News and Events

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.

Fraunhofer AICOS‘ technology was in display at Hannover Messe 2019, in Germany, together with our partner TekOn Electronics, who we support in the development of the DUOS Gateway IoT.

This week, on our AICOS’ Thursdays with Science, we hosted Professor Peter Kaiser from the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences - Germany, in a session entitled “Design Thinking in Education”, with a special focus on engineering.

A team of Fraunhofer AICOS’ researchers is competing in this year’s edition of “Hackacity Porto”, an hackathon for data scientists and data enthusiasts, as an initiative from the Municipality of Porto included in the strategy to apply measures for the implementation of Smart City principles that will improve the quality of life in the city.

Fraunhofer AICOS’ Intelligent Systems strategy was showcased in this year’s edition of “Data science in (astro)particle physics and the bridge to industry Symposium”, hosted by LIP – Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas.