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9ª Call ObservIST

Monday, February 19th, 2024

ObservIST aims to identify, consolidate and share initiatives and experiments, which promotion and replication may enhance the quality of internal processes and support continuous improvement.

In 2024 the ObservIST highlights the IST Strategic Plan 2020-2030 thematic fields, which configures three mission areas, Education, Research and Societal and social impact and four enablers, Internationalization, Infrastructure, Financial sustainability and investment and Governance, autonomy and agility.

 

Applications are open until May 31st, 2024.

 

Find more information here.

Submission form 

 

 

The value of best practices in an innovative and sustainable school – SILAB, Social Innovation Lab

Tuesday, December 19th, 2023

Miguel Amaral, professor at the Department of Engineering and Management and researcher at the Center for Studies in Innovation, Technology and Development Policies (IN+), was the guest speaker at the ObservIST 6th Meeting and kindly gave a presentation entitled: “The value of best practices in an innovative and sustainable school – SILAB, Social Innovation Lab”, in which activities and partnerships were described.

This Social Innovation Laboratory@IST aims to “become a national and international network of students, researchers, teachers, universities, companies and social enterprises, which promotes solutions for the well-being of the world’s population.”, by working on the values ​​of cooperation, social sustainability, empowerment of local communities, creativity and integration with external communities, in order to develop research capabilities and processes and products that satisfy the needs of local communities and those linked to emerging markets.

The presentation also focused on technology-based entrepreneurship, university extension, frugal innovation and incentives for innovative practices.

ObservIST 6th Meeting Presentation (PDF, 33 MB)

Técnico PhD Student Club

Wednesday, November 29th, 2023

Recognized Best Practice | Societal Impact|2023

Filipe Pereira Santos, Marta Almeida Bordonhos, Manuel Relvas Sardinha, 
José Patuleia Venâncio e Pedro Gomes Outeiro

 

Website

Summary

The PhD Student Club was created in the 2020/2021 academic year with the aim of maximising PhD students’ and PhD graduates’ potential, by establishing a communication platform across all doctoral programmes, departments and research Units at Técnico Lisboa and making it easier to collaborate and actively engage in research, pedagogical and social activities.

 

For details regarding the Best Practice Implementation, Evaluation and Monitoring and Innovative Character and Transferability, please check the Portuguese version

New Staff Welcome Day for technical and administrative employees

Wednesday, November 29th, 2023

Recognized Best Practice | Societal Impact | 2023

Ana Lucas, António Sol, Paulo Loureiro, Rute Mateus, Sónia Martins e Rui Mendes

 

Summary

The Human Resources Division (DRH) organized the New Staff Welcome Day for the first time in 2022, which intended for all technical and administrative employees who started their contracts during that year. The event is part of the reception/on-boarding activity plan, which also includes the monthly welcome sessions.

 

For details regarding the Best Practice Implementation, Evaluation and Monitoring and Innovative Character and Transferability, please check the Portuguese version

ObservIST 6th Meeting- 2023

Wednesday, October 25th, 2023

The 6th Meeting of the Observatory of IST Best Practices Observatory (ObservIST) will take place on November 14th, 2023, at 9:00 am, with the aim of disseminating the Best Practices recognized in the 8th Call, and promoting their knowledge among the entire IST community.

Location: Congress Center – Civil Engineering Pavilion (Room 02.1) – Alameda Campus.

PT Event program

8th Call of ObservIST Recognized Best Practices

Monday, September 11th, 2023

We are pleased to announce the new recognized best practices at the 8th Call of the Técnico Best Practices Observatory.

 

New Staff Welcome Day for technical and administrative employees

The Human Resources Division (DRH) organized the New Staff Welcome Day for the first time in 2022, which intended for all technical and administrative employees who started their contracts during that year. The event is part of the reception/on-boarding activity plan, which also includes the monthly welcome sessions.

“110 histórias, 110 objetos” – Técnico communication project

The “110 histórias, 110 objetos” project tells the history of Instituto Superior Técnico through the stories of its assets with recognized cultural, scientific, historical and/or pedagogical value, by promoting the School’s material and intangible heritage and its uses over the last 112 years.

Creation of a notebook with hexagons

With the collaboration of Secção de Folhas (Copy Section), Professor Dulce Pereira Simão developed a notebook with hexagons to facilitate the drawing of chemical structures in lectures and practicals and in autonomous study of Chemical Engineering and Biological Engineering.

Técnico Open Day

The Técnico Open Day, first organized in 2022, started this year with a collaborative programme coordinated by the Communication, Image and Marketing Area, involving departments, research units and contact services, which included visits, presentations and experimental activities.

Internal Training programme in Human Resources Division (DHR) implemented

The Human Resources Division (DHR) implemented an Internal Training programme in 2021, which is intended for all its employees. It aims to facilitate the sharing of information between its units, clarify shared activities and procedures, build capacities among employees with new skills and expand specific knowledge.

FOSTWOM: an Erasmus+ project with impact in female STEM public

Funded by the Erasmus programme, the “FOSTWOM” project developed a MOOC in the field of machine learning and a package with inspiring resources which are aimed to attract girls into STEM areas and keep them motivated along the courses.

Mobility Open Day (MOD)

The Mobility and International Cooperation Office (NMCI) created the Mobility Open Day, an event where all their international mobility programmes are made public and members of the Técnico community who experienced international mobility are given voice.

Pan – European Seal Young Professionals Programme

Técnico is one of the partner universities of the Pan-European Seal Young Professionals Programme, which includes the European Patent Office and the European Union Intellectual Property Office that aims to offer students and new graduates the opportunity to work one year in these two institutions.

PDF – Training and Development Programme (2019 -2022)

The Training and Development Programme (PDF) was launched in March 2019 and aims to promote, capacitate and support the development of professional, interpersonal and transversal skills of the teaching and research Staff.

Project “Técnico makes a difference”. Model and Operational Plan for the IST urban solid waste management system. – BEST PRACTICE OF THE YEAR.

The project “Técnico faz a diferença” (Técnico makes a difference) was developed by the “Sustainable Técnico” initiative from the IST-Ambiente platform, to make the transition from the IST urban solid waste management system into an innovative procedure with selective separation and collection.

Rede de Parceiros do Técnico

The Técnico Partner Network (TPN), was created in 2015, to respond to the challenges of strengthening ties with the industry, with the main objective of establishing and developing strategic alliances with companies best positioned to, together, increase the value offered to the Society. The network’s activities are organized along the following dimensions: Proximity and talent development; Acceleration of innovation; Societal impact and strategic cooperation.

ScientIST: experiments in the field of Biomedical Engineering based on mobile devices, cloud services and internet of things.

The ScientIST initiative created instruments to enrich the teaching experience in Biomedical Engineering study cycles, based on mobile devices, i-cloud services and internet of things.

Técnico PhD Student Club

The PhD Student Club was created in the 2020/2021 academic year with the aim of maximising PhD students’ and PhD graduates’ potential, by establishing a communication platform across all doctoral programmes, departments and research Units at Técnico Lisboa and making it easier to collaborate and actively engage in research, pedagogical and social activities.

 

The diversity of the developed areas and the innovation capacity shown by the recognized best practices, reflect the determination of Técnico Staff to make it grow. We expect to give you soon the opportunity to know them better.

Scholarship Programme

Tuesday, November 8th, 2022

Human Resources ● 2022

Selected as “Good Practice of the year”, 2022

Available in PT
Summary

Through its Business Partnership Unit, Técnico has developed collaboration protocols with the business sector, under the Portuguese Patronage Law. As a result, the Scholarship Programme was created in the 2015/2016 academic year, which aims to support students with academic potential who, for socioeconomic deprivation, lack the resources to afford the costs associated with academic attendance.

Given its proximity to students and faculty members, the Academic Development Unit (NDA), in particular the Tutoring Programme, is responsible for the dissemination and management of the Scholarship Programme.

Pilot courses on “Life Cycle Assessment of Construction”

Tuesday, November 8th, 2022

Educação Superior● 2022

Pilot courses on “Life Cycle Assessment of Construction”

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 Practice Implementation

The candidate become an expert on the environmental and economic Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of materials, assemblies and buildings (LCA of Construction) after completing his PhD in this area in 2012. After that, in 2015, there was an increasing interest of the students that the candidate was supervising, and of other MSc and PhD students of the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources (DECivil), in this area of knowledge and research, since it allows the estimation of the impacts and costs of the activities of the construction sector that they need to consider in their theses. However, there was no training offer that could meet this demand. For that reason, the candidate organized in 2016 the 1st pilot course in “LCA of Construction”, with the participation of 6 trainees,

in the classrooms of DECivil. This course, organised and participated in a voluntary basis by the candidate and the trainees, respectively, was mainly taught by the candidate as the responsible Professor, complemented by expert presentations from Eng. Ana Silva and Eng. Vera Durão, the latter being also a trainee of this course. This course had a total of 20 hours of theoretical-practical training. This innovative techno-scientific knowledge was integrated for the first time in a course in Portugal. To answer the continuous demand, and given the success of the 1st edition, two more pilot editions of this course were organised by the candidate:

  • in 2018, with the same duration and with the participation of 14 trainees, also in the classrooms of DECivil. The expert presentations were made by Eng. Vera Durão, Eng. Martha Demertzi (trainee of this course) and Eng. Rawaz Kurda (trainee of the 1st edition);
  • in 2020, with the same duration but totally online, and with the participation of 10 trainees. The expert presentations were made by Eng. Vera Durão and Eng. Rawaz Kurda, the latter live streaming from Iraq.

Results Achieved

The aim of the organisation of the referred pilot courses was to:

  1. train the maximum possible number of students and researchers from DECivil in-terested in this innovative techno-scientific area;
  2. test the syllabus, the structure and the evaluation methods, foreseeing:

2.1.      its integration in the 2nd and 3rd cycles of study of the DECivil offer;

2.2.      and its proposal as an advanced training course organised within FUNDEC/Técnico+.

30 trainees, with different backgrounds and including five non-Portuguese speaking students, participated in the three editions of this pilot course. Regarding objective 1, it was possible to test the knowledge that they acquired via an homework and three practical assignments that were developed by the students in groups of two, or individually, and corrected by the candidate. Moreover, the trainees filled a survey by the end of each edition of the course to express their opinion about the:

  • syllabus, including suggestions for additional topics;
  • organisation, duration and level of detail of the lectures, of each module and of the course;
  • sufficiency of their background to follow the course;
  • support and feedback given by the candidate;
  • learning and teaching documents, including the presentations used in the lectures and the references suggested;
  • duration and difficulty of the autonomous work required to follow and complete the course;
  • difficulty, extension and scope of the practical assignments.

The answers confirmed that the course satisfactorily answered most of the expectations and the learning need of the trainees.

The experience of the candidate on teaching this course, along with the answers to the referred survey, allowed to accomplish objective 2. In fact, from the 1st to the 2nd edition, and from the 2nd to the 3rd one, some changes were made to the syllabus, to the structure and to the evaluation methods, in order to improve the course and following the lessons learned from the previous editions.

Objective 2.1 was accomplished by the integration of modules taught by the candidate, dedicated to “LCA of Construction”, and with:

  • 14 hours, in a new elective course on “Construction Life Cycle” in the new MSc in Civil Engineering at IST from the academic year of 2021/22, in the 2nd quarter of the 2nd year of the Construction’s specialization area;
  • 6 hours, in the course “Advanced Topics in Construction” of the PhD Course in Civil Engineering of DECivil of IST in the 2nd semester of the 2020/21 academic year.

Finally, and to accomplish objective 2.2, the candidate is preparing a proposal of an advanced training course in “LCA of Construction” to be organised within FUNDEC/Técnico+.

These 3 pilot courses were also a major contribution to the creation and development of the research group that the candidate coordinates (PositiveCyclegroup@CERIS), as well as a benefit to teaching innovation and quality.

Evaluation and Monitoring

One of the main contributions of the 30 trainees for these pilot courses corresponded to the opinions and suggestions that they provided in the survey distributed by the candidate, as referred in the previous section. That practice permitted the evaluation of the syllabus, structure and evaluation methods of each pilot course and the identification of potential improvement measures in the following edition. Based on that, and on the experience of the candidate on teaching this course, one of the changes that he decided to implement from the 2nd edition corresponded to a project-based learning approach, side-by-side with other active learning techniques and in line with IST recommendations (conselhopedagogi-co.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/files/sites/32/percist-ce_20maio-1.pdf – In Portuguese), being the lectures directed from the beginning to introduce LCA principles and procedures using a dedicated software that was bought by the research centre of the candidate, after recognising the importance and emergence of this research area. This approach is particularly suitable for an elective course like this one, in which the number of enrolled students is not expected to be very high. This permits a close interaction between the Professor and the students, with a better monitoring of their learning process.

These pilot courses offered therefore the opportunity for continuous improvement and fine-tuning of the course contents, organisation, and grading system, with active participation and recommendations by the students via final surveys. The methods of teaching and evaluation of this course were established in an articulated way in order to fulfil the goals set for this course.

A teaching and learning support document and supporting presentations (379 slides) for the classes were prepared in English by the candidate. He also prepared reference tables and schemes to distribute to the students, and schemes and detailed instructions to support the development of group assignments.

All course materials are already prepared for in person, remote or hybrid (with some students in the classroom and the remaining ones attending via a web-conference platform, e.g., zoom) modes, thus negating any limitations.

Innovative Character and Transferability

The area of this proposal in an emergent training area in which international reference Universities have increasingly created dedicated minors or courses. Moreover, the contents of this course can fulfil the training needs of students from seven MSc, and related PhD programmes, at IST, thus representing an important learning complement for a relevant and representative diversity of IST degrees. Regarding the existing offer of IST in related areas, there is a course on “Industrial Ecology” in the Mechanical and Environmental Engineering MScs, where LCA corresponds only to one out of five modules. Moreover, this course is not focused in the construction sector. In the Integrated MSc in Civil Engineering, there was a course on “Environmental and Sustainability Challenges in Engineering” in the 1st year of the 5-years degree. In line with the title, the content is significantly broad and introductory. In the same degree, there is also an elective course on “Built Environment and Impacts”, for the 5th-year students in the “Hydraulic and Water Resources” branch, but it does not include the LCA-related knowledge or applications.

This innovative techno-scientific knowledge was integrated for the first time in (pilot) courses in Portugal. The priority was to therefore to motivate autonomous working, but with immediate feedback from the candidate regarding the quality and correctness of the individual or group work developed by the students.

The three pilot courses that the candidate organised since 2016 with a similar title, scope and aim revealed the attractiveness of this knowledge area at national but also international level, and the feasibility of implementing a course with the syllabus, schedule and grading proposed. In fact, the first edition of the “Construction Life Cycle” course attracted 61% of Erasmus students.

These pilot courses were innovative not only due to their scope, but also because of the creation of a 10-minute interval in the middle of the 2-hour classes in which the candidate played a song related with the topics of the course in his computer and showed the corresponding lyrics in the screen. This practice fulfilled the expectations of the students, also permitting the simplification of some complex concepts.

The experience from the 3 pilot courses that allowed the accomplishment of the objectives described in this proposal can be replicated in other scientific areas following a similar process.

November 8th, 2022 – The 5th Meeting of the IST Best Practices Observatory

Thursday, September 22nd, 2022

The 5th ObservIST Meeting will be held on November 8th and starts at 9:30 in room 4.41 of the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources (DECivil), with the following agenda:

The Meeting aims to present* and share to all the school community the 20 Good Practices identified under the scope of 7th Call of ObservIST, highlighting the Best Practice “Scholarship Programme”, selected “Best Practice of the Year” by the evaluation panel:

  • #MulheresNoTécnico (#Women at Técnico): ComunicaCiência Social Network Campaigns
  • Tax Identification Number (TIN) issuance support service for the international community of TécnicoLisboa
  • Biblioteca@Técnico: change and continuous improvement strategies
  • Business Card
  • CERIS Day Out 2021
  • Student Club on Mental Health and Inclusion
  • Técnico’s Departments Communication Group for the dissemination and organization of initiatives topromote Técnico’s teaching.
  • Técnico Social Network Guide
  • APIST Kindergarten
  • IPFN Science Summer Camp
  • ISTO É TÉCNICO
  • Lecture observation at Técnico
  • Pilot courses on “Life Cycle Assessment of Construction”
  • Scholarship Programme
  • Student Representatives’ Tranining Programme
  • Thinking Green Project – Técnico
  • Training Impact Evaluation System
  • Training Follow-up System
  • Study@Técnico Webinar Series
  • Treme-Treme – Educational Project

 

5th Meeting Program (PDF, 650 KB)

 

The entire IST community is invited to this Meeting.

 

* Portuguese language

Best practices recognized at 7th Observist Call

Wednesday, July 6th, 2022

Following the 7th ObservIST Call, 20 new Best Practices (BPs) are now known. 

Here they are:

Tax Identification Number (TIN) issuance support service for the international community of Técnico Lisboa

Together with the Portuguese Tax Authority, Técnico’s International Affairs Office and Legal Department have streamlined TIN issuance procedures for its international community members (students of all study cycles, faculty, researchers, employees). This service is available once a semester in order to include all new members of Técnico’s international community.

 Lecture observation at Técnico

The Pedagogical Council (PC), the Academic Development Center (NDA) and the Statistics and Prospective Unit (NEP) have collaborated in the implementation of a lecture observation project at Técnico in order to nurture and improve teachers’ pedagogical skills, contributing to their professional development.

 Training Impact Evaluation System

The Training Development Unit (NFD) and the Human Resources Division (DRH) have developed and implemented a Training Impact Evaluation System, which resulted from an innovative vision of professional training at Técnico Lisboa that allows for effective assessment of the impact of training on the professional performance of all people working at the School.  It ensures a quality monitoring and evaluation system that contributes not only to align and improve planning of the training offer by the NFD but also encourage its continuous improvement.

Training Follow-up System

In order to mitigate the loss of knowledge that occurs in the gap “time of learning – time of use of learning”, the NFD – DRH has introduced a system of follow-up sessions to vocational training at Técnico, which are tailored to each training. One or more sessions may take place after the end of the teaching process, in a timeframe from one week to several months after the end of training. This quality monitoring and evaluation system aims to ensure the impact of training on the professional performance of all those who work at Técnico.

CERIS Day Out 2021

The CERIS Day Out 2021 was held to encourage interaction and decrease isolation among the centre’s young researchers, while reinforcing team spirit, furthering activities among its members, transferring knowledge between different research areas, cultivating cooperative culture and building the CERIS identity in the Técnico community.

Study@Técnico Webinar Series

The Admissions Office has developed a series of webinars in English, called Study@Técnico Webinar Series to disseminate Técnico Lisboa to international audiences, by using tools which allow for viewing information regardless of the time zone or location of the interested party.

The Study@Técnico Webinar Series was created to disseminate Técnico’s educational offer internationally in order to attract and recruit new Regular International Students (third country national students).

Biblioteca@Técnico: change and continuous improvement strategies

This practice entails upgrading of the Library infrastructure in the Main Building in order to concentrate in a single space all the collections, services and staff with a new functional dynamic, implying the internal reorganization of all processes. An organizational diagnosis was firstly carried out, which was underpinned by the Strategic Development Plan with nine areas of action.

Student Representatives’ Tranining Programme

The Student Representatives’ Training Programme (Programa de Formação de Delegados, PFD) is targeted to Técnico’s 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycle Year Student Representatives and intends not only to provide them with the tools and knowledge necessary to perform their job and hold those who perform the job accountable.

This programme is one of the initiatives of the Student Representative Body Committee (Comissão para o Corpo de Delegados, CCD) of the Pedagogical Council (CP) of Técnico, a standing committee of the CP, which is made up only by students of that body, which ensures the election of Student Representatives of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycle year-programme, and promotes follow-up and training adapted to the needs of Student Representatives.

Business Card

In the scope of its Student Career Development Programme, Técnico, in partnership with Santander Universidades, provides 100 business cards free of charge to all Técnico students who request them and meet the regulation requirements.

Técnico’s Business Cards are personalized cards which include the student’s name, institutional email, cell phone contact and the programme the student is attending. The information on the card is in bilingual format (Portuguese and English).

Thinking Green Project – Técnico

The “Thinking Green” Project consists of a set of scientific experiments, linked to teaching and research from several Técnico R&D centres, which proposes to develop an integrated plan of small-scale initiatives to be carried out outside the Alameda Campus.

The initiative aims to make Técnico Alameda campus a sustainable, biodiverse, accessible, pleasant and communicative space, while testing and monitoring the initiatives with a view to designing a plan to enhance the outer spaces of Técnico campuses.

IPFN Science Summer Camp

The IPFN Science Summer Camp (ISSC) is an immersive research experience, which takes place every year for a month that is aimed to higher education students and constitute a first step towards developing research in a top research unit in Portugal.

ISTO É TÉCNICO

The ISTO É Técnico is part of the ISTO É initiative, which was created to remedy the interruption of classroom activities imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 that proposes to take the training offer and experience in Técnico to potential candidates to Técnico.

APIST Kindergarten

Located in the Alameda Campus, the APIST Kindergarten has a capacity for 100 children. As laid down in Técnico Statutes, it was created to provide its employees with the opportunity of having their children closer to them, thus contributing to a better balance between family and professional life, and emotional stability of all.

 #MulheresNoTécnico (#Women at Técnico): ComunicaCiência Social Network Campaigns

Considering its different realities, this group intends to bring the communication structure of each unit closer to Técnico’s central communication structure, and foster a common body spirit. In this regard, the #Women at Técnico group carries out:

  1. monthly meetings with all its members, coordinated by ACIM;
  2. training actions in science communication;
  3. design and development of joint activities to promote and disseminate science.

Técnico Social Network Guide

In order to provide current and future content producers with appropriate tools to implement contents in a standardized manner that reflects the School’s communication strategy, Técnico’s Communication, Image and Marketing Office has developed an initiative, with a strong collaborative nature among Técnico community members that has materialized in four key areas:

  1. Drafting and dissemination of the “Técnico Social Network Guide”, available online for inside and outside Técnico;
  2. Creation of a directory of Técnico presence in Social Networks, and a site dedicated to Técnico Social Networks with all the information related to this subject and
  3. Development of regular trainings to enable Técnico community to create and manage social media accounts.
  4. Direct support in the management of existing social networks

Técnico’s Departments Communication Group for the dissemination and organization of initiatives to promote Técnico’s teaching.

This group was created to bring the communication structure of each of Técnico’s Departments, with their different realities, closer to Técnico’s central communication structure, and foster a common body spirit. It follows the same principle and dynamics as the Research Units Communication Group, started in 2019 and distinguished as Observist Best Practice in 2021.

Treme-Treme – Educational Project

This project resulted from the participation of Instituto Superior Técnico (CERIS) in the European Commission project – UPStrat-MAFA, 2013-15. It is primarily aimed to increase literacy for seismic and tsunami risk in the student community and in the general population. To this purpose, several products have been developed for education and risk communication (from pre-school to high school), including the Treme-Treme game, the manuals ‘Por que é que o chão se move?’ (‘Why does the ground move?’) and the ‘Guia Prático Escola Resiliente aos Sismos’ (‘Practical Guide: Earthquake Resilient School’), as well as activity guides for museums and exhibitions.

 Pilot courses on “Life Cycle Assessment of Construction”

The Pilot Course in “Life Cycle Assessment of Construction” offers innovative integrated technical and scientific knowledge and was the 1st pilot course in “LCA of Construction” offered in Portugal. To meet continued demand, and given the success of the 1st edition, two more pilot editions of this course were organized.

 Student Club on Mental Health and Inclusion

The “Técnico’s Student Club on Mental Health and Inclusion” was created as a transversal meeting point for the promotion of mental health and inclusion at Técnico, through the organization of awareness and student support activities.

The Club is aimed to develop initiatives focused on improving cognitive and/or emotional quality of life and promoting better mental health in the Técnico community. Although the organization and format of the activities to be developed were affected by the pandemic, it was possible to carry out a significant number of initiatives via Zoom. 

Scholarship Programme

Through its Business Partnership Unit, Técnico has developed collaboration protocols with the business sector, under the Portuguese Patronage Law. As a result, the Scholarship Programme was created in the 2015/2016 academic year, which aims to support students with academic potential who, for socioeconomic deprivation, lack the resources to afford the costs associated with academic attendance.

Given its proximity to students and faculty members, the Academic Development Unit (NDA), in particular the Tutoring Programme, is responsible for the dissemination and management of the Scholarship Programme.

Learn more about them at the 5th ObservIST Meeting scheduled for November 8, 2022. The name of the venue will be announced in due course.

Since the creation of ObservIST, in 2015, 101 Best Practices in diferent fields have been recognized in Tecnico  community, after being evaluated by different panels.