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ORERA is the application developed by Fraunhofer AICOS’ research team through which citizens are able to inform, by sending a photo taken from their smartphones, about occurrences of accumulation of solid waste in certain places. The application was developed (and designed) for individuals with little digital literacy.

VITAAL is an individualized multicomponent exergame training that uses gait analysis to formulate personalized interventions.

Every year Fraunhofer AICOS receives a group of master students in order to provide a professional environment for students to develop their research work. This initiative allows students to go beyond the academic reality.

Fraunhofer AICOS was present at MEDICA 2019, in Düsseldorf, Germany, from November 18^th to the 21^st, where side by side with the world's top medical device experts and companies, showcased Derma, Ophta and Micron, as part of AICOS’ flagship projects and portfolio items.

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”).