In the Media

Smart Buildings and Intelligent Systems

Tuesday, 08 February 2011

New ways to manage energy consumption using intelligent systems are being developed under the scope of the MIT Portugal Program. One of the undergoing research aims to transform the IST campus at Taguspark into a smart building. Thus, last year several smart meters were installed to manage electricity, water, gas and thermal energy consumption in the building.

This research is integrated in one of this Program’s main focal points: the promotion of sustainable energy systems, through the use of renewable energies and a more active role of consumers in the management of personal energy consumption. This study is being conducted by a team integrated by MIT Portugal PhD students Daniel Wiesmann and Gonçalo Cardoso, Professor Paulo Ferrão, the MIT Portugal National Director, and Professor Carlos Santos Silva from IST.

Socio-Economic Impact of Stem Cell Therapies Featured in Executive Digest

Tuesday, 07 December 2010

An article from Prof. Lino Ferreira was featured in the November edition of the Portuguese magazine Executive Digest, on the “Socioeconomic Impact of Therapies based on Stem Cells.”

The article highlighted that regenerative medicine is positioned at the cutting edge of the twenty-first century´s health systems. Its main purpose is the development of new therapeutic solutions for malfunctioning organs and tissues in the worlds’ increasingly older population, , and to fight the continuous rise of health costs, especially in the treatment of chronic illnesses.

Media Highlights from Annual Conference

Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Major Portuguese media outlets devoted significant coverage to the Second Annual Conference and associated initiatives. A selection of major articles on the Conference appears below:

Diário Económico: Interview with MIT Prof. Ed Crawley: "Universities Must Invest in Internationalization"

i Online: MIT Portugal attracts international attention to Portuguese academic-industry knowledge partnerships

AirNets Project Highlighted in Portuguese Media

Wednesday, 01 September 2010

The AirNets project was the subject of a long article in one of Portugal's leading business magazines, "Executive Digest." Written by AirNets principal investigator António Pais Antunes of the University of Coimbra, the article describes how AirNets has developed models to help fight congestion in major airports and air networks, which already are being used by Portuguese airline TAP and other major transportation companies and organizations.

The full text of the article (in Portuguese) is available here:

icon AirNets article, Executive Digest, August 2010

You may also download a recent technical presentation by the AirNets team made at the 12th World Congress on Transportation Research in Lisbon in July 2010:

icon Research In Airports and Air Transport in the MIT Portugal Program

Azorean Leaders Show Support for MIT Portugal’s Green Islands Initiative

Wednesday, 28 January 2009

The Regional President of the Azores as well as Azorean business and academic leaders united in support of the MIT Portugal Program and its Green Islands Initiative during a visit to São Miguel island by the Program’s leadership during the week of January 19, 2009.

Professor Steve Connors and researcher Ned Spang visit an Azorean geothermal plant

President Carlos César met on January 22 with the leaders of the Green Islands Initiative, Professors Paulo Ferrão (also the National Director of MIT Portugal) and Stephen Connors. The meeting with President César capped a week of high-level meetings that established new strategic partnerships in support of the Green Islands Initiative with the Regional Government, regional electric utility Electricidade dos Açores (EDA), and the University of the Azores. Faculty leaders of MIT Portugal, from both MIT and Portuguese institutions, also toured a local geothermal power station.

Professors Connors and Ferrao meet with Carlos César, Regional President of the Azores (Photo: Açoriano Oriental, Eduardo Costa)

The goal of the Green Islands Initiative is to make two or more islands in the Azores extremely energy self-sufficient by 2018. Professor Ferrão stated in an interview with Azorean journalists that this effort would be led by “tripling the amount of energy drawn from renewable sources, in terms of primary energy.”

The Green Islands Initiative is one of the flagship cross-cutting projects of the MIT Portugal Program, drawing on the research portfolio and industrial partnerships of all four of the Program’s focus areas: Bio-Engineering, Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing, Sustainable Energy Systems, and Transportation Systems.

(Click here for the account of the meeting between MIT Portugal and President César on the Azores government website.)

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