Category: INESC-ID

The Portugal Smart Cities Summit  took place in Lisbon between 11th and 13th of April at the Centro de Congressos de Lisboa.

This is an event that brought together opportunities and exhibitions for conferences and networking,  sharing knowledge about all sectors that involve the emerging concept of smart cities.

Representatives of the 308 municipalities were present, among exhibitors at the fair, participants in the conferences or visitors of the technological show.

INESC-ID participated with the Biklio app of the European project TRACE.

This is a unique event in Portugal with the showcase of approximately 200 innovative projects, of which 50  startups and the presence of representatives of the European Commission.

On the  fourth edition of the IST PhD Open Days initiative, that took place on March 21st and 22nd at Salão Nobre of IST, Phd Students Renata Castelo Branco and Filipa Correia got, respectively, first and  second place in the Pitch Competition.

Filipa´s presented  “Collaboration in Social Robotics”, a research topic  she has been  exploring at GAIPS, group led by INESC-ID researcher, Ana Paiva.

The main  goal of this event is offering the opportunity to more than 1.000 PhD students of socializing and sharing their research, skills and expertize not only with the rest of the academic community, but also with the several representative of companies that will be attending this event.

The Goals of the competition were:

• Stimulate a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship
• Emphasize the value of the Perfect Pitch speech
• Stress importance of oral communication and public speaking
• Stimulate good performance under pressure
• Stimulate students to think about the bigger picture and application areas
• Empower students to lead

On March 13, INESC I&DT units participated in workshop “Systems and technologies to support institutions in occurrence management and territorial planning”   in Coimbra. The aim of the event was to present projects under development and under preparation related to the theme. Presentations were made by members of INESC TEC, INESC ID, INESC Coimbra, INESC MN and  INESC INOV, followed by a wide discussion on possible opportunities, paths to follow and  collaboration between the various units, in order to develop systems and methodologies that can meet the needs of Portuguese institutions and companies.

On the International Women’s Day, Isabel Trancoso, researcher at INESC-ID, talked to students from Pedro Nunes  and Passos Manuel High Schools at the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.

Among five others prestigious scientists (Cláudia Cavadas, Maria Salomé Pais, Maria João Bebianno, Zita Martins and Amarilis de Varennes) Isabel Trancoso, through  an  informal dialogue, inspired the young audience, talking about her research area and sharing  a story related to a very special object.

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