused on promoting digital innovation at local level.
17th March 2020
The European project BEACONING - Breaking Educational Barriers with Contextualized, Pervasive and Gameful Learning, developed in partnership with INESC TEC's Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics (CSIG), was the big winner of the “Gamification Software Award”. This competition aims to reward disruptive projects in the field of gamification.
10th February 2020
It won’t be a traditional book, but it won’t be an e-book either. It will support a learning model with innovative characteristics. This is the idea behind the “Augmented Book for the Creative Introduction to Programming”, a project by António Coelho, from INESC TEC’s Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics (CSIG), one of the winners of the competition for “Pedagogical Innovation Projects”, part of the “Promoting Pedagogical Excellence” programme by the University of Porto.
07th February 2020
Nowadays, database management and updating is a key concern for large companies. In order to perform said critical tasks, the purchase of dedicated hardware is the solution found by most organisations; however, this leads to expenses in terms of hardware management and maintenance, and often the need to allocate human resources. Now, there’s a cloud platform that aims to meet the market demands, with a more reliable and cost-effective technology that can be updated in real time.
11th January 2020
The closing session of the project SIMPROVE – Medical Simulation Centre of the Future, which brought together FMUP, INESC TEC and the company STI-Medical, was attended by Guid Oei, professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands), an expert in the medical simulation area applied to Obstetrics and member of a consortium that won EUR 2.9 million for the development of an artificial uterus prototype.
10th January 2020
On December 19th, INESC TEC’s High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab) welcomed six students from Braga, Guimarães, Santo Tirso and Terras de Bouro, who chose HASLab to discover and become familiar with the work of a researcher in the IT field. This event was part of the 2019 edition of the Best Student programme at UMinho.
07th January 2020
An INESC TEC paper in the area of medical image analysis is among the 10% most cited papers in the scientific journal PLOS One of 2017. With the participation of researchers from the Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER) and the Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM), the paper describes a method for automatic classification of histology images of breast tissue biopsy into four classes: normal tissue, with benign lesions, with carcinoma in situ or invasive carcinoma.
18th December 2019
A spin-off of INESC TEC, iLoF, was one of the winners of the Wild Card programme, a European acceleration programme for disruptive healthcare projects, ensuring a EUR 2 million investment by an international consortium.
19th November 2019
José Manuel Valença, researcher of INESC TEC’s High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab) and Full Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, lectured his last lesson on 18 October at the University of Minho in Braga.
13th November 2019
A team of researchers of INESC TEC’s High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab) participated at the 38th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2019), which took place in Lyon, France, from 1 to 4 October, presenting four scientific papers and organising a workshop, among other tasks.
13th November 2019
The Portuguese node of the Research Data Alliance (RDA-pt), an initiative co-coordinated by INESC TEC, held a workshop at the Open Science Fair, under the theme «RDA-pt – the Portuguese node of the Research Data Alliance».
06th November 2019