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€7.8M European project in the energy field comes to an end
INESC TEC, represented by its Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES), has been participating since September 2013 in project evolvDSO - Development of Methodologies and Tools for New and Evolving DSO Roles for Efficient DRES Integration in Distribution Networks. The goal with this project was to develop and demonstrate innovative tools to support the current and future roles of distribution system operators in the smart grids paradigm.
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Portuguese researchers discover substructures in the brain that are relevant for surgical procedures
A team led by Portuguese researchers developed neurocomputing methods that made it possible to identify brain substructures with different connectivity profiles which affect the motor and non-motor aspects of the human body. These findings can help medical teams to improve the targets of their Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) procedures in patients with dystonia and Parkinson’s disease.
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5M€ to develop European databases on the cloud
The European project CloudDBAppliance, where the goal is to create a platform to provide databases as a service at European level, started in December, in Grenoble, France.
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INESC TEC researchers receive 100 thousand euros from the Google Innovation Fund
Google's Digital News Initiative (DNI) innovation fund, which aims to support and encourage innovation in digital journalism over the next three years, has offered around € 100,000 to fund two projects by researchers at INESC TE’s Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics (CSIG), developed jointly with the University of Porto.
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US Navy funds INESC TEC project
INESC TEC’s Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics (CSIG) has submitted an application to the Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG) of the United States of America, where the goal is to study new algorithms to monitor multiple objects in extreme light conditions. The application has now been approved.
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Advanced robotics technologies make industrial production more innovative
Optimising industrial production through robotic innovation is the objective of a new project led by INESC TEC's Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering (CESE), in partnership with the Centre for Industrial Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CRIIS) and the Centre for Industrial Management and Engineering (CEGI).
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Project CE4Blind improves quality of life of the visually impaired
INESC TEC, in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin, in the United States, and ACAPO (the Portuguese Association for the Visually Impaired), has developed a mobile digital platform capable of improving the quality of life of the visually impaired in a non-invasive manner.
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INESC TEC wants to increase water use efficiency in agriculture
Increasing water use efficiency and resilience in agriculture, and monitoring soil and water in order to reduce pollution, are the challenges facing INESC TEC as part of its new project called AgriSensus.
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INESC TEC develops autonomous vehicles
The goal of project FLEXUS - Flexible Unmanned Surface Vehicles for the Internet of Moving Things, developed by INESC TEC’s Centre for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CRAS) and Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM), is to provide a set of ten autonomous surface vehicles capable of performing missions designed and deployed remotely by the researchers over the Internet. The first subsystems of the vehicle are currently being integrated and will be tested very soon.
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INESC TEC wants to modernise equipment for industry 4.0
In November 2016, INESC TEC kicked off project ADIRA 4.0 where the goal is to respond to the need for innovative and economically viable solutions that make it possible to turn equipment into intelligent components of manufacturing systems. The project is led by INESC TEC’s Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering (CESE).
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More autonomy in mine detection operations
Developed in partnership with CRAS, INESC TEC’s Centre for Robotics and Autonomous Systems, the goal of the Mission Planning project is to develop tools for planning and deploying autonomous underwater vehicle missions to detect mines more efficiently.
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INESC TEC presents Innovation and Technology Transfer model in Morocco
INESC TEC, together with the University of Washington, was invited to participate in the UM6P - Innovation Technology Transfer Framework Workshop, which took place at the OCP in Casablanca, Morocco, on 2 November.
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INESC TEC is partner in international 3G energy management platform
Managing energy in a global perspective, including different variables such as levels, facilities, geographies, tariffs or technologies, is the challenge INESC TEC's Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering (CESE) proposes to address in project 3Genergy.
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European project SafeCloud achieves positive evaluation in the first year
The European project SafeCloud has received positive feedback from its first year of activity as a result of the European Commission's evaluation, which took place in November in Brussels. Led by INESC TEC, represented in this project by HASLab – High Assurance Software Laboratory, one of 13 integrated R&D centres, this project features about 30 researchers, in a consortium of seven European partners.
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INESC TEC in new European Smart Grids project
The kick-off meeting of European project InteGrid took place on 12 and 13 January, in Lisbon. The project is coordinated by EDP Distribuição and has been approved by the European Commission, as part of the European programme Horizon 2020, with a budget of 15 million Euros and a duration of 42 months.
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INESC TEC project increases the competitiveness of SMEs
The main goal of project ATM is to obtain timely scheduling solutions, which will then be evaluated using a panel of quantitative indicators, seeking a compromise between deliveries and a cost-efficient use of the tools.
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Managing hospital logistics will be easier
As patients need to be constantly monitored by healthcare professionals, it is important to make sure that hospital management is also in good health. This is a complex activity considering that, in between predicting needs, managing stocks and human resources and allocating rooms and complementary means of diagnosis, amongst many other tasks, there are potential improvements that would allow healthcare providers to dedicate more time to their patients.
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INESC TE researcher publishes new book on Android programming
«Android – Bases de Dados e Geolocalização» (in English: «Android - Databases and Geolocation») is the title of the new book published by Ricardo Queirós, a member of INESC TEC’s Centre for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS).
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INESC TEC researcher edits new publication in Mathematical Economics
The scientific publisher Springer Verlag has just released the publication Trends in Mathematical Economics – Dialogues Between Southern Europe and Latin America, edited by Alberto Adrego Pinto, INESC TEC researcher, together with professors Elvio Accinelli Gamba, UALSP (Mexico), Athanasios N. Yannacopoulos, AUEB (Athens, Greece), and Carlos Hervés-Beloso, University of Vigo (Spain).
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Member of the Board of INESC TEC joins PSDP IEEE
João Abel Peças Lopes, a member of the Board of INESC TEC and full professor at FEUP, has been appointed member of the Power System Dynamic Performance Committee (PSDP) of the IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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Health Parliament project features member of INESC TEC
After three years of existence, the Health Parliament project has now come to Portugal to challenge 60 young people to think about public health policies in the country. The working group, selected from 442 applications, features Mário Amorim Lopes, a researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI).
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Paper on Underwater Wireless Power Transfer receives is Best Paper
Researchers at INESC TEC's Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM) participated in ICUMT - 8th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems, an international event that brings together researchers, engineers, service providers and other professionals in the fields of telecommunications, control systems, automation and robotics.
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Two INESC TEC researchers receive award for Best Pitch
Sofia Cruz Gomes (Centre for industrial Engineering and Management) and Dario Messina (Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering), researchers at INESC TEC, received the award for Best Pitch at the 8th Industrial Engineering and Management Symposium (IEMS ’17).
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Paper on dynamically reconfigurable digital systems wins Best Paper Award
The paper titled “Dynamically Reconfigurable LTE-compliant OFDM Modulator for Downlink Transmission”, written as part of project CReATION, received a Best Paper Award at the XXXI Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems Conference (DCIS 2016).
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INESC TEC researcher edits special issue on Multimedia
Paula Viana, a researcher at INESC TEC's Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM), has recently been invited to edit a special issue of Springer's Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) journal, published in October 2016.
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INESC TEC projects stand out at Web Summit
Two of the five most interesting business ideas presented by Portuguese entrepreneurs on the first day of the Web Summit are projects related to INESC TEC - Kinematix and SafeCloud.
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INESC TEC and APDL celebrate 20 years of partnership
INESC TEC and the APDL (Port Authority for the Ports of Douro, Leixões and Viana do Castelo, SA) signed an addendum to their cooperation protocol during the Business2Sea, formerly called the Sea Fair. This year the initiative took place at the Alfândega do Porto Congress Centre on November 16. The two institutions thus celebrate two decades of a relationship that has been actively contributing, from the beginning, not only to the competitiveness of the activity of ports but also to the competitiveness of the Portuguese economy, particularly in the territory served by the APDL.
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Jobs 4 the Boys & Girls
In this section, the reader may find reference to public announcements made by INESC TEC offering grants, contracts and other opportunities of the same kind.
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