Azorean Leaders Show Support for MIT Portugal’s Green Islands Initiative |
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009 |
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The Regional President of the Azores as well as Azorean business and academic leaders united in support of the MIT Portugal Program and its Green Islands Initiative during a visit to São Miguel island by the Program’s leadership during the week of January 19, 2009.
 Professor Steve Connors and researcher Ned Spang visit an Azorean geothermal plant
President Carlos César met on January 22 with the leaders of the Green Islands Initiative, Professors Paulo Ferrão (also the National Director of MIT Portugal) and Stephen Connors. The meeting with President César capped a week of high-level meetings that established new strategic partnerships in support of the Green Islands Initiative with the Regional Government, regional electric utility Electricidade dos Açores (EDA), and the University of the Azores. Faculty leaders of MIT Portugal, from both MIT and Portuguese institutions, also toured a local geothermal power station.
 Professors Connors and Ferrao meet with Carlos César, Regional President of the Azores (Photo: Açoriano Oriental, Eduardo Costa)
The goal of the Green Islands Initiative is to make two or more islands in the Azores extremely energy self-sufficient by 2018. Professor Ferrão stated in an interview with Azorean journalists that this effort would be led by “tripling the amount of energy drawn from renewable sources, in terms of primary energy.”
The Green Islands Initiative is one of the flagship cross-cutting projects of the MIT Portugal Program, drawing on the research portfolio and industrial partnerships of all four of the Program’s focus areas: Bio-Engineering, Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing, Sustainable Energy Systems, and Transportation Systems.
(Click here for the account of the meeting between MIT Portugal and President César on the Azores government website.)
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MIT Portugal Experts in Lisbon Address Urban Mobility Challenges |
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009 |
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Lisbon, January 27, 2009—The world’s cities need to replace the gas-guzzling cars currently on the road with cheaper and more sustainable light-duty vehicles, according to experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) speaking at the Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon as part of a conference on “Urban Mobility: A Great Challenge for Society.”
The event—which was attended by Ana Paula Vitorino, Portugal’s Secretary of State for Transporation, and Marcos Perestrello, Vice President of Lisbon’s City Council—was organized by Portugal’s Forum for Industry Executives (Fórum de Administradores de Empresas, or FAE), in partnership with the MIT Portugal Program, a large-scale collaboration involving MIT and government, academia and industry in Portugal.
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MIT Portugal Collaboration Successfully Tests Software That Could Improve Traffic Management |
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Thursday, 22 January 2009 |
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As part of the MIT Portugal Program, researchers from MIT and Portugal have made progress in developing traffic simulation software that could make it easier for traffic managers to analyze road conditions and ease congestion in real time.
DynaMIT, a dynamic simulator based on model-based data fusion software, enables traffic engineers to integrate and analyze data from the dizzying array of information sources that have become available as a result of the proliferation of information and communications technologies—including road sensors, electronic toll collection devices, automatic video processing, global positioning systems, mobile sensor networks and smart phones.
 Brisa's Traffic Management Center |
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Portuguese Press Takes Note of MIT Portugal |
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Thursday, 15 January 2009 |
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The MIT Portugal Program received frequent press coverage in Portugal during the fall 2008. Among the stories were several about the program’s research programs, students, faculty and corporate affiliations that appeared in the country’s leading newspaper, Público; the most widely-read weekly news magazine, Expresso; two business newspapers, Diário Económico and Oje; and a publication that covers higher education, Semanário Universitário.
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Faculty Profile: Cláudia Lobato da Silva |
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Thursday, 15 January 2009 |
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 Cláudia Lobato da Silva
Cláudia Lobato da Silva, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, joined the IST faculty in 2007 as an MIT Portugal assistant professor working in the Joaquim Sampaio Cabral group in the Bio-Engineering focus area. She helps conduct research on stem cell bioengineering and also gives lectures in this area. MIT Portugal Director of Education Josh Jacobs recently spoke to Cláudia about her work.
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