News and Events

This year’s special event celebrated the 10^th edition of the Challenge and included, besides the contestants' presentations, a wrap up of the ten editions.

The Fraunhofer AICOS Research Center celebrated its 10^th anniversary, last Friday, 27^th September, at the Matosinhos Cruise Terminal.

The goal of Fraunhofer Best Portuguese PhD/MSc Thesis in Biomedical Engineering Competition is to distinguish PhD and MSc thesis sponsored by the Portuguese Society of Biomedical Engineering.

For the second time in our 10 years history, the president of the largest applied research organisation in Europe, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, visited this Monday, September 16^th, the Fraunhofer Portugal headquarters.

Under the scope of Sustainable Villages for Development (SV4D) project, developed by Fraunhofer AICOS, in partnership with ARCTEL and FSAU/ARECOM, our researcher Waldir Júnior was in Mozambique, on May 27^th, for the official inauguration of the SV4D infrastructure.

In line with previous efforts to tackle the challenges of the present and the future in the area of digital farming, AICOS has joined ProjectAfrica (“On-site air-to-fertilizer mini-plants relegated by sensor-based ICT technology to foster African agriculture”).

AICOS’ Micron portfolio was showcased by our researcher Luís Rosado, who was as guest speaker at the “Basics of Clinical Pathology” course, at FMUP, on May 24^th.

To foster this idea, Fraunhofer AICOS conducted a serie of visits to selected research centres in Germany, having visited: Fraunhofer FIT, Fraunhofer IESE and Fraunhofer IAO.

Competing in this years’ edition were R&D projects from areas such as: smart vehicles; urban mobility; energy management for buildings; and maritime community networks and services.

The Head of Intelligent Systems, Inês Sousa and our senior scientist, Maria Vasconcelos were present at the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland from 28^th to 31^st May.