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Quality System for Teaching and Learning

NOVA SIMAQ is NOVA’s Internal Quality Monitoring and Evaluation System. One of its five core domains is the Teaching-Learning domain, where it ensures the involvement of both students and teaching staff in the continuous improvement of NOVA’s teaching activities. 

Teaching Staff tasks within NOVA SIMAQ

 All Teaching Staff

• Must write summaries for all taught classes.
• Make sure to answer the teaching staff survey when asked.
   

Coordinators of Curricular Units

• Update Ficha de Unidade Curricular (FUC) before each curricular year starts
• Elaborate Relatório de Unidade Curricular (RUC) at the end of the semester (using data from student survey, teaching staff survey, and academic data)
• Ensure implementation, at the curricular unit level, of the improvement measures identified in the previous year.
   

Master courses and PhD Program coordinators

• Validate all Relatórios de Unidades Curriculares 
• Promote meetings of the course Scientific and Pedagogic Committees and write the respective minutes
• Make sure to monitor the course at the end of the 1st semester.
• Elaborate Relatório Ciclo de Estudos (Master) or Relatorio Anual do Programa Doutoral (PhD) in January (using data from RUC, student surveys, teaching staff survey, and academic data)
• Ensure implementation, at the course level, of the improvement measures identified in the previous year.
   

 Coordinator for Advanced Teaching 

• Validate all Relatórios de Ciclos de Estudos (RCE) and Relatorios Anuais dos Programas Doutorais (RAPD).
• Elaborate Balanço da Qualidade do Ensino e Aprendizagem in March (using data from RCE and RAPD and further academic data)
• Ensure implementation, at the institution level, of the improvement measures identified in the previous year . 

Purchase orders

All purchases at ITQB NOVA require an internal purchase order, which can be made on LabOrders or SIG-UNL. Guidelines for purchases can be found here (ENG and PT).

Eligible purchases can be found here and exclusivity statements here.

Please make sure that invoices from foreign institutions are in accordance with Article 36 of the VAT Code and the guidelines of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. This means:

The process begins with the purchase order: the date of the order must always precede the date of the invoice.

The document issued by the foreign company must be an “Invoice”; any other type of document is not valid.

To be accepted, the invoice must contain:
NAME: Universidade Nova de Lisboa
VAT NUMBER : PT 501 559 094
ADDRESS: Av. da República 2780-157 Oeiras, Portugal

The invoice must be numbered and dated.

• Booking equipment
• Washing room rules
• Safety information
• Chemical storage

Banks of expression vectors & strains

Different collections of expression vectors and host cells for prokaryotic expression systems have been organized for the ITQB NOVA community:

• A virtual bank of cloning and expression vectors is available (.pdf)
  In case you want to get more information about the vectors sequences and maps, please download SnapGene Viewer and click on the zip archive, that contains files for each plasmid
• A virtual bank of E.coli and other bacterial strains for over-production of recombinant proteins  (.pdf)

Please contact Teresa Baptista (teresas@itqb.unl.pt) for further information.