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 Clinical and Welfare Pedagogy
Description: Designs and implements innovative, research-informed approaches for health and welfare education (e.g. case-based learning, simulation, IPE, community-based projects) that link theory, evidence and practice.
2. Time Management
Description: Manages time effectively across classroom teaching, clinical/practice supervision, simulation sessions, debriefings, assessment and documentation, often within rigid clinical schedules.
3. Effective Interaction
Description: Communicates clearly with students, patients/clients, families and colleagues in teaching and supervision contexts, adapting language to different audiences and situations.
4. Reinforcing Interactivity in Teaching–Learning
Description: Uses interactive methods (case discussions, simulated consultations, role-plays, small-group clinical reasoning, bedside teaching) that require active participation and reflection.
5. Clinical and Systemic Reasoning in Health and Welfare Education
Description: Guides students to analyse health and welfare situations across levels (individual, family, community, system) and to connect symptoms, causes, determinants, interventions and outcomes.
6. Pedagogical Psychology and Communication
Description: Uses knowledge of learning, stress, resilience, professional identity formation and communication to support students in emotionally demanding and high-stakes environments.
7. Stakeholder Interaction with Health and Social-Care Systems
Description: Collaborates with hospitals, primary care, community services, welfare agencies, NGOs, patient/user organisations and regulatory bodies to design and deliver practice education.
8. Sustainable Development, Equity and Ethics in Health and Welfare
Description: Integrates themes such as equity, human rights, social justice, environmental health, resource stewardship and professional ethics throughout the curriculum.
9. Digital Education and e-Health / Digital Welfare Tools
Description: Uses digital technologies (e-learning, telehealth simulations, electronic records, decision-support systems, mobile health apps) in pedagogically coherent ways and teaches their safe use.
10. Problem/Project/Practice-Based Learning in Clinical and Welfare Contexts
Description: Designs and supervises learning activities in which students address real or realistic health and welfare problems, develop and justify intervention plans and evaluate outcomes.
11. Learning Outcomes Assessment
Description: Develops assessments that validly measure knowledge, clinical/practice skills, communication, professionalism, ethical reasoning, teamwork and person-centred care (e.g. OSCEs, portfolios, workplace-based assessments).
12. Curriculum Design
Description: Contributes to curriculum design and review, ensuring coherent progression, integration of basic and clinical sciences, practice components, IPE, public health and ethics.
13. Professional Practice and Regulatory Integration
Description: Embeds professional standards, codes of ethics, legal frameworks, guidelines and quality/safety protocols into educational activities across the programme.
14. Lifelong Learning and Professional Development
Description: Models and promotes continuous professional development, including engagement with CPD, reflective practice, supervision and quality improvement.
B. Research competences (6)
15. Health and Welfare Research and/or Education Research Production
Description: Conducts and disseminates research in health, clinical, public health, mental health, welfare or health/welfare education fields.
16. Participation in Clinical, Community and System-Level Projects
Description: Participates in or leads projects such as clinical trials, service evaluations, quality improvement initiatives, community health projects or policy analyses.
17. Methodological and Epistemological Competence in Health and Welfare
Description: Demonstrates proficiency in relevant research methods (clinical trials, observational studies, qualitative and mixed methods, implementation research, evaluation) and understands their strengths and limitations.
18. Research and Professional Communication
Description: Communicates research and practice knowledge clearly to academic, professional, policy and public audiences (e.g. scientific articles, clinical guidelines, reports, public information).
19. Research Training and Supervision
Description: Supervises student projects, theses and dissertations in clinical, community, organisational or policy settings, ensuring ethical conduct and methodological rigour.
20. Critical Thinking and Reflective Practice
Description: Encourages critical appraisal of evidence, systems and practice, and supports students in developing reflective practice regarding their decisions, biases and impact.
C. Management and motivation competences (5)
21. Academic, Clinical and Practice Management
Description: Manages courses, clinical/practice placements, simulation labs, schedules, documentation and quality processes efficiently, respecting institutional, legal and ethical requirements.
22. Leadership and Team Coordination
Description: Leads and coordinates teams of educators, clinicians, social-care professionals, technicians and students in educational and service settings.
23. Motivation and Student Support
Description: Uses strategies to maintain student motivation and wellbeing in demanding programmes, addressing stress, emotional burden, workload and exposure to suffering and death.
24. Institutional, Service and Policy Engagement
Description: Engages with institutional committees, service leadership, professional associations, user organisations and policy processes to shape education and practice environments.
25. Professional Motivation and Commitment
Description: Demonstrates a strong commitment to the professions of health and welfare education and practice, participating in communities of practice and continuously improving teaching and service.
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.