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Government from Brazil visits INESC TEC

Government from Brazil visits INESC TEC

On 26 June, a delegation from the Brazilian Government visited INESC TEC, being received by the Industry and Innovation Cluster. The goal was to present the institution and its way of operation, as well as to discuss prospects for cooperation with several entities.

The Brazilian delegation was composed of Eliana Azambuja, Vice-Rector of Politics and Programmes that support innovation and Coordinator of technology services and Adriana Depieri, vice-coordinator of technology services and innovation management, both from the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication along with Cezar Oliveira, analyst in Science and Technology and João Ramon, analyst of external trade (from the Ministry of Industry, International Trade and Services).

The programme began with the visit to the Laboratory of Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles in which the group had the opportunity to know the aspects of this infrastructure, presented by Luís Seca, member of the Board, and to personally make contact with the researchers from CPES who develop projects in this space on a daily basis. After that, António Paulo Moreira and Filipe Santos from CRIIS presented the Robotics field for the Industry 4.0 and Precision Crop Management”, while making a little demonstration of two robots.

The institutional presentation of INESC TEC was conducted by Luís Carneiro, member of the Board, in which he described the organisation model of the R&D activities and of the technology transfer of the Institute. Then, INESC R&D Brazil was presented by its Director-President, Vladimiro Miranda.

The meeting ended with the presentation of the Industry and Innovation Cluster and with some explanatory projects of its activity by António Lucas Soares, Samuel Moniz and Andreia Passos.

 

The researchers mentioned in this news piece are associated with INESC TEC and UP-FEUP.