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The Merit Award delivered by the consulting company has been awarded to an Applied Mathematics and Computation undergraduate student.

The Aerospace Engineering Undergraduate Programme was the Técnico course with the highest ‘admission average’ (186.6).

Five of the eleven Técnico students who participated at the EIA 2023 event were part of the teams selected by the jury.

Several Técnico students were awarded by the European Innovation Academy (EIA), at the EIA 2023 event, held earlier this month in Porto. The aim of the event was to highlight the most promising ideas and projects in the area of innovation. Four of the ten highest scoring teams were composed of Técnico students. Eleven Técnico students participated in the event, five of which were part of the teams recognised by the jury.

After the preliminary application stages for the two thousand-euro scholarships that cover the costs of participating in the event, supported by Técnico and Santander Universidades, the eleven selected students were integrated into teams with colleagues from international universities during the month of July. The development of ideas was based on training and workshops given by entities such as Google, the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University, over three weeks, which culminated in project presentation sessions held in Porto, at the beginning of August, where five members of the “initial eleven” saw their efforts recognised.

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When the clock struck 10.05 a.m., on 15th July, the sliding doors of the Aula Magna marked the beginning of the graduation ceremony of Técnico students who completed their studies in the 2021/2022 Academic Year.

Step by step, one by one, about 150 graduates went down the stairs to receive their diplomas from the President of Técnico, Rogério Colaço. “This ceremony marks the end of a chapter that paradoxically seems to have begun only yesterday and, at the same time, to have lasted a lifetime”, said Francisco Trindade Santos, who recently graduated with a Master’s degree, to the audience. “The academic journey until getting a degree is, by no means, trivial.”, he added.

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Jéssica Consciência and Tiago Leite won the award for their project on fight food waste.

The ceremony of the Vodafone Merit Award in Mobile Networks and Internet of Things took place on 22nd June, at Técnico – Alameda Campus. The Antiwaste project, developed by the Técnico students Jéssica Consciência and Tiago Leite (Electrical and Computer Engineering), was the winning project among three projects.

The Antiwaste project aims to fight food waste. For this purpose, a proof of concept was designed that brings together a camera, a screen that would be placed on the fridge door, and an app. When the fridge door is opened, to place or remove a food item, an image is processed and communicated to the app, which displays all the food items available in the fridge and their respective expiry dates on a list. The app will then tell the user when a product is approaching its expiry date and suggests recipes to use almost-expired food, thus contributing to reducing food waste.

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Last May 30, the Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) visited the Alameda campus and participated in a conversation on strategies and challenges of Intellectual Property.

The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Daren Tang visited Técnico – Alameda campus, on 30th May, during his stay in Lisbon, and participated in an informal conversation about Intellectual Property. Accompanied by his entourage and the Portuguese Ambassador in Geneva, Rui Macieira, Director General Daren Tang, joined the Técnico President Rogério Colaço, and the Vice-President for Operations and Corporate Partnerships Pedro Amaral, to discuss Técnico’s Intellectual Property strategy and the major challenges.

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The competition brought together four teams that developed innovative projects in several Técnico laboratories.