News and Events

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.

Professor Barbara Paech from the University of Heidelberg - Germany, was the guest speaker of today’s Thursdays with Science entitled “How do your users talk about software: problem and first research ideas.”.

Fraunhofer AICOS presented a session on its Machine Learning work entitled “Transfer learning approach for fall detection with the FARSEEING real-world dataset and simulated falls” at the Priberam Machine Learning Lunch Seminars, held on March 21 at IST – Instituto Superior Técnico, in Lisbon.

Today was the inaugural event of Fraunhofer AICOS’ 10th Anniversary celebrations, that counted with the presence of the Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor.

The public presentation of AWAM, the new Fraunhofer Centre in Portugal, for smart agriculture and water management, took place today, as part of the inaugural event of Fraunhofer AICOS’ 10^th Anniversary celebrations, that counted with the presence of the Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor.

Pedro Almeida, Fraunhofer AICOS’ NBD & Finance Group Leader, was a keynote speaker at the ICT4SILVER Final Event held on the 14^th of March in Brussels (Belgium), where he shared with the audience, AICOS’ experience and perspectives on the difficulties SME are facing when entering the Silver Economy market.

The outcomes of Fraunhofer AICOS’ projects, CTFhP which focuses on technology and scientific knowledge transfer, and MDevNet a national network of knowledge transfer on medical devices, were showcased in a workshop organised by ACTTiVAte – a Pan-European Clusters for Technology Transfer.