'Our image was fibers, today is the name that marks our identity'. That was how the International Platform of the University of Minho presented its new logo yesterday at the Altice Forum Braga during the Fibrenamics Impulse 2019, an event that brought together close to two hundred participants.

Fibrenamics' new visual identity represents a moment of transition between the experience accumulated in seven years of scientific and technological activity and the group's expectations regarding the future. “The change in image is just one of the first steps towards a more profound change that Fibrenamics has prepared for this year and that will make the Platform better able to respond to the challenge of creating the future” says Raul Fangueiro, Fibrenamics Coordinator and Professor at Minho's university.

A novelty that ended the Fibrenamics Impulse session, an event where Millennials, Artificial Intelligence and Industry 4.0 were highlighted.

During the afternoon, those present had the opportunity to get involved in the theme 'The Next Technological Generation', in which Paulo Mourão, a professor at the University of Minho, stressed that “from one moment to the next, new forms of capital may arise made possible by the new technological generation ”, and in the session 'Artificial Intelligence in Industry', where Paulo Novais, president of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence, presented an auspicious future when he stated that“ machines see, recognize voices, and communicate better than humans. All jobs that depend on these skills will be replaced in the future”.

With the success of this edition, Fibrenamics Impulse will be back in 2020 to continue to deepen the discussion on innovation and knowledge transfer between universities and the national industry.