On the past December 17 ISEL and the General Secretariat of the Digital Economy and Transition (SGETD) signed a protocol that firm the cooperation between the two institutions, further bringing public administration and academia closer together, notably within the framework of all ISEL degree conferencing and SGETD's area of intervention. The President of the ISEL received the Secretary-General, Eng. João Rolo, who enlisted the role of our Institute in the training of qualified professionals in the areas of information technologies, further referring to the opportunity for contact with reality professional that   SGETD   will be able to enable our graduates, thus being an added value for both bodies.   The collaborative actions will translate into the holding of seminars / Workshops, support for the realization of curricular internships in SGETD, collaboration of ISEL in the realization of specialization courses and training actions to SG employees, building partnerships that target the resolution of concrete problems indicated by the outorgants.   The Eng. João Rolo has made himself accompanied by Dr. Helena Sanches (Assistant Secretary-General), Dr. Carla Santo (Director of Services, Directorate of Documentation Services, Communication and Public Relations), Dr. Ricardo Prieto (Director of Services, Directorate of Information Systems Services), Eng. Maria José Soares (Head of Division, Division of Information Technologies), Dr. António David (Head of Division, Division of Systems Administration), Eng. João Camões (Head of Division-Division of Communications and Security Structures), in turn, the President of the Pedagogical Council, Professor Sandra Aleixo, the Vice-Presidents Professor Cristina Borges and Professor Pedro Silva, the Administrator Dr. Paulo Guerreiro, the advisor teacher Carla Viveiros, the leader of the Service Assessment, Quality and Planning, Dr.. Anabela Carneiro, and the leader of the Area of Informatics and Networks of Communication, Eng. Vasco Silva, were part of the entourage of the President of ISEL, Professor José Nascimento. They were exchanged experiences by the counterparts during the visit to the campus, having this finished at the newly opened building F.

Anualmente o ISEL confere aos trabalhadores que cumprem 25 anos de serviço no Instituto a medalha institucional como símbolo do reconhecimento pelo trabalho prestado e dedicação.  Querendo assinalar este marco no percurso profissional dos colaboradores docentes e não docentes, a direção do ISEL, numa cerimónia restrita atendendo às medidas de contingência e prevenção da COVID, procedeu assim à entrega das medalhas aos colaboradores: Ana Paula Salgueiro, Pedro Sampaio, Carlos Carvalho, José Cascalheira, Nuno Dias, Pedro Ribeiro, João Martins, Gonçalo Marques, José Palmeira, Nuno Cardoso, António Maçarico, Manuel Fernandes, Joaquim Pinto, Armando Inverno, Jaime Puna, Pedro Costa, Pedro Gama, Jorge Barros e Nuno Cota. Pedro Gama, Nuno Cota, José Cascalheira, Jaime Puna, José Nascimento - Presidente do ISEL, Ana Paula Salgueiro, Gonçalo Marques, Carlos Carvalho e Filipe Maçarico (da esquerda para a direita)

It will take place, on the next December 10, the award ceremony for the students ' performance in the school year 2020/2021 and of the awards to the best students joining the ISEL in the current school year.   Editais: Academic Excellence Award Prize for Academic Merit The Francisco Prize of the Fonseca Benevides ABB Prize (Asea Brown Boveri) SA

Targeting the promotion of environmental and social responsibility activities, on the past November 23, the ISEL commemorated the Day of the Indigenous Forest with a tree planting action and shrubs on its Campus. The action was organized by the groups of the Foreign Spaces and Biodiversity of the ISEL Eco-Schools Program and was attended by students, faculty and staff of ISEL, as well as of IPSS Time of Change, hosted in the Neighborhood of the Lotus in Marvila, which involved 20 children from pre-school education aged between 2   and 5. We were still pleased with the presence of several Marvilese parents and mothers who, accompanied by their babies, joined us in this outdoor activity. Previously to the action, 21 trees of invasive species (acacias) of the ISEL Campus were removed, with during day 23 activity were planted 31 plants of 10 different autochthonous species (among which louigners, oaks, oaks and alfarrobeiras). The plants were kindly ceded by the Maintenance and Requalification Division of the Green Structure of CML which, through the Engagement Rui Simão, has been supporting us in the plantation actions promoted under the Eco-schools Programme. We also had the company's Southern Value collaboration that offered the organic compound for the plants and the company Terra Composite, which collaborated on the plantation process. The company Eat, Dream and Smile (https://eatdreamsmile.pt/sobre-nos/) kindly offered a snack to the smallest ones, after an intense afternoon of activity with their hands on the land. It was an afternoon spent with a lot of enthusiasm and joy, on the part of all those adhering to this initiative, getting already the rep for the continuation of more similar activities involving the ISELiana community in partnership with the engaging community of Marvila, within the framework of Environmental Education for Sustainability.

On the past November 16, in the framework of the   event Portugal Smart Cities Summit,   the Nuno Cruz docent (DEETC/ISEL and FIT/ISEL) held a presentation titled "Call yourself the network LoRa de Lisboa"   at the Lisbon City Hall stand (CML). Within the framework of the multidisciplinary partnership between the FIT/ISEL working group and CML, the result of the creation of an open, LoRa-based network for the municipality of Lisbon has been presented. This network beyond supporting the different verticals of a smart city, holds that any individual can also use it to connect their IoT devices to their applications, through a long-range, free network for all, thus promoting the innovation environment that has come to feel in Lisbon. This cooperation with CML is more a result of a long partnership that has had start in 2016 of which other projects have emerged as the link to the Lisbon Smart Management Platform, the Integrated Operation Centre, the pilot of the utilization of LoRa for municipal waste, formations in the area of Cyber-security the network of critic communications for the Monsanto Joint Operations Room, among others.

The 2020/21 edition of the CSWA-Certified SolidWorks Associate had its certification session on the past November 10. It stands out that 36 students, in a total of 44, obtained the certificate and, of these, 36.4% obtained the maximum rating (240 points out of 240 points possible). Realized under the guidance of Professor Ricardo Portal, the initiative had the support of Sqboredom, which enabled these students, who had been able to distinguish themselves at AU Assisted Drawing by Computer, to attend the training free of charge.   The students approved in this edition are: Pedro Costa, Duarte Marto, Rodrigo Laranjo, Gonçalo Ramalho, Diogo Botelho, António Luís, Sofia Gomes, Rita Mergulhão, Nuno Lourenço, Ricardo Simões, Beatriz Henriques, João Fortunato, Esdras Soares, Tiago Fernandes, Pedro Pinheiro, João Cotrim, Diogo Marques, Joao Fonseca, Afonso Lucas, Catarina Ferreira, Rodrigo Manzarra, Joao manzarra, Joao Manzarra, Ancient Morals, Vasco Candeiras, Tomás Lopes, Patrician Mendes, Bruno Souza, João Pereira, Manuel Oliveira, Lara Alves, Duarte Gomes, Nuno Patricio, Tiago Pinto, Diogo Baganha and António Luz.   Since 2017, 166 ISEL Mechanical Engineering Students have obtained their CSWA.