FCT, in collaboration with the Agency for Clinical Research and Biomedical Innovation, has recently opened a call for proposals Research 4 COVID-19 with the purpose to fund short R&D projects and initiatives, for a period of up to three months, and a budget limit of 30K€, to assist immediately the National Service of Health, Health […]
Nuno Nunes, president of ITI / LARSyS and Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, and Rodrigo Rodrigues (IST / INESC-ID) have recently obtained a 2.5 million euros funding for a project that combines digital technologies with major societal challenges. The BIG project – Blockchain technologies and design Innovation for social Good – is a European […]
On February 27, Chiara Manfletti, President of the Portugal Space Agency was in Madeira to talk about a collaboration with ITI / LARSyS research unit. During her visit and after giving a small presentation about the Portugal Space Agency, Chiara had the chance to get to know some of the Faculty and researchers and their […]
The new MEMEX technologies will make it possible to tell the stories of the most endangered communities, thanks to the possibility of building narrative paths with pictures, videos, maps on and around the cultural heritage of the different territories. By telling their stories, the communities not only will be able to have visibility with their […]
Dinarte Vasconcelos, a Ph.D. student at IST and ITI / LARSyS researcher, supervised by Prof. Nuno Nunes, Full Professor at IST and president of ITI, was in Bangkok, Thailand, at the beginning of February to install and test bioacoustic sensors for monitoring the mosquitoes responsible for transmitting Malaria, Zika and Dengue. Dengue and Malaria are […]
Prof. Valentina Nisi, Prof. Nuno Nunes, and the researcher Vanessa Cesário have attended the kick-off meetings of the H2020 MEMEX project, on January 9-10, at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, in Genova, Italy, a project for promoting social cohesion and cultural diversity. This was a two-day event that comprised a general project introduction, presentations related […]
ITI/LARSyS researchers Valentina Nisi, Mara Dionísio, Cláudia Silva and Nuno Nunes received an Honorable Mention for the Best Paper Award at CHItaly 2019 with “A participatory platform supporting awareness and empathy building between tourists and locals: the Há-Vita case study,” on September 24. Also, Lígia Duro, ITI PhD student, presented on September 25 the paper […]
Valentina Nisi and Nuno Nunes recently won an H2020 project named MEMEX – MEMories and EXperiences for inclusive digital storytelling, as a partner, with a budget of about 380K€ for ITI. This project, funded by the European Commission, has an overall budget of 3,995.036,25€. The project coordinator is Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), established in […]
ITI (Interactive Technologies Institute) will have a large presence at CHI 2019, which is taking place in Glasgow, UK on May 4-9. This ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. This year, several Full Papers and Late Breaking Works have been accepted from ITI members. List […]
The Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor, visited on February 1st Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) on an official visit, along with a Portuguese delegation of 15 people, which included the President of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Paulo Ferrão; Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program National Co-Director, Nuno Nunes; representatives of Industry, […]
