Portuguese student team triumphs in Ericsson Application Awards
The Portuguese team GreenSpark triumphed in the category of students in Ericsson Application Awards 2013, with the Sun Monitor application for monitoring of household solar energy systems.
Read the full article at Computerworld.com.pt [May, 22, 2013].
Interview with Rogério Carapuça: «ICT are Living a Moment of Opportunities»
Interview with Rogério Carapuça, president of the APDC and member of the Board of directors of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program.
Read the full article at Comunicações [february 01, 2013].
“To have The Magellan MBA in the Financial Times ranking it is just a matter of time”
Interview with Jorge Farinha, vice-dean of the Porto Business School and coordinator of The Magellan MBA. (…) “We have been recruiting more top-level international faculty, as well as establishing partnerships with international schools, such as Carnegie Mellon University and Texas-Austin University. (…)”.
Read the full article at Jornal de Negócios – Mais [april, 02, 2013].
40 Ideas, Objects and Questions for the Next 40 Years
Number 29: Interfaces Human-Machine. Interview to Nuno Jardim Nunes, scientific director of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal program and president of the Madeira ITI.
Read the full article at Expresso – Magazine (january 05, 2013).
João Claro is the New Leader of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program
João Claro, researcher and coordinator at INESC TEC unit and professor in the Faculdade de Engenharia of the Universidade do Porto (FEUP), is the new national director of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program. The researcher takes on the leadership of this international partnership, funded by the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, which is now entering its second phase until 2017. João Claro succeeds João Barros, national director until the end of December 2012.
Read the full article at RTP Online (January 8, 2013), Público Online (January 8, 2013), I Online (January 8, 2013), Porta Digital (January 8, 2013), Exame Informática Online (January 8, 2013), Ciência Hoje (January 8, 2013), Fibra Online (January 8, 2013), Quero Estudar Melhor (January 14, 2013), Semana Informática Online (January 8, 2013), Semana Informática (January 16, 2013), Canal Superior (January 17, 2013), Tribuna da Madeira (January 18, 2013), Expresso (January 01, 2013).
REAP.PT Project: Researchers Develop Technology to Help Teaching Portuguese to Foreigners Researchers from the REAP.PT project, carried out in the scope of the CMU Portugal Program, developed a technology which helps foreigners to better learn Portuguese. Nuno Mamede, researcher at the research lab INESC ID, explained that the REAP.PT prototype is being tested at the Universidade do Algarve. The project finished last year and involved researchers from INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Universidade do Algarve, Carnegie Mellon, and the company Porto Editora.
Read the full article at Público Online [February 8, 2013].
The Portuguese Incubators and Internationalization
Extended article on entrepreneurship, and on the number of incubators that continues to increase in Portugal, with the challenge to create international links. The article as several examples, namely the Carnegie Mellon Portugal program, which has now been extended for another five years, involves nine Portuguese universities, four laboratories, the CMU and 80 companies. Many of these companies are startups, and students benefit from the network of contacts of this prestigious American university.
Read the article in Portuguese at Exame (january 01, 2013).
Partnerships Renewed with Austin and Carnegie Mellon
The Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) has confirmed the renewal of the international partnerships between the Portuguese Government and the American universities of Austin and Carnegie Mellon (CMU).
Read the article in Portuguese at Exame Informática (November 1, 2012).
VENIAM Spin-off Wins ISCTE-IUL MIT Portugal Competition
VENIAM, a spin-off from University of Aveiro (DETI), University of Porto and Telecommunications Institute, won the award for entrepreneurship in the 3rd edition of ISCTE-IUL MIT Portugal Ventures Competition in the transportation and energy area. VENIAM’s products are based on several years of research and development of two research teams, one led by Susana Sargento, professor in the University of Aveiro, and João Barros, professor in the University of Porto, both researchers at the Institute of Telecommunications. The teams have been working together in these areas for several years in research projects such as the Drive-In, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through the Carnegie Mellon Portugal program.
Read the Portuguese article at the On Line News (November 21, 2012).
