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Limelight

Andreia Passos, Ricardo Bessa and Carlos Pinho

Free Nonsense

"(...) and not everyone is lucky enough to start their professional career at INESC Porto, a place with a wonderful work environment and nice people who worry about making sure that everyone’s integration is easy and smooth", Pedro Castanheira

Gallery of the Uncommon

"And now we have discovered something amazing: the famous University of Aveiro used a text included in a 2004 edition of BIP on the project Pêndulo, developed by USIC, as model text in Portuguese language test for University applicants over 23 years of age!"

Have your say

"I am encouraged by the opportunity to contribute to the establishment of a Brazilian company, temporarily called INESC P&D Brasil, which will follow the same philosophy of combining scientific and technological values (...)", Alexandre Rocco

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.

Biptoon

More scenes of how life goes merrily on...

 
 

Limelight

Every month, this Bulletin honours a collaborator for an exceptional contribution in his/her area of activity. BIP’s Editors will have the final choice. However, the cooperation of every Unit Coordinator is precious since they will be the ones suggesting which collaborator should be distinguished. Here are our great people of the last trimester...

ANDREIA PASSOS - May

Andreia Passos

"I would like to nominate Andreia Passos for the “Limelight” section for the month of April. Andreia was tireless in the preparation of the applications for the Vales Inovação e I&DT, in the organisation of two training workshops, as well as in the development of research work. She has always demonstrated true professionalism, responsibility, critical spirit and flexibility. She often worked overtime with a remarkable dedication and excellent performance... always with a smile on her face!”, Alexandra Xavier, Coordinator of the Innovation and Technology Transfer Unit (UITT).

 

RICARDO BESSA- June

Ricardo Bessa

“Other than working on and being responsible for other projects, Ricardo Bessa demonstrated an outstanding dedication to the project for wind power forecasting, developed for the Argonne National Laboratory (USA). Due to this effort, INESC Porto’s team was capable of presenting in May a high quality work with a strong potential for internationaliaation that was positively accepted by an extremely demanding client”, Manuel Matos, Coordinator of the Power Systems Unit (USE).

 

CARLOS PINHO - July

Carlos Pinho

“Over the last five years, Carlos Pinho has been developing R&D activities in several projects and contracts at the Unit with dedication, accuracy and a great sense of responsibility, always giving innovative and high quality contributions. More recently, he has been playing an extremely relevant role in collaboration projects with USE, in the area of smart grids, as well as in the elaboration of project applications submitted to the QREN programme, such as MOBILES (already approved), and in other projects that are currently being prepared”, José Ruela, Coordinator of Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM).