Louise Lima participated in the 3rd mobility of MARKA Project in the context of teacher training entitled “21st century teaching skills, innovative methodologies and LMS Moodle”. MARKA: Innovation and Inclusion in the construction of an identity curriculum is a 30-month international project, started in October 2020, and funded by the ERASMUS+ KA2 Programme. The overall objective is based on the construction of an identity curriculum in articulation with the local heritage. It aims to constitute an opportunity for the development of pedagogical practices together with different partners of the school community, such as associations and other local institutions, in order to enrich and diversify the curricular expression.

The meeting took place in North Macedonia and included teachers from schools in Cyprus, Estonia, Italy and Portugal; including the workshop “How do we create more engaging and motivating activities for students?” by researchers Louise Lima (CeiED) and Daniela Ferreira (CIIE-FPCEUP). The workshop consisted in a discussion, in the light of the assumptions of MARKA, about the design of methodologies, based on the pedagogical decisions of teachers about methods, tasks, strategies and didactic resources. It was an opportunity for each school to reflect and share, with pedagogical intentionality, the choices they have made in the process of building a curriculum identity.

The team, coordinated by Professor Ariana Cosme, contributed to the development of the project with the scientific framework in the preparation of the Methodological Guide for the construction of a curriculum.