Sandra Soares, Pro-Rector at the University of Aveiro

Sandra Soares

Pro-Rector at the University of Aveiro

About me

Ph.D. in Psychology, by the Karolinska Institute, she is currently the University of Aveiro Pro-Rector, leading the University in pedagogical innovation, engaged learning and internationalization. The main objectives of her mandate are to promote the diversification of academic offerings, to reinvent learning spaces, to improve teaching practices, to encourage the full development of students and to foster their interculturalism, interdisciplinarity, innovation and social accountability. She is involved in several European projects that aim to foster innovations in learning and teaching in higher education, namely the European Universities initiative and the Collab project (Collaborative Platform for Teaching Innovation in Higher Education).