🚀 Third and final day of CeDRI at SEI CeDRI concludes its participation in Economy and Innovation Week at Brigantia Ecopark with four more projects that demonstrate the scope and impact of the research we carry out: 💎 DataGems Project — researcher Gabriel Leite presents innovative solutions for data mining and value creation. 🫒 Olive Grove to Fork 4.0 project — Lucas Paula and Maurício Morais demonstrate how technology is revolutionising the olive oil supply chain, from the olive grove to the consumer. 🌿 SmartProduce project — also featuring Lucas Paula and Maurício Morais, this project applies smart technologies to agricultural production. 💡 SmartLight Project — researchers Luís Lopes and @Carlos Alcântara present smart lighting solutions focused on energy efficiency and quality of life in cities and urban spaces. Three days, ten projects, one goal: to put research at the service of innovation and regional development. Thank you to everyone who visited us! 🙏🔬🤖 #SEI2026 #EconomyInnovationWeek #CeDRI #UPB #BrigantiaEcopark #DataGems #OliveGroveToFork #SmartProduce #SmartLight #Agriculture #SmartEnergy #Innovation #Research

🚀 Second day of CeDRI at SEI — and the innovation keeps coming! CeDRI continues to make its mark at the Economy and Innovation Week at Brigantia Ecopark, with three more applied research projects in the spotlight: 🏭 PRODUTECH Project — researcher Leonardo Mendonça presents technological solutions aimed at modernising and digitising industrial production processes. 🌿 CarbonTech Project — Mauro Leme and Gregor Umbelino demonstrate how CeDRI’s research is developing innovative technologies for the production of biochar and activated carbon. 🌱 iCarbono Project — researcher Raphael Britto presents smart approaches to carbon monitoring and management, contributing to a greener and more efficient economy. Science serving the region and the planet. 💡🌍 There’s still time to visit us at Brigantia Ecopark! #SEI2026 #EconomyInnovationWeek #CeDRI #UPB #BrigantiaEcopark #PRODUTECH #CarbonTech #iCarbono #Sustainability #Digitalisation #Innovation #Research

As part of TALK FOR US, we invite you to take part in the CeDRI webinar entitled ‘From data to personalised learning: the role of recommendation systems in education’, presented by Beatriz Flamia, on 28 October 2026 at 2.30 pm, in the ESTiG video conference room at UPB, and online. Speaker: Beatriz Flamia. Date: 28 October 2026, at 2.30 pm. Title: ‘From data to personalised learning: the role of recommendation systems in education’. Further information at: https://cloud.ipb.pt/f/80ad746f57c64e22aa4d/ Online: https://ipb-pt.zoom.us/j/83388915869?pwd=MzTTumOI2EOA0BsEb0Y3GLSREuvA9a.1

🏆 Best Paper Award at TEEM 2026 CeDRI researcher Laiany Suganuma attended the International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM 2026), held in Porto, Portugal, from 21 to 23 October. At the conference, she presented the paper “Proposal of a Mobile Robot for Robotic Day Line Follower Competition: ROS2 and Pico4Drive Architecture Approach”, which received the Best Paper Award in the “New Trends in Mechatronics Engineering Education” track. The work is part of her PhD research, supervised by José Gonçalves, Miguel Conde and Paulo Costa. Congratulations to Laiany and the whole team on this recognition! #cedri #CeDRI #UPB #Innovation #Research

🚀 CeDRI is taking part in SEI — Economy and Innovation Week! The first day of Economy and Innovation Week, at Brigantia Ecopark, was marked by CeDRI’s presence with two standout projects: 🚗 Drivolution Project — presented by researcher Luiz Luiz, this project explores the future of mobility, combining technology and sustainability in an innovative vision for transport systems. ♻️ Lipor Project — researchers Caio Oliveira and Beatriz Faria demonstrated how CeDRI’s research is contributing to smart solutions in the field of waste management and the circular economy, in partnership with Lipor. Innovation is happening right here in Bragança! 💡 Come and find out about our work throughout this week at Brigantia Ecopark. #SEI2026 #EconomyInnovationWeek #CeDRI #UPB #BrigantiaEcopark #Drivolution #Lipor #CircularEconomy #Mobility #Innovation #research

🏆 Scientific article awarded the Best Paper prize at TEEM 2026! We are proud to highlight the honour bestowed upon Rúben Silva, Pedro Oliveira and Paulo Matos, whose scientific article was recognised with the Best Paper Award in the ‘Experiential and Project-Based Learning’ track at the international conference Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM 2026), held in Porto, on 23 October 2026. 📱🔍 Entitled “A Mobile LiDAR-Based 3D Scanning Application for Indoor and Semi-Outdoor Mesh Reconstruction and Object-Level Region-of-Interest Capture”, the paper presents a 3D scanning application based on mobile LiDAR technology, which enables the reconstruction of three-dimensional models of indoor and semi-outdoor spaces, as well as the capture of specific regions of interest at the object level. ✨ This award recognises the quality of the work carried out and reinforces the importance of scientific research and technological innovation in creating solutions with the potential for application in different contexts. 👏 Heartfelt congratulations to the authors on this achievement and for their contribution to the advancement of scientific and technological knowledge! #cedri #UPB #teem2026 #ScientificResearch #innovation

🚀 From research to innovation: the EDI+ tool developed in Portugal! How can scientific research be turned into a solution with a real impact? 🇵🇹 The Centre for Research in Digitalisation and Intelligent Robotics (CeDRI) at the Polytechnic University of Bragança has developed the EDI+ Tool, a digital platform that supports research centres and universities in promoting Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). Developed as part of the European STEP project, the tool enables users to monitor performance indicators, create anonymous surveys, generate reports and visualise data via interactive dashboards. In this way, it helps institutions identify areas for improvement, track progress and make data-driven decisions. Participation in the widerAdvance Facility has helped to strengthen the strategy for promoting and showcasing this solution, creating opportunities for new partnerships and for its adoption by more organisations. 🌍 The next step? To extend the use of the EDI+ Tool to new research centres, universities and organisations, reinforcing the impact of science in building more equitable, diverse and inclusive environments. 🔗 Read this success story: https://www.wideradvance.eu/success-stories/edi-tool-portugal #CeDRI #UPB #EDI #Equity #Diversity #Inclusion #ScientificResearch #Innovation #WiderAdvance #ScienceWithImpact #EuropeanUnion

Two intense days in Bragança with the STARS-Health consortium! On 19 and 20 October, partners from the Netherlands, Sweden, Portugal, Spain and the Czech Republic met at Polytechnic University of Bragança to move the project forward. STARS-Health aims to help older adults with lower health and digital literacy understand and use digital health services. We are doing this by designing a Luma app and ecosystem and by creating training for formal and informal caregivers, so that care is more integrated and health inequalities between older adults are reduced. What we worked on: - Blended care: reviewing the test-phase results and the adjustments ahead (WP4) - Caregiver training: a co-design workshop on “Working and Deciding Together” (WP5) - Impact, dissemination and publication strategy (WP2) - The road towards the final results (WP3) - A meeting of our advisory board Thank you to everyone who travelled to Bragança and to those who joined online. Great discussions, and a warm welcome from the whole UPB team. #cedri #CeDRI #UPB #innovation #research #starshealth

🫀 VCardioAI approved for funding by the FCT! CeDRI is pleased to announce the approval of the VCardioAI project – Intelligent Cardiovascular Screening using Vectorcardiography – under the ‘HEALTH + SCIENCE: Exploratory Projects 2025’ call for proposals from the Foundation for Science and Technology. 🔬 The initiative aims to develop a portable cardiovascular diagnostic system that combines vectorcardiography and artificial intelligence to support the early detection of cardiac abnormalities. The aim is to facilitate access to cardiovascular screening, particularly in inland regions with limited access to specialist healthcare. 🤝 The project brings together researchers from CeDRI, the UPB School of Health and ULSNE EPE, and also benefits from the collaboration of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto. A commitment to technological innovation to promote more accessible and equitable healthcare! #VCardioAI #Research #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalHealth #FCT #CeDRI

CeDRI researcher Romeu Sequeira participates in IEEE AICT 2026 Romeu Sequeira, researcher at the Centre for Research in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics (CeDRI), participated in the 20th IEEE International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies (IEEE AICT 2026), held from 14 to 16 October 2026 at ADA University in Baku, Azerbaijan. During the event, Romeu Sequeira presented the scientific paper “Forseti: A GitLab-Based Framework to Support Assessment of Individual Contributions in Collaborative Programming Assignments”, co-authored with José Exposto. The research introduces a GitLab-based platform designed to support the assessment of individual student contributions in collaborative programming projects. Romeu Sequeira also served as Co-Chair of the “ICT in Education and Research” session, contributing to scientific discussion and international knowledge exchange. #cedri #CeDRI #UPB #innovation #research