Aimed at attracting the best talent for Civil Engineering studies, a Scholarship Programme in Civil Engineering has been created in a partnership between UMinho and businesses in the Engineering, Civil Engineering and Public Works areas.
The programme consists of study grants for the best 15 students of the Integrated Master's Course in Civil Engineering in the years 2014/2015, 2015/2016 and 2016/2017. The grant equals the value of the annual tuition fee and is maintained for the full 5 years of the course, provided the student remains among the best of the course.
The students selected to receive the scholarships commit to accepting a one-year paid internship, on graduation, to the value of at least 2.5 times the minimum wage, provided the business partners wish to offer this.
Scholarships for the Civil Engineering Integrated Master's Course that include payment of tuition fees during the whole course and an internship on graduation.
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178 Scholarships for Excellence
Study grants of equal value to tuition fees for the best student of each year of each course (must have +16 average grade).
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40 Scholarships for Merit
For students receiving financial help from the
Social Welfare Services and having exceptional grades (1st and 2nd cycle students with an average +16); 1 scholarship for each School or Institute of the University.
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5.474 Social Welfare Scholarships
Study grants for students from low income families (1st and 2nd cycles).
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104 Emergency Social Fund Grants
Study grant for students in socio-economic difficulty (not receiving help from Social Welfare Services).
In 2013, UMinho created the Emergency Social Fund (ESF), a non-repayable, free financial loan designed to help those students whose academic achievement was being affected by a one-off situation of socio-economic difficulty that could not be resolved by pre-existing higher education social welfare support initiatives.
Over the last few years, and as a result of the exemplary involvement of the Lions Club of Braga, dozens of firms, recognizing the importance of higher education for building a more competent society, have become benefactors of this fund.
[+] Prizes awarded on the University of Minho’s Anniversary Day
11 Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Holder of a Caixa Geral de Depósitos card and in receipt of a social welfare scholarship from the University of Minho, having the highest average, rounded to the decimal point, in the academic year 2012/13, having passed all the subjects of the courses linked to the organic teaching and research units of the University of Minho. Prize-winners 11 such units of the University of Minho.
1 City Council of Braga
Francisco Salgado Zenha
Best student on the Public Administration undergraduate course, with a final mark equal or above 15.
José Ferreira Salgado
Best student on the Law undergraduate course, with a final mark equal or above 15, calculated to the thousandths.
1 City Council of Guimarães
Best student of the 1st cycle courses taught on the Guimarães campus.
1 AIMinho Industry/Businesses
Businesses
Best student on the Economics, Management, International Relations and International Business undergraduate courses, with a final mark equal or above 17.
Industry
Best student of the integrated master’s/graduate courses in the area of Engineering, with an average of or above 17.
[+] Prizes awarded on the anniversary of Schools/Institutes
[+] Chairs
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DST / UMinho Chair in Construction of the future: Automation and modularization
The Institute of Science and Innovation for Bio-Sustainability (IB-S) articulates research, post-graduate and lifelong learning activities and spreads knowledge in partnership with businesses, local authorities, business and civic associations and other units of RDI of the National Technological and Scientific System. The IB-S is dedicated to high quality, multidisciplinary scientific research aimed at innovation for the combined sustainability of the natural and human environment.
The dst/IB-S Chair in Construction of the future: Automation and modularization, associated with the Institute of Science and Innovation for Bio Sustainability, has been established in line with the research developed so far.
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PT-FLAD Chair in Intelligent Cities and Governance
E-Governance (EGOV), understood as maximizing the Information and Communication Technologies for transforming public governance and aimed at increasing efficiency, efficacy, transparency and democratic scrutiny, constitutes a multidisciplinary area of research with an enormous impact on the evolution of society and the state. At the same time, research into new concepts of cities, generically labelled Smart Cities, provides ever more solutions to the multiple challenges created by the global process of urbanization. The University of Minho has had an important role in these areas for many years. After May 2014, it became the home for the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV), the first United Nations presence in Portugal. Simultaneously, it embraced a Development Unit of the Agency for Administrative Modernization (AMA), which hopes to have a laboratory for prototyping new solutions and projects in EGOV. In the equally multidisciplinary area of Smart Cities, the University of Minho has developed various support technologies (e.g. in IT security, cyber systems and big data) and projected pilot initiatives.
In this context, the University of Minho has created the PT-FLAD Chair in Smart Cities and Smart Governance, supported by Portugal Telecom (PT) and by the Luso-American Foundation for Development (FLAD).
