From a Students Congress to a Global Brand

Tec2Med was officially founded in 2018 by Núcleo de Biomédica da NOVA (NBN), the biomedical engineering students group of NOVA FCT. The initial idea was presented by João Nunes, president of NBN at the time, and consisted on making an event where biomedical engineering and medical students could meet to discuss the creation of new medical technologies. In the same year Alexandra Lopes, Filipa Rebelo and Miguel Barbosa joined the project and the first event happened, with remarkable success on march of 2019 with the support of NBN’s team and volunteers.

Since then and until october 2022 the event continued to be promoted by NBN. After that, by approval of the NBN’s General Assembly, the Tec2Med brand got its own independence with an agreement for the creation of a new scientific non-profit association whose mission would be to build new events, open new research lines and expand the summit to the world.

In 2023 the new association was created, with a new international summit being inaugurated on the same year. Two year after, in 2025, the association cocreated a new inernational R&D center, Tec2Med CIIMEB, alongside one of the largest networks of oncology hospitals in the world, Hospital de Amor. CIIMEB is now supporting several startups across the atlantic and it is officially a pioneering international biomedical engineering center in Portugal, the first R&D institution of its kind located in Algarve.

Tec2Med started as a students dream and now it ignites and reunites all generations in a common mission of saving lives through medtech innovation and multidisciplinarity across the world.