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IC² Global Startup Program – 2014 Call for applications
Applications: June 1-30, 2014
Due Diligence: July 1-August 31, 2014
Applicant interviews: September 15-19, 2014
Final Selections: October 31, 2014

Apply here: http://utenportugal.org/global-startup-program/2014-call/

Email: globalstartup@utenportugal.org

The Global Startup Program – powered by the IC² Institute at The University of Texas at Austin- began in 2013 with the mission to provide business development, soft-landing, incubation, and acceleration opportunities to Portuguese technology-based companies. Its purpose is to assist the success of Portuguese entrepreneurial endeavors in different phases of development:

1. Early stage startup ventures: typically based on a technology that is under development, no sales, and ambitions to move to the United States to obtain funding, development and commercialization roadmaps.

2. More mature ventures, typically with sales in domestic markets, that desire to initiate the internationalization process in the United States and other international markets.

Although Austin is the central doorway to the North American market, the Institute makes use of its network to reach other points of market entry as appropriate to each company. The CEO, co-founders, and leaders of these ventures should have the capacity to support travel and accommodation in the United States for short term stays (typically 1 to 2 weeks long when needed) to work with the Global Startup Team. For companies that wish to have a constant presence in Austin – encouraged, but not mandatory – office space next to the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) is provided for free during the first year enrollment in the program.

This program builds on the experience from the past edition of US Connect in 2011 and 2013 that has produced excellent results for Portuguese startups such as Bioalvo, Feedzai, Technophage, Innovapotek, Tecla Colorida, Tuizzi, Omniflow, Auditmark, Abyssal, and Celfinet, both in terms of business development, incubation, and closure of deals.

This second edition will be open to companies in all technology sectors with ambitions to reach US and world markets.

2014 American Club Awards
The American Club Awards of 2014 aim to support individuals working on projects to enhance Luso-American ties. This year the American Club has targeted the following subject areas:

– Art, Music, culture and tourism
– Women and leadership
– Commerce, web 2.0 and social media
– Economic diplomacy, Transatlantic Free Trade Area (TTIP)
– Energy efficiency and alternatives
– Education for innovation and entrepreneurship and stimulating start-ups

Competition for this award, in the amount of 3,000 US dollars, is open to Portuguese citizens between the ages of 20-35, who must have completed a minimum of two years of undergraduate studies.
The award is to be used for travel and lodging expenses within the United States for a 2-4 week visit, and also includes round trip tickets between Portugal and the United States on flights operated by United Airlines, Inc.

Requirements:

Applicants must submit a one-page proposal with a specific description of the project, accompanied by a one-page Curriculum Vitae, in English by e-mail with the words “2014 Awards” on the subject line. You may use the forms available online at www.americancluboflisbon.com

All applications received exceeding this 2-page limit will be immediately disqualified.
Applications will be accepted only until midnight on June 13th .
Applicants must be fluent in both spoken and written English.
The applicants selected for interview will be contacted by June 16th.
Interviews will be conducted in English on June 21st.
The Award must be used before December 10th 2014. Airline ticket booking dates, subject to availability.

For further information please e-mail: awards@americancluboflisbon.com

Inaugural Symposium “Carnegie Mellon Portugal: An Entrepreneurial University-Industry Ecosystem in ICT”
Date: Monday, January 21, 2013
Venue: Salão Nobre, Instituto Superior Técnico of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal (Alameda Campus; http://www.ist.utl.pt/en/about-IST/location/)

Agenda

09:30 – 10:00 Welcome Coffee and Registration

10:00 – 11:15 Opening Session
Welcome:
António Cruz Serra, Rector, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa

Chairs:
José Marques dos Santos, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program and Rector of the Universidade do Porto
James H. Garrett Jr., Dean of the College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Roadmap for Phase II:
“ICT Portugal: An Entrepreneurial Research Initiative”
João Claro, National Director, Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program

Keynote:
Duplex Characteristics of Shared Vision and Understanding in the
Research Business
Sir John O’Reilly, Chairman of the External Review Committee of the
Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program and Vice-Chancellor of the Cranfield University

Miguel Seabra, President, Foundation for Science and Technology
Leonor Parreira, Secretary of State for Science

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11:15 – 11:30 Coffee-Break with Demos and Posters
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11:30 – 13:00 Towards an Environment for Creative Science and High-Growth Ventures
Chair: Luigia Aiello, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
Moderator: João Barros, Faculdade de Engenharia of the Universidade do Porto
Speakers:
Henrique Madeira, Vice-Rector, Universidade de Coimbra
Francisco Veloso, Dean, Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics
Rogério Carapuça, Chairman, Novabase
Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie Mellon University
José Epifânio da Franca, Chairman and CEO, Portugal Ventures
Paulo Marques, CTO, Feedzai

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13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
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14:00 – 15:00 Case Studies of Entrepreneurial Research Initiatives
Moderator: Ed Schlesinger, Carnegie Mellon University
Speakers:
João Paulo Cunha, Faculdade de Engenharia of the Universidade do Porto
Frank Pfenning, Carnegie Mellon University
João Paulo Costeira, Instituto Superior Técnico of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University
15:00 – 16:30 Engaging Sessions

I) Bridging Science and Market Venue: Amphitheater VA4	II) Building and Exploiting Test Beds Venue: Amphitheater VA1	III) Fostering Inter-Disciplinary Research Venue: Amphitheater VA2
Coordinator and Rapporteur: Mário Zenha-Rela, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia of the Universidade de Coimbra Pedro Oliveira, Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics Hugo Vieira, Faculdade de Ciências of the Universidade de Lisboa Bernardo Motta, Founder and Manager, Observit Pedro Ferreira, Carnegie Mellon University José Mendonça, President, INESC Porto	Coordinator and Rapporteur: Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University Rui Avelãs Nunes, Business Development Manager for Energy & Mobility, Critical Software Rui Meireles, Ph.D. Student in Computer Science (Universidade do Porto and Carnegie Mellon University) Michel Ferreira, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto Paulo Ferrão, Instituto Superior Técnico of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (IST/UTL), Director of the MIT Portugal Program	Coordinator and Rapporteur: Nuno Nunes, Universidade da Madeira Marija Ilic, Carnegie Mellon University Paulo Luz, Energy & Utilities Sector Managing Director in Portugal, CGI Ana Venâncio, Alumna in Technological Change and Entrepreneurship (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Católica-Lisbon, and Carnegie Mellon University) Maria Gil, Managing Director, Novabase Capital Valentina Nisi, Universidade da Madeira Nuno Correia, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCTUNL), Director of the UT Austin Portugal Program

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16:30 – 16:45 Coffee-Break
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16:45 – 17:30 Wrap-up of the Engaging Sessions
Chairs: Joel Moses, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and
Tariq Durrani, University of Strathclyde
Rapporteurs:
Nuno Nunes, Universidade da Madeira
Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University
Mário Zenha-Rela, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia of the Universidade de Coimbra

17:30 – 18:00 Closing Session
Arlindo Oliveira, President, Instituto Superior Técnico of the
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
James H. Garrett Jr., Dean of the College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Sir John O’Reilly, Chairman of the External Review Committee of the
Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program and Vice-Chancellor of the Cranfield University
José M.F. Moura, Director at CMU, Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program
Carlos Oliveira, Secretary of State for Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness
and Innovation

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About Lisbon: http://www.visitlisboa.com/Home_UK.aspx .
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Article about the Symposium: https://cmuportugal.org/tiercontent.aspx?id=4626

Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute WEEK
Date: May 19-23, 2014
Venue: M-ITI, -2 floor
Url: http://www.m-iti.org/

The ‘ M- ITI WEEK ‘ intends to celebrate all the work carried out by researchers and students during the semester. Exhibitions , demonstrations, presentations , lectures and interactive games are expected to arouse general curiosity, especially for the most emerging technologies . From May 19 to 23, M-ITI will hold an Exhibition of some of the Projects created in the Interaction Design Studio Class, as well as other classes.

On May 20, Filipe Quintal and Andrea di Nardo will present their work @m-iti’s classroom, and following that M-ITI will have the Interaction Design Studio Projects presentation in partnership with Associação de Surf da Região Autónoma da Madeira.

On May 21, M-ITI will hold the CAPSTONE PROJECTS PRESENTATION, with the MHCI teams: Spark + WOW!Systems . Frontier + OUTSystems, and MET teams: FuseBox + Museu Casa da Luz . Crewcial + ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal – presenting their work, resulting from these partnerships.
Agenda
May 19-23 @ M-ITI Hallway

Posters and videos exhibition from different projects

May 20 @ M-ITI ClassRoom

15h00 – 15h40 – Talks
15h00 – Touchcloud Project – physical representation for data in the cloud
15h20 – Aquamusa Project – stories mapping system to define the identity of a territory
16:00 – Presentation of the Interaction Design Studio Projects (in partnership with ASRAM -Associação de Surf da Região Autónoma da Madeira)

May 21 @ M-ITI ClassRoom

14h30 – Official Opening
Nuno Nunes, President of M-ITI
José Carmo, Rector of Universidade da Madeira
Jaime Freitas, Secretário Regional da Educação
14h45 – 14h55 – ‘2 minutes madness’
Team Spark
Team Frontier
Team Fusebox (http://fusebox.m-iti.org/ )
Team Crewcial (http://crewcial.m-iti.org/)

15h00 – MHCI Capstone Projects // Presentations

Team Spark – in partnership with WOW!Systems
Team Frontier – in partnership with OutSystems

15h40 – 16h10 Coffee Break @ M-ITI garden

16h10 – 16h50 – MET Capstone Projects // Presentations

Team Fusebox – in partnership with Museu Casa da Luz
Team Crewcial – in partnership with ANA (Aeroportos de Portugal)

16h50 – 17h10 MET Project Demos @ M-ITI hallway

17h10 – 18h00 Madeira d’Honra @ M-iti garden (wine tasting)

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The Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (Madeira-ITI) is a not-for-profit innovation institute of the Universidade da Madeira, founded by the Universidade da Madeira Madeira Tecnopolo, and Carnegie Mellon University. The institute was created in December 2009, in the scope of the CMU Portugal Program, in order to provide a home for the many collaborations between these partners, in both research and education. The work of the institute mainly concentrates on innovation in the areas of computer science and human-computer interaction.

TAROT 2014: 10th International Summer School on Training And Research On Testing

Date: June 30 – July 4, 2014 Venue: Porto, Portugal url: http://tarot2014.fe.up.pt

TAROT (Training And Research On Testing) is a network created to foster the mobility of students, faculty members and research scientists working in the field of testing of software and communication systems. This summer school brings together lecturers, researchers, students and people from the industry across Europe for one week of presentations, discussions and getting to know each other.

The main goal of the TAROT Summer School is to give researchers and particularly Ph.D. students the opportunity to follow a number of tutorials or invited talks by key experts in the field. The TAROT Summer School is open to researchers from any institution in the world, working in the area of testing, both from academia and industry.

TAROT 2014 School Director: Rui Maranhão (publishes as Rui Abreu)

Steering Committee

Ana Cavalli, Telecom & Management SudParis, France
Robert Hierons Brunel University, United Kingdom
Manuel Núñez Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Trends in Non-Linear Analysis 2014
Date: July 31 – August 1, 2014
Venue: Instituto Superior Técnico of the Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Url: http://tnla2014.math.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/

Registration: https://tnla2014.math.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/registration

The aim of the workshop is to bring together leading experts and young researchers to present and discuss recent developments in non-linear analysis main. The participants will discuss the recent developments in this area, and the workshop will give the opportunity to nurture an environment conducting to the development of future research projects. Organisers: José Matias (IST-UL) and Marco Morandotti (IST-UL). The event has the support of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program.

Speakers

Marco Bonacini (Universität Heidelberg)

Guy Bouchitté (Université du Sud-Toulon-Var)

Graça Carita (Universidade de Évora)

Riccardo Cristoferi (SISSA)

Elisa DavoIi (Carnegie Mellon University)

Luca Deseri (Università di Trento)*

Irene Fonseca (Carnegie Mellon University)

Michael Goldman (MPI Leipzig)

Thomas Hudson (University of Oxford)

Flaviana Iurlano (Universität Bonn)

Giuliano Lazzaroni (SISSA)

Luísa Mascarenhas (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Massimiliano Morini (Università di Parma)

Andrey L. Piatnitski (Høgskolen i Narvik)

Giovanni Pisante (Seconda Università di Napoli)

Ana Margarida Ribeiro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Riccardo Scala (SISSA)

Giles W. H. Shaw (University of Cambridge)

Nicolas Van Goethem (CMAF, Universidade de Lisboa)

Elvira Zappale (Università di Salerno)

* to be confirmed

 

“Shaping the way we live” is the motto of the Novabase GameShifters, a competition where participants will create new solutions that can change public services and make the lives of citizens simpler. The deadline to submit applications is April 30, and the competition will be taking place on May 9.

Improving the relationship between citizens and public services is the goal of the 1st edition of the Novabase GameShifters competition. The idea is to show how the solutions developed can make the lives of citizens using these services simpler. The competing ideas can be presented in various formats, such as storyboards, slides, videos, wireframes, physical prototypes or apps, as long as they take into consideration the integration and use range of public services. The solutions should be unique in their functionality, usability and feasibility features.

The two ideas chosen as the most innovative solutions presented will be competing to receive prizes up to €8,000, as well as training in Design Thinking and consulting to create Crowdfunding projects (for each element of the winning teams).

The projects will be evaluated according to their business potential, degree of sophistication, level of innovation, technical implementation and/or maturity, as well as the interest demonstrated by participants in the theme and the challenges addressed during the competition.

Participants will have 24 hours to give form to their idea and to demonstrate how that solution can change the lives of citizens – because at Novabase technology only makes sense if it improves people’s lives.

The Novabase GameShifters competition will start at 8 pm on May 9, and there’s room for about 250 participants to compete during a 24-hour marathon. All participants should be over 18 years of age and they can enter the competition individually or in teams. Teams should have no more than 4 members.

Applications should be submitted on the website of Novabase GameShifters until 11:59 pm of April 30. The Regulations for the initiative are also available on the website. If you are interested in participating, you can keep up with the latest information about Novabase GameShifters on Facebook and on Twitter.

Startup’s Challenges and the BGI 5th Edition Presentation
Date: April 29, 2014 Hour: 5:30pm

Venue: UPTEC (Auditorium of the Central Building, Alfredo Allen Street, n.o455/461), Porto

Registrations for the event: mitportugal-iei@iscte.pt

The 5th Edition of the Building Global Innovators (BGI) Competition is open! This year the tracks are : Ocean Economy; Smart Cities & Industrial Tech; Medical Technologies & HealthIT; Enterprise IT & Smart Data. BGI focuses in creating global value propositions that are leverage on technology-based entrepreneurship and marketable innovations. This competition results from the partnership between MIT, Sloan Business School, Deshpande Center for Innovation, ISCTE-IUL and MIT-Portugal. The deadline to submit applications is May 20, 2014. More information available at http://mitportugal-iei.org

Agenda

5:30pm Welcome Words by Carlos Brito, from UPTEC
5:40pm Debate
– Alexandra Xavier, INESC Porto
– Carlos Brito, UPTEC
– Diamantino Lopes, Metablue, Alumni BGI
– Gonçalo Amorim, Building Global Innovators
– João Claro, Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program
– Pedro Almeida, Fraunhofer Portugal
18h30 Networking

Portugal Ventures Launches 7th Call for Entrepreneurship

Submissions to the 7th Call For Entrepreneurship starts on April 28 until 29 May, 2014. This initiative facilitates the access of innovative scientific and technology-based projects to seed and start-up investment. Portugal Ventures has already invested, as a result of the previous calls, in more than 25 start-ups with the ambition to become companies of excellence on the global market.

Pre-reto seed and start-up investment. Portugal Ventures has already invested, as a result of the previous calls, in more than 25 start-ups with the ambition to become companies of excellence on the global market.

Projects in sectors such as Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and WEB, Life Sciences, Tourism, Endogenous Resources, Nanotechnologies and Materials are eligible for investment. Selected projects will benefit from a capital investment of up to 750 thousand Euros, with a maximum of 85% of each project’s total funding needs. Entrepreneurs can gain from the support and guidance of one of the entities from the Call’s Ignition Partners Network, in the preparation and qualification of their project, making it investment ready.

Projects submitted to the Call will be evaluated by assessment panels made up of both national and international experts in business and technology, as well as investors from the Ignition Capital Network, business angels and other venture capital, who may co-invest together with Portugal Ventures in the selected projects. Portugal Ventures will select the projects which show the greatest potential for growth and the ability to become start-ups of excellence, on a global scale. The projects invested in will benefit from the advice of specialists, preferentially international experts, with accumulated experience and a vast network of relevant contacts. These projects may also be given the opportunity to be incubated and accelerated at the centres for the Portuguese entrepreneurship ecosystem in San Francisco, “Portugal Ventures in the Bay”, and in Boston, “Portugal Ventures in Boston”.

During the previous six Calls for Entrepreneurship more than 1600 entrepreneurs registered on the Portugal Ventures website, resulting in the submission of more than 500 projects. The commitment and encouragement given by the entities from the Ignition Partners Network contributed to this success – the network currently boasts 40 national scientific and technology-based entities from the entrepreneurship ecosystem. The Call For Entrepreneurship is the entry point to the Ignition Programme, an initiative spearheaded by Portugal Ventures and which is an integral part of the +e+i Programme (more entrepreneurship, more innovation). The objective of this programme is to bolster the Portuguese technology-based entrepreneurship ecosystem, thus contributing to the development of a more modern and competitive economy, open to the world, based on knowledge, innovation and highly qualified human capital, with a strong entrepreneurial spirit.

Through this initiative, Portugal Ventures aims to invest around 20 million Euros, per year. Some of the venture capital funds managed by Portugal Ventures are co-financed by the European Union through FINOVA, managed by PME Investimentos, COMPETE and POR LISBOA. More information available at http://www.portugalventures.pt/en/contents.html?hrq=146.

Source: Portugal Ventures