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Miriam Seoane Santos, INESC TEC researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP), was recognised by her contribution to the responsible development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems: she is the first Portuguese scientist to win the international ERCIM Cor Baayen Award, which rewards early-career researchers in the fields of computer science and applied mathematics - - never awarded to Portugal, since its creation in 1995.
23rd October 2025
Work framed within the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation 2025 included a comprehensive annotation process leading to the creation of a multilingual dataset, providing the basis for training models capable of identifying narratives in European Portuguese.
07th October 2025
The AI, Data and Robotics Forum (ADRF) is one of Europe’s leading events dedicated to Artificial Intelligence (AI), data, and robotics. The 2025 edition took place in Stavanger, Norway, on September 23 and 24 - with a strong presence from INESC TEC. Before the event ended, an announcement was made: ADRF 2026 will take place in Porto, with INESC TEC responsible for organising the event.
29th September 2025
How do we react to social media posts about climate change? This was the starting point of an international study featuring INESC TEC collaboration, analysing nearly two million posts on the social network X (formerly Twitter) published over 12 years in the Iberian Peninsula.
28th July 2025
A team of researchers from INESC TEC, the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, and the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre analysed 46 types of tissues from over 700 individuals. The team concluded that smoking impacts tissue architecture and can cause molecular changes not only in organs directly associated with smoke inhalation, e.g., lungs, but also in tissues from other organs, including the pancreas, thyroid, oesophagus, and specific regions of the brain. In many cases, the effects of smoking significantly overlap with those of ageing.
24th July 2025
Imagine being able to access Portuguese local election data in a structured and intuitive way, from 1976 to the present. This was the idea behind the platform A Minha Região - O teu portal autárquico, developed by INESC TEC researchers Rúben Almeida, Sérgio Nunes and Ricardo Campos, which won first place in the 2025 Arquivo.pt awards.
14th July 2025
The EnSafe project (Enhancing Environmental Protection: Anomaly Detection in Waste Transportation using Network Science) is developing AI-based solutions to tackle environmental crimes, focusing on waste transportation chains. EnSafe benefits from the active involvement of INESC TEC, which is developing technologies to detect irregular and suspicious behaviours in a sector that is vulnerable to fraud and environmental corruption.
26th May 2025
It is called AI-SCRETT (AI-Supported Education for Creative Empowerment through Responsible Technology and Training) and was officially approved in March 2025; it benefits from €7.2M to develop advanced digital skills, focusing on the intersection between creativity and AI. INESC TEC is one of the partners of this project funded by the European Commission’s Digital Europe programme.
28th March 2025
It is called ECML PKDD - European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases -, and it is the largest European conference in machine learning. The event, promoted by INESC TEC, will take place between September 15 and 19, 2025, in Porto; the submission of papers is open until March.
09th January 2025
35 years separate the beginning and the end of the teaching career of João Gama, one of the most-cited scientists in the world. The INESC TEC researcher, who presented his Last Lecture on November 25, said “goodbye” to the classrooms of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto (FEP). The motto? "Where do We Come From? Where are we going?” – the culmination of a recognised academic career, particularly in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning.
28th November 2024
Matías Molina, INESC TEC researcher in Artificial Intelligence, received the PAIS Outstanding Paper Award at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, one of the most relevant AI events in Europe and the world. The EMERITUS project was the basis for this work: INESC TEC is using AI to improve the investigation of environmental crimes.
14th November 2024
Chama-se AI4Lungs e tem como objetivo desenvolver ferramentas e modelos computacionais baseados em Inteligência Artificial para otimizar o diagnóstico e o tratamento de doenças pulmonares. Através de uma abordagem holística e multimodal, os investigadores vão criar uma solução de cuidados de saúde personalizados para doenças respiratórias. No final de fevereiro, representantes das 18 entidades parceiras do projeto, provenientes de 10 países, reuniram-se no INESC TEC para assinalar o arranque do AI4Lungs.
01st April 2024