Several LaSIGE members were involved in the organization of the "Girls in ICT Day” event, that occurred last April 23rd, 2015. The "Girls in ICT Day" - World Day for Young Women in Information and Communication Technologies, is an initiative of the International Telecommunication Union, that visa to raise awareness to young women about career opportunities in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

André leal, LaSIGE researcher and MSc student of Informatics Engineering from DI/FCUL, achieved 2nd position at Task 14 of SemEval-2015, an international competition connected to the automatic processing and clinical text semantic analysis. The work was developed under the orientation of Prof.