Higher Education Institutions (HEI) are responsible for preparing students to integrate a complex and competitive society, where the global and the local are inextricably connected and pressure constant adapting to evolution and, consequently, change. HEIs must, therefore, raise students’ awareness of global citizenship, grounded on cosmopolitism and interculturalism. It is in this context that one of the main strategies of Lusófona University is based on in and out mobility within the European Space and internationally. There are several advantages to having a study and internship experience (for students), or a training, lecturing and research experience (for teaching staff), to sharing professional experience (non-teaching staff) and also to participating in joint programmes or consortiums between European universities. It means, for instance, accessing quality education, enhancing one’s academic and professional path in terms of curriculum, as well as improving employability opportunities. Other motivations involve the interest in expanding knowledge and improving competencies in the context of the so-called soft skills.
Fully aware of the challenges and advantages discussed above, it is the role of the Pro-Rectorship for Mobility to:
- Represent the university before the Erasmus+ National Agency Education and Training as well as national, European and international bodies in the area of mobility;
- Represent the university before entities in the area of international students and students in emergency situations due to humanitarian reasons, and follow their academic integration procedures;
- Promote the (in and out) mobility of the university’s students and lecturers, within the scope of the Erasmus+ programme and other mobility programmes, namely Overseas and Damião de Gois;
- Monitor and reinforce applications to the Erasmus+ - KA1 Programme;
- Encourage Erasmus Mundus - Joint Masters Programmes;
- Follow students’ and lecturers’ (in and out) mobility processes and procedures within the scope of the Erasmus+ programme and other mobility programmes, namely Overseas and Damião de Gois;
- Implement the development of the EWP – Erasmus Without Paper Platform;
- Manage the network of coordinators/representatives of the organic units for mobility;
- Foster the Local Support Centre to the Integration of Migrants (CLAIM);
- Preside over the International Students’ Exam Jury;
- Manage Lusófona University’s Buddy Programme.
Pro-Rector for Research
Fully aware that scientific research and innovation are one of the purposes of universities – which must contribute to the development of culture and science with internationally- acknowledged quality – Lusófona University aims to develop and implement a strategic policy for the area of Research and Development (R&D). It is the mission of the Pro Rectorship for Research to:
- Strategically manage research and development (R&D) activities, research and scientific infrastructures policies;
- Represent the university in national and international institutions within the scope of R&D;
- Propose and sign R&D contracts and agreements;
- Follow the innovation, research and development activities of the university, namely its research units and centres;
- Foster and enhance research activities, namely through their integration in and articulation with teaching;
- Promote the creation of a knowledge transfer plan, including the regulation of intellectual property;
- Boost the R&D endowment;
- Foster and manage incubators and competence centres;
- Further an open science agenda;
- Promote and ensure an information management plan for the university, research units and centres, and on-going projects;
- Organise and ensure the implementation of a gender equality plan in research activities;
- Develop talent attraction and retention projects and policies;
- Draw up career plans for researchers collaborating with each research unit;
- Ensure the enhancement and structuring of scientific areas not covered by research units;
- Diversify and broaden research funding mechanisms, disseminating the available funding instruments, reinforcing mechanisms to support application submission, and forge closer ties with the business world with a view to promoting projects in cooperation or projects within the scope of donations, legacies, sponsorship or patronage;
- Reinforce and manage research and science incentive programmes partnering with the Lusófona Institute for Research and Development (ILIND);
- Disseminate the scientific knowledge produced, increasing the visibility of the research carried out in the university, through the production and management of a science communication system, in articulation with ILIND.
Pro-Rector for Mobility
Higher Education Institutions (HEI) are responsible for preparing students to integrate a complex and competitive society, where the global and the local are inextricably connected and pressure constant adapting to evolution and, consequently, change. HEIs must, therefore, raise students’ awareness of global citizenship, grounded on cosmopolitism and interculturalism. It is in this context that one of the main strategies of Lusófona University is based on in and out mobility within the European Space and internationally. There are several advantages to having a study and internship experience (for students), or a training, lecturing and research experience (for teaching staff), to sharing professional experience (non-teaching staff) and also to participating in joint programmes or consortiums between European universities. It means, for instance, accessing quality education, enhancing one’s academic and professional path in terms of curriculum, as well as improving employability opportunities. Other motivations involve the interest in expanding knowledge and improving competencies in the context of the so-called soft skills.
Fully aware of the challenges and advantages discussed above, it is the role of the Pro-Rectorship for Mobility to:
- Represent the university before the Erasmus+ National Agency Education and Training as well as national, European and international bodies in the area of mobility;
- Represent the university before entities in the area of international students and students in emergency situations due to humanitarian reasons, and follow their academic integration procedures;
- Promote the (in and out) mobility of the university’s students and lecturers, within the scope of the Erasmus+ programme and other mobility programmes, namely Overseas and Damião de Gois;
- Monitor and reinforce applications to the Erasmus+ - KA1 Programme;
- Encourage Erasmus Mundus - Joint Masters Programmes
- Follow students’ and lecturers’ (in and out) mobility processes and procedures within the scope of the Erasmus+ programme and other mobility programmes, namely Overseas and Damião de Gois;
- Implement the development of the EWP – Erasmus Without Paper Platform;
- Manage the network of coordinators/representatives of the organic units for mobility;
- Foster the Local Support Centre to the Integration of Migrants (CLAIM);
- Preside over the International Students’ Exam Jury;
- Manage Lusófona University’s Buddy Programme.
