Leading the Digital Transformation

The Symposium on Informatics, part of the 6th Doctoral Congress in Engineering (DCE25), will take place at FEUP, Porto, Portugal, on June 30th and 1st of July 2025.

This Symposium is organized by PhD students of the Doctoral Program in Informatics Engineering (PRODEI), Doctoral Program in Digital Media (PDMD), and Doctoral Program in Computer Science (MAPi).

The Symposium Organizing Committee is pleased to invite everyone interested in expanding and sharing their knowledge and expertise in the field of Informatics Engineering, Computer Science and Digital Media, to submit their work. This invitation is open to PhD and MSc students.

Topics for submission include (but are not limited to):

  • Informatics Engineering
  • Computer Science
  • Digital Media/ Multimedia
  • Information / Data Science

Submissions

This symposium will have two tracks:

  1. Best journal/conference paper award

Presentation Format: Oral communication (20 min)

Students are invited to submit an abstract of an already published paper (with DOI) in the scope of their PhD/MSc work.

A selection of the best papers will be done based on the quality of the work and impact of the publication, assessed by a jury.

The submission must be done through the SCI-MEET platform.

  1. Research proposal

Presentation Format: 3 min pitch presentation and panel discussion

Students are invited to submit an abstract of a research proposal. PhD student can refer to their thesis project and MSc students can refer to their thesis dissertation as a research proposal for an eventual PhD application.

The submission must be done through the SCI-MEET platform.

For more information, please click HERE.

Registration & Payment

Registration is mandatory for all participants through the SCI-MEET platform.

The 3 Doctoral Programs involved (PRODEI, PDMD and MAPi) will cover the registration costs for any student registered in these programs, or a student of FEUP with accepted submission.

A limited number of registration waivers will be granted to other students, researchers or professors from FEUP, depending on the number of attendees.

Please note that at least one author per submitted abstract must register for the Congress as soon as possible to secure participation.

Awards

Authors of accepted articles in track 1 (Best journal/conference paper award) presented at the Congress will be eligible for the Best Paper Award.

Symposium Committees 

Symposium Chairs:

  • António Fernando Vasconcelos Cunha Castro Coelho, FEUP
  • Mariana de Oliveira Magalhães, INESC TEC

Symposium Organizing Committee:

  • António Fernando Vasconcelos Cunha Castro Coelho, FEUP
  • Carlos Miguel Ferraz Baquero-Moreno, FEUP
  • Mariana de Oliveira Magalhães, INESC TEC
  • Rui Filipe Lima Maranhão de Abreu, FEUP
  • Cláudio Filipe Prata Gomes, PhD student MAPi, FEUP
  • Diana Quitéria Teixeira de Sousa, PhD student PDMD, FEUP
  • Rui Filipe Coimbra Pereira de Melo, PhD student PRODEI, FEUP

Symposium Scientific Committee:

  • António Fernando Vasconcelos Cunha Castro Coelho, FEUP
  • Carlos Miguel Ferraz Baquero-Moreno, FEUP
  • Cláudio Filipe Prata Gomes, FEUP
  • Diana Quitéria Teixeira de Sousa, FEUP
  • Mariana de Oliveira Magalhães, INESC TEC
  • Rui Filipe Coimbra Pereira de Melo, FEUP
  • Rui Filipe Lima Maranhão de Abreu, FEUP

Contact: up202408602@up.pt (Rui Melo)