Technical studies by INESC‑ID inform Portugal’s Energy Storage Strategy (ENAE)
Portugal has opened the public consultation for its National Energy Storage Strategy (ENAE), presenting a roadmap for the expansion of electricity storage capacity through 2040. At the core of the proposal is an Action Plan informed by technical studies carried out by INESC‑ID, INESC TEC…
INESC-ID gets new projects approved in three different FCT calls
INESC‑ID recently saw four of its proposals approved by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), across three competitive calls that reinforce the institute’s role in national and international research initiatives. The Defence + Science Programme call focuses on strengthening scientific and technological capacity…
AMALIA was officially launched and is now ready for open use
The AMALIA (Automatic Multimodal Language Assistant with Artificial Intelligence) was officially presented on 1 July at Técnico Innovation Center, a ceremony attended by INESC-ID, as part of the research team. The presentation was met with very positive feedback and a clear recognition of the work…
Making their way across the universe: two space missions to join ISTSat-1
After two years in orbit, the ISTSat-1 remains fully operational and is now expecting company. Two missions are being prepared by IST NanoSatLab, in which INESC-ID participates, and set to join the first Portuguese university nanosatellite, with one of them scheduled to fly as early…
“Evaluating ML: When will we stop fooling ourselves?”, the second INESC-ID Distinguished Lecture
Following a successful first session, the second INESC-ID Distinguished Lecture was held last week, on 2 July, at Instituto Superior Técnico featuring Professor Ricardo Baeza-Yates from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and University of Chile. Entitled “Evaluating ML: When will we stop…
INESC-ID joins ADRA, the European AI, Data and Robotics Association
INESC-ID has officially joined the AI, Data and Robotics Association (ADRA) as a Full Member, deepening its engagement with Europe’s AI, Data and Robotics community. ADRA was established as the private sector representative of the European Partnership on AI, Data and Robotics, one of the…
INESC-ID secures two AI grants from CMU Portugal and UT Austin Portugal: improving LLM code generation and humanoid domestic robots
INESC-ID has been awarded two research grants under the 2025 exploratory project calls of the CMU Portugal and UT Austin Portugal programmes, funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). one focused on making LLM-generated code more reliable, the other on enabling humanoid…
INESC-ID awarded €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…
Smart charging in the Azores: EV4EU presents V2X results from Portuguese demonstrator
Around 47% of new vehicles acquired in the Azores last year are electric, with an estimated 6000 electric vehicles (EVs) already used across the archipelago. With these promising numbers, the INESC-ID led EV4EU project (“Electric Vehicles Management for carbon neutrality in Europe”), held the final…
No longer invisible: PiCaSSo brings pediatric palliative care data to Portugal’s hospitals
In Portugal, 7,828 children require palliative care. Their clinical data still lives in Excel spreadsheets, scattered across doctors and hospitals. Maria João Palaré, a specialist at Hospital de Santa Maria, decided it was time to change that. “In February 2024, we were contacted by a…