Instituto Superior Técnico and the Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI), in partnership with the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Programme (CMU Portugal), presented the new CMU Portugal Academy advanced training centre in digital technologies on May 16th, during the event “Partnerships for the Education of Tomorrow: Building Future Jobs for a Digital Portugal”, attended by Fernando Alexandre, the Portuguese Minister of Education, Science and Innovation. The initiative has the support of the Santander Portugal Foundation.

The event, which was also attended by Rogério Colaço, president of Técnico, aimed to highlight the importance of strengthening partnerships between the academic and corporate sectors for the education and qualification of the professionals of the future and how these could shape the future of education in the country. ‘This initiative will be very successful in the future, very important for Instituto Superior Técnico and the education of people in our country. The study programmes are interesting, impactful and relevant,’ he said.

The CMU Portugal Academy offers in-person postgraduate courses on Product Management, User Experience, Data Science and Machine Learning. Promoting doctoral training in citizen-centred Artificial Intelligence, in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University and Northumbria University in the UK, is also one of the academy’s objectives.