INESC Porto with a project approval rate higher than European average
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Tânia Leandro and Teresa Raposo Antunes (DIL), Rui Barros (USIC)

Free Nonsense

"My cousin told me that, after a few months, the “short” 45-minute trip would become a daily challenge for me. At the time, it was hard for me to believe that, but today I partly agree with his point of view...", Daniel Delgado

Gallery of the Uncommon

Who knows if we can now start working in the science of the teeth, prostheses and implants? And there are several types of implants...

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"(...) I was positively surprised by what Portugal was doing in terms of research and innovation. I discovered in Porto that it is possible to achieve excellent results in a “stressless” way, in an environment where human relations are fostered.", Jean Akilimali

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.

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More scenes of how life goes merrily on...

 
 

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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.  Mais...


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INESC Porto takes digital democracy to the entire country

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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.  Mais...


Editorial

The necessary folly

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"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..."  Mais...