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April 30, 2025

The MIT-Portugal Program enters Phase 4

November 25, 2024

New AI tool generates realistic satellite images of future flooding

August 8, 2024

MPP awarded 2024 innovative seed projects

June 18, 2024

Portuguese Minister of Education, Science, and Innovation participates in MIT Portugal Innovation Workshop

Photo of Marina Hatsopoulos

May 27, 2024

AEROS-MH1 satellite is orbiting Earth to study ocean health

December 22, 2023

Season Greetings – 2023 Year in Review

October 9, 2023

MPP 2023 Annual Conference Wrap-Up

June 6, 2023

MPP awarded 16 new innovative seed projects in MPP strategic areas

May 26, 2023

MPP Former Director, Prof. Dava Newman awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa in Engineering from the Universidade do Minho

April 21, 2023

Three portuguese students participate in MIT's Space Week Events

March 30, 2023

PGC meets to approve the MPP 2023 activity plan

March 29, 2023

External Review Committee (ERC) met to assess MPP progress

March 10, 2023

Final Year of the MPP Flagship Projects: The seven flagship projects met for another follow-up meeting

March 7, 2023

MPP online info session on “How to apply for a MPP-FCT PhD Grant” joined online 35 prospective PhD Students

February 22, 2023

Open Call for 10 PhD Grants in the MPP research area of Climate Science & Climate Change

February 11, 2023

MPP celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

February 2, 2023

Early Announcement - 2023 Call for MPP2030-FCT PhD Grants will open soon

December 22, 2022

Season's Greetings from the MIT Portugal Program

December 7, 2022

MPP Flagship projects met to present the latest results obtained in 2022

November 30, 2022

Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology, and Higher Education, Elvira Fortunato, visit MIT

November 21, 2022

MIT Portugal Program Soft Skills Course for Leadership

November 2, 2022

MIT Portugal awarded 40 new Ph.D. grants

October 31, 2022

MIT Portugal flagship project K2D launches is first prototype

October 25, 2022

MPP co-director, Zita Martins, speaks at FLAD first Forum on Portugal and USA Higher Education

October 3, 2022

MPP National Director, Pedro Arezes, has been reappointed as Dean of the School of Engineering, University of Minho

September 30, 2022

MPP 2022 Annual Conference Wrap-Up

September 9, 2022

MPP PhD Student awarded the 3rd prize of VI Research Pitches Contest - Compostela Group

July 29, 2022

MPP and Flagship projects meet for the 6th status meeting

July 27, 2022

20 PhD and Master’s students from 6 nationalities joined the 2nd edition of the Marine Robotic Summer School

July 8, 2022

MPP announces the first Students Poster Award. Call is open until July 31st

July 1, 2022

Eureka Meets the Atlantic at MIT to discuss the sustainable development of cities

June 10, 2022

Portuguese Minister of Education, João Costa, gives a Linguistics talk at MIT

May 30, 2022

Three students from Portuguese universities attend the Space Week at MIT

May 20, 2022

MIT Portugal Program session at Ciência 2022 Summit

May 6, 2022

FCT and MIT Portugal hosted a session about research opportunities under European Union funding

March 28, 2022

155 participants attended the MPP session on how to apply for the 2022 MPP-FCT PhD Call

March 8, 2022

Open Call for MPP2030-FCT PhD Grants

March 7, 2022

MIT Portugal hosted its annual PGC meeting

February 10, 2022

Celebrating WOMEN IN SCIENCE

January 25, 2022

MPP discuss the scientific advances of the research projects and the contributions for Portugal

January 5, 2022

Dava Newman and Paulo Ferrão were nominated as new members of the MIT Portugal Program Governing Committee (PGC)

December 23, 2021

Holiday Greetings and a Year in Review from MIT Portugal

December 16, 2021

MPP Co-director, Zita Martins, nominated by ESA as Community Scientist of the Ariel Space Mission

December 13, 2021

8 New Exploratory Research Projects approved in MPP strategic areas

December 2, 2021

Minister Manuel Heitor and MIT Portugal delegation visits MIT

October 27, 2021

MIT Portugal and Flagships Projects joined for a follow-up meeting on project's research progress

October 14, 2021

MIT Portugal Workshop on Modeling resource-efficient districts with UBEM

September 28, 2021

MPP 2021 Annual Conference Wrap-Up

September 1, 2021

FDL and the Earth Intelligence Engine - MIT Portugal team

August 2, 2021

MIT Portugal Marine Robotics Summer School

July 1, 2021

MPP session at Ciência 2021

May 24, 2021

MPP PhD student awarded best doctoral thesis on Quality

May 24, 2021

2021 OPEN CALL for MPP2030-FCT PhD Grants - applications until July 2

Paulo Ferrão

May 13, 2021

MPP Former Director, Paulo Ferrão, awarded IST Distinguished Professor 2021

May 11, 2021

SNOB-5G could enable smart city infrastructure and vehicular communications

April 29, 2021

How Software Defined Networking (SDN) Will Bolster 5G Networks in cities

March 31, 2021

3rd Program Governing Committee meeting

March 24, 2021

SNOB-5G: The future of a more sustainable and cost-effective 5G network

March 10, 2021

First Flagship Projects meeting of 2021

March 3, 2021

MPP Co-director, Zita Martins, named consultant for science, innovation and digital transition of the president of Portugal

February 23, 2021

Join MIT Portugal & FDL 2021

February 9, 2021

MIT Portugal + Blue Origin student payload competition – MiFiRE update

January 22, 2021

MIT Portugal ⁩Flagship research - Nanosatellite thruster emits pure ions | MIT News

Maria Zuber

January 18, 2021

MPP Governing Committee Member, Maria Zuber, named to Biden’s science council

January 7, 2021

8 Exploratory Research Projects approved under the MIT Portugal Program

December 30, 2020

Top MIT Portugal 2020 Moments: A Year in Review !!

December 22, 2020

MPP Director Dava Newman named director of MIT Media Lab

December 21, 2020

A message from MPP Directors : Happy Holidays!

December 14, 2020

Follow-up meeting with Flagships Projects

December 11, 2020

MPP2030-FCT PhD Grant 2020 Call - Preliminary Results announced

December 9, 2020

NewSat,the next generation of Small Satellites is officially launched

December 4, 2020

MIT Portugal SMART project is the winner of AI Moonshot Challenge

November 20, 2020

AEROS Constellation: Kick-off meeting

November 17, 2020

AIR Centre Networking Fridays with MPP Directors

November 9, 2020

MIT Portugal Program has been Evaluated by the External Review Committee (ERC)

November 9, 2020

Microgravity and Space Research Under Discussion at Portugal Space Seminar with MPP Speakers

November 6, 2020

MIT Portugal Discussed Spaceship Earth at Ciência 2020

Dava Newman

November 4, 2020

MIT Portugal Director featured in Scientific American magazine

October 29, 2020

C-Tech MIT Portugal Summer School has ended

October 23, 2020

MPP Annual Conference Wrap-Up

September 23, 2020

MIT Portugal and Flagships Projects joined for a working session

August 7, 2020

C-Tech MIT Portugal Summer School is officially started

July 31, 2020

OPEN Call for AI & Space Tech - Registrations until October 9

July 31, 2020

The Digital Revolution of Power Transformers is officially started

July 23, 2020

Job opportunity is OPEN under the project Transformer 4.0 – a MIT Portugal flagship project

July 20, 2020

C-Tech Summer School - APPLICATIONS OPEN for 15 studentships

July 6, 2020

Call for PhD Grants just opened

July 6, 2020

MIT Portugal team joined AI Research for NASA FDL

June 26, 2020

MIT Climate Portal: a valuable resource for Climate Change

June 24, 2020

C-Tech MIT Portugal Summer School

June 3, 2020

EarthDNA’s Climate 101 Course - Now with Portuguese and Spanish subtitles

MIT Dome

May 28, 2020

MIT PI of 2020 MIT Portugal Seed Project awarded research funding to address Covid-19

May 20, 2020

Introducing the Blue Origin Student Payload Competition Finalist - Team MiFiRE!

April 23, 2020

MIT Portugal Program achieved 12.2M€ funding for 4 new R&D projects

April 13, 2020

MIT Portugal Program organizes its annual Program Governing Committee (PGC)

March 23, 2020

Covid-19 diagnostic based on MIT tech might be tested on patient samples

March 17, 2020

Opportunities to Research in Portugal: National Library of Portugal (BNP) and National Archive of Torre do Tombo (DGLAB-ANTT)

February 25, 2020

A Successful MPP Climate Workshop at MIT

February 21, 2020

MIT joins FLAD to promote training and research initiatives in the USA

February 18, 2020

MIT Portugal Seedling Project Team starts a ground testing campaign at NASA Ames with Astrobee free-flyer robot

January 14, 2020

Sponsorship for Space Week 2020 @MIT

December 13, 2019

MIT Portugal Data Science Workshop Wrap Up

December 11, 2019

MIT Portugal Experiment Launched Into Space

December 6, 2019

Portugal Space featured in MIT Technology Review

October 29, 2019

MIT Visit for the Challenges of Climate Policy Symposium

October 17, 2019

Opportunity for Portuguese Faculty: MIT Climate Symposia Sponsorship

October 10, 2019

MPP Annual Conference Wrap-Up

October 2, 2019

Director Pedro Arezes has been named the Dean of Engineering at the University of Minho!

September 20, 2019

Blue Origin Payload Competition Update

September 17, 2019

Opportunity for Portuguese Female Entrepreneurs with Babson College

September 5, 2019

MIT Releases "Work of the Future" Report

August 21, 2019

Building Companies Based on Science

July 24, 2019

Portugal Space is Hiring!

July 22, 2019

MIT Portugal Director feat. in Chicago Museum Exhibit

July 19, 2019

MPP Workshop wrap-up: Oceans to Space: the new deep-blue economy

July 17, 2019

MPP Co-Director Dava Newman Delivers TEDxMIT Talk

July 15, 2019

MIT Portugal Featured at Ciência 2019

July 11, 2019

A Successful 2019 IWI

July 10, 2019

MIT Portugal at Ciência 2019

June 20, 2019

MIT Portugal Co-Director on the team selected to ESA’s new mission

June 19, 2019

MIT Portugal’s lead faculty for Digital Manufacturing featured in the MIT News

Dava Newman

June 4, 2019

MPP Co-Director featured in CNN article

Blue Origin launch

May 15, 2019

Blue Origin Student Payload Competition Finalist Team Announced

PAPS Meeting

March 21, 2019

PAPS Meets: MIT Portugal, DTx, and COTEC Portugal

Dava Newman on International Women's Day

March 21, 2019

Dava Newman Honored on International Women's Day

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