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INESC Porto leads revolution in the national power system
The More Microgrids project was concluded last December. With a participation that started four years ago, INESC Porto was capable of demonstrating the technical feasibility of the large-scale integration of microgeneration systems in distribution grids. The More Microgrids thus contributed to promote a model for the distributed production of electricity by the consumer, company or private customer, which should coexist with the classical model of centralised production of electricity. Other than direct economic benefits for this new type of consumer, who is simultaneously a producer of electricity, the More Microgrids also promotes environmental benefits: a decrease in CO2 emissions as a result of the reduction of energy losses in the transportation of electricity to the end consumer. At the same time, it decreases the volume of electricity production in conventional thermal power plants since the microgeneration units explore renewable energies.
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INESC Porto’s Human Resources all over the world
Did you know that INESC Porto’s know-how is present in most continents, from Europe to the USA, in Brazil and even in Australia? And that many researchers who have worked at INESC Porto are now contributing to the success of companies and institutions, such as CERN, ESA, Sony, Nokia, Google, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Texas Instruments, Alstom, EDF or Nintendo? And did you know that some of them are doing research and teaching at Queen Mary College London, Columbia University, MIT, Max Planck Institute or Universität Karlsruhe? That is the conclusion of a study carried out by researcher Cristiana Pedrosa on networks, mobility and connections between human resources, with INESC Porto as case study. This dissertation confirmed the growing presence of INESC Porto in foreign institutions that benefit, not only from the experience and knowledge acquired by the collaborators who worked at INESC Porto, but also from a continuous knowledge exchange that can lead to valuable partnerships.
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INESC in the city of Porto celebrates 25th Anniversary
This year, INESC will be celebrating its 25th anniversary of existence in the city of Porto. And we celebrate this "silver anniversary" in an environment of optimism and innovation for the next quarter century. The opening of INESC Porto – Associated Laboratory to new Groups (and the consequent improvement of competences and scientific production), the project for a new building and the constitution of the new “INESC P&D Brasil” (INESC R&D Brazil), together the historic record budget of more than 10 million Euros for 2010, are some of the most recent landmarks that fill us with pride, not only regarding our past, but also regarding our hope in the future.
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President of INESC Porto appointed National Delegate to EC Programme
José Manuel Mendonça, President of INESC Porto and Full Professor at FEUP, was appointed by the Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education for the position of National Delegate to the NMP Committee (Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and New Production Processes) of the R&TD 7th Framework-Programme (7th FP) of the European Commission (2007-2013).
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Group of Robotics adds competences to INESC Porto
The entry of the Group of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (Robis) in INESC Porto, highlighted in the BIP of July, consolidated the acquisition of competences by INESC Porto, opening the path for a plethora of potential synergies and markets. BIP interviewed Américo Azevedo, the coordinator of ROBIS, together with António Paulo Moreira, in order to understand how he sees this new challenge of playing a double role at INESC Porto and what he thinks are the benefits that both the Group of Robotics and INESC Porto can take from this relationship.
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INESC Porto organises pioneering competition in the world
INESC Porto is organising the competition “Fingerprint Singular Points Detection Competition” within ICIAR 2010 – International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, which will take place between 21 and 23 June 2010, at the Hotel Vermar, in Póvoa de Varzim.
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USE concludes study for EC on the impact of increasing renewable energies
The Power Systems Unit (USE) has recently handed in the final version of the report of the project "Study on the impact of large renewable deployment on European Electricity Higher Voltage Systems", requested by the Institute for Energy of the Joint Research Centre (JRC-IE) of the European Commission.
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UOSE participates in several COST Action meetings and international conferences
The Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit (UOSE) has been participating in several COST Action meetings (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) and in international conferences in order to promote the research work carried out at the Unit, as well as new partnerships. The COST Action constitutes an intergovernmental framework for European cooperation in science and technology that helps reduce the fragmentation of investments used in research at a European level, promoting its dissemination around the world.
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USE participates in the organisation of international workshop on Microgrids
In the context of its activity in the European project More MicroGrids, the Power Systems Unit (USE) will participate in the organisation of the international workshop MICROGRIDS – Novel Architectures for Future Power Systems, which will take place in Paris, on 29 January 2010.
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Ocean Observatory RAIA disseminates first results
The official website of the RAIA project, in which the Information and Computer Graphics Systems (USIG) is currently participating, has recently made public some functional examples – with real data – for the publication and sharing of data and models, such as the most recent observations obtained at the Cortegada Ocean-Meteorological Platform, Pilar de Rande and Boia de Cíes, as well as an updated list of the services provided by the observatory.
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IAN organises second edition of U-NET workshop with IEEE GlobeCom
The Internet Architectures and Networking (IAN) area of the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) is currently organising, together with the IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), the second edition of the international workshop "U-NET: User-provided Networking". The workshop will take place on 6 December 2010, in Miami, United States of America.
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USE hosts kick-off meeting of MERGE project
INESC Porto hosted the kick-off meeting of the project MERGE – Mobile Energy Resources for Grids of Electricity, a project with a 4.5 million Euro budget and two-year duration. This kick-off meeting was an opportunity to present an overview of the project, scientifically led by INESC Porto/Power Systems Unit (USE), and to define the tasks for the first semester.
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Researcher from UOSE coordinates team of students in ESA experiment
Carla Carmelo Rosa, researcher at INESC Porto’s Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit (UOSE) and professor at the Faculty of Science of the University of Porto (FCUP), was the supervisor of a project developed by a team of students from FCUP’s Physics Department. The team, called “Physics Addicted”, was invited to launch an experiment in microgravity, in the context of the call for the programme “Fly your thesis” of the European Space Agency (ESA).
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INESC Porto researchers awarded at ICSEA 2009
Hugo Ferreira, Ademar Aguiar and João Pascoal Faria, researchers at the Information and Communication Systems Unit (USIC) of INESC Porto, received the Best Paper Award at the SEDES workshop, organised by ICSEA 2009 - The Fourth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, which took place between 20 and 25 September 2009 in Porto.
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Fibersensing receives Honourable Mention
Fibersensing, a spin-off company from INESC Porto, received, on 29 November, an Honourable Mention in the category of "Innovation" of the Awards CEP-AEP 2009, given in the context of the Entrepreneurial Cooperation Forum Galicia-North of Portugal.
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Software developed by INESC Porto grant holder wins Future Places Festival
Samuel van Ransbeeck, grant holder at the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) has designed a software for the Outhouse installation, awarded with first place at the Future Places Festival, which took place in Porto, between 13 and 17 October. This software was developed in the context of the KINETIC Project, led by INESC Porto (Carlos Guedes and Fabien Gouyon) together with the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, the University of Texas at Austin, YDreams and Casa da Música.
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Microelectronics Students’ Group highlighted in IEEE Journal
The Microelectronics Students’ Group, which includes members from INESC Porto, was highlighted in the December edition of the Journal Region 8 News do Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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Researchers from LIAAD publish book
Pavel Brazdil and Carlos Soares, researchers at the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD), are co-authors of a book recently published by Springer, entitled "Metalearning - Applications to Data Mining", written together with Christophe Giraud-Carrier of the Brigham Young University and Ricardo Vilalta of the University of Houston.
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Researcher from UGEI awarded by IBM
João Falcão e Cunha, researcher at the Industrial Management and Engineering Unit (UGEI) and professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), received the “Faculty Awards” from IBM on 2 November 2009.
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Researcher from CRACS publishes book
Álvaro Figueira, researcher at the Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS), published a book on one of the mostly used e-learning systems in the world, currently used by the University of Porto and most of its faculties – the Moodle.
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Jobs 4 the Boys & Girls
In this section, the reader may find reference to public announcements made by INESC Porto offering grants, contracts and other opportunities of the same kind.
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