Smart Specialization Strategy of the North 2021-27: Challenges and Priorities for a More Innovative North

ARISE, represented by Prof. Dr. Adriano de Carvalho, attended the session “Smart Specialization Strategy of the North 2021-27: Challenges and Priorities for a More Innovative North”, promoted by CCDR-NORTE. The main objectives of the session were to present the new publication of S3 NORTE 2027 and to promote a debate on the main challenges, priorities, and funding opportunities of this regional strategy for the 2021-27 period.

The session took place at the Eng. Alcino Miguel Auditorium of the School of Technology and Management of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, and was opened by the presence of the Mayor of Bragança, Hernâni Dias, the Minister of Territorial Cohesion, Ana Abrunhosa, the President of CCDR-NORTE, António Cunha, and the President of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Orlando Rodrigues.

FEUP | Research Grant | BM5-FERROVIA4.0

Call open for applications for five research grant within the framework of project FERROVIA 4.0, with reference POCI‐01‐0247‐FEDER‐046111, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), through the Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalization (COMPETE 2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, under the following conditions: EDITAL

 

LA ARISE Presentation Ceremony (PT)

Presentation Ceremony of ARISE – Associated Laboratory

The official presentation of ARISE LA took place on the 27th of January, in the Sala de Atos of FEUP, with the presence of Professor Elvira Fortunato, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education. During the ceremony, tribute was also paid to Professor Fernando Lobo Pereira, former head of ARISE LA.

ARISE – PRESENTATION CEREMONY

PRESENTATION CEREMONY OF THE ASSOCIATED LABORATORY ARISE – ADVANCED PRODUCTION AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

This initiative counts on the presence of the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Prof. Dr. Elvira Fortunato, and other representatives of different institutions, with the following agenda:

Schedule:

  • 11:30 Opening by the Director of FEUP
  • 11:35 Homage to Prof. Fernando Lobo Pereira (by the Director of DEEC)
  • 11:40 Presentation of ARISE and its thematic lines
  • 12:10 ARISE strategic plan
  • 12:20 Debate
  • 12:30 Intervention by the Rector of the University of Porto
  • 12:45 Closing by the Minister of Science and Technology

This event will take place in room “Sala de Actos” (A 104) of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, on January 27, 2023.

J. Norberto Pires Innovation Award – 2022

In the event INOVAÇÃO@UC the J. Norberto Pires Innovation Prize was also awarded, a form to pay tribute to this CEMMPRE’s researcher. The prize was attributed to Prof. Jorge Coelho who is also a CEMMPRE researcher with the project “Nerve Guide Conduit for Peripheral Nerve Regeneration”. The NervGen project aims to produce biodegradable devices by 3D printing for peripheral nerve regeneration.

Source: UC-News

CEMMPRE at INOVAÇÃO@UC

On the 9th November 2022, CEMMPRE participated in the event INOVAÇÃO@UC with a booth.


INOVAÇÃO@UC is an annual event of the University of Coimbra that puts innovation in the centre of the University’s activity. This event aims to be a showcase of what is done at UC for the business sector and society. CEMMPRE showed its competences and how it can be an innovation partner.

In this event the J. Norberto Pires Innovation Prize was also awarded, a form to pay tribute to this CEMMPRE’s researcher. The prize was attributed to Prof. Jorge Coelho who is also a CEMMPRE researcher with the project “Nerve Guide Conduit for Peripheral Nerve Regeneration”. The NervGen project aims to produce biodegradable devices by 3D printing for peripheral nerve regeneration.

CEMMPRE’s scientists in “World’s Top 2% Scientists 2022”

From the 55 scientists of Universidade de Coimbra in the list “World’s Top 2% Scientists 2022”, 10 belong to CEMMPRE

The list includes 200,000scientists, 763 belonging to Portuguese institutions, including 55 scientists from the University of Coimbra. The study distributes scientists by 22 scientific areas and 176 disciplines, considering their index, volume of publications and citations, according to the data available on Scopus in September 2022.

Mobility GT: Surfaces and interfaces for sustainable green mobility – call for 12 postdocs

This international programme involves 4 academic partners – it is coordinated by the Laboratory for Tribology and Interface Nanotechnology of the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) in cooperation with the University of Leeds (UK), Luleå University of Technology (Sweden) and University of Coimbra (Portugal) – and 50 associated partners, mainly from industry (e.g., Volvo, Scania, Oerlikon, SKF, Hidria, Kolektor, Mahle, Cummins, and others).
The programme will host 24 post-doctoral researchers, each with a 3-year contract. The annual salary available to each postdoc is a minimum of €69,360, or €77,280 for a postdoc who is entitled to a family allowance.
Mobility GT will be realised in two calls for two cohorts of 12 postdocs each. Half the positions in each cohort will initially focus on fundamental nanoscale research (at the University of Ljubljana), with the other half working on macroscale, application-oriented tribology research of materials, surfaces, coatings and lubrication at the University of Leeds, Luleå University of Technology or University of Coimbra). This will be followed by what will be an exciting, compulsory switch between the two length scales after 27 months (and includes a mandatory secondment at an intersectorial/industrial partner) as the “nanoscale” postdocs take what they have discovered to the macroscale, and the “macroscale” postdocs get the chance to look more deeply into their findings on the nanoscale. This means the postdocs will finish off with a 9-month academic secondment to complement the main period of research.
Each post-doc can propose their own project with bottom-up ideas, but in agreement with the host university. So preliminary contacts and a discussion with provisional mentors are mandatory.
The first call will be available on Jan 1st, 2023, with the submission deadline of a post-doc project proposal on May 31th, 2023. After an international review, led by six high-profile tribologists (including three Tribology Gold Medallists), the winning proposals will be announced in August 2023. After the necessary administrative procedures for the winning proposals, the first 12 post-docs will start in January 2024. The whole procedure will then be repeated, to recruit the next cohort of 12 post-docs, who will start in January 2025.
The Mobility GT post-docs, with their individual research projects, will be able to address major challenges in green tribology in the following research areas:

  • Nanoscale-based green lubrication and surface technology (Ljubljana)
  • Boundary films & tribochemical interfaces (Leeds)
  • Green lubrication for lightweight composites and lubrication modelling (Luleå)
  • Wear-resistant, low-friction, advanced surface coatings (Coimbra)

Several sub-areas have already been identified, leading to an initial, approximately 200 research directions being available to choose from, guided by 30 academic mentors, specialising in different research fields.

 

Doctoral INPhINIT Fellowships at CEMMPRE

la Caixa” Foundation’s Doctoral INPhINIT Fellowships support talented researchers of the future.

Thanks to this programme, it is possible to can carry out a doctorate at the best universities and research centres in Spain and Portugal. There are two types of INPhINIT fellowship:

  • Incoming: fellowships for researchers abroad to carry out a STEM discipline PhD in Spain or Portugal.
  • Retaining: fellowships for researchers to remain in Spain or Portugal and carry out a PhD in any discipline.
    Submit your application by 25 January 2023 for Incoming and by 16 February 2023 for Retaining.

Opportunities for Incoming fellowships at CEMMPRE: