Smart Inhaler - Easy Breathie is the winner of the NOVA ImpACT! Challenges, NOVA's initiative to support solutions and ideas that respond to the challenges imposed by the “new normal” during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

A multidisciplinary team from NOVA School of Science and Technology (FCT NOVA), from the areas of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Physics, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, are part of a group of Portuguese volunteers who managed to develop an open-source pulmonary ventilator for intensive care, with a production value below the standard.

NOVA is the first Portuguese university to join IN-PART, a platform for promoting technology and innovation that currently connects around 230 universities and research institutes from around the world to more than 5500 companies. Through a matchmaking method, the platform seeks to establish a link between the knowledge produced in the academic world and the needs of the market.