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Combining skills is the path to excellence
INESC TEC’s exponential growth over the past years – the institution now integrates 12 R&D units and over 600 employees, including 200 PhD holders – has originated major challenges in terms of the efficient combination of expertise in the Associate Laboratory: could we use this diversity of skills to develop national and European multidisciplinary and added-value projects?
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INESC TEC invests in technology for the Sea
INESC TEC participated in the second edition of the Sea Fair 2012, which took place between 10 and12 May at the Exponor in Matosinhos. As part of this international fair, INESC TEC signed two protocols with CIIMAR (Interdisciplinary Centre for Marine and Environmental Research) and the IPMA (the new Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere), a ceremony which was attended by the President of the Portuguese Republic and the Secretary of State for Maritime Affairs.
Editorial
POLICY OF A LUCID NATION
The individual merit of the scientist is an instrument, not an ending. Sun Tzu said that "Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous". The army is the organisation, the institution is the support.