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Plano para a Igualdade IPVC 2025-2028

“Curtas” para divulgação de boas práticas na alimentação sustentável nas IES

Connecting people and strengthening inter-institutional cooperation: the case o...

Smart Monitoring of Constructed Wetlands to Improve Efficiency and Water Quality

The Smart monitoring of constructed wetlands to improve efficiency and water quality (SmarterCW) project aims to monitor biological wastewater treatment processes by gathering continuous data from remote water and environmental sensors. The acquired data can be processed and analyzed through data science tools to understand better the complex and coupled phenomena underneath wastewater treatment and monitor and...

Challenges of digital waste marketplace - the upvalue platform

Waste management is a major challenge for contemporary societies, requiring urgent attention since population growth combined with widespread consumerism and industrialization has led to an alarming increase in waste production. To avoid harmful environmental impacts and the misuse of resources, it is urgent to combat this scourge. A potential solution involves the creation of industrial symbioses, characterize...

An experimental evaluation of tools for grading concurrent programming exercises

Automatic grading based on unit tests is a key feature of massive open online courses (MOOC) on programming, as it allows instant feedback to students and enables courses to scale up. This technique works well for sequential programs, by checking outputs against a sample of inputs, but unfortunately it is not adequate for detecting races and deadlocks, which precludes its use for concurrent programming, a key s...

The Portuguese Sustainable Campus Network: a knowledge collaboration for sustai...

Networks are an important mechanism for systemic change toward sustainability in higher education institutions. In Portugal, there is no formal law or regulation at the governmental level pressuring for this change. Also, there was a need for action and a lack of collaboration between the Portuguese higher education community to allow an advanced sustainability implementation in higher education institutions. T...

Implementation and development of IPVC's equality plan in association with its ...

Purpose (Mandatory) - In the scope of the Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo (IPVC) Strategic Plan 2020-2024 and its Social Responsibility strategy, was developed a project, IPVConcilia Project, aiming to invest in conditions that promote equality, inclusion, well-being, and conciliation of professional life with family and personal life its staff. The project gained a competitive funding to work on prom...

Towards a Practical and Cost-Effective Water Monitoring System

In recent years, there has been increasing awareness of the preservation, protection and sustainable use of natural resources. Water resources, being one of the most important, face major threats due to contamination by pollutants of various types and origins. Maintaining the quality of water resources requires more robust, reliable and more frequent monitoring than traditional data collection techniques based ...