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).
Government Renews Partnership with Carnegie Mellon University
The international partnership in Information and Communication Technologies between the American University Carnegie Mellon and Portugal was renewed by the Portuguese Governmentfor another five years, with a total investment of twenty million euros. This features has statments from Miguel Seabra, presidente of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Mark Kamlet, provost of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), João Barros, national director of the CMU Portugal Program, and José M.F. Moura, director of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program at CMU.
Read the Portuguese article at TV Ciência.pt (October 2, 2012).
The Rector of the Universidade da Madeira Comments on the Renewal of the CMU Portugal Partnership
Asked to comment on the agreement signed between the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, the Council of Rectors of the Portuguese Universities and the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), which will extend the partnership between one U.S. institution and nine Portuguese universities until 2017 , Castanheira da Costa, rector of the Universidade da Madeira, said this is “good news”, stressing that in this area UMa is going through “a phase of consolidation.” The Dean of UMa also mentioned that today the partnership with Carnegie Mellon covers about 70 students and 20 professors.
Read the Portuguese article at Jornal da Madeira online (September 27, 2012).
Twenty Million Euros for the New Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program
The Carnegie Mellon Portugal program was renewed until 2017 and will receive four million euros of annual funding. The renewal agreement was signed today, September 27, 2012, between the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), the Council of Rectors of the Portuguese Universities (CRUP) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The Carnegie Mellon Portugal program was so successful that it is serving as a model for other partnerships in countries like China. The Program has opened the door for students, teachers and researchers in Portugal that were able to work at Carnegie Mellon in the U.S., and gave rise to several technology-based start-ups.
Read the Portuguese article at Dinheiro Vivo, SapoTek, Canal Superior, Ciência PT, Jornal da Madeira online, Diário de NotÃcias da Madeira, Sol online, i online, Diário de NotÃcias Ciências online (September 27, 2012), Público online, Público, Diário de NotÃcias da Madeira, Diário As Beiras, Jornal da Madeira online, PortugalMail, ComputerWorld (September 28, 2012).
The CMU Portugal was Renewed with a Particular Attention to Innovation and New Business Opportunities
The Carnegie Mellon Portugal program has become the first of the partnerships between US and Portuguese universities and research centres to be renewed. According to professor João Barros, national director of the program, the current government not only publicly acknowledged the value of the partnership, but also decided to invest decisively in its continuity for another five years, with special emphasis in the areas of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Read the Portuguese article at Semana Informática (October 3, 2012).
Partnership Between UMa and Eight other Portuguese Universities and CMU Guaranteed until 2017
The Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program, launched in 2006, will be extended for five more years, involving nine Portuguese universities and more than 80 companies in a partnership with a U.S. institution. The agreement to continue the Program until 2017 was signed today between the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), the Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities and the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
Read the Portuguese article at Jornal da Madeira online (September 27, 2012).
Pittsburgh: From the Steel to a High Tech Town
The decline of the steel industry in Pittsburgh in the seventies, which made thousands of people unemployed, turned out to be the best thing that happened to the city. The crisis gave to the city a chance to reborn and become one of the more important centers of education, technology and health in the US. This article includes a statement from the Portuguese professor at Carnegie Mellon, Pedro Ferreira.
Read the Portuguese article at Dinheiro Vivo Online (August 31, 2012).
REAP.PT Project Enables Foreign Students to Learn to Read Portuguese
In order to enable students to learn to read another language, a good tutoring system should give them much opportunity for practice and make the experience as engaging and personalized as possible. The REAP.PT system is being designed to complement teacher time by giving the student documents to read and questions about new words they have seen in the documents.
This project is carried out in the scope of the CMU Portugal program, funded by FCT, by researchers from different institutions, namely the Instituto Superior Técnico of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, INESC-ID, Universidade do Algarve, Fundação da Universidade de Lisboa and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). This article includes statements from one of the principal investigators of the project, Nuno Mamede, from INESC ID.
Read the Portuguese article at Ciência Hoje online (August 16, 2012), Diário dos Açores (August 18, 2012).
José M.F. Moura, director of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal program at Carnegie Mellon, makes an overview of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal program since its begining. In looking back, José M.F. Moura considers that the program was a success, that can be measured for example by the support to 25 innovative research projects (that involve Portuguese institutions, Carnegie Mellon and one or more companies), the creation of six start-ups, and more than 270 graduates in professional master courses. José M.F. Moura is now preparing the second phase of the partnership, with the national director João Barros.
Read the Portuguese article at Dinheiro Vivo Online (August 31, 2012).
