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A solution designed to improve access to and efficiency in kidney transplantation - while enhancing patients’ quality of life and generating potential savings of up to €2M for every 100 patients in the healthcare sector - has earned a recognition at this year’s EARTO Awards. KEPsoft is among the winners in the Expected Impact category of the awards presented by EARTO, the European Association of Research and Technology Organisations. The award ceremony took place on Tuesday, 14 October, in Brussels.
15th October 2025
For the second year, INESC TEC is joining forces with Porto Business School (PBS) to organise the European Operations Management Association (EurOMA) event focused on sustainability. Abstract and workshop submissions are now open.
08th October 2025
Antibiotics are widely recognised for treating infections caused by bacteria. However, one of the biggest global public health challenges is the well-documented misuse of these medicines, whether due to excessive and unnecessary prescriptions or the diagnostic inaccuracies that sometimes lead to their use.
29th September 2025
Applications are now open for the second edition of the course “Shop floor digitalisation – making digitalisation happen in the Industry”; this event is a partnership between INESC TEC and INEGI, and will take place on October 16. Registrations for this programme - designed to help companies address the challenges of digitalisation - are open until October 13.
15th September 2025
Do you shop online? Have you ever experienced delivery failures? An INESC TEC-led study concluded that when a product is not delivered as expected - whether because it is out of stock or replaced with another - customers spend less and take longer to make another purchase, which can represent accumulated annual revenue losses for retailers of more than 12%.
05th September 2025
How can we ensure that vehicles arrive at their destinations in a synchronised way, even when travel times are not exact? To answer this question, a team of researchers from INESC TEC and the JKU Business School (Austria) has developed a solution to improve the efficiency and reliability of transportation and logistics services, even when faced with unexpected delays.
28th July 2025
The TacitRouting project - combining data science methods with traditional optimisation techniques for last-mile route planning to make them more efficient - received the PEL Academia 2025 prize by APLOG, the Portuguese Logistics Association. This award recognises academic initiatives with high impact and innovation that are applicable to the business and logistics sectors.
07th July 2025
As part of the Bioshoes4All project, INESC TEC is in the final development phase of a traceability solution that tracks the entire lifecycle of footwear - from raw materials to the final product. The main benefit of this system is harnessing data already being recorded in company systems, automatically using it to create a complete traceability record.
30th June 2025
Launched in 2022 under the leadership of INESC TEC, to contribute to the development of a more sustainable and resilient industry sector, SoTecIn Factory is now, three years later, showcasing dozens of technologies designed to boost the circularity of value chains. Over two days, the SoTecIn Factory Start-up Day presented high-impact circular solutions across the plastics and packaging, textile, and agro-food sectors - aiming to connect them with companies and organisations interested in increasing the circularity of their processes.
29th May 2025
INESC TEC is leading a project aimed at making Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) more accessible, efficient, and applicable within industrial contexts.
27th May 2025
Digitalisation plays a vital role in decarbonisation, serving as an enabler of energy efficiency, process optimisation, and the transition to more sustainable operations. In a sector like agro-food, where energy consumption is often high, digital transformation allows for real-time monitoring and control of resource use, while supporting data-driven decision-making.This is where INESC TEC comes in. As part of the Roadmap for Decarbonising the Agro-Food Sector, the institute developed specific methodologies to support the digital transformation of companies within the sector; let’s take a closer look.
26th May 2025
Recognised as the most important European meeting point in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), the European Robotics Forum took place in Stuttgart at the end of March. INESC TEC was present at the event, showcasing projects and demonstrating technologies at its own exhibition stand and presenting a scientific paper.
30th April 2025