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CMU Portugal Open Calls for Mobility Initiatives – Visiting Faculty & Researchers and Visiting Students
The Carnegie Melon University (CMU) Portugal Program has open calls for Mobility Initiatives - Visiting Faculty & Researchers and Visiting Students - focused on research, innovation and education in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The calls, funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), aim to foster collaboration between Portugal and the United States for further improvement of research and innovation.
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Smart charging in the Azores: EV4EU presents V2X results from Portuguese demonstrator
Around 47% of new vehicles acquired in the Azores last year are electric, with an estimated 6000 electric vehicles (EVs) already used across the archipelago. With these promising numbers, the INESC-ID led EV4EU project (“Electric Vehicles Management for carbon neutrality in Europe”), held the final event of the Portuguese demonstrator at the Laboratório Regional de Engenharia Civil (LREC) in São Miguel. Under the theme “EV4EU: From V2X Innovation to Implementation in Europe’s Energy System”, it was an opportunity to present results and discuss the future of electric mobility and integration of EVs in energy systems with key experts.
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No longer invisible: PiCaSSo brings pediatric palliative care data to Portugal’s hospitals
In Portugal, 7,828 children require palliative care. Their clinical data still lives in Excel spreadsheets, scattered across doctors and hospitals. Maria João Palaré, a specialist at Hospital de Santa Maria, decided it was time to change that.
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Tomás Lopes wins Distinguished Winner in the Swift Student Challenge
INESC-ID master’s student, Tomás Lopes, was one of the only 50 students awarded “Distinguished Winner” in Apple’s Swift Student Challenge. The challenge is an international competition that recognises students who create innovative apps specifically for Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS.
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INESC-ID Distinguished Lectures return with Stanford’s Professor Mark Horowitz
The INESC-ID Distinguished Lectures have made an eagerly-awaited comeback, with the first session, on 23 March, featuring Professor Mark Horowitz from Stanford University, recognised as one of the leading scholars of his generation in integrated circuits and systems design. His research on high-speed CMOS data link interfaces, particularly for memory connections to high-performance computing systems, had a lasting impact on how the electronics industry approaches I/O design.
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In the Media: Inês Lynce and Luísa Coheur on 70 years of AI and the society we want to build
Seventy years after the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) was first proposed at the Dartmouth Conference, the technology has finally moved from academia into society. It is no longer a promise or an experimental tool reserved for tech giants and it is now a ubiquitous, silent infrastructure reshaping how we work, learn, and decide.
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“La Caixa” awards 100 new fellowships during Award Ceremony in Barcelona
The ”la Caixa” Foundation has awarded 100 new doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships to outstanding researchers during its Award Ceremony in Barcelona earlier this month.
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“Workshop your FCT Application for PhD Studentships”: INESC-ID PhD Students Meetup #12
Earlier this month, the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) announced its 2026 Call for PhD Studentships, an opportunity for students to fund the research activities of their PhD degree. Seizing the momentum, our PhD Student Meetup focused on the daunting task of writing an FCT application.
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In the Media: Miguel Pupo Correia warns about cyberwarfare and Europe’s need for cybersecurity on RTP
Two thousand cyberattacks per week, that is the estimated number of attacks targeting Portugal, according to a recent Check Point study. As conflicts evolve, battlefields now stretch beyond land, air, and sea into the cyber domain.
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