NOVA 2023 Educational Innovation Award

18 December 2023

Professor Francisco Pereira Coutinho, of NOVA School of Law, emerges as the top recipient of the NOVA Pedagogical Innovation Award, securing the win for the project “Moot Courts 2.0: integrating a law-student-centered learning methodology in large Bachelor courses.” Noteworthy for its originality, the project introduces moot courts as a teaching and assessment method in expansive undergraduate courses.

Three commendable mentions recognize outstanding projects: Leid Zejnilovic’s “Three Innovations,” encompassing Program-oriented project-based learning (PBL), Teaching Technology in Metaverse by Building Empathy (TMBE), and “Governing a course as a DAO,” from Nova School of Business and Economics. Ricardo Parreira and João Brás da Piedade, both from IHMT, receive accolades for their project, “Embracing innovation: harnessing the potential of flipped classrooms for immersive laboratory-based instruction in times of COVID-19.”

SDG Target 4.4- By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.