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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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Big steps towards a smaller footprint: INESC-ID contributes to innovative carbon-management platform
Environmental requirements and regulations have been increasing in an effort to address the climate crisis, one of society’s main concerns in recent years. These goals, however urgent, can be challenging to meet.
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INESC-ID Awards 2025: celebrating research excellence and the people who make it
Closing the year, the INESC-ID Awards 2025 brought together researchers, students and staff to recognise three outstanding contributions to the institute’s scientific life and impact.
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INESC-ID researchers develop AI model inspired by human vision
From unlocking our phones with facial recognition to self-driving cars, AI-based computer vision is increasingly part of the technologies we use. Yet there is still much to learn from how we see the world.
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More than a gut-feeling: using AI to analyse the gut microbiome and its impact on menopause
There are many places that provide a home for these microscopic communities we call the “microbiome”. One such location is none other than the human gut, where the microorganisms play a crucial role in a range of processes such as metabolism, immunity and even behaviour. The AGEWISE: Unravelling the gut-hormone axis in Women's Aging, project awarded the 2024 Portugal grant from the Biocodex Foundation and led by Ana Santos Almeida at GIMM-CARE, brought together a multidisciplinary team of researchers from GIMM, INESC-ID, and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon to analyse the impact of the microbiome in one specific life stage: menopause.
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Serious games go to Parliament: INESC-ID showcases research-driven play for inclusion, trust and social good
In the house of democracy, all sorts of games are played. But on October 22, a few members of parliament and advisors only had to cross the street from Assembleia da República to Casa do Parlamento, an interactive and multimedia centre dedicated to the history and functioning of the Portuguese Parliament, to step into a different kind of game: discovering how video games are being used for social good, including contributions from INESC-ID in the field of serious games and Portugal’s video game industry.
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After the lights went out: MIT and INESC-ID researchers team up to prevent the next blackout
Long queues outside corner shops and bakeries. Supermarkets closed. Anxious people carrying gas cylinders, bags of charcoal, batteries, and candles. In an instant, and for several hours, the fast, digital rhythm of 21st-century life was unplugged.
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In the Media: Helping journalists verify facts faster with trustworthy AI
INESC-ID PhD student Filipe Altoe, MSc student Sérgio Pinto, and researcher Sofia Pinto, also a Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, are behind a new fact-checking AI model that was recently featured in national media, including Expresso, Observador, and SIC Notícias.
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