Date: 11 June
Hour: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Venue: Great Hall, Técnico – Alameda campus
More information: Official Site

«Técnico Solar Boat, a team of students from Instituto Superior Técnico specialising in the development of boats powered by renewable energy, will present its latest prototype – the São Gabriel 01 (SG01) – on 11 June in the Great Hall of Instituto Superior Técnico.

The Técnico Solar Boat team was founded in 2015 and since then has been designing and building electric boats powered by renewable energy, namely solar energy and hydrogen, in order to represent Instituto Superior Técnico and Portugal in international competitions.

The team competes annually in the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge and this year will compete for the first time in the Sealab Class with the SG01, being one of the first university teams to achieve this feat.

The SG01 is the most ambitious project ever developed by Técnico Solar Boat: it is an 8-meter prototype, the most powerful to date, and represents the culmination of all the work developed on the team’s previous prototypes, assuming itself as a promise for the future of the national Nautical Industry.

The ceremony coincides with the 10-year anniversary of the team’s founding, and participants will be able to see all the boats developed over the course of the project since 2015, as well as explore the SG01 and the technological innovations introduced into it.»