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INESC PORTO helps prepare Europe for the massification of the electric car
INESC Porto is the scientific leader of the project MERGE (Mobile Energy Resources for Grids of Electricity) – the largest EU-financed research project that will prepare the European electrical system for the massification of electric vehicles. The aim with this 4.5 million Euro project is to find solutions that will minimize the need to strengthen to electric grid infrastructures and power systems, and thus avoid extra costs that would have to be borne by the users of the electric vehicles.
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INESC Porto takes digital democracy to the entire country
INESC Porto has developed a collaborative platform for the elaboration and public discussion of the Regional Plans for Town and Country Planning (PROT) for the most part of Portugal’s regions. With this platform, all platform users managed to achieve significant time gains and to reduce costs. The Commissions for the Coordination and Regional Development of Lisbon and Tagus Valley (CCDR-LVT), North (CCDR-N) and Centre regions (CCDR-C) all adopted the platform, supporting the PROTs of the West and Tagus Valley (PROT-OVT), North (PROT-N), Centre (PROT-C) and Metropolitan Area of Lisbon (PROT-AML). Three years after the platform was launched, it is now time to make a balance of the tool’s functionalities. BIP interviewed some of the most important participants in these works in order to understand the benefits that the platform developed by INESC Porto brought to the regions and to citizens.
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The necessary folly
"Let us praise this new alliance. Let us praise the constructive lucidness of the leaders of the new groups that join INESC Porto: in artificial intelligence, in computer science, in industrial management, in robotics..."