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It's a major milestone for #INESCTEC. ✨ RECreation is now available on the SAP Store as part of the SAP Distributed Energy Resources (SAP DER) partner ecosystem. SAP selected INESC TEC to bring its expertise in distributed energy resources and energy communities to the SAP ecosystem, combining cutting-edge research with practical solutions that support the energy transition. 🔋🌍 Through this partnership, RECreation extends the capabilities of SAP Distributed Energy Resources by enabling the planning and management of renewable energy communities and collective self-consumption, helping utilities and energy providers integrate distributed assets more efficiently and unlock new flexibility services. 🌱Together, we are enabling organizations to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy communities, better manage distributed energy resources and collective self-consumption, and build more flexible, resilient and sustainable energy systems. 💡This collaboration demonstrates how research-driven innovation can be translated into solutions with real-world impact, supporting utilities in navigating the challenges of the energy transition. Know more: https://lnkd.in/dczSUVa8 #RenewableEnergy #EnergyCommunities #DistributedEnergyResources #EnergyTransition #SAP #SAPStore #Innovation #Sustainability #CleanEnergy #SmartEnergy #Research #TechForGood

Day 2 at Encontro Ciência e Inovação is on ⚡ Two moments stood out for INESC TEC today. Clara Gouveia, member of the board at #INESCTEC, pitched "Decarbonize and Reindustrialize: Energy, Technology and Competitiveness," making the case for bringing energy transition and industry together under the same European funding strategy. She pointed to Portugal's structural advantage - high renewable penetration and competitive energy prices, which benefit both the economy and emerging sectors like data centers - and highlighted two capabilities where Portugal can lead in Europe: energy storage, through batteries and hydrogen, and integrated grid management across both electric and thermal vectors. She also flagged what's still missing: scientific infrastructure to help companies test and scale their solutions, and financing that is faster and easier to access, arguing it's time to rethink how testbeds, DIHs, and technological infrastructures work together. 🔦 Nuno Ricardo Guimarães represented #INESCTEC in the AMALIA demo session, showcasing the new Portuguese-language LLM. INESC TEC was also involved, without presenting, in two other proposals today. In the Mobility, Robotics & Construction parallel session, the pitch for "Integrated Strategy for Intelligent Robotics in Portugal" was presented by Pedro Lima, from Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica (Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon), the proposal's main proponent. INESC TEC was one of the original partner institutions, and our researcher Bruno Ferreira spoke from the audience on our institute's behalf. In the parallel session "Digital - AI, Data and Quantum," Hugo Gamboa, from LIBPHys (NOVA School of Science and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa), presented the proposal "Scientific Sovereignty - Current Challenges and Paths for Science in Portugal and Europe," which included INESC TEC researcher Fernando Cassola Marques, PhD Cassola as a participant. #EnergyTransition #Decarbonization #ArtificialIntelligence #ScienceAndInnovation #Portugal

Shaping the future of sports performance with a smart, sensor-based solution that monitors athletes' movements and key performance metrics in real time? We're on it. 🏃♀️ 👕 Embedded in a wearable smart vest, the technology captures data such as heart rate and movement intensity ⚡, providing coaches and teachers with valuable insights during training sessions and physical education classes. 🎯 Beyond real-time monitoring, the platform also enables in-depth post-session analysis, using advanced algorithms and Artificial Intelligence to better understand athletes' behaviour, positioning and performance. 🌍 Developed under the TEXP@CT mobilising agenda, this solution combines smart textiles, sensors and AI to support the digital transformation of sports. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eWDgEZH5 #INESCTEC #sports #handball #wearable #SmartTextiles #Sensors #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalTransformation #TEXPCT

#INESCTEC was present today at Encontro Ciência e Inovação 2026 in Lisbon, taking part in two sessions: 🔹 "International Partnerships for Excellence" José Manuel Mendonça, President Emeritus of INESC TEC and Coordinator of FCT's International Partnerships, gave the context on the partnerships created two decades ago by Mariano Gago, now in their Phase IV. He highlighted Feedzai - a unicorn born from these international partnerships - as a clear example of their impact. INESC TEC is proud to host the UT Austin Portugal Program. The Coordinator also announced an event on 30 October, in Aveiro, bringing together CMU Portugal Program, UT Austin Portugal and MIT Portugal Program to showcase the work developed throughout Phase IV. Drawing on INESC TEC's experience leading INESCTEC.OCEAN, a TEAMING project, he shared a key piece of advice for teams under this programme: after four years, TEAMING projects must have a clear model for future sustainability and become self-sustaining. 🔹 "From thematic areas to the strategic domains of AI²" João Claro, President and CEO of INESC TEC, shared the ideas that motivated our proposal for this session, drawing on discussions from the INESC institutes' summer meeting in Brussels this July, where one of the central questions was: what are the fractures in Europe's technology stack? Four takeaways stood out: 1️⃣ Today's challenges go beyond competitiveness. They include security, defence, strategic dependencies, recurring crises, and accelerating technological disruption, demanding stronger responses from the science and innovation ecosystem. 2️⃣ Cohesion and competitiveness must be addressed together and now is the right moment, at both European and national level, to do so. 3️⃣ Strategic domains require attention to sectoral specificities and instruments must adapt to each thematic area. 4️⃣ Translation and orchestration are critical capabilities that must be built into how strategic domains are designed. Great to be part of these conversations shaping the future of Europe's science and innovation ecosystem. #CienciaInovacao2026 #INESCTEC #EuropeanResearch #Innovation #AI2 #FCT #ANI #CienciaViva INESC Brussels HUB | AI² - Agência para a Investigação e Inovação

Where innovation meets industry, in action. The #PRODUTECHR3 Mobilizing Agenda for the Production Technologies Sector for Reindustrialisation may have already come to an end, but before the curtain fell on years of innovation, #INESCTEC researchers involved in different PPS travelled to Vila Nova da Rainha, where the MC SONAE warehouse served as the stage for a range of demonstrations. Between dynamic marshalling, autonomous stacker robots, forklifts and decontainerisation solutions, the day was marked by the showcase of new tools carefully designed and integrated into an industrial context, aimed at using technology to reduce human effort and increase efficiency and productivity. Read here 👀 https://lnkd.in/eNzmAsqP Don't forget to check the video 📼 https://lnkd.in/eFyymNVP MC | LTPlabs | JPM | Infinite Foundry | IAPMEI

Twenty editions in and the stories keep getting better. 😉 Humanoid robots are moving from science fiction to industrial strategy. Europe is racing to modernise its energy systems. A technology company born from the INESC TEC innovation and developed by LTPlabs, has reached the podium at Europe's most prestigious innovation awards. And one researcher explains why, even in the age of AI, human expertise in operations remains indispensable. Oh, and there's a training programme launching this autumn that could change how Portuguese industry adopts AI on the factory floor. Time to read 👇 #INESCTEC #Newsletter #AI #Robotics #Innovation #EnergyTransition #Research

July is usually quiet. Not this year. As part of the STEP2Digital project, CTCP- Centro Tecnológico do Calçado de Portugal and #INESCTEC are hosting three webinars this month for the people asking the real questions about what digital transformation actually means for their business. Sensors and simulation. Human-machine collaboration. Eco-efficient production planning. One hour each, with the researchers who built the tools. Not theory. Not slide decks. The kind of conversation you can take back to the factory floor on Wednesday morning. Free to join. All sessions start at 14:30. 🗓️ July 15, 23 and 30 Register here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eEHJutDm Romão Santos | Henrique Piqueiro | Marcelo Petry | Luis Guardão | Rui Rebelo #STEP2Digital #CTCP #Webinar #DigitalTransformation #Sustainability #Industry50

We're heading to Lisbon for the Encontro Ciência e Inovação 2026 🔬 and if you haven't registered yet, now's the time. The event runs 15-16 July at the Lisbon Congress Centre, and as always, you'll find #INESCTEC across several sessions. Here's where to catch us: 🗓️ 15 July, 13:45: José Manuel Mendonça joins the panel on International Partnerships for Excellence 🗓️ 15 July, 16:30: Our Chairman and CEO João Claro is among the speakers of the session From Thematic Areas to the Strategic Domains of AI2 🗓️ 16 July, 09:00 : Bruno Ferreira talks Mobility, Robotics and Construction 🗓️ 16 July, 12:35: Nuno Ricardo Guimarães presents at the AMALIA Demo Session, diving into AI 🗓️ 16 July, 13:30: Clara Gouveia, from our Board of Directors, discusses Energy, Decarbonisation and Circularity But beyond the sessions, this year's event carries extra weight. It's setting the stage for a national conversation about the priorities of the new Agency for Research and Innovation (AI2), decisions that will shape Portugal's science and innovation landscape for years to come. It's a conversation we care about, and one we've been part of for a while now. Hope to see some of you there! Register 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e8hJyWWB #EncontroCiênciaInovação2026 #INESCTEC #Research #Innovation

Did you know that It is now possible to predict the spread of pests in vineyards? And #INESCTEC has the solution It's called VineShield-DT and it combines Digital Twins, AI, IoT sensors and smart traps to monitor how pests move across vineyards and act before the damage is done. Right now, most pest control still relies on adhesive traps checked by hand. VineShield-DT changes that logic entirely: instead of reacting, it predicts. Researcher Filipe Neves dos Santos leads INESC TEC's involvement and the ambition is clear: less pesticide, faster response, more resilient vineyards. Full article 🧐 https://lnkd.in/ek6F8bVH #VineShieldDT #Viticulture #AgriTech #DigitalTwin #AI #IoT #Sustainability

Vienna. The world's largest robotics conference. And #INESCTEC came home with two awards. At ICRA 2026, Pedro Dias won the Best Poster Award at the Circular Robotics workshop, for work that sits right at the intersection of robotics and sustainability. A robotic cell designed to dismantle end-of-life electronic devices: detecting, segmenting, selecting the right tool, and removing screws with the precision a human hand would struggle to match. The kind of system that could change how the world deals with e-waste. And that wasn't all. On the last day of the conference, the iBot4CRMs project, which INESC TEC is a partner of, was awarded Most Popular Project at the NeuroDesign in Human–Robot Interaction Competition, presented by Daniel Subtil. Congratulations to Pedro, Daniel, and everyone behind both pieces of work🏆 Read More 👉 https://lnkd.in/eQSeAv6H #ICRA2026 #Robotics #iBot4CRMs #CircularEconomy #EWaste #HumanRobotInteraction #Vienna