The main aim of Portfolio is to collect the evidence of your pedagogical experience to be provided as supporting document together with the application form.
The documents included in the portfolio do not need to be translated if they are available in the following languages: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Mandarin and Cantonese, Kazakh
All documents should be uploaded as ONE PDF file.
Scan copies of the following formal documents are required to be included in the portfolio to evidence your educational background and current professional position:
- Higher Education degree(s) diploma(s)
- Any additional postgraduate diploma (s)
- Proof of employment (document confirming your employment including a current position in the indicated organization)
Please provide evidence demonstrating your competencies in the following domains:
A. Pedagogical competences (14)
1. Innovation in Engineering Pedagogy
Description: Designs and applies teaching strategies that combine established methods with creative, research-informed innovations tailored to engineering problems and learning challenges.
2. Time Management
Description: Organises time effectively across lectures, labs, projects, supervision and assessment, meeting deadlines and ensuring continuity of student learning.
3. Effective Interaction
Description: Establishes clear communication and productive interaction with students, adapting explanations, questioning and feedback to diverse levels of preparation.
4. Reinforcing Interactivity in Teaching–Learning
Description: Designs learning activities that stimulate student participation, collaborative problem-solving and peer learning in lectures, tutorials and labs.
5. Systemic Analysis in Education
Description: Helps students analyse engineering situations as systems, connecting components, processes, constraints and stakeholders, and linking topics across courses.
6. Pedagogical Psychology and Communication
Description: Uses basic principles of learning, motivation and group dynamics to support student engagement and manages communication in challenging situations.
7. Stakeholder Interaction
Description: Collaborates effectively with industry partners, professional bodies, alumni and other stakeholders in designing and delivering learning experiences.
8. Sustainable Development
Description: Integrates environmental, social and economic sustainability considerations into engineering courses, projects and case studies.
9. Digital Education
Description: Uses digital platforms and engineering-specific software in pedagogically sound ways for content delivery, collaboration, simulation and assessment.
10. Problem/Project/Practice-based Learning
Description: Designs, facilitates and assesses learning activities centred on authentic problems, projects and practice situations in engineering contexts.
11. Learning Outcomes Assessment
Description: Develops assessment strategies and instruments that validly measure intended outcomes at course and programme level, including technical and transversal competences.
12. Curriculum Design
Description: Contributes to the design and continuous improvement of curricula, ensuring coherence, progression and alignment with external reference frameworks.
13. Engineering Innovation Process
Description: Guides students through engineering innovation cycles (problem identification, ideation, modelling, prototyping, testing, iteration and deployment) in an educational context.
14. Lifelong Learning
Description: Models and fosters attitudes and strategies for continuous learning, updating and professional development among students and colleagues.
B. Research competences (6)
15. Scientific and Technical Production
Description: Produces and disseminates research or development work in engineering or engineering education through recognised channels.
16. Participation in Research Projects
Description: Contributes effectively to research and development projects, including proposal preparation, execution and reporting.
17. Methodological and Epistemological Competence
Description: Demonstrates sound understanding of research methods, modelling approaches and the nature of evidence in engineering (and, where relevant, engineering education).
18. Scientific Communication
Description: Communicates research and technical results clearly to specialised and non-specialised audiences, orally and in writing.
19. Research Training and Supervision
Description: Supervises undergraduate and graduate projects, theses and research activities, providing appropriate guidance, autonomy and feedback.
20. Critical Thinking and Creativity
Description: Demonstrates and promotes critical analysis, questioning of assumptions and creative problem-solving in both research and teaching.
C. Management and motivation competences (5)
21. Academic and Administrative Management
Description: Efficiently manages academic and administrative responsibilities, such as course coordination, documentation, scheduling and resource use.
22. Leadership and Team Coordination
Description: Leads and coordinates teams of educators, researchers, technical staff and students towards shared educational and research goals.
23. Motivation and Student Engagement
Description: Uses strategies to build student motivation, resilience and engagement, especially in demanding technical subjects and intensive project work.
24. Institutional and Community Engagement
Description: Participates in and, where appropriate, leads activities that connect the institution with industry, professional bodies and society at large.
25. Professional Motivation and Commitment
Description: Demonstrates sustained commitment to the profession of engineering education, proactively seeking improvement and contributing to the educator community.
Examples of evidence that could be provided:
- Certificates of trainings and professional development programs you successfully passed within the last 5 years (if there are too many upload 10 most relevant)
- Certificates confirming your participation in the relevant events within the last 5 years (if there are too many upload 10 most relevant)
- Certificates or other type of documents confirming your membership in professional associations, networks, societies
- Evidence of relevant awards, scholarships, honorary titles, etc.
- Evidence of application of certain methodologies, approaches, tools in your teahcing practice (digital tools, PBL, Education for Sustainable Development, etc.): extracts from your teaching materials, course syllabus and other.