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University of Porto

University information
NameUniversity of Porto
Native nameUniversidade do Porto
MottoVirtus Unita Fortius Agit
Established1911
TypePublic University
RectorJosé Carlos D. Marques dos Santos
StaffTeaching Staff: 1 920 (ETI) / Technical and Administrative Staff: 1 693
Students30,640 (2009)
Under graduates22 405 (1st Cycle and Integrated Master courses)
Post graduates8 235 (Master and Doctorate courses)
Other students742 (Post-Doc)
CityPorto
CountryPortugal
Websitewww.up.pt

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The University of Porto (Universidade do Porto) is a Portuguese public university located in Porto, and founded 22 March 1911. It is the largest Portuguese university by number of enrolled students and has one of the most noted research outputs in Portugal. It was considered one of the 100 best Universities of Europe, in 2010.

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The YES Meeting - Young European Scientist Meeting - is an international meeting taking place in Porto, Portugal, from the 24th to 26th September 2010, organized by students from the Medical Faculty of University of Porto, Portugal. This meeting provides students in biomedical fields the opportunity to learn from world class specialists, present their research work, take part in various workshops, thus promoting a true exchange of knowledge and experience between those who are most passionate about science. Visit www.yesmeeting.org for more information.
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This year we have a team from Portugal for the first time, the Univ. of Porto Business School. TheJohn Molson MBA International Case Competition is a not-for-profit event organized by a team of four MBA students from the John Molson School of Business. The competition is open to top business schools worldwide, and is recognized as the largest competition of its kind. Its main purpose is to bridge the gap between corporate and academic worlds, which ultimately enriches both students and executives alike. The competition format is a round-robin tournament consisting of five business cases. The cases are selected from among the top entries from the annual Case Writing Competition. One of these cases is a live case presentation by a major company about a real-life business challenge they are currently facing. With three hours to prepare, teams of four students analyze and evaluate unpublished business cases using the skills, knowledge and experience they have acquired from their respective MBA curricula. Students rely on their own abilities as they are without the aid of tools such as PowerPoint and the internet. The final product is a hand written presentation that demonstrates the students' ability to dig into the problem and develop a feasible solution. Once preparation is complete, they present their strategic solutions and a detailed plan of action to a panel of senior business executives. More than two hundred senior business executives serve as judges, using their <b>...</b>
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Institutional Video of the Science and Technology Park of University of Porto (UPTEC) SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PARK OF UNIVERSITY OF PORTO The Science and Technology Park of University of Porto is a space for the mutual leverage of skills between academia and businesses, which seeks to take advantage of this real proximity to act as a provider of interconnection between these two media, capable of creating an environment conducive to innovation and to the installation of technology-based and or creative businesses. UPTEC is a structure capable of enhancing the socio-economic aspects of the Porto region, as it concentrates a large number of start-ups and private R&D centers around the University of Porto. Divided into four distinct centers -- Technology Center, Creative Industries Center, Sea Technology Center and Biotechnology Center -- the UPTEC includes two types of support structures for businesses, including Incubators and Centers for Business Innovation. In the Incubator, entrepreneurs find the necessary support to turn their ideas into businesses with potential for rapid growth. At the Center for Business Innovation, the existing businesses will find the space and mechanisms to host and operate their projects and activities, benefiting from the synergies that exist with the R&D Departments and other interface institutes of UP.
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See-Through System designed at the University of Porto, Department of Computer Science.
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Spring in Porto and Viana do Castelo (about an hour to the north of Porto) Student trip of bachelor year in Urban Design, saxion University in the Netherlands. contrary to the credits, all the music is from Devin Townsend (sony blocked my use of Tenacious D)
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Poet Paula Claire talks about her Performance of SUNFLOWERPOWER in Porto Portugal. www.paulaclaire.com
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O Palavras e Números desta semana traz-nos novamente alguns factos curiosos do Ensino Superior. De entre eles, o facto da Universidade do Porto ser a primeira no ranking mundial em termos de investigação científica do cancro do Estômago, ultrapassando Universidades como Harvard e Cambridge. --- This week's Palavras e Números brings us some curious facts concerning the Higher Education System. Amongst them, the fact that the University of Oporto is the first in the world ranking in terms of scientific articles concerning the Stomach cancer investigation, overcoming Universities such as Harvard and Cambridge.
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A tour of Southern Brazil in the 1940's.Footage from this subject is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com
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Hello everybody! I am going to present you a curious, very interesting problem named by myself... THE MILLER'S PROBLEM A miller wants to transport one hundred bags of wheat to a mill situated one hundred kilometres away from his barn. For the effect it is used a donkey whose maximum load cannot exceed one hundred kilograms. Each full bag contains one hundred kilograms. It is assumed that the empty bags have not weight. The donkey, while is loaded, consumes one kilogram per kilometre and unloaded consumes nothing. The question is: What maximum amount of wheat can reach the mill?
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Dan Gaspar's Star Goalkeeper Academy is featured in this video created by Per Henrikson and Dan Jacques. Star Goalkeeper Academy (SGA) is an internationally recognized soccer coaching organization specializing in the education of goalkeepers. Each year under the guidance its founder, international goal coach Dan Gaspar, SGA conducts camps and clinics around the United States. "Dan Gaspar's professionalism,motivation and abilities are like no one else. He knows what works. His credentials and accomplishments are world respected. I consider Dan Gaspar my personal coach." -Vitor Baia
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