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Quality Assurance

ITQB NOVA is committed to quality in all areas as an integral part of its strategy, guaranteeing excellence, and continuous improvement in its training and research.

This mission is reinforced and consolidated through practices that promote the continuous improvement of ITQB NOVA’s internal procedures. ITQB NOVA Quality Assurance System is based on the principles of the NOVA Internal Quality Monitoring and Evaluation System (NOVA SIMAQ).

Quality support
Helena Vilaranda
qualidade@itqb.unl.pt
+351 214 469 259

ITQB NOVA Quality Main Coordinator

  • ITQB Director –  João Crespo

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ITQB NOVA Quality Monitoring Committee:

  • Vice-Director for Quality – Ana Sanchez
  • Responsible for Teaching and Learning – Ana Sanchez
  • Responsible for Research and Development –  João Crespo
  • Responsible for Value Creation – Raquel Sá Leão
  • Responsible for Internationalisation – Raquel Sá Leão
  • Responsible for the transversal area Sustainability – Nelson Saibo
  • Responsible for Administration and Services – Dalila Farinha
  • Student representatives – Representatives on the Pedagogic Council/Institute Council
  • Quality support- Helena Vilaranda

 

ITQB NOVA Quality Office:

  • Vice-director for Quality – Ana Sanchez
  • Responsible for Administration and Services – Dalila Farinha
  • Quality support – Helena Vilaranda

 

ITQB NOVA Quality Delegates:

  • Communication: Renata Ramalho
  • Science Management: Margarida Trindade
  • Innovation: Pedro Pedrosa
  • Scientific Services: Célia Romão
  • Administrative, Financial and Assets: Fernando Jorge Tavares
  • People and Projects Management: Lurdes Conceição
  • Academic Services: Dina Cruz
  • Computer Systems: Daniel Branco
  • Maintenance and Workshop: Nuno Monteiro
  • Safety Committee: Helena Matias

Regulamentos e documentos orientadores

 

Acreditações e Avaliações Externas

Instrumentos de Gestão

  1. Regulamento ITQB NOVA
  2. Relatorio Anual
  3. Relatório de Gestão e Conta de Gerência
  4. Balanço Social
  5. Outros Documentos
  6. Regulamentos em Consulta Pública
  7. Convite a Fornecedores de Bens e Serviços de I&D
  8. Eleição dos Conselhos do ITQB NOVA
  9. Eleição dos Representantes dos Estudantes para o Conselho Geral da NOVA

Mission

To develop scientific research and graduate teaching in Life Sciences, Chemistry, and Associated Technologies for the benefit of Health and the Environment, as well as to provide services to the community and develop university extension activities, including the promotion of science and technology.

Vision

To affirm ITQB NOVA as a reference institute, nationally and internationally, in the development and promotion of scientific research and training, responding to the societal challenges of the 21st century in the areas of Health and Disease, Biological Resources and Sustainable Development.

Values

Excellence in research and training;
Ethics and responsibility;
Focus on internationalization;
Innovation and knowledge transfer;
Independence;
Collaboration with society.

Strategic Objectives

To promote graduate education and scientific research of excellence, with a deep connection between these two areas, in order to train high level qualified human resources at an international level.

ITQB NOVA trains not only Masters and Doctors, but also promotes career development after the doctoral studies, including the training of young Leaders of Research Laboratories as well as Technological-based Entrepreneurs.

The scientific and training areas of ITQB NOVA focus on Molecular Biosciences, with emphasis on Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Structural Biology, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Chemical Biology. Using knowledge in these scientific areas and a multidisciplinary approach, ITQB NOVA aims to have an impact on the Molecular Bases of Health and Disease, as well as on the preservation of Biological Resources and Sustainable Development.

In the context of Value Creation, ITQB NOVA aims, on the one hand, to maintain and promote collaboration with national and international companies and associations in the pharmaceutical, agro and biotechnological areas and, on the other hand, to stimulate the creation of spin-off companies, which can create value from the research carried out at the Institute. The value creation activities are eminently collaborative and depend on establishing strategic partnerships within the scientific and technologic ecosystem where the Institute is imbedded.

As a strategy for continuous improvement of its education activities, teaching quality is monitored closely at ITQB NOVA, within the framework of its quality assurance system, following the guidelines of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

At NOVA, the system to monitor the Quality of Teaching (Sistema de Garantia de Qualidade do Ensino), allows the university to track and report on its teaching and training activities, and is an essential tool to increase its national and international recognition.

Accreditation/Evaluation by A3ES

Master in Biochemistry for Health

Process No. at the Higher Education Assessment and Accreditation Agency (A3ES): ACEF/1920/1200041

Number of ECTS credits required to obtain the degree: 120

A3ES decision: Accredit

Accreditation period: 6 years

Date of publication: 26/10/2021

Annexes to the A3ES process

  1. CA decision
  2. Decision to lodge a complaint
  3. CAE preliminary report

Registration with the Directorate-General for Higher Education: R/A-Cr 37/2013/AL04

Date of registration: 07/07/2022

 

Master in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Process No. at the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (A3ES): NCE/19/1900024

Number of ECTS credits required to obtain the degree: 120

A3ES decision: Accredit

Accreditation period: 6 years

Date of publication: 29/04/2020

Annexes to the A3ES process:

  1. CA decision
  2. Relatório final da CAE
  3. Decision to lodge a complaint

Registration with the Directorate-General for Higher Education: R/A-Cr 72/2020

Date of registration: 14/07/2020

 

Master in Science Communication 

Process No. at the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (A3ES): ACEF/1819/1001011

Number of ECTS credits required to obtain the degree: 93

A3ES decision: Accredit

Accreditation period: 6 anos

Date of publication: 22/10/2021

Annexes to the A3ES process:

  1. CA decision
  2. Decision to lodge a complaint
  3. CAE preliminary report

Registration with the Directorate-General for Higher Education:: R/A-Cr 153/2011

Date of registration:14/09/2011

 

Master in Medical Microbiology 

Process No. at the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (A3ES): ACEF/2122/0524292

Number of ECTS credits required to obtain the degree:120

A3ES decision: Accredit

Accreditation period:6 anos

Date of publication: 11-11-2022

Annexes to the A3ES process:

  1. CA decision

Registration with the Directorate-General for Higher Education: R/A-Ef 3114/2011/AL02

Date of registration: 06/01/2022

 

 

PhD Program in Molecular Biosciences

Process No. at the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (A3ES): ACEF/1920/1200841

Number of ECTS credits required to obtain the degree: 240

A3ES decision: Accredit

Accreditation period: 6 anos

Date of publication: 26/10/2021

Annexes to the A3ES process:

  1. CA decision
  2. Decision to lodge a complaint
  3. CAE preliminary report

Registration with the Directorate-General for Higher Education: R/A-Cr 24/2013/AL01

Date of registration: 29/04/2022

 

PhD Program in Plant Biology – Plants for Life

Process No. at the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (A3ES): NCE/18/1800011

Number of ECTS credits required to obtain the degree: 240

A3ES decision: Accredit

Accreditation period: 6 anos

Date of publication: 23/03/2019

Annexes to the A3ES process:

  1. CA decision
  2. Decision to lodge a complaint
  3. CAE preliminary report

Registration with the Directorate-General for Higher Education: R/A-Cr 59/2019

Date of registration: 04/09/2019

 

PhD Program in Sustainable Chemistry

Process No. at the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (A3ES): NCE/21/2100053

Number of ECTS credits required to obtain the degree: 180

A3ES decision: Accredit

Accreditation period: 6 anos

Date of publication: 24/08/2022

Annexes to the A3ES process:

  1. CA decision
  2. Decision to lodge a complaint
  3. CAE preliminary report – New cicle

Registration with the Directorate-General for Higher Education: R/A-Cr 216/2022

Date of registration:: 03-10-2022

 

PhD Program in Integrative Biology and Biomedicine

Process No. at the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (A3ES): ACEF/2021/1200096

Number of ECTS credits required to obtain the degree: 240

Decisão da A3ES: Acredit

Accreditation period: 6 anos

Date of publication: 02/03/2023

Annexes to the A3ES process:

  1. CA decision
  2. Decision to lodge a complaint
  3. CAE preliminary report

Registration with the Directorate-General for Higher Education: R/A-Cr 111/2014

Date of registration: 22-07-2014

 

PhD Program in Neuroscience

Process No. at the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (A3ES): ACEF/2122/1200101

Number of ECTS credits required to obtain the degree:240

Decisão da A3ES: Acredit

Accreditation period: 6 anos

Date of publication: 11/11/2022

Annexes to the A3ES process: CA decision

Registration with the Directorate-General for Higher Education: R/A-Cr 321/2015

Date of registration: 06-04-2016

 

 

Teaching Quality Reports

Available only from within ITQB NOVA

PhD Program in Molecular Biosciences and
PhD Program Plants for Life

 

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