Electric Vehicles vs. Climate Change: INESC-ID at Técnico Open Day 2024 with EV4EU Project
INESC-ID marked its presence at the Técnico Open Day 2024, held on April 20 at Instituto Superior Técnico, in Lisbon, showcasing the Horizon Europe project EV4EU. The day was filled with lectures, interactive experiences, guided tours, and a science fair with 40 research projects on display, offering visitors a unique opportunity to discover the school and its initiatives.
At the event’s Science Fair, EV4EU took center stage at the INESC-ID stand, where researchers Cindy P. Guzman and Larissa Montefusco, engaged with many curious visitors who stopped by to chat. Under the title “Electric Vehicles Management for Carbon Neutrality: Discover how electrical vehicles can contribute to the fight against climate change”, they shared the project’s latest developments and discussed how its planned solutions can support the massification of electric vehicles while contributing to the decrease of carbon emissions and global warming.
Técnico Open Day 2024 was a major success, with over 2000 visitors throughout the day. With contributions from Departments, Students Associations, associated Research Units and Institutes, this was a day dedicated to celebrating diversity in the fields of engineering, science, technology and architecture, engaging the community with the best of what our science has to offer.
Know more about the project here.
Upcoming Events
Educational Workshop on Responsible AI for Peace and Security (UNODA)
On June 6 and 7, The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) are offering a selected group of technical students the opportunity to join a 2-day educational workshop on Responsible AI for peace and security.
The third workshop in the series will be held in Porto Salvo, Portugal, in collaboration with GAIPS, INESC-ID, and Instituto Superior Técnico. The workshop is open to students affiliated with universities in Europe, Central and South America, the Middle East and Africa, Oceania, and Asia.
Date & Time: June 6 a 7
Where: IST – Tagus Park, Porto Salvo
Registration deadline: April 8
Summary: “As with the impacts of Artificial intelligence (AI) on people’s day-to-day lives, the impacts for international peace and security include wide-ranging and significant opportunities and challenges. AI can help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, but its dual-use nature means that peaceful applications can also be misused for harmful purposes such as political disinformation, cyberattacks, terrorism, or military operations. Meanwhile, those researching and developing AI in the civilian sector remain too often unaware of the risks that the misuse of civilian AI technology may pose to international peace and security and unsure about the role they can play in addressing them. Against this background, UNODA and SIPRI launched, in 2023, a three-year educational initiative on Promoting Responsible Innovation in AI for Peace and Security. The initiative, which is supported by the Council of the European Union, aims to support greater engagement of the civilian AI community in mitigating the unintended consequences of civilian AI research and innovation for peace and security. As part of that initiative, SIPRI and UNODA are organising a series of capacity building workshops for STEM students (at PhD and Master levels). These workshops aim to provide the opportunity for up-and-coming AI practitioners to work together and with experts to learn about a) how peaceful AI research and innovation may generate risks for international peace and security; b) how they could help prevent or mitigate those risks through responsible research and innovation; c) how they could support the promotion of responsible AI for peace and security.”