In the 28th and 29th November University of Aveiro hosted the open forum Research Summit 18 under the theme Social Responsibility of Higher Education Institutions & Research.

Research summit 2018 aim, was to promoteand foster important discussion among the University of Aveiro research community and to enable collaborations to advance the state of the art and empower the research efforts.

In this context DigiMedia Research Centre was widely represented.   In the Round Table  under the theme “Perspective about research, impact and social responsibility of higher education institutions” DigiMedia Research Center was presented    by is scientific coordinator Professor Fernando Ramos. At the Session 5- CENTER – Community-led Networks for Territorial Innovation DigiMedia Researcher Paula Alexandra Silva presented an oral presentation under the scope of “Exploring the potential of digital media in community-led territorial innovation: preliminary findings”. In addition, several DigiMedia PhD students presented their work in the parallel pitch sessions.