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An article was published, last February 2nd, in the Times Higher Education magazine, on a question: “Is Europe witnessing a PhD massification?

On the 13th of January 2023, a seminar on “Security of the Elderly in the Digital Society” took place at Universidade Lusófona, organized by students of the 1st and 2nd year of the Degree in Education Sciences-Social Education. This seminar, presented in a Webinar format, is the result of an interdisciplinary activity in the 1st semester of the course between two curricular units taught by Professors Dulce Franco (Technologies & Education) and Teresa Ramilo (Gerontology).

Orlanda Tavares, an integrated researcher at CeiED, was invited by the television channel “SIC” to comment on the implications of the new rules for accessing higher education that were reported in previous weeks, such as the introduction of three mandatory national exams, one of which is Portuguese; the end of mandatory national exams for students to complete secondary education; and the increase, to 50%, of the “weight” of the exam score and decrease, to 35%, of the final classification of secondary education. The report was broadcasted in “Primeiro Jornal”, on February 6, 2023.

The 6th edition of the Learning & Teaching Forum of the European University Association (EUA) took place between February 1st and 3rd, at the University of Deusto, Bilbao. The Lusófona University was represented by CeiED’s integrated researchers, Carla Galego and Elsa Estrela, who last year integrated the Peer Thematic Group (TPG) Digitally competent teachers in designing quality learning environments, of EUA, whose Final Report will be publicly released in March.

On January 25, 26 and 27, the XXX AFIRSEl International Colloquium “Educational spaces – policies, practices, actors and learning” took place at the Institute of Education of the University of Lisbon, where 376 researchers from 15 countries participated.

The team of ReMASE project published a scientific article in the Education Sciences Journal (Scopus), in the section ‘Curriculum and Instruction’, in response to the ‘Special Issue Teaching Research Methods in Education’.