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The University of Coimbra (UC) is a Portuguese public and autonomous institution of higher education created in 1290. It has more than 7 centuries of experience in production and dissemination of knowledge, culture, science and technology, through science and technology, cutting-edge research and innovation in the most diverse areas of knowledge. It is an excellent choice for those who want a high-quality academic formation and a lifetime experience, which
includes cultural activities, leisure, and sports activities. The UC is an open and global university, strongly committed to the needs of the present and the challenges of the future, especially towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, as stated in the 2030 UN Agenda. In particular, in 2021, the UC was the best Portuguese institution in terms of overall performance with regards to SDGs achievement.
The UC is a large complex structure with 3 campuses, more than 25 000 students, of whom 20%
international students from more than 100 countries, and about 3 000 academic and technical staff, with a strong and incomparable sense of belonging. The UC participates in consortia and joint programmes with some of the best universities in the world. Among UC partners there are EC2U, MIT Portugal, Harvard Portugal, and Erasmus Mundus. The UC comprises ten research and education units, namely: Faculty of Law, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Faculty of Pharmacy, Faculty of Economy, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, Faculty of Sport Sciences and Physical Education, the European Judicial University Court, and the Institute of Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health.
Focused on the wholeness of the Bologna Process and on building an education system for the
development of student’s skill, in which all aspects that enhance the acquisition of cross-cutting skills are valued, the University of Coimbra (UC) is aware of the importance of introducing new pedagogical methodologies. There is an approach centred on new teaching-learning processes and tools anchored in pedagogical innovation strategies, which focus on teacher training, the use of information and distance learning technologies and on the approach to contexts and real problems. The focus of the teachinglearning processes should be the student, thus enabling a process of flexible learning and cross-cutting of knowledge. The adaptation also implies finding excellence responses to the educational needs of new audiences and lifelong learning and strengthening and stimulating the link between teaching and research, with third cycle students taking a relevant role as a basis of the research pyramid. One of the University of Coimbra goals regarding teaching is to increase by 25-50 per cent the number of students readmitted to the UC for lifelong learning and knowledge updating. The UC will expand the training opportunities, by meeting the needs of new audiences, offering different and attractive programmes for lifelong learning and implementing micro-awarding of credits options. Consequently, training programmes aimed at lifelong learning will be diversified by developing the concept of a senior
university and increasing non-degree courses offered in different areas of knowledge, based on the scientific matrix of excellence that characterizes the UC. In the area of geoinformation, UC has offered graduation courses in Geographic/Geospatial Engineering since 1922, integrated in the Mathematics Department of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, and more recently in a collaboration between the Mathematics Department and the Department of Informatics Engineering, completing 100 years of experience in teaching in this area of knowledge in 2022. The Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences and the staff participating in the project is involved in teacher preservice and in-service training and in designing and evaluating educational programs for teachers and students. In this scope, it can contribute to the development of the pedagogical framework of the project and to the design, implementation and evaluation of the teacher training program, e.g. developing desk and field research.