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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
Homes in Europe are estimated to be responsible for approximately 40% of the European Union's energy consumption and 36% of greenhouse gas emissions. DECODIT, a European project featuring INESC TEC, will support the energy transition of homes, through the development of digital services to support citizens in the decision-making process of renovating and managing the energy of their homes. These services will help us choose the solutions that best meet our personal needs.
18th February 2025
INESC TEC’s Industry and Innovation Laboratory (iiLab) has already received six of the 12 planned pilots. The demonstrations aim to provide industrial solutions with different operating and coordination features.
29th October 2024
The Institute contributed to a solution that reduces manual efforts and ensures a more flexible supply chain. This involvement was “fundamental”, stemming from the ongoing progress of the PRODUTECH R3 mobilising agenda.
29th October 2024
INESC TEC researchers led discussions on innovative solutions for vineyards at an event that brought together companies, universities and players in the sector.
24th October 2024
Could the increasing interest in language models, like ChatGPT, be diverting resources away from companies to adopt advanced analytics practices that truly support smart decisions? Pedro Amorim, INESC TEC researcher, and João Alves (from INESC TEC LTPLabs spin-off) believe so. In a paper published in MIT Sloan Management Review, they warn about the quality and unpredictability of data generated solely from generative language models - despite advocating for more investment in Artificial Intelligence (AI) that incorporates these models with advanced analysis (with concrete reasons provided).
25th June 2024
INESC TEC researcher Marta Campos Ferreira participated in the development of a prototype that seeks to improve the experiences of people with reduced mobility in cities – and make them more inclusive. The new solution featured at an international conference, and the researcher's work was acknowledged. Now, the goal is for the solution to reach everyone through an application.
17th May 2024
The Smart Manufacturing Summit took place in March and brought together more than 10 000 professionals. INESC TEC presented skills in the area and the "portfolio of services in training and advanced consulting".
17th April 2024
The first pilot-projects to demonstrate 5G solutions aimed at the manufacturing industry have already started at INESC TEC Industry and Innovation Laboratory (iiLab). Companies will be able to test their solutions and develop products and services that resort to the new generation network. The pilots are part of the Test Bed 5G project, led by NOS – in partnership with Sonae MC and Wells, and with INESC TEC participation.
22nd February 2024
The research work The pallet loading problem: a review of solution methods and computational experiments, by Elsa Silva and José Fernando Oliveira, researchers at INESC TEC, and Gerhard Wäscher, professor at Otto-von-Guericke University, in Magdeburg (Germany), was one of 30 papers selected to feature in the edition marking the 30th anniversary of the International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR) journal.
28th March 2023