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INESC-ID secures two AI grants from CMU Portugal and UT Austin Portugal: improving LLM code generation and humanoid domestic robots
INESC-ID has been awarded two research grants under the 2025 exploratory project calls of the CMU Portugal and UT Austin Portugal programmes, funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). one focused on making LLM-generated code more reliable, the other on enabling humanoid robots to reason and communicate naturally with humans.
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INESC-ID awarded €27.2 Million to Establish the Sustainable Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) Centre of Excellence
Led by INESC-ID, the Sustainable Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) will be a transformative project that will upgrade INESC-ID into a world-class Centre of Excellence (CoE) dedicated to the development of state-of-the-art, sustainable, and trustworthy Artificial Intelligence. To achieve its goals, INESC-ID is teaming up with two of Europe’s leading AI institutions: the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).
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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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Grant agreement signed for CHORYS, the first INESC-ID Hop-On project
INESC-ID has recently signed a grant agreement for the CHORYS project, its first Hop-On project to be secured. The Hop-On Facility is a funding mechanism within Horizon Europe, allowing countries with research and innovation (R&I) indicators below the European average to join consortia of projects that have already been approved, specifically Pillar 2 research actions and EIC Pathfinder projects. Besides enabling participation in project activities and funding research, it also fosters the sharing of knowledge and experience among leading European institutions.
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Integrating post-quantum cryptography technologies into real defence systems – The ORQESTRA project
The results of the European Defence Fund (EDF) 2024 Call for Proposals have recently been published, with the ORQESTRA project, featuring INESC-ID as a partner, among those selected within the topic of Disruptive Technologies – Quantum.
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Doubling the Power: SOLAR-MOVE and PVSmile had their kick-off in November
The European Parliament has set targets to reduce CO2 emissions from vehicles by 2040. Although Vehicle-Integrated Photovoltaic (VIPV) technologies have the potential to play an important role in this reduction, particularly in the electrification of the road transport sector, there are several challenges in achieving these targets.
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The return of EV4EU, Shift2DC and U2DEMO to Enlit 2025
After last year’s success, EV4EU, Shift2DC and U2DEMO made a comeback to the Enlit Europe, which took place in Bilbao, Spain, from November 18 to 20. One of Europe’s most influential events in the energy sector, Enlit gathered more than 15000 energy professionals to discuss challenges in the sector and allowed visitors to explore projects and companies, while seeing how energy is generated, distributed and consumed.
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Stepping up for Europe: INESC-ID at Encontro Ciência 2025
In a fractured, fast-changing world, Europe is facing urgent questions about security, sustainability and technological sovereignty. At Encontro Ciência 2025, Portugal’s largest annual science and technology gathering, we brought those questions into the room.
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INESC-ID and CMU team up to advance Conversational AI
With the goal of launching a new research collaboration, for the development of Adaptive Conversational Engines, a research team led by Shinji Watanabe, Associate Professor at the Language Technologies Institute (CMU) traveled to Lisbon from June 15 to 18. This falls under the scope of the CMU Portugal supported project, “ACE-FM: Adaptive Conversational Engine powered by Foundation Models”, “which aims to enhance the capability of speech foundation models to understand long-form, multi-party conversations toward conversational AI. Besides, it supports the collaboration between CMU and PRR Mobilizing Agenda Accelerat.AI, led at INESC-ID by Human Language Technologies researcher Alberto Abad, Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (Técnico).”
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