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The Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) has published the provisional results of the evaluation of national Research & Development Units, conducted by an international panel of experts.

CEPRA's Qualifica Centre was visited by students and teachers from the Lusófona University Master's Degree in Education Sciences. As part of their specialisation in Adult Training and Community Intervention and Public Policies and Educational Contexts, the students had the opportunity to get to know the reality of adult qualification up close, exploring the processes they study in an academic context.

The group also had the chance to attend a session on Citizenship and Professionalism as part of the ongoing RVCC Secondary Level process.

Promoting safer and more inclusive schools through the prevention of gender-based violence grounded in scientific evidence is the aim of the European project TeachXevidence, led by CREA – University of Barcelona (CERV-2022-DAPHNE Ref. 101096234) and funded by the European Commission.

The Colloquium Pedagogical Innovation: Approaches, Practices and Challenges took place on 26 March, organised by the OP.Edu – the Observatory for Education and Training Policies, in collaboration with ESEL-IPLUSO - IPLUSO's School of Education, and in partnership with António Sérgio Training Centre.

This was the opening colloquium of the thematic cycle that OP.Edu will dedicate to the issues of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in 2025, and aimed to present and discuss different experiences, pedagogical approaches and challenges related to pedagogical innovation and a transformative vision of education and school, capable of simultaneously contributing to the creation of relevant learning, inclusion and teachers' reflection and professional development.

The Colloquium, which brought together more than 200 participants, welcomed Flávia Vieira (University of Minho, President of the Specialised Commission “Pedagogical Innovation in Schools” of the National Education Council), Daniel Bart, (University of Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès), Gérald Peyroche (Institute Villebon – Georges Charpak), Rita Campos and Cláudia Pato de Carvalho (CES – Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra) and Luís Manuel Bernardo (Coordinator of the Autonomous Section for General Education and Training of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University of Lisbon). The Colloquium was chaired by Teresa Teixeira Lopo (OP.Edu-CeiED, Lusófona University) and Ana Maria Seixas (OP.Edu-CES, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra). 

The next colloquium in this thematic cycle is scheduled for May. Information on OP.Edu activities can be found here.

On October 25, from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM (Lisbon time), CeiED researcher Sónia Cardoso served as external examiner in the online PhD viva of Angelique Grech, at the invitation of the Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, United Kingdom. The thesis, titled "Quality Assurance in a Small Island State and its Implications for Policy and Practice: Complex Patterns of Sensemaking in Maltese Higher Education", was supervised by Professor Paul Trowler, with Professor Murray Saunders acting as the internal examiner. The session was held entirely online and was restricted to the participants directly involved. This invitation highlights the international recognition of Sónia Cardoso’s expertise in higher education policy and reinforces the academic collaboration between CeiED and leading international research institutions.

On March 20th, the students of the Master's in Special Education: Cognitive and Motor Domain and the 3rd year of the Bachelor's in Social Education, accompanied by Researcher