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Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program launches three innovation networks

New products and services on future internet, security and protection of critical infrastructures, and technologies in new interactive media are the three networks that the Carnegie Mellon | Portugal Program will launch next week in Coimbra and Lisbon.

Read the Portuguese article at Tek Online (February 17) // UP Online (February 18) // Ciência PT Online (February 19) // Convergence Online (February 19) // Mundo Universitário Online (February 19) // Portal do Governo Online (February 19) // TV Net Online (February 19) // Ciência Hoje Online (February 19) // Super Indústria Online ( February 19) // Costa da Caparica Online (February 19) // Portal do Cidadão Online (February 22) // Portal da Empresa Online (February 22)

First graduates under the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program receive their diplomas

First graduates under the Carnegie Mellon | Portugal Program receive their diplomas

Today, February 22 2010, at the Universidade de Coimbra, the Carnegie Mellon | Portugal Program held the 2010 Diploma Ceremony honoring the achievements of the professional masters graduates of December 2008 and December 2009. José F. Mendes, vice-rector of the Universidade de Aveiro, will give 11 diplomas to the graduates in the Professional Master of Science in Information Networking (MSIN).

Read the Portuguese article at Universidade Autónoma Online (February 21)

Faculty Exchange Program between Portugal and EUA

Faculty Exchange Program between Portugal and EUA
The Carnegie Mellon | Portugal Program supports faculty exchange programs, in which Portuguese academics can spend at least one term working in research and education at Carnegie Mellon to experience the culture of a top United States university.

Read the Portuguese article, in pdf, at Expresso newspaper. (December 19 th , 2009)

Explanation about the “Madeira City of Knowledge” Project

Explanation about “Madeira City of Knowledge” Project

Madeira ITI December 2009 The president of Madeira Tecnopólo, Raul Caires, gave an interview to Diário da Madeira Online newspaper about the project “Madeira Knowledge City”, that evolves the Interactive Technologies Institute (Madeira – ITI).

Read the article online, in Portuguese, from Diário da Madeira Online. (December 6, 2009)

“This is an investment from a Portuguese brand in the USA” – João de Vallera

“This is an investment from a Portuguese brand in the USA”

This sentence was uttered by the Portuguese ambassador Washington, DC, João de Vallera. In an interview to a Portuguese newspaper, Vallera explained that the investment from EDP (Electricity of Portugal), a Portuguese company in the energy sector, will strengthen and increase the commercial exchanges with the biggest economy in the world. Other positive examples are the partnerships established in areas like research and education with American universities, such as MIT and Carnegie Mellon University.

Read the article in Portuguese from SOL Newspaper. (November 19, 2009)

Qualified Entrepreneurship in prominence

Qualified Entrepreneurship in prominence

Ten Portuguese organizations were invited to participate in the Global Entrepreneurship Week, organized by the Center of Companies and Innovation from Madeira (CEIM), and the vice-presidency of the regional government of Madeira. During five days all the institutions promoted qualified entrepreneurship.

Read the article in Portugal from Jornal da Madeira Online. (November 14, 2009)

New Interactive Technologies Institute starts in January 2010

New Interactive Technologies Institute starts in January 2010

Madeira ITI December 2009 The new Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute will operate as a separate department, with the primary objective of maintaining relationships and projects for sustainable and long-term cooperation with other institutions at Carnegie Mellon University. The Institute follows the success achieved in the dual Professional Master’s Degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), under the Carnegie Mellon | Portugal Partnership.

Read the Portuguese article in PDF at Diário Cidade / Diário de Notícias da Madeira Online (December 15 th , 2009), and Diário de Notícias da Madeira Online (December 14 th , 2009).