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INESC TEC highlights maritime safety at the Sea Forum
INESC TEC has once again participated in the Sea Forum, which took place between 28 and 30 May, at EXPONOR, in Portugal. At the event, the institute from Porto had the opportunity to showcase its competences in unmanned systems – used to improve maritime safety and to reduce cross border irregular entries – by organising two workshops on the theme. Other highlights included the NATO seminar, also supported by INESC TEC, the TEC4SEA, an offshore lab led by INESC TEC, and the signing of a protocol with the Portuguese Ministry of Defence.
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INESC TEC helps implement innovative assembly line
INESC TEC is part of the Production Technologies Cluster (PRODUTECH), which demonstrated the new assembly line of the company ADIRA, the ADIRA Production System. The entire manufacturing system was designed and implemented with innovative technology, including software to optimise production and autonomous vehicles that supply each work station with the materials necessary to assemble customised orders. INESC TEC’s Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering (CESE) and Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CROB)* developed almost the entire manufacturing system.
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INESC TEC has already submitted more than 50 projects to Horizon 2020
In the first semester of 2014, INESC TEC submitted over 50 proposals to Horizon 2020 – the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. The applications were submitted in different areas, with an emphasis on the following calls: Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) with 15 projects submitted; Factories of the Future (FoF), with seven applications; Low Carbon Energy (LCE), with five proposals; Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials and Production (NMP) and Energy Efficiency (EE), both with three projects submitted.
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CISTER/INESC TEC leads European project on predictable parallel programming in many-core processors
Assessing and maintaining the performance and predictability of many-core processors (with dozens of cores) is the purpose of project P-SOCRATES (Parallel SOftware framework for time-CRitical mAny-core sysTEmS), a European project led by the Research Centre in Real-Time and Embedded Computing Systems (CISTER), an associate unit of INESC TEC. The first stage of the project, which started in October 2013, is now over, and the project received a positive evaluation in the first review meeting, which took place on 15 May in Barcelona, Spain.
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INESC TEC researcher co-edits book on soft computing
Jorge Freire de Sousa, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management, is co-editor of the scientific book Computer-based Modelling and Optimization in Transportation, which gathers recent research on the use of soft computing in transportation and logistics.
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INESC TEC researcher joins the European platform TPWind
Ricardo Bessa, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES)*, was selected to join the European Wind Energy Technology Platform (TPWind), more specifically the work group on the integration of wind power into the power system (WG3: Grid Integration).
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INESC TEC participates in study on manufacturing strategies in national companies
High quality performance, flexibility, delivery and cost. These are some of the main attributes that characterise the 34 Portuguese companies that participated in the International Manufacturing Strategy Survey (IMSS), conducted by the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Católica Porto, in partnership with INESC TEC and the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP).
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Infrastructures led by INESC TEC chosen for FCT’s national roadmap
Five infrastructures in which INESC TEC participates have been chosen (after previous evaluation and hearing) to integrate the National Roadmap of Research Infrastructures of Strategic Interest for 2014-2020 (RNIE) of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Two of these infrastructures are led by INESC TEC: the Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles Laboratory (SGEVL) and the TEC4SEA, a modular Platform for research, testing and validating technologies to support a sustainable economy for the Sea.
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INESC TEC monitors health of first responders
“VR2Market: Towards a Mobile Wearable Health Surveillance Monitoring Product for First Response and other Hazardous Professions” is the name of the Entrepreneurial Research Initiative (ERI) led by João Paulo Cunha, coordinator of INESC TEC’s Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER), together with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). INESC TEC’s Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering (CESE) and the Centre for Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CITE)* are also involved in the project, as well as other institutions and companies.
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INESC TEC R&D Units have been renamed
Eight INESC TEC R&D Units at have recently been renamed and are now called Centres or Laboratories. The names of the Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER), the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD), the Centre for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS), the High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLAB) and the Research Centre in Real-Time and Embedded Computing Systems (CISTER) remain unchanged.
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INESC TEC consolidates new image in 2014
In 2011, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) has officially accepted the change of the name of the Associate Laboratory from INESC Porto to INESC TEC. After a transitional stage (between 2011 and 2013), where the new brand coexisted with the old, 2014 starts a new stage where the INESC TEC brand stands alone.
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INESC TEC wins international competition on optimal power flow problem solving
INESC TEC was the grand winner of the international competition “Application of Modern Heuristic Optimization Algorithms for Solving Optimal Power Flow Problems”, promoted by the Power & Energy Society of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). Vladimiro Miranda, director of INESC TEC, and Leonel Carvalho, researcher at the Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES), competed with an original meta-heuristic approach created at INESC TEC which proved to be the best.
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HASLab/INESC TEC researcher wins IBM Portugal scientific award
Alexandre Madeira, a researcher at INESC TEC’s High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab), has won the 2013 IBM Portugal Scientific Award, with the project “Hibridização de Lógicas: uma abordagem genérica à reconfigurabilidade de software” (in English: Hybrid logic – a generic approach to software reconfigurability).
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INESC TEC director invited for the scientific council of IRESEN
Vladimiro Miranda, director of INESC TEC, has been invited to integrate the scientific council of IRESEN - Institut de Recherche en Energie Solaire et Energies Nouvelles, an agency of the Moroccan Ministry of Energy, Mining, Water and Environment, which started collaborating with INESC TEC last year, more specifically in project SECRETS (Sustainable Energy Clusters REalized Through Smart Grids).
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ShoeInov Network honoured in the 2014 European Enterprise Promotion Awards
The initiative ShoeInov – Innovation Network for the Footwear Industry has received an Honourable Mention in the category of “Business Environment Development” of the 2014 European Enterprise Promotion Awards. Coordinated by the Centro Tecnológico do Calçado de Portugal – CTCP (Portuguese Footwear Centre), together with INESC TEC, the ShoeInov network aims at improving the competitiveness of Portuguese footwear companies by promoting R+D+i (Research, Development and Innovation).
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INESC TEC signs programme-contract with EDP
INESC TEC is the partner of the Portuguese science system chosen by Energias de Portugal (EDP) to develop science and technology capable of being explored commercially by all companies in the EDP Group. The programme-contract signed between the Associate Laboratory and the EDP Group at INESC TEC on 4 June will finance joint research projects, over the next three years, to originate new products and services for the company.
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CISTER/INESC TEC organises European conference on wireless sensor networks
INESC TEC’s Research Centre in Real-Time and Embedded Computing Systems (CISTER) is organising the 12th edition of the European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2015), one of the main international conferences in the area. The event will take place in February 2015 at the School of Engineering (ISEP) of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP).
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INESC TEC welcomes delegation from Bosch Termotecnologia SA
On 4 July, INESC TEC welcomed a visit from two members of Bosch Termotecnologia SA, a manufacturer of heating and hot water systems. The goal with this visit was to “identify technical collaboration opportunities to develop domestic electric storage water heaters, involving an active management of domestic electricity consumption. The ultimate goal of reducing electricity bills,” explains João Peças Lopes, director of INESC TEC.
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INESC TEC organises meeting of European project evolvDSO
On 26 and 27 June, INESC TEC’s Center for Power and Energy Systems (CPES)* organised a meeting of European project evolvDSO – Development of Methodologies and Tools for New and Evolving DSO Roles for Efficient DRES Integration in Distribution Networks, in the area of electrical distribution networks.
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INESC TEC participates in Robotics Exercises 2014
Between 30 June and 4 July, INESC TEC participated in the REX2014 - Robotics Exercises, which took place at the Lisbon Naval Base (Alfeite/Almada). As in previous years, the goal with the initiative was to test and demonstrate robotic (and related areas) technologies for operations in aquatic environments in the areas of defence, security, search and rescue, maritime surveillance or monitoring.
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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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