Education, Research, Collaboration and Infrastructures are the key concepts where Tecnico Living Lab relies, always centered on people, involving fast prototyping, open innovation and user innovation processes, seeking new solutions for a more inclusive and sustainable society.

Updated IN+ measures and recommendations regarding the new corona virus outbreak.

The Energy Services Regulatory Authority (ERSE) announced the new Regulation for Self-consumption of electric energy, which now introduces the possibility of storage and sharing electricity within renewably energy communities.

Pedro M. Amaral, Joana Mendonça and Rogério Colaço wrote on the ideal conditions for the successful knowledge transfer and university-company partnerships [PT]

Joana Mendonça, researcher at IN+ and Associate Professor of Innovation Management at Instituto Superior Técnico, was appointed as the new chairman of the Board of Directors of ANI - Agência Nacional de Inovação, being the first time that the institution is chaired by a woman.

Rui Costa Neto, researcher at IN+, studies the technical and economic feasibility of developing hydrogen as a storage vector for electrical and thermal energy. Listen to his testimony to the program 90 seconds of science [PT].

The Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Sustainability at IN+ participated in the public consultation of the portuguese Recovery and Resilience Plan, delivering a document with contributions for the discussion.

The PORT XXI - Space Enabled Sustainable Port Service project aims to develop and implement monitoring and environmental management solutions, in order to improve the management of complex activities and achieve zero pollution in the ports of Azores. IN+ is in charge of the economic impact analysis.

On 24th February 2021, FCT announced the provisional results of the Call for the Attribution of Associate Laboratory (AL) Statute. LARSyS received the maximum classification and was recommended with 1M € annual funding.

Within the framework of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal, the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia opens a call for applications for up to twelve Ph.D. Scholarships to take place under the CMU Portugal Affiliated Ph.D. Programs initiative

The Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Sustainability at IN+ released a report with contributions to the Climate Basis Law, with particular emphasis on the energy issue.

A Agência Nacional de Inovação, em colaboração com as restantes agências da Rede PERIN, organiza de 8 a 19 de fevereiro, as Jornadas Horizonte Europa, dedicadas ao Pilar II (Desafios Globais e Competitividade da Indústria Europeia) e  ao Pilar III (Europa Inovadora)

A study released by the University of Standford puts two IN+ researchers among the world's top scientists.

Why is Circular Economy so important to protect our planet? How should we change our habits as consumers? Is plastic the big enemy? Catarina Barreiros, zero waste advocate, Paulo Ferrão, president of IN+, and Ana Júlia Pinto, EDP’s Environment and Climate expert, answer these and other big questions on Circular Economy. 

What is hydrogen and why is it now called green? What role can it play in mobility, industry, and current natural gas networks? Why has it generated so much controversy in Portugal? 

The 4th edition of the Individual Scientific Employment Stimulus Competition is open until February 26, 2021. Applicants must previously identify the host institution where they will develop their research plan. The selected doctorates are directly hired by the host institution identified, through FCT funding.

Cool Tools for Science is a great chance to show and exchange a new dimension of your work: user innovation. Share about your inventions and how they improved your research performance, exhibit them to your colleagues and see what they have come up with too. And try to win the prize for the best innovation!

FCT has announced a new Call for Projects in all Scientific Domains, with submissions from January 28 to March 10, 2021. The competition will support two types of projects: Exploratory research projects (PeX) and Scientific research and technological development projects (IC&DT).

FLAD is launching the 2nd edition of the FLAD Science Award – Atlantic for researchers working in Portugal aiming to develop a collaborative effort with researchers in the USA. The award has a maximum value of € 300.000. Applications are open between 1 and 28 February 2021.

The Energy Services Regulatory Authority (ERSE) closed last January 7th a Public Consultation for contributions aiming at reformulating the Regulations for self-consumption of electric energy. IN+ researchers Diana Neves and Diana Vieira Fernandes are experts in sustainable energy systems and made some useful and constructive contributions.

João Bentes de Jesus was awarded with the prize António Dornelas 2020, intended to reward scientific or technical works  in the areas of work, employment, professional training and labor relations, for his Master's thesis on Industry 4.0

A Universidade de Lisboa (ULisboa) através da RedeMOV, rede temática interdisciplinar na área da mobilidade urbana inteligente, atribui o Prémio ULisboa-RedeMOV para distinguir os melhores trabalhos finais de mestrado e de doutoramento realizados na ULisboa ligados à temática da mobilidade urbana inteligente.

Carlos Santos Silva, professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Técnico Lisboa and researcher at IN+, talks about the project RELIABLE, which is developing risk maps for cold and heat waves. Listen to this episode of 90 Seconds of Science [Portuguese].

COOLSPOT - Interfacial COOLing Strategies for high POwer dissipation conversion Technologies was recently selected by FCT in the IC&DT Projects Call.

The 2020 edition distinguished the doctoral project developed by Khadjia Benis within the scope of the MIT Portugal program on Sustainable Energy Systems. The dissertation,  developed at IN+ under supervision of  Professor Paulo Ferrão (IST) and Professor Christoph Reinhart (MIT), addressed the emerging research topic of Integrated Agriculture in Buildings

Patrícia Baptista is among the five researchers from Instituto Superior Técnico, distinguished with the Scientific Awards University of Lisbon/Caixa Geral de Depósitos. This prize rewards scientific research activity and encourage the practice of publishing in international journals of recognized quality.

Joana Maria Jorge Simões Pedro, PhD candidate at IN+ in Sustainable Energy Systems, will defend her dissertation, entitled "Geo-referenced  sustainability assessment: a strategic framework for urban planning decisions", on a public session that will take place on November 2nd at 2 PM.

Louis Jewell, a guest Master student from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) that spent last year researching at IN+, received the État de Vaud Award for his Master's thesis entitled "Designing a neighbourhood energy infrastructure: Applying a novel framework to Lisbon". The Etat de Vaud award is intended to reward a Master's project presenting an original solution which promotes the rational use of energy.

The Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program (CMU Portugal) and Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), have an open call for up to 12 Ph.D. Dual Degree scholarships for the 2021/2022 academic year.

De 29 de setembro até dia 13 de outubro, está aberto o concurso para a atribuição de 1 Bolsa de Investigação para Estudante de Doutoramento

This article proposes a new approach to help the decision-making processes of designing Water Pumped Storage Systems, using a model that couples the energy balance model and the economic model.

News article on the hydrogen turn with the participation of Rui Costa Neto, researcher at IN+.

Joana Mendonça, researcher at IN+, published at Publico newspaper an opinion article on the development of the Portuguese ventilator Atena and the lack of national expertise to evaluate innovative products.

The summer course Product development: from the idea and conception to the prototype of biomedical products (DPBio) ended this Friday the training component, taking place simultaneously at Técnico Lisboa and at Universidade do Minho, with presential and distance classes.

Professor Paulo Ferrão is studying the passive energy consumption of buildings in order to develop methods and proposals that allow optimizing the energy expenditure of cities and make them more sustainable. Listen to his testimony to the program 90 Seconds of Science [portuguese].

From July 27th until August 14th, applications are open for MEGIE - Master in Engineering and Management of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the newest master's degree from Técnico Lisboa

Last 1st of July 2020 was launched the Portugal AutoCluster for the Future, an R&D project of MOBINOV - the Portuguese Automobile Cluster. The project aims to position the national automobile cluster in the global value chains of the car of the future and gathers 21 institutions, among companies, universities and research centers.

C-Tech summer school starts on July 29. Fifteen will be awarded with grants to attend the 12 weeks summer course. Applications are open.

[PT] Por Ana Moita

Quando olhamos para as gotas que batem na nossa janela num dia chuvoso, a nossa mente poderá ser acercada de inúmeros pensamentos e memórias, mas poucos pensarão nos complexos processos físicos envolvidos no aparentemente simples fenómeno do impacto das gotas no vidro da nossa janela.

Miguel Torres Preto, associate professor at Instituto Superior Técnico and researcher at IN+, assessed the impact of the closure of subsidiaries of multinational companies on the local economy.

Applications are open for 12 Research Initiation Grants and Research Grants until July 15, 2020 for Crypto Summer by Bee2WasteCrypto, a summer school within the Bee2WasteCrypto project1

Last 9th of July, took place the kick-off of the project CARAVELA - Development and demonstration of building blocks for microlaunchers. This project is supported by ANI (Portugal 2020), whose consortium (4 companies and 6 national R&D centers) and is led by Tekever SPACE. IST/IN+ one of the co-promotors, under coordination of Prof. Edgar Fernandes.

Professor Pedro Faria is a former researcher at IN+ in the area of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and was recently appointed Full Professor at the University of Groningen, where he teaches since 2009. 

The increasing number of distributed renewable energy systems and smart-grid technologies are transforming electricity grids and markets. This fostered the growth of peer-to-peer (P2P) energy markets, where consumers and prosumers (producers-consumers) are already trading directly with each other. 

IST-ID opened an international selection competition for one doctorate position for the exercise of scientific research in the area of Materials Science and Engineering and sub-area of Nanomaterials and Devices, aiming at the assessement of cooling performance of suspensions of nanoparticles (nanofluids) in mini-heat exchanger and pool boiling systems. Application deadline is 25 June, 2020.

"Exploring the mechanisms of gender effects in user innovation" is a paper that contributes to shed some light on user innovation gender differences, proposing a framework to explain the role of gender in user innovation, having in consideration both a direct and an indirect effect.

Bee2WasteCrypto aims to bring a revolution to the waste management sector - as the energy sector did 20 years ago - by developing a new and innovative IT tool that may contribute to empower Regional Waste Management Utilities (RWMU) and to promote new citizen behavior in terms of waste generation and handling.

IN+ researcher Ana Moita talked to the 90 seconds of science about her current work on developing an efficient cooling system for electric vehicle batteries.

De 26 de março até 8 de abril, estará aberta a chamada para 1 Bolsa de Estudante de Mestrado, destinada a alunos inscritos num mestrado integrado em Engenharia.

FCT deadlines for the PhD Research Scholarship 2020 and the IC&DT Projects in all Scientific Domains have been extended until April 28, 2020 and April 30, 2020, respectively.

Pedro Pontes, Ricardo Cautela, Ana Moita and António Moreira (IN+) were nominated for the 2019 Hartnett-Irvine Award of ICHMT, with the paper "Effect of pattern geometry on bubble dynamics and heat transfer on biphilic surfaces", presented in July 2019 at the 14th International Conference

From 24th to 26th February, took place in in Valetta, Malta, the BIODEVICES 2020, one of the 4 conferences that form the great BIOSTEC conference.

On January 24th, a group of Aerospace Engineering students from Técnico launched a self-built rocket under the RED project (Rocket Experiment Division). Named Aurora 2.0, this was the third launch by RED and considered a success, as it was possible to recover the rocket and analyze some aspects of its performance.

The IV International Caparica Symposium on Nanoparticles/Nanomaterials and Applications 2020 (ISN2A 2020) took place in Costa de Caparica the 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd of January 2020. IN+ contributed with a selected poster entitled "Carbon nanotubes synthesis by impinging flame", authored by Luísa Marques, André Duarte, Alexandre Gamboa and Edgar Fernandes.

A range extender (RE) is a device used in electric vehicles (EVs) to generate electricity on-board. This paper describes an efficiency-oriented RE based on a small motorcycle engine modified to the efficient over-expanded cycle. The results indicate that it is possible to have an efficient solution, in-line with the electric mobility sustainability paradigm, which can solve most of the shortcomings of current EVs in a sustainable way.

The first meeting of the European IMPROVEMENT, a project on zero energy balance public buildings, took place at Cordoba University. The project includes partners from Portugal, Spain and France, and aims to solve the challenge of integrating renewable energy systems (RE) and energy efficiency (EE) in public buildings (EPs) in the SUDOE region.

The light emitted in combustion reactions essential in the use of optics control systems to manage pollutant emissions and performance in equipment. In this work, the chemiluminescence of hydrogen in H2-enriched biogas flames was characterized to infer crucial combustion parameters.

José das Neves Rodrigues e João Miguel Pires are the most recent doctoral graduates in IN+. Both PhD candidates, under the doctoral program Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing - Leaders for Technical Industries, were approved with distinction by unanimity.

Prof. Joana Mendonça, researcher at IN+, was invited by the radio program 90 segundos de ciência (90 seconds of science) to assess the economic and technical feasibility of producing parts for the aeronautics industry using additive production technology, better known as 3D printing.

From October 29th to November 11th, 2019, Dr. Ana Moita was visiting The University of São Paulo at São Carlos School of Engineering, as part of the University of São Paulo external Visiting Professor program.

Two Master's students in Materials Engineering from IST, under supervision of Prof. Fernanda Margarido, were distinguished last week for their dissertation thesis, in an event organized by the Order of Engineers and the Portuguese Materials Society (SPM).

IN+/IST in collaboration with ADENE are seeking Master and PhD students in various areas of Engineering and related interdisciplinary fields, to develop research into the study and analysis of innovation incentives and policies for sustainable building, energy rehabilitation of buildings and promotion of energy efficiency.

Researchers of the Work of the Future initiative, which stems from a collaboration between researchers from the MIT Industrial Performance Center and Organizational Engineering Group (NEO) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre, Brazilm hold a workshop in Portugal focused on the Future of Work theme, where preliminary were discussed.

The 5th Smart Materials & Surfaces conference, SMS 2019, took place last week in Lisbon. It was a three-days event targeting researchers and engineers, from all over the world, interested in the design, modification, characterization and applications of Novel Smart Materials, Surfaces and Structures.

The 6th International Conference of Bionic Engineering (ICBE2019) organized by the ISBE took place at Jilin University in Changchun on September 23-26, 2019. Dr. Ana Moita attended the conference as a guest speaker, giving a Keynote entitled: “Micro-and-nanometric engineered interfaces for heat transfer enhancement”.

Call for abstracts for the 17th Iberian Congress and the 13th Ibero-American Solar Energy Congress is open until November 30, 2019.

On September 20th, the IN+ Get Together, an IN+ community-focused event to foster greater peer relationships and promote knowledge sharing, gathering over 60 colleagues. Find out what was discussed.

The Centre for Innovation and Technology N. Mahalingam (CITNM) promotes “Foundry on Wheels” an international congress aimed at promoting the debate and alignment of R&D strategies between car manufacturers and their suppliers, especially metal component suppliers.

"Os frutos dourados do Sol e a sonda Parker" (The golden fruits of the sun and the Parker spacecraft) is an article written by João Ventura about a NASA space project to study the Sun.

Rui Costa Neto, researcher at IN+, was awarded with the best paper by the scientific and organizing committees at the 5th International Conference on Power Generation Systems and Renewable Energy Technologies, held on August 26th and 27th at Instanbul, Turkey.

Opinion article published in the newspaper Público, co-authored by Patrícia Baptista.

APREN 2019 Award aims to disseminate and award Master Thesis related to electricity from renewable sources, produced in Portuguese higher education institutions.

MEGIE - Master in Engineering and Management of Innovation and Entrepreneurship - is the new Master of IST, coordinated by Professors Joana Mendonça and Miguel Preto, from IN+.

Conversations around a candle is a dissemination project on combustion, by João Ventura, targeting people interested in science, but not necessarily with scientific training. Hence many subjects are introduced from everyday phenomena familiar to readers, and then explained to them using accessible language.

A team of researchers from the University of Lisbon and the Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) investigated how additive manufacturing (AM) could contribute to distributed manufacturing. They examined whether AM will disrupt this central model, specifically in the context of spare parts for the aviation industry, where being able to quickly print parts instead of stockpiling them would be attractive.

Joana Mendonça and Miguel Preto, from IN+, are interviewed about the new Master Course in Engineering and Management of Innovation and Entrepreneurship that they coordinate.

The National Science Summit '19 is taking place at Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, aiming at promoting a broad debate on the main topics and challenges of the scientific agenda beyond the world of research, stimulating the participation and interaction between researchers, the business sector and the general public.

Professor Paulo Ferrão, co-founder of IN+, is the new president of COST – the European Cooperation in Science and Technology, for the next two years. The announcement was made at COST Executive Board meeting, held last 20th June, in Brussels.

LARSyS was graded as EXCELLENT by the latest FCT evaluation panel, maintaining the same grade as the previous evaluation. According to the evaluation report, "LARSyS is a strong R&D Unit with excellent international visibility, strong publication venues and participation in professional society activities".

ITI / LARSYS is looking for a PhD in design or mechanical and electrical engineering. The emphasis is on developing functional prototypes and bespoke solutions based on the unique features of renewable energy in Islands.

The call is open from June 24 to July 24.

Ana Moita, doctorate researcher at IN+ was invited lecturer at the workshop WEP “Surface Wettability Effects on Phase Change Phenomena” in Mons, Belgium.

Yesterday, May 29, was held the APETRO award ceremony to the best MEMec student who concluded the course in the year 2017/18. Francisco Monteiro was a fellow at IN+ in the Thermofluids, Combustion and Energy Systems laboratory, where he concluded his master's thesis "Design of a portable power generation system using compressed air energy storage concept".

The 10th International Conference of Multiphase Flow took place in Rio de Janeiro between 19 and 25 May. Pedro Pontes presented the work “Bubble dynamics and heat transfer on biphilic surfaces” by Pedro Pontes, Ricardo Cautela, Emanuele Teodori, Ana S. Moita and António L. N. Moreira.

The conference ICEE2019 4th International Conference on Energy and Environment: bringing together Engineering and Economics took place last 16 and 17 May at Guimarães. IN+ contributed with 3 proceeding and presentations that will be published in SCOPUS/WoS:

Patrícia Baptista was at the Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS32) with the presentation Connecting electrification with eco-driving: using real-world driving data for assessing potential energy savings, under the session Electric vehicle energy consumption optimisation in real world driving conditions.

MIT Portugal seed funding has been awarded to the Industrial Performance Cluster (IPC) at MIT to conduct a joint project with researchers from the Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon (IST) and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).

As the socio-economic need of mankind and population continue to grow, electricity consumption estimates become necessary for energy system planning. In Ghana, residential electricity is currently the second largest and growing rapidly. This paper  aims to comprehensively disaggregate and characterize the residential electricity demand in that country.

Learn more about the work that is being conducted in “one of the most efficient cooling technologies currently available”.

Rui Horta, PhD at IN+, was interviewed by the Portuguese newspaper Público about academic inbreeding.

The 9th European Combustion Meeting is taking place until 17 April. This event consists of invited lectures with parallel poster sessions intended to foster intellectual discussion and to enhance future collaborative research activities.

It is not enough to guarantee a university education in highly specialized engineering and with high technical and scientific rigor. The industry needs holistic training that adds technical and multidisciplinary expertise, providing a clear view of global challenges and the capacity to respond. The opinion of António Luís Moreira, diretor of IN+.

The Urban Analytics Summer School offers a unique opportunity to explore design, techniques and tools to design a scientifically sound research of urban settings. The program will progress from data collection, storage and processing, through data analysis and interpretation, to visual presentation of the results.

Governmental investments on the development of high-tech clusters are among the main policies for socioeconomic development, enabling countries to be part of global value networks.

Joana Pedro and Carlos Silva from IN+, together with Manuel Duarte Pinheiro from the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources, published an article proposing a bridge between the urban sustainability assessment and the spatial analysis, in order to better identify priority areas for intervention for sustainable urban development.

Joana Mendonça, researcher at IN+ and leader of the Laboratory of Technology Management and Policy, will present the results of the study “Knowledge and Innovation in the Algarve Region” in the Blue Hub laboratory event, next March 21, at Universidade do Algarve.

The Instituto Superior Técnico, with the support of Everis Portugal, is launching another edition of Lab2Market@Técnico. This is an acceleration program that will assign 250 hours of specialized business consultancy time to selected research teams. New deadline: March 17th 2019.

Altogether, there are 109 small testimonies that make up the new edition of the book Women in Science. There are chemists, physicists, biologists, archaeologists or anthropologists. Among them, Patrícia Baptista, renowned IN + researcher. All these scientists left a statement in the first person.

It is with great pride that we announce that Patrícia Baptista, an IN+ researcher, received an honorable mention in the category "Environmental and Energy Engineering".

Written by Catarina Seco Matos and Miguel Amaral, from IN+, together with Rui Baptista, from IST, Senior Entrepreneurship: A Selective Review and a Research Agenda reviews the most relevant research output on self-employment and entrepreneurship of older individuals.

Miguel Amaral and Nuno Arantes-Oliveira from IN+, together with Mário Vieira, Elsa Henriques and Luís Reis from IDMEC have recently lauched the paper Path discussion for offshore wind in Portugal up to 2030, for Marine Policy, the leading journal of ocean policy studies.

Last Wednesday, February 20, finalist students from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Aveiro and Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, were awarded for the projects that best contribute to promoting sustainable energy systems and good energy efficiency practices in Galp's client entities, under the 12th edition of the Galp21 university cooperation program.

Hydrogen Combustion in Gas Turbines: Boundary Layer Flash Back Model and Validation

The project will be executed in close cooperation with industrial partners and the PhD student will be enrolled in the TU Delft Graduate School. The objective is to deliver a validated boundary layer flashback (BLF) model for an industrial gas turbine geometry.

2019 call for PhD scholarships will be open to researchers from all fields of knowledge, from February 28 to March 28, 2019.

The PhD Scholarships are competitively awarded grants to support the training of scientists in all areas of knowledge in obtaining a PhD degree. This year 950 scholarships will be awarded.

Written by Anabela Reis, together with Afreen Siddiqi and Olivier de Weck, this article presents a study on the development of six international aeronautical manufacturing firms across four continents, using empirical quantitative data and results from 103 semistructured interviews with senior executives and policy makers.

Advanced Cooling Technologies and Applications, edited by S. M. Sohel Murshed, covers a number of key topics related to advanced cooling approaches, their performance, and applications. This book is aimed at a wide variety of people from graduate students and researchers to manufacturers who are involved or interested in the areas of thermal management systems, cooling technologies, and their applications.

Since January 1st 2019, DeGóis is no longer allowing to create new CVs and FCT SIG will end this feature from March 1st 2019. Both platforms will allow editing existing CVs until July 1st 2019 but will cease in 2021. All researchers should create a CiênciaID and create their CV at CIENCIAVITAE.

Patrícia Batista was awarded the "Best Poster Presentation" award with "Capacity-sharing in logistics solutions: A new pathway towards sustainability", published in Transport Policy, co-authored with Sandra Melo and Joaquim Macedo, at the 16th national conference Transport Studies Group.

Researchers and practitioners in the field of entrepreneurial university and regional development are invited to submit a chapter proposal to a forthcoming book publication entitled Examining the Role of Entrepreneurial Universities in Regional Development.

A team of scientists from IN+, has developed in the Laboratory of Thermofluids, Combustion and Energy Systems the first carbon nanotube by controlling flame synthesis. This study will expand the scope of carbon materials synthesis using flame with enormous potential for large scale carbon nanotubes production.

ELECTROWetting heat pipes for cooling Applications in Electric Vehicles is a project leaded by IST-ID in partnership with UT Austin and FEUP. Started on December 1 and lasting 12 months, the project consists of proving the concept of novel heat pipe technology for multiple, disruptive, energy-related applications (patent pending) and showing its suitability in cooling the batteries of electric vehicles.

Sharing Lisboa is a project developed under the European Sharing Cities Program, which unites municipalities, citizens and private companies, with the objective of improving the quality of life in cities, through the use of new technologies and the involvement of the citizens.

Industry 4.0 is a key issue to address as the integration of digital technologies will profoundly change the production paradigm across the world, many of today's jobs will cease to exist in the future and many of the jobs of the future are yet to be designed.

"Characterization and Physical-Chemical Processes of Recovery of Rare-Earths in Residues", a thesis by the student Joana Rita Meireles Fonseca from IST and supervised by Prof. Fernanda Margarido, coordinator of the Waste Processing and Management Laboratory of IN+, was distinguished with the 2nd Honorable Mention SPM.

SMART Data Sprint is an intensive hands-on work, driven by online data and digital methods. During one week, participants will have the chance to attend to keynote lectures, short talks, and parallel sessions of practical labs. Afterwards, experts and scholars will invite participants to join projects and work in a collective problem.

The Lisbon City Council and the Sharing Cities consortium will launch this Friday the APP Sharing Lisbon, which brings together citizens, businesses and governments in cities such as Milan and London, aiming to help improving cities. Sharing Lisbon is part of the European Union Sharing Cities program, in which IN+ participates.

Prof. Joana Mendonça, director of the Laboratory of Technology Management and Policy at IN+, will be one of the speakers at the conference "The Challenges to the Future of Employment in the Automotive Industry" that will take place on November 9 at the Mangualde City Hall Auditorium.

The director of IN+ António Luís Moreira will be in Saudi Arabia to study the creation of new partnerships with IN+, by invitation of Dr. Mardson McQuay, Senior IP Attorney and Associate General Counsel for Research and Education of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), and Prof Robert Dibble, from the Clean Combustion Research Institute.

A delegation of representatives from industry and higher education from India, Nepal and Uganda will be in Portugal to visit Portuguese companies and assimilate good practices in industrial sustainability and environmental management, under CapSEM project.

The UBike Portugal Project - Operation Técnico provides electric bicycles to the academic community of Instituto Superior Técnico through a long-term rental model with a symbolic fee. The objective is to create and establish habits of regular use of this mode of transportation.

The Automobile Cluster Workshop will take place on November 14, at the Lisbon congress center, under the scope of Portugal Exporter, a business-oriented and networking opportunities event, organized by AIP Foundation, Novo Banco and Aicep Portugal Global.

Galp 21 is a university cooperation programme designed for assigning internships for energy efficiency research in Galp's client companies. In addition to a scholarship, the students covered by this programme are also automatically entitled to participate in a competition that awards the three best works done in each university, with monetary prizes that goes up to 2.500€. I

IN+ PhD candidate João Pires was awarded last October 1st, at the MIT Portugal 2018 Annual Conference, with the best poster under the category Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing.

Congratulations to Guido Lorenzi, an IN+ PhD candidate, who defended his PhD thesis last Monday, October 8th, at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, in Stockholm. His research was on Techno-economic analysis and optimization of electrochemical energy storage solutions and was approved with rating of Very Good with Praise.

Prof. Fernanda Margarido from IN+ will be one of the panel members of the Action Tank on "Dismantling for Recovery", at the BIN@Porto 2018, October 30, at 3h15 PM.

IN+, through Prof. Fernanda Margarido, is a member of the working group Circular Economy Strategic Pillar, which participates in the process of consolidating proposals for the Lisbon and Tagus Valley Region (RLVT) Strategy 2030.

Applications are open for the 2018 edition of the Young Engineer Innovation Award. If you are a member of the Order of Engineers and are up to 35 years old, you can apply until December 28 to win up to 10,000 euros.

"Closure of multinationals: the capital that stands" is a study with co-authorship of IN+ that analyzes the importance of human capital for multinational companies and will be presented on October 3, at the Conference on Economy and Competitiveness 2018 (Jornada da Economia e da Competitividade 2018), at Casa da Música in Oporto.

Olga Savchuk, researcher at IN+, is one of the finalists of the Altice Innovation Award. The initiative is applicable to Portugal, France and Israel, and aims to award projects from finalist students (Master’s or PhD) and startups in the incubation phase who present innovative projects in technological areas relevant to Altice International’s core business, namely: Telecom, Media & Content and Data & Advertising.

Congratulations to Professor Fernanda Margarido, who completed her Habilitation (Agregação) at Instituto Superior Técnico in the area of Environmental Engineering. Fernanda Margarido is Associate Professor at IST/UL and maintains a reputed scientific activity at IN+, where she is the Coordinator of the Waste Processing and Management Laboratory, leading a research group on Materials Recycling of Wastes and End-of-Life Products.

Cities are responsible for 80% of wealth creation, 60% of total energy consumption and 70% of greenhouse gas emissions. Urban analytics enables us to better understand what happens and ensure better management and planning of city environments.

Pedro Pontes, a researcher at IN+, went to the Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering of Jilin University, China, June 9 and 10 to receive the ISBE International Bionic Innovation Competition award. At the ceremony, Pedro summarily presented the work that has been developed at IN+, which earned him the prize, and visited the facilities of the Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering.

With an increase in the average life expectancy, the decision to continue working becomes an option. Among other possibilities, one might consider entrepreneurship. Catarina Seco Matos, researcher at IN+, writes about senior entrepreneurship in the context of the Program Plan for Retirement, a voluntary-enrollment program aimed at training senior entrepreneurs on Volunteering, Entrepreneurship, Personal Finance, Health.

Professor Miguel Amaral (DEG/IN+) and Professor Ana Carvalho (DEG/CEG-IST) proposed the creation of a Laboratory of Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at IST. The laboratory will be located in Taguspark, comprising a room for seminars and a workshop for the development of technological products with social impact. The Laboratory was one of the winners of the Projects for Pedagogical Innovation - PIP2018.

Researcher Catarina Seco Matos completed her doctoral studies at ISEG last March, under the PhD Program in Development Studies. Her thesis, entitled Aging and Entrepreneurship: Firm Creation and Performance among Older Individuals, was supervised by Professor Miguel Amaral and obtained approval with distinction and praise (cum laude) by unanimity of the jury.

On May 7, 2018, Hospital Santa Maria welcomed a session about the prevention of deafness, based on the presentations of Master's students in Otorhinolaryngology. The session counted with the participation of Professor Edgar Fernandes, researcher at IN+, as a member of the jury.

The food basin is the area that supplies a city with food and it is important to know it to promote strategies for urban food planning," says Samuel Niza to the newspaper Público, in a feature article about the old ways and the people who brought food to Lisbon and what we can learn from them. Read more >>

Samuel Niza, researcher at IN+, speaks in a Público's feature article about efficient food distribution. Excerpt: "Those who produce food on a small scale find it difficult to transport them. The solution is to create shorter circuits; and, in some cases, more logical ones..." Read more >>

Joana Mendonça and Anabela Reis (IN+) share article on the Evolução das competências numa era digital [Evolution of skills in the digital age], published in Robótica. "O crescente uso de tecnologias digitais permite automatizar os processos produtivos, exigindo por isso trabalhadores cada vez mais qualificados, capazes de acompanhar esta mudança tecnológica..."

Please see March's highlights, the calendar for March, opportunities, funding and other important information in IN+ Newsletter for April of 2018.

Three Mechanical Engineering students from Tecnico Lisboa will be awarded monetary prizes for their outstanding work in the context of the cooperation programme Galp 21. The Award Ceremony took place on April 18, in GALP's Auditorium. Read more >>

SMART CAMPUS has been identified as one of three Tecnico projects that will feature in the recently launched Innovation Radar Platform. The initiative aims to develop an ecosystem of incubators, entrepreneurs, funding agencies and investors that can help get EU-funded innovations to market. Among these projects is IN+ SMART CAMPUS, a CIP innovation project.

In the context of the Sharing Cities Program, more than 100 representatives from 25 European cities will be in Lisbon, from April 10 to 13, for a series of events and workshops that hope to promote innovation and entrepreneurship for smart cities. The European program aims to develop and share intelligent, innovative and replicable urban solutions. In Lisbon, the program has eight partners, including Técnico Lisboa, through IN+.

Pedro Pontes, a research fellow at the Laboratory of Thermofluids was one of the award winners of the first ISBE Bionic Innovation Competition. The competition, sponsored by Jilin University, started in July 2017 and has attracted the worldwide consideration of the ISBE members. Pedro Pontes received one of the 20 Tertiary Prizes attributed, with the work Bioinspired surfaces for two-phase heat transfer applications.

The Materials Science Marathon, organised by Materials Engineering Student Group (NEMat), took place last Tuesday, March 20. Focusing on the future of industry 4.0 and the role of materials engineers, the event included the participation of Professor Fernanda Margarido in the debate Compósitos 4.0.

Please see February's highlights, the calendar for March, opportunities, funding and other important information in IN+ Newsletter for March of 2018.

Professor Fernanda Margarido was in Nepal last week, March 7, to give a talk on strategic metals, at the invitation of Professor Arun Timalsina, from the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University.

Professor Fernanda Margarido was in Nepal between March 4-8, for a mid-term meeting and worksop in Kathmandu University, focusing on Industry Case Study presentations. This meeting follows last year's event, hosted by IN+, when it was agreed that partners would proceed with the training of industry partners and promote internships with the local industry.

The MIT Portugal Program is helping to organize the next International Workshop on Innovating (IWI 2018), to take place at the MIT campus (Cambridge, Mass.) on June 11-15, 2018. Application deadline on March 18, 2018 (11H59 EDT). Accepted applicants who are currently part of the MIT Portugal Program or are alumni may qualify to receive a subsidy, covering the fee and possibly other expenses. More information here >>

The São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Renewable Energies twill be held in São Paulo , Brazil, between July 23 and August 3, 2018. The event is free of any cost to a selection of 100 students around the world. Online application is available at the website. The deadline is April 15th, 2018.

Professor Joana Mendonça was at the College of Management of Technology, EPFL, on March 2 to give a seminar on Learning how to fly: Integration of Small Technology-Based Firms in Aeronautics. Her paper examines the role of small technology-based firms (TBF) in aeronautics industrialization processes, using Embraer as case study.

ILASS-EUROPE is a non-profit organization for those working on theory, physics, instrumentation, measurements, computation, analyses and applications of liquid atomization and sprays. ILASS-Europe is also on Facebook. Please see attached their March newsletter, where you can find news, future and past events, funding opportunities, job openings and other relevant announcements.

FCT's 2018 Call for PhD Scholarships is now open. Applications run from 28 February to 17h (Lisbon time) of 28 March 28, 2018. In this call, 950 scholarships will be awarded. More information >>

Please see January's highlights, the calendar for February, opportunities, funding and other important information in IN+ Newsletter for February of 2018.

Joana Mendonça co-authored a news article on the Career patterns for doctorate holders in Portugal. As Portugal's higher education system matures and a lower number of doctorate holders are absorbed, there is more availability of these qualified resources in the labour market. Read more >>

"Information on business incubators is rare and is dispersed by different entities, concludes a study from the University of Coimbra, which argues that the sector needs to know itself better." [LUSA] The study was authored by Gonçalo Brás and supervised by Miguel Torres Preto, a researcher at IN+.

Please see December highlights, the calendar for January, opportunities, funding and other important information in the first IN+ Newsletter of 2018.

Mobinov presented a study on the automobile industry in Portugal yesterday at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria. The study, commissioned to Deloitte, can be consulted inside. Besides the industrial partners, the cluster integrates several national organizations oriented towards research and innovation or higher education, among which Tecnico, represented by IN+. [LUSA]

"O Colégio F3 da Universidade de Lisboa reúne diferentes faculdades num estudo alargado sobre a forma como as cidades se alimentam (...)" A series of seminars about urban food started this Thursday. Samuel Niza was one of the speakers at this first event, previously announced by IN+, and he spoke briefly to Público about his work.

The applications for Fulbright Scholarships for the academic year 2018/2019 supported by FCT are open until January 31. These scholarships "are intended for PhD students directly financed by FCT that have planned, in the framework of their training plan, a period of research at a university or research centre in the United States". Read more >>

The kick-off of the project SMART – HEAT is scheduled for the February 1st. The collaborative research between IN+ and the Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering of the Ministry of Education of China uses biomimetic and bioinspired design to develop micro and nano functionalized surfaces enhancing heat and mass transfer for industrial applications.

Since 2009, IN+ has organized ThermoCup, an experimental activity for school students. The experiment aims at building a boat with a flame-powered engine and exploring concepts of mechanics and thermodynamics. On December 20, IN+ organized a ThermoCup with the young people who attend the Center for Arts and Education.

Work developed by IN+, CERENA and LNEG on lithium extraction features in Jornal Económico. A special thanks to Professor Carlos Nogueira for his interview.

Professor Fernanda Margarido obtained the classification of 'Excelent' in the course unit evaluation questionnaires (QUC) for 2016-2017 in the class "Extraction Processes". The professor is a researcher at IN+ and responsible for the Waste Processing and Management Laboratory, as well as an Associate Professor at Tecnico Lisboa.

Open call to apply for a PhD Scholarship under the MIT Portugal Program until January 3, 2018. The scholarships, to study in Portugal and MIT, are funded by FCT and are available in the Program's four areas, including Sustainable Energy Systems, a program partly coordinated by IN+.

A team of researchers from IN+, CERENA and LNEG developed a simplified method of processing lithium ores existing in Portugal, containing lepidolite from the region of Gonçalo, Guarda. This method allows to reduce the energy consumption of the extraction of lithium of the ore, making the process more efficient and economic. Read more >>

Alfaces na avenida. Estratégias para (bem) alimentar a cidade is a reflection on urban planning and public policy in the matters of food supply. Samuel Niza, researcher at IN+ and author of the chapter 'O sistema alimentar no contexto do metabolismo urbano da Área Metropolitana de Lisboa', writes about the importance of studying the flow of food resources, as well as their potential impact.

Professor Edgar Fernandes, director of Thermofluids, Combustion and Energy Systems, visited Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA) on November 29, at the invitation of Professor Elizabeth Duarte, for a seminar on Biofuels versus Traditional Fuels.

IST and IN+ Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research welcomed the international partners of project CapSEM – Capacity Building in Sustainability and Environmental Management in Lisbon, from November 15th to 17th, for three days of knowledge exchange and updates regarding the project.

IN+ is part of the E-University project team, a project funded by FCT that aims to explore the entrepreneurial activity of the Portuguese public universities and polytechnic institutes and assess their impact in regional dynamics. Thus we invite students, researchers, teachers and collaborators to complete the following questionnaire. More information inside.

"Twenty-two representatives from higher education institutions in Uganda, India, Nepal, Portugal, Norway and the Netherlands and saw live presentations of the work of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, EDP D, Instituto Superior Técnico (represented by IN+) and Circular Economy Portugal in the areas of green energy, sustainability and the economy."

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A recent FAE / Exame (Expresso) partnership elected the 40 Managers of the Future under 40 and the final list of managers includes Pedro Nazareth in the 18th position. Pedro Nazareth is a former student and researcher of IN+ and the current Director of Amb3E: Associação Portuguesa de Gestão de Resíduos.

Suscity announces fellowship in Energy through FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC). Applicants must have a degree in in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Management or related areas. They must show proven knowledge of GIS tools, databases, 3D representation and, preferably, in data analysis (big data). Research is to be developed at IN+. Deadline: November 16

Calls for Innoenergy PhD School Open until November 5th. The Innoenergy PhD School supports PhD sudents studying energy topics, such as smart cities, smart grids, smart buildings, storage, among other topics.

An IN+ project, CONT(R)A aims to bring awareness to Tecnico's community on the matter of energy efficiency, hoping to make people "rethink their habits and show them what their consumption is, the costs associated with it, and how to behave differently", says Diogo Henriques, the project's mentor.

Emanuele Teodori presented his work at the 21st PubhD in Lisbon for the second anniversary of the event. Emanuele is a PhD researcher at IN+, investigating the properties of liquid boiling on certain surfaces, such as absorbent surfaces. His study will have applications in the cooling of electronic components.

The Buildings dashboard is a digital platform for urban energy management, developed through MIT Portugal in partnership with the University of Minho. The article is focused on the solutions presented by the dashboard to increase energy efficiency in buildings, relying on the expertise of Cláudia Sousa Monteiro, MIT Portugal PhD Candidate and researcher at IN+ in Instituto Superior Técnico; and Maribel Santos from the University of Minho.

The weekly research meetings of IN+ LEIS (Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Sustainability) have started on September 29th, at TagusPark. The first session included a presentation by the LEIS Director, Professor Carlos Silva, and an explanation of bureaucratic procedures by the Support Team.

FIRES-consortium members and IN+ researchers Miguel Amaral and Catarina Matos attended and presented work at the 2017 WINIR conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The participation of our colleagues and remaining consortium members was a concerted effort to reach out to the academic stakeholders in the project and collect their feedback and suggestions.

André Pina (IN+ and MIT Portugal Alumni), Claudia Sousa Monteiro (IN+ and MIT Portugal PhD Candidate) and Maribel Santos (Algoritmi Center - University of Minho), three of the main researchers of the project, were interviewed by Exame Informática Magazine about the Dashboard.

We are proud to share the recognition of André Pina by the University of Lisbon-Santander Universidades Awards 2017, in the topic of Environmental and Energy Engineering. The awards aim to reward excellence in scientific research and encourage the publication of articles in international journals of recognized quality.

IN+ takes project on Biogas Diagnosis and Monitoring to Stockholm for the 25th EUBCE.

[PT] Cerimónia de reconhecimento público da MOBINOV - Associação do Cluster Automóvel realizou-se a 23 de fevereiro, no Pátio da Galé. O Instituto Superior Técnico é membro da MOBINOV, estando representado pelo IN+.

Catarina Matos and Miguel Amaral, researchers at IN+, have been awarded with "Best Presentation Award" by the 19th International Conference on Management, Finance and Entrepreneurship Program Committee with a paper titled: An Exploratory Study of Entrepreneurial Satisfaction among Older Founders.

Catarina Matos and Miguel Amaral have been awarded with "Best Presentation Award" by the 19th International Conference on Management, Finance and Entrepreneurship Program Committee with a paper titled: An Exploratory Study of Entrepreneurial Satisfaction among Older Founders.

[PT] Investigadora do IN+ recebe Medalha de Honra L’Oreal Portugal para as Mulheres na Ciência.

Jaime Bonnín Roca and his supervisor at IN+ Professor Joana Mendonça co-authored an article for MIT Sloan Management Review. Please contact us if you would like to access the complete article.

The European Researchers' Nights is a Europe-wide public initiative that organizes different events dedicated to popular science and fun learning. All the events took place simultaneously across Europe. From IN+, Webmap was exhibited by Samuel Niza and Alexandre Amado; Henrique Pombeiro represented the project Energy Efficiency.

A complete compilation of what has been written about the process of evaluation for research units, both in Portugal and abroad, edited by five portugueses researchers. The black book is comprised of opinion articles, press releases and news pieces published between 2014 and 2015 about the evaluation performed by the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT).

[PT] Por Manuel Heitor, Alexandre Quintanilha, Fernanda Rollo, João Sentieiro, Rosalia Vargas

"No aniversário do nascimento de José Mariano Gago, a 16 Maio, lembrar o seu legado ímpar, a nível nacional e internacional, é apelar à mobilização colectiva para a construção de um futuro com mais conhecimento..." In Expresso, 16 de Maio de 2015

[PT] "Cumprem-se 25 anos sobre a apresentação pública do Manifesto que José Mariano Gago lançou para a Ciência em Portugal. Combinando o tom de um manifesto e a reflexão de um ensaio, sobressai a assertividade, reivindicando quatro enunciados essenciais: A Ciência como Desafio Social, Romper o Isolamento Social, Renovar a Educação Científica, Criar Cultura Científica."

[PT] Experiência é considerada “valiosa” pelos empregadores em Portugal, concluem investigadores das universidades de Coimbra, Groningen e CBS.