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Pedagogical Development for Professors

Teaching is one of ULisboa's essential pillars. We feel an enormous responsibility to provide the young students who choose our university to complete their studies with an education that enables them to to make a committed contribution to the advancement and well-being of society, and that allows them face the great challenges that humanity will face in the coming period as aware, responsible, technically well-prepared, and exemplary citizens.

ULisboa has promoted a series of initiatives that constitute an integrated plan for the Pedagogical Development of Teachers. These efforts are motivated by the knowledge that the teaching quality is integral to our students鈥 education and that improving teaching and learning approaches is essential if we are to reduce drop out and academic failure rates.

Plan Objectives:

  1. promoting pedagogical training for teachers, at the start of, and throughout their careers;
  2. promoting pedagogical innovation;
  3. contributing to the creation of working groups, while promoting the pedagogical training of professors and methodology and idea sharing;
  4. collaborating in pedagogical innovation projects at national and international level.


The plan for the Pedagogical Development of Teachers encompasses various components and activities, some of which have been consolidated for some time, while others correspond to new developments that are intended to be introduced in the short term.

There is a set of global activities organized and streamlined directly by the Rectory. This includes the Educational Journeys, the Educational Innovation Awards and the Educational Innovation Projects.

Educational training activities are an essential component of this plan. These include Education Training for Early-career Professors  and Regular Training Cycles, which generally occur at the end of each of the school semesters. These training sessions should adjust to the needs felt and described by the faculty. The list of courses offered is reviewed and adjusted annually.

Professors who have attended educational training may resort to specialized support, provided through 鈥楨ducation Counselling鈥, to improve their educational performance or to implement alternative and innovative educational practices.

To foster the healthy sharing of educational practices and promote the characteristic spirit of ULisboa, the University will continue to bet on the peer-to-peer class monitoring program through the 鈥淥bservar e Aprender鈥 project.