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INESC TEC and the Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave will organise the first meeting of the medical image analysis community The city of Porto will host the Meeting on Medical Image Analysis (MMIA). The first edition of this event dedicated

On 8 May, all roads lead to #INESCTEC 💥.
We will host the first Meeting on Medical Image Analysis (MMIA), co-organised with IPCA.

🗣️ It’s the first gathering of a community to share ideas, discuss real clinical challenges, and explore the future of medical imaging.

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Robotics, sensors, computer vision, bias in language models: what they learned during the Summer Internships Months spent with hands-on activities, exploring and discovering how the future is being shaped. A first contact with scientific research and an awakening

🔙 Over the past years, #INESCTEC Summer Internships have been opening doors for students to experience research and innovation firsthand.

The programme strengthens the connection between academia and industry, helping to develop both technical expertise and essential soft skills.

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Ep.6 - Dia da Mulher 2026 YouTube video by INESC TEC

When our researchers in this video began studying engineering, women were a rare in the classroom.Today they still represent just 35% of STEM graduates.This #InternationalWomensDay, we share their journeys and one message: build a world where everyone gets that chance from the start❤️
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Who says you can’t record a podcast on top of a 5-meter-deep tank? 🤖

A year ago, #ScienceBits began a journey through the Laboratory Infrastructures of #INESCTEC. Guided by Paulo Mónica, we return to where it all connects, closing the cycle by exploring TEC4SEA.

👀 Take a look: y2u.be/mrdvSB6iTok

INESC TEC aims to make the dynamic and unpredictable conditions of 5G network testbeds reproducible Researchers at INESC TEC have developed a solution that makes it possible to repeat and reproduce any experimental scenario using

📡What if wireless experiments could always be repeated under the exact same conditions?

#INESCTEC researchers created digital twins of 5G testbeds allowing past experimental scenarios to be reproduced with precision using simulation - through the REPLICA project within 6G-SANDBOX.

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What’s the first thing you do in the morning? ⏰

If it’s checking your phone, you’re already trusting systems whose origins we rarely question.

In this episode, we explore the ideas that quietly run our private lives, our cities, and global politics 🌍.
One of those ideas came from Hedy Lamarr 🎬💡.

INESC TEC’s “Blue Revolution” motivates visit by the Secretary of State for Fisheries and the Sea From robotics and energy laboratories to the development of the ocean basin at the Leixões Blue Hub, INESC TEC had

🌊 Come meet Leixões Blue Hub!

#INESCTEC hosted Secretary of State Salvador Malheiro, an opportunity to showcase the research and innovation that will help shape the future of Portugal’s Blue Economy – including ongoing efforts to develop the INESCTEC.OCEAN Centre of Excellence.

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Projetos do INESC TEC para mitigação da pobreza energética em destaque no Prémio LIGAR Dois projetos, um mesmo objetivo: usar a tecnologia e inovação para combater a pobreza energética. Os projetos Ecovale e Asprela+Sustentável, dos quais o

🙌 Two projects, one mission: using technology and innovation to tackle energy poverty.

Ecovale and Asprela+Sustentável — with #INESCTEC as partner — ranked among the top 10 in the first LIGAR – Energia para Todos Award by the Observatório Nacional da Pobreza Energética.

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Hybrid Human–AI Collaborative Networks took centre stage at international conference with INESC TEC participation The 26th edition of the international IFIP/SOCOLNET Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises took place in Porto, bringing together more than 100 participants and

📌Porto hosted PRO-VE 2025, bringing together 100+ participants!

With #INESCTEC organisation, the conference was chaired by António Lucas Soares and explored topics like AI-enabled collaboration, trust and ethics in human–AI relations, and digital-era collaborative networks.

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Engineering wasn’t imagined for women in the early 1900s.

Still, Edith Clarke became the first woman electrical engineer and created tools that helped engineers understand modern power systems. ⚡

Stories like hers matter.
Her legacy still echoes in the work we do at #INESCTEC.

Helping people understand how Artificial Intelligence works – the goal of a new book with made-in INESC TEC What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? What are the potential uses? How does it affect everyday life? These are some of

🤖✨ AI is everywhere… but do we really understand it?

That’s where “AI and Chatbots – A Practical Guide for Everyone” comes in 📘💡

Written by #INESCTEC researcher Ricardo Queirós, this book makes AI feel less intimidating and more human: clear, accessible and grounded.

📌 More: t.ly/zQmxI

INESC TEC joins European project to make photovoltaic systems smarter for energy communities INESC TEC is taking part in a new European project called PVSmile, focusing on power & energy systems; it aims

🚨 New project alert!

PVSmile aims to accelerate the adoption of intelligent photovoltaic (PV) systems integrated into energy communities.

How? By transforming the aggregation of multiple photovoltaic installations at local level into flexible, grid-integrated community assets.

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Greater transparency in local government decisions – CitiLink project puts AI at the service of democracy The right of any citizen to access decisions taken in municipal council meetings, the main issues discussed, the way votes

Have you tried to find a specific topic in a municipal meeting minute? Endless pages. Slow searches. And giving up halfway through?

That’s where CitiLink comes in. Led by #INESCTEC, the project uses AI to transform dense municipal minutes into clear, searchable and meaningful data.

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She was the first woman to become a full professor of Chemistry in Portugal.
She was mentored by Marie Curie.

Her name was Branca Marques.

We’re telling her story because forgetting women like Branca was never accidental. And remembering them is about who gets to imagine themselves in science now.

For Miriam Santos, “data should be perceived as a social object” – and the responsible creation was one of the main topics The 2025 edition of the Forum on Digital Ethics in Research – Beyond Compliance, organised within the scope of ERCIM, will be

🏆The 2025 edition of the Forum on Digital Ethics in Research Beyond Compliance, by ERCIM, was a milestone for Miriam Santos, a #INESCTEC 's researcher. In addition to being awarded the Cor Baayen Award, she took part as a speaker in the session “Data altruism and open resources”.

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Intellectual property brings INESC TEC and the University of Ghana together The European Patent Office (EPO) aims to strengthen relations between European and African technology transfer offices to promote innovation and

#INESCTEC and KNUST – Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, from Ghana, led another initiative of the PATLIB Knowledge Transfer to Africa (KT2A).

The goal? To promote innovation and technology transfer through shared experiences, knowledge, and best practices.

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Conferência de reconhecimento de padrões conta com participação expressiva do INESC TEC Evento promovido pela Associação Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões contou com 32 artigos de investigadores do INESC TEC. Helena Montenegro, investigadora da instituição,

At RECPAD, promoted by the Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition, #INESCTEC researchers left a mark with 32 accepted papers.

And there was a standout moment 🏆 Our researcher Helena Montenegro won the Best Paper Award for a work that challenges how we see image anonymisation!

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On the #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience, it’s not enough to count how many women are in research. What matters is showing all the others that there is space for them.

Watch #INESCTEC video and follow the campaign until March 8, because your role in science should never depend on gender. ✨

INESC TEC boosts scientific and technological collaboration with open-source software initiative Accessing the open-source solutions developed by INESC TEC is now easier: the Institute has just launched the OSS (Open-Source Software)

#INESCTEC launched itsOpen-Source Software (OSS) platform, making research results easier to access, reuse and scale. ♻️

From AI to Power & Energy and Robotics, it’s more than just sharing: it’s about promoting collaboration and turning science into real-world innovation and impact.

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Bibidi-Bobidi-Boo. It is not magic, but science that will reinvent textiles Who remembers the incredible dress worn by Cinderella? Or that iconic glass slipper? Production time: two minutes. Actual time of

🔎In this Spotlight, we focus on future of the textile sector: ➖ waste, ➕ circularity, and data-driven decisions.

With inputs from Marcelo Petry, Helio Mendonca, Daniel Lopes, and Tony Ferreira, #INESCTEC shows how robotics, AI, and computer vision can take circularity to industry.

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In the latest episode of #INESCTEC Science Bits, we went to the CommsLab to talk with researchers Luis Pessoa, Helder Fontes and Nuno Paulino about advanced communications, 5G, 6G and more.

Learn how research is building the networks that keep our world connected.

🎥 Watch here: y2u.be/C_AON57mgrM

Some names are remembered. Others disappear.
But what if that silence isn’t accidental?

From Feb 11 to Mar 8, we’re launching a campaign on who we remember - and who we overlook in STEM.

At INESC TEC, visibility drives inclusion.
Watch the first video and join the conversation.

INESC TEC joins project to accelerate the digital and green transition of the footwear sector INESC TEC aims to apply expertise to accelerate the digital and green transition of Portugal’s footwear sector. How? Thanks to

The future of footwear is here!

And it's sustainable, digital, and innovation-driven! 👣🌱
#INESCTEC is part of a new European project focused on accelerating the digital and green transition of the footwear sector.

Know more about the project with the help of our researcher Rui Rebelo🗞 t.ly/59iN2

From science to market: INESC TEC researchers headed to UT Austin for entrepreneurship programme One team works in Robotics and the other in Systems Engineering and Management; and they share the ambition to take

From the lab to the market and all the way to Austin, Texas

Two #INESCTEC research teams took an important step beyond R&D and into entrepreneurship. That journey led them to TechLaunch, an entrepreneurship bootcamp promoted by the UT Austin Portugal Program.

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INESC TEC researcher awarded for algorithm supporting surgical planning It is now possible to plan surgeries with greater detail and accuracy with the support of intelligent algorithms. One such

⚕️Surgical planning is more precise with the help of AI

Thanks to intelligent algorithms, surgeons can now plan procedures with greater detail and accuracy. Ricardo Ferreira, a researcher at #INESCTEC, was recently awarded Best Student Paper at the international BIBE 2025 conference 🏆

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We can learn more about the world through games: INESC TEC went to Germany to show how Serious games can be a powerful tool for addressing complex topics; an INESC TEC researcher led a workshop covering all stages

Serious games, serious impact. 🎮

Our researcher Maria van Zeller recently led a workshop in Munich, as part of the European EUGLOH project, guiding participants through the entire process of creating a serious game for global health and wellbeing.

🗞️ Read all about the key outcomes! t.ly/THTHM

Focusing on ocean research and innovation, INESC TEC took centre stage at Business2Sea At the Port of Leixões Cruise Terminal, INESC TEC placed ocean research firmly on the Business2Sea agenda; throughout the event,

🌊 Oceans in focus at Business2Sea 2025!

#INESCTEC took the stage at the Port of Leixões Cruise Terminal, sharing how research, innovation, and public policy come together to shape a sustainable Blue Economy. From panels to roundtables, we explored solutions for the oceans

Read here 🔗 t.ly/GVqC1

The Factory of the Future also features INESC TEC R&D – and it will revolutionise the automotive sector DRIVOLUTION is one of the Mobilising Agendas under Portugal’s Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) and includes the participation of INESC

The Factory of the Future is already happening. 🚗✨

Through Drivolution, a €50M agenda under Portugal’s PRR, #INESCTEC is helping transform the automotive sector with technology that goes straight from research to real-world impact.

Full story is here 🔗 t.ly/Q8hfg

AI is made of “springs, winters” and (many) questions: Alípio Jorge looked to the past, projected the future &#8211 What is Artificial Intelligence and why is it taking centre stage? How do the language models we use on a daily basis work?

At U.Porto Rectory, #INESCTEC researcher Alípio Jorge invited us to look at the bigger picture in the talk “Artificial Intelligence: where are we in 2025?”. A fast-paced journey through 70 years of AI.

The session put Portugal on the map: from the National AI Agenda to CitiLink.

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Today, 23 January, is the International Day of Freedom, proclaimed by the UN and UNESCO, a moment to pause and reflect on what freedom truly means.

At #INESCTEC, freedom lives in the space we create for ideas to emerge. Let's celebrate the freedom to be curious, to care, and to make a difference.