In his speech, Domingos Bragança thanked Fibrenamics for the distinction received in the Institution category and reminded everyone that the institutional partnership with the University of Minho is essential to win the future and that he will do everything to make this strategic asset increasingly indispensable and decisive. "The Guimarães City Hall is committed to the affirmation of Fibrenamics, reason why the association will have, in the future, its facilities at Fábrica do Arquinho, in Caldeiroa, where the Aerospace Engineering Course of the School of Engineering will also operate, cementing the cooperation with one of the top European universities. The future, in science, is dazzling", he assumed.

"The challenges that society faces today are exceptional, interesting, exciting, and complex, but they encourage us all and give us an immense strength to continue, with the conviction that it is through the production of knowledge, science, and the transfer of knowledge to society, especially to the productive world of business, that we will make a better world," he concluded.