4 Mar 2026

Coworking: a smart way to work, grow and create opportunities

  The coworking model has been establishing itself as an effective solution for independent professionals, startups and growing teams. More than an alternative to the traditional office or remote work, it represents a new way of approaching work, centered on collaboration, flexibility and efficiency.   1. Cost reduction and greater predictability Working in a coworking space eliminates fixed costs associated with rent, maintenance, internet, cleaning and equipment. Costs become predictable and adjustable to the size

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2 Mar 2026

Startups Showcase Their Potential at the Set.Up IN(dustry) Demo Day | March 10 at CIAJG

    Get ready to feel the energy of innovation at the Set.Up Guimarães Demo Day! A stage where bold startups showcase solutions that are redefining industry and transforming markets.   Over the past 4 months, 10 startups from the Set.Up In(dustry) program have pushed boundaries, tested ideas, and refined scalable business models. Now, it’s your turn to discover what is revolutionizing the industrial future.   📅 March 10 🕘 3:00 PM 📍 CIAJG –

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2 Mar 2026

Entrepreneuring Emotions: Art exhibition reveals the cycles of encounter, rupture and human reinvention

Collective exhibition explores the cycles of human experience through watercolor The exhibition “Encounters, Disencounters and Reencounters” presents a collective showcase of free watercolor painting, inviting the public to reflect on the natural cycles of human experience. Emerging from an authorial training and development process carried out at the Grafiart studio, incubated within the creative incubator LabPac, the initiative brings together three artists and three distinct conceptual nuclei, establishing a visual dialogue shaped by emotion and

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24 Feb 2026

Industry Bootcamp promotes collaborative innovation with startups in Guimarães

Municipality of Guimarães hosted the first edition of the Industry Bootcamps, an initiative designed to support industrial companies in adopting collaborative innovation models in partnership with startups and research and technology organizations. The session featured experts Nuno Vasco Lopes and Filipe Soutinho, who led two practical sessions focused on Collaborative Industrial Innovation and Open Innovation. Throughout the bootcamp, participants were introduced to methodologies and tools enabling companies to integrate external solutions, accelerate transformation processes, and

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23 Feb 2026

From Italy to Guimarães: Future Innovators Dive into the Set.Up Guimaães Startup Ecosystem

Set.Up Guimarães Creative Incubator welcomed today a group of 21 Italian secondary school students participating in the international EUROMEDI PCTO project, a transnational mobility initiative promoted by the IISS «Enrico Medi» school from Galatone (Italy), in cooperation with Euvillages and DESINCOOP, under the European Union’s Next Generation EU programme. During the visit, students took part in a short workshop focused on entrepreneurship and startups, where they had the opportunity to learn about the local entrepreneurial

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20 Feb 2026

Most Common Mistakes in Startup Early Stages | Blog

Launching a startup is a moment marked by ambition, innovation, and the pursuit of accelerated growth. However, a significant number of new ventures fail to overcome their first years of activity. In most cases, failure does not result from a lack of talent or ideas, but rather from avoidable strategic mistakes made during the early stages.   1. Building solutions without validating the problem One of the most frequent mistakes is investing time and resources

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19 Feb 2026

Set.Up Guimarães and Espaço Empresa promote entrepreneurship workshop at Francisco de Holanda School

  The Set.Up Guimarães, in partnership with the Espaço Empresa de Guimarães, held today an entrepreneurship workshop for students from the Agrupamento de Escolas Francisco de Holanda. The initiative aimed to promote an entrepreneurial mindset, foster creativity, and raise students’ awareness of business idea development, while introducing essential tools and skills for their future professional paths. During the session, the importance of business plan development was also addressed as a key instrument to structure entrepreneurial

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12 Feb 2026

Cybersecurity Diagnostic Workshop in Guimarães

The Municipality of Guimarães will host the Cybersecurity Diagnostic Workshop on March 5th at CIAJG. Promoted by the Northern Cybersecurity Competence Center, and facilitated in the region by the University of Minho in collaboration with the Ave Intermunicipal Community (CIM do Ave), this workshop is part of the strategy to strengthen digital security in public and private organizations in the territory. The aim of this initiative is to raise awareness among managers and officials of

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12 Feb 2026

Industrial Electronics and Computer Engineering Students from UMinho Visit AvePark

  Students from the Industrial Electronics and Computer Engineering degree at the University of Minho visited AvePark, aiming to gain first-hand knowledge of the innovation, research, and technological development ecosystem located there. The initiative allowed students to learn about technological projects based in the park, providing a practical perspective on the application of academic knowledge in a business and industrial context. During the visit, different areas of activity of the resident entities were presented, as

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10 Feb 2026

Applications are now open for the 2026 edition of the European Union Fund to support the protection of Industrial Property Rights

Applications are now open for the 2026 edition of the European Union Fund to support the protection of Industrial Property Rights of SMEs, promoted by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). This grant scheme allows SMEs a partial reimbursement of expenses incurred with pre-diagnosis of Industrial Property (IP) – IP Scan/IP Scan Enforcement, trademarks and designs, patents and plant varieties. Applications are open until December 4, 2026, or until all available funds for each

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