DEI student Leonor Barreiros received the KPMG Merit Award in Cloud Computing and Virtualization 2022/2023 on September 21, with a prize of €1,535.00. DEI student Mafalda Ferreira was also selected for the final pitch.

The award ceremony took place in the Sala de Reuniões of the Pavilhão Central on the Alameda campus. The ceremony was chaired by Professors Pedro Amaral (Vice-President of IST for Business Relations and Operations), Daniel Gonçalves (Vice-President of DEI for Education), Luís Veiga (Responsible for the Cloud Computing and Virtualization course unit), and Rodrigo Bruno (DEI lecturer). Engineer José Alexandre Correia (Partner at KPMG), who also served on the award jury, represented the KPMG company at the ceremony.

On this occasion, a donation of €1,025.00 was also presented to DEI to improve the quality of education.