CMU Portugal has an open call for up to 12 Ph.D. scholarships until June 15th, 2025, under the Affiliated Ph.D. Programs. This initiative is addressed at students who wish to study at a Portuguese University with a research period at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) up to one year. 

The Calls for Applications for the CMU Portugal Mobility Initiatives - Visiting Faculty & Researchers and Visiting Students - are open until June 17th, 2025, under the scope of the CMU Portugal Program with the support of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT). These initiatives allow faculty members, researchers, and MSc students or recent graduates to spend between 2 weeks and 2 months at Carnegie Mellon University.

The CMU Portugal Academy has an open call for the Advanced Training Programs in AI, Data Science, and Machine Learning, Product Management, User Experience and Service Design, until July 21st, 2025.

Six teams from the Patient Innovation Bootcamp took part in a U.S. market-focused residency at CMU on April 7–11, through the CMU Portugal Patient Innovation Accelerator. The program concluded with a workshop on June 5–6 at Nova Medical School, where teams shared their commercialization plans with expert feedback.

Alexandra Mendes (Assistant Professor at FEUP and researcher at INESC TEC) and João F. Ferreira (Associate Professor at Técnico and researcher at INESC ID), two former participants of the CMU Portugal “Visiting Faculty & Researchers” initiative, are among the winners of the Fall 2024 edition of the Amazon Research Award.

The paper “Are Large Language Models memorizing bug benchmarks?” co-authored by CMU Portugal Dual Ph.D. students in Software Engineering, Catarina Gamboa, Cláudia Mamede, Daniel Ramos, and Paulo Canelas, received the Best Paper Award at the 2nd International Workshop on Large Language Models for Code (LLM4Code), which took place on May 3rd in Ottawa, Canada.

José M. F. Moura, Philip L., and Marsha Dowd University Professor and director of the CMU Portugal Program at Carnegie Mellon University, was awarded the IEEE Haraden Pratt Award “for sustained leadership, global service, and outstanding contributions enabling new opportunities for IEEE and its members”.

Addvolt, one of the startups that participated in CMU Portugal's early-stage accelerator program InRes in 2014, was acquired by Carrier Global Corporation, a U.S.-based leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions. 

The CMU Portugal industry-affiliated company Tekever, specialized in AI-driven Autonomous Systems, joins the list of Portuguese unicorn companies, since it reached a valuation above one billion pounds (1.173 million euros) after a new funding round.

The “Cientista Regressa à Escola” (Same Hometown Programme), an initiative by Native Scientists, featured the participation of CMU Portugal Scientific Director Paulo Marques, who was challenged to return to his roots and visit his former primary school to inspire young students through hands-on science workshops.