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Message from the Chairman of the Board
Throughout more than four decades, INESC has played an essential role in the development of information and communication technologies in Portugal. As one of the first non-profit institutions dedicated to research and development activities, INESC is now a nationally established institution with a strong international presence.
The institutions within the group, characterized by autonomous and independent development and intervention strategies, enable INESC to adapt to the rapid economic, social, and structural changes that characterize the 21st century. Throughout its history, the institutions within the INESC group have carried out thousands of research projects, trained tens of thousands of highly qualified human resources, and led to the creation of dozens of technological companies operating globally.
In a period of human history that presents particularly turbulent challenges, where geopolitical, economic, and environmental challenges demand innovative solutions and technological capacity, INESC will continue to be a unique resource for the country and for Europe, with its ability to develop the technologies and human resources needed to address these challenges. Future generations deserve our best efforts today to make tomorrow’s world more stable, tolerant, inclusive, and sustainable. INESC will continue to contribute, as it always has, to these objectives.
Arlindo Oliveira
Chairman of the Board
News
INESC-ID secures €27.2 million to establish the Sustainable Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Sail) Centre of Excellence
Led by INESC-ID, the Sustainable Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) will be a transformative project that will upgrade INESC-ID into a world-class Centre of Excellence (CoE) dedicated to the development of state-of-the-art, sustainable, and trustworthy Artificial Intelligence. To achieve its goals, INESC-ID is teaming up with two of Europe’s leading AI institutions: the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).
INESC TEC contributed to independent UK review on AI in electricity networks
Who is shaping the path towards the safe use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in electricity networks? What technical and regulatory challenges do we need to overcome? And what conditions are required to turn potential into real impact in the energy sector? These and other questions were discussed at a meeting organised by the UK’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero – the government body responsible for energy policy and the climate transition. Ricardo Bessa, researcher and coordinator of the Power & Energy Systems area at INESC TEC contributed with his knowledge and expertise.
INOV - ESA project demonstration in Portugal for emergency response
A field demonstration of the technologies developed in the Smart Connect project — integrating INOV and funded by the European Space Agency — took place in Portugal, with the aim of delivering resilient communications and space-based solutions for emergency response.