Between January 12 and 16, 2025, the President of ISEL, Professor José Nascimento, took part in the Mexico–Portugal Binational Engineering Meeting, held in the Senate of the Republic of Mexico, an initiative of the Unión Mexicana de Asociaciones de Ingenieros, A.C., in partnership with the Ordem dos Engenheiros of Portugal.

ISEL’s participation resulted from an invitation by the Ordem dos Engenheiros, within the scope of representing Portuguese higher education in engineering, with the objective of bringing academia closer to the business sector and highlighting best practices in engineering training, establishing ISEL as a reference institution in this field.

The President of ISEL took part in several discussion panels dedicated to engineering education, the engineering profession, and the international mobility of professionals, contributing to the reflection on education, qualification recognition, and cooperation between academic institutions, professional orders, and governmental entities from Portugal and Mexico.

The program also included a visit to the facilities of Mota-Engil, a Portuguese company of international renown in the construction sector, currently responsible for part of the construction of the light-rail metro system in the city of Monterrey.