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 Disciplinary Pedagogy
Description: Designs and applies creative, research-informed pedagogical approaches appropriate to arts and humanities (e.g. studio practice, crits, seminars, workshops, performance-based and interpretive methods).
1. Time Management
Description: Manages time effectively across group teaching, individual supervision, rehearsal or studio time, assessment and feedback cycles, and public events (e.g. exhibitions, performances).
3. Effective Interaction
Description: Builds a learning climate that encourages dialogue, questioning, risk-taking in creative work and respectful engagement with diverse perspectives.
4. Reinforcing Interactivity in Teaching–Learning
Description: Structures seminars, workshops, crits and rehearsals that require active participation, peer feedback and co-construction of meaning.
5. Contextual and Systemic Analysis in Humanities Education
Description: Guides students to situate works (texts, performances, artworks, languages, rituals) within broader historical, cultural, political and theoretical contexts.
6. Pedagogical Psychology and Communication
Description: Uses basic knowledge of learning, creativity and group dynamics to support students in developing their voices, handling critique and engaging with emotionally charged material.
7. Stakeholder Interaction with Cultural and Community Partners
Description: Collaborates with cultural institutions, artistic communities, schools, NGOs and other partners to enrich learning experiences.
8. Sustainable Development (Cultural and Social Dimensions)
Description: Integrates themes such as cultural heritage, social justice, human rights, diversity and critical perspectives on development into teaching.
9. Digital Education in Arts and Humanities
Description: Uses digital tools and platforms (e.g. creative software, digital archives, online exhibitions, podcasting, collaborative annotation tools) in pedagogically coherent ways.
10. Project/Practice-Based Learning in Creative and Scholarly Work
Description: Designs, supervises and assesses individual and group projects such as portfolios, performances, exhibitions, translations, critical editions or digital humanities projects.
11. Learning Outcomes Assessment
Description: Develops transparent assessment criteria and methods that capture both process and product, originality, criticality, technique and communication.
12. Curriculum Design
Description: Contributes to curriculum development and review, ensuring coherent progression from foundational to advanced interpretive, creative and critical competences.
13. Creative and Scholarly Process Integration
Description: Integrates creative practice and scholarly inquiry in meaningful ways, demonstrating how research informs artistic work and vice versa.
14. Lifelong Learning
Description: Models and promotes continuous artistic, linguistic and scholarly growth, encouraging students to engage in ongoing cultural participation and development beyond graduation.
B. Research competences (6)
15. Scholarly and/or Creative Production
Description: Produces and disseminates scholarly publications, creative works or practice-based research recognised within relevant academic and professional communities.
16. Participation in Research and Creative Projects
Description: Contributes to or leads projects that may include funded research, curated exhibitions, festivals, translations, editions, community-based projects or digital humanities initiatives.
17. Methodological and Epistemological Competence
Description: Demonstrates sound understanding of methods and epistemologies used in arts and humanities (e.g. hermeneutics, critical theory, archival research, ethnography, practice-based research).
18. Scholarly and Artistic Communication
Description: Communicates research and creative work effectively to academic and non-academic audiences through writing, performance, exhibition, curation or digital formats.
19. Research and Creative Training and Supervision
Description: Supervises student dissertations, creative projects and research assignments, balancing guidance and independence.
20. Critical Thinking and Creativity
Description: Embodies and cultivates critical questioning, imagination and openness to experimentation in both research and teaching.
C. Management and motivation competences (5)
21. Academic and Administrative Management
Description: Manages courses, programmes, studios, rehearsal schedules, exhibitions and events efficiently, ensuring compliance with institutional procedures.
22. Leadership and Team Coordination
Description: Leads and coordinates teams of educators, technical staff, curators, artists or community partners in educational projects and programmes.
23. Motivation and Student Engagement
Description: Uses strategies to motivate and sustain student engagement, particularly around demanding creative processes, long-term projects and intensive reading/writing.
24. Institutional and Community Engagement
Description: Participates in or leads initiatives that connect the institution with cultural and community partners, enhancing visibility and impact.
25. Professional Motivation and Commitment
Description: Demonstrates commitment to the profession of arts and humanities education, including active participation in relevant communities of practice and continuous improvement of teaching.
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.